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EXCLUSIVE: Eminent California Professor And Human Memory Expert Weighs In On Christine Ford’s
Townhall.com ^ | September 23, 2018 | Scott Moorefield

Posted on 09/23/2018 1:59:41 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Redmen4ever

“Similar to lie-detector tests.”

A polygraph expert — former FBI, I think — was interviewed on Fox. He said there’s no such thing as a “lie detector”. He said they’re polygraphs and aren’t meant to detect lies necessarily. They just register reactions to verbal stimuli. Lies could be one trigger, but so could several other things.

I thought that was interesting. In true crime situations I’ve noticed that they’re only about 50% accurate when it comes to lies. How many people have been falsely maligned due to faulty polygraphs?

The new method that “reads” people’s voices might be more accurate.


41 posted on 09/23/2018 7:27:46 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: Kaslin

Sorry Kaslin, but what happened with your cutting and pasting? LOL. e.g. “Our talk inevitably circled back to the fact that we just “don’t know” so many things about this case.”


42 posted on 09/23/2018 7:37:18 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: Kaslin

Witness #4 has come forward and denied Ford’s accusation, National Review has #3
Third Named Witness Rejects Kavanaugh’s Accuser’s Allegations

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/third-named-witness-rejects-kavanaughs-accusers-allegations/


43 posted on 09/23/2018 8:59:51 AM PDT by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT1)
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To: fireman15

I always cut and paste. It would take way to long if I didn’t.


44 posted on 09/23/2018 11:10:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: nclaurel

“Doesn’t seem to matter. Didn’t with Crystal Mangum in the Duke Lacrosse scandal. Very sad society no longer reasons. “

She is now in prison, convicted for murdering her boyfriend.


45 posted on 09/23/2018 1:47:51 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

But look what her lies did to those college guys and the left wanted so much to believe her. Maybe Ford will end up the same.


46 posted on 09/23/2018 4:30:10 PM PDT by nclaurel
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Emotional decision makers don’t care about facts. They only see the facts that support their decision.


47 posted on 09/23/2018 10:18:02 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: nclaurel

It used to be, “I’ll believe it if I see it.”

Now it’s “I can only see it if I believe it.”


48 posted on 09/23/2018 10:20:20 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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I checked the UNC yearbooks for 1988 to 1990 and could not find her. I checked all classes.

I'm guessing that she was in the same classes that 0bama attended at Harvard Law School. Maybe she was the supplier to the Choom Gang? And I don't mean the marijuana...

49 posted on 09/23/2018 10:32:51 PM PDT by ssaftler (It's not the "deep state". It's the "odoriferous oligarchy")
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To: Kaslin

There is nothing wrong with cutting and pasting... somehow you repeated part of the same section three different times. That made your excerpt confusing.


50 posted on 09/23/2018 10:55:50 PM PDT by fireman15
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To: Redmen4ever
boasted of having sex with dozens of boys in her high school yearbook

Not true.

Maybe we wait until some reliable facts come out.

51 posted on 09/23/2018 11:02:02 PM PDT by x
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To: tired&retired
Those are also searchable on line.

She's not in them.

52 posted on 09/23/2018 11:02:50 PM PDT by x
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To: Redmen4ever
It makes no mention of her alcohol abuse and promiscuity (at the age of 15, continuing through high school and beyond).

Bear in mind that much of what we think we know about that comes from highly unreliable anonymous tweets and comments.

53 posted on 09/23/2018 11:05:40 PM PDT by x
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To: tired&retired

I checked for radio host Howie Carr, too. He wasn’t in the yearbooks. Not everybody wants to go through the picture-taking routine.


54 posted on 09/23/2018 11:07:07 PM PDT by x
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I checked under maiden name....

It’s possible that she graduated at one of the UNC satellite locations...Greensboro, Wilmington, Asheville....


55 posted on 09/24/2018 6:36:19 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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Word is she graduated Chapel Hill. If you are a member of the General Alumni Association, you can search their online Alumni Directory -- or since you're there, you could probably find a printed version in the library.
56 posted on 09/24/2018 8:04:55 AM PDT by x
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“Maybe we should wait until some reliable facts come out.”

NO, I repeat, NO reliable facts have come out.

“Recovered memories” that are not corroborated by facts, but are contradicted in every alleged fact, are not reliable facts. We don’t have a date and we don’t have a place, those lack of facts can’t be contradicted. We do have four names of other people at this party, one of whom is a lifetime friend of the accuser. Each of the four denies any such party ever took place.

The proper way to handle a matter like this is to report it to the police. Law enforcement should treat the accuser with respect and confidentiality, confidentiality until and unless probable cause is developed. Law enforcement should determine if there is corroborating evidence, and even try to develop corroborating evidence based on leads in the recovered memory. If there is no corroborating evidence, you don’t subject the accuser and the accused to a trial. You tell the accused that the information provided will be kept on file, whether for this case if it is reopened or for a future case.

Recovered memories have helped solve some cases but they also have sent people to prison who were later proven innocent. They were the hot item for about ten years about thirty years ago. Legislatures lengthened statutes of limitation because of this new tool available to law enforcement. But, troubles developed, and the technique generally became inadmissable, at least without corroboration (see the following link).

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/so-sue-me/201602/how-does-the-law-treat-repressed-memories

If we’re going to speculate about a man based only on recovered memory, we should be able to speculate about those recovered memories. They are the recovered memories of a 15 year girl who was at an alcohol party at somebody else’s home when the parents weren’t home. Those facts are in the allegation itself. Then, in the accuser’s yearbook, are multiple stories of such alcohol parties and of sexual promiscuity.

But, we’re not talking of due process are we?


57 posted on 09/24/2018 12:22:39 PM PDT by Redmen4ever (u)
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NO, I repeat, NO reliable facts have come out.

About the supposed incident, no. And we may never find out what happened or didn't happen.

I was talking about all the "drunken slut" background stuff which seems to be based on some very questionable anonymous sources.

Maybe it's all true. Maybe it isn't. Probably the truth is somewhere in between.

When people cite sources that aren't trustworthy they don't make a convincing case.

58 posted on 09/24/2018 3:09:09 PM PDT by x
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x, you may operate on the basis that the truth probably lies somewhere in between. Here’s my operating principle: presumption of innocence. I’m a due process guy.

Regarding whether the accuser was at an alcohol party at a home where the parents were not present when she was age 15, I agree with you, her recovered memory could be a total fabrication.


59 posted on 09/25/2018 4:01:07 AM PDT by Redmen4ever (u)
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