John Lisle

I teach a course on Isaac Newton.

And he writes this big book, The Principia.

It's like the most famous book in the history of science.

And it goes off to the publisher.

And the publisher, you know, he's publishing this book.

And right after The Principia is published, the publisher gets arrested for publishing pornography.

So it's like there's this image of this publishing house where The Principia, the most important book in the history of science, is there.

And right next to it is all this smut that he's secretly doing.

Yeah, especially when you're talking about like suggested memories or something like that.

There are a few studies.

I don't remember them, you know, like perfectly.

But there's one study that I talk about in this book where this is right after the Challenger explosion.

So the space shuttle has exploded and there were two psychologists, I think they're at Emory University, and they decide we are going to have all of our students, like 200 students, write down exactly where they were when they heard about this because obviously they're all going to remember this is like the next day.

Where were you?

What were you doing?

Who told you about the explosion?

And so they got copies, you know, of these questionnaires basically from 100 how and for many students.

Four years later, I think it was, they tracked down, I don't know, 40 or 80 of these students and had them do the same questionnaire.

When the Challenger exploded, where were you?

Who were you with?