> However we have the existence proof of thousands of such allegations proven to be false [1]
That's nothing like what is alleged here. A mentally ill mother pressuring a son into giving false testimony is very different from an adult "recovering" a memory.
> Given the age of the victim during the alleged offence, and the delay in recovery, this particular case seems extremely unlikely to be true
Based on what?
> I'm much more familiar with the work of Elizabeth Loftus on the construction of memory than I am with any media facing foundation.
She was recruited as a founding board member of that foundation and makes a lot of money off of the idea of implanting false memories as a expert witness.
> Her lab research shows it's trivially easy to create memories of early childhood experience - although again, she never researched implanting memories of abuse.
Yet she gives expert testimony saying that it is common.
Replication of her work has shown that while yes, some people can have relatively minor memories implanted, like getting lost at a mall, it is much harder or impossible to implant a less plausible memory, such as getting an enema.
That's nothing like what is alleged here. A mentally ill mother pressuring a son into giving false testimony is very different from an adult "recovering" a memory.
> Given the age of the victim during the alleged offence, and the delay in recovery, this particular case seems extremely unlikely to be true
Based on what?
> I'm much more familiar with the work of Elizabeth Loftus on the construction of memory than I am with any media facing foundation.
She was recruited as a founding board member of that foundation and makes a lot of money off of the idea of implanting false memories as a expert witness.
> Her lab research shows it's trivially easy to create memories of early childhood experience - although again, she never researched implanting memories of abuse.
Yet she gives expert testimony saying that it is common.
Replication of her work has shown that while yes, some people can have relatively minor memories implanted, like getting lost at a mall, it is much harder or impossible to implant a less plausible memory, such as getting an enema.
If you want to learn more about all this from a different perspective than the one you have now, I recommend this article: https://www.thecut.com/article/false-memory-syndrome-controv...