Stephanie Soo

But what do I know?

I'm sure testifying for these defendants, they come with a price and an exact one, $600 per hour.

$600 per hour.

And I'm sure that these defendants, Ted Bundy, Harvey Weinstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, the Night Stalker, the police officers accused in the Rodney King beating, Bill Cosby, she has testified for the defendants in each of these trials.

All of these defendants probably would rather victims not be believed.

Elizabeth Loftus believes that when it comes to her press memories, and of course, just like the others, she always puts like quotes around it.

She says,

On one side, you have true believers who insist that the mind is capable of repressing memories and who accept without reservation or question the authenticity of recovered memories.

On the other side are the skeptics who argue that the notion of repression is purely hypothetical and essentially untestable based as it is on unsubstantiated speculation and anecdotes that are impossible to confirm or deny.

The true believers claim the moral high ground.

They insist that they are on the front lines, fighting to protect children from sexual predators and assisting survivors as they struggle through the arduous healing process.

The implication, unspoken but not unheard, is that anyone who refuses to join the true believers in their quest to uncover the hidden past and to gain legitimacy for the concept of repression is either anti-woman, anti-child, anti-progress, or at the worst extreme, dirty.

Example, a practicing pedophile or satanist.

During Harvey Weinstein's trial, she testifies, false memories once created either through misinformation or through these suggestive processes can be experienced with a great deal of emotion, a great deal of confidence, and a lot of detail, even if they are false.

Her biggest thing in these trials when she's testifying for the likes of Ghislaine Maxwell is that memories are fragmented.

Memories are not reliable.

Any neuroscientist will tell you, yeah, we know.

All memories though, not just false memories that you claim are real, all memories.

And I'm saying like false memories, like she's claiming false memory syndrome, right?

All memories are fragmented.