Stephanie Soo

There are so many problems with this experiment.

Okay, first of all, family members are convincing you that it happened because they were there.

This is not a therapist convincing you that you were abused because this family member is convincing you of a shared experience.

A therapist was not there with you during your childhood.

Not only that, in another study that Elizabeth did, she ends up getting rid of like five subjects, which could be a highly ethical problem because why did she toss them out of the study?

Is it because they weren't going to provide the results that she wanted?

No.

Then another thing, even with the lost in the shopping mall participants, 24 participants is already such a small group.

And implanting false memories of getting lost in a mall as a kid is nowhere near as traumatic and as serious as being essayed by a caregiver more oftentimes than not.

And there is nothing shameful with being lost in a shopping mall as a child.

someone on the opposing end actually did their own study and they were trying to implant false memories of you getting an enema which is like when you clean your butthole you put liquids in your butthole and you flush them out to clean your butthole okay all the participants are like no i did not i did not get an enema how dare you that is so true yeah this is the is that it that was her whole point to to oh boy that's the

Whole point.

And it's even more dumb.

Okay, because I don't know why the people that don't believe in repressed memories, they act like hypnotism is a bewitching spell where you could just like make people do crazy things.

And yes, okay, fine.

CIA, MKUltra, that was a real thing.

But you cannot say that all of these therapists in middle America, in Florida, in New York City are CIA level brainwashers.

And yes, the power of suggestion is huge and there have been instances of people who kept watching the 9-11 tapes and they eventually thought that they were there at 9-11.

But these are really, really rare occurrences.

And to make things even weirder is that, well, first of all, Elizabeth Loftus is not a clinician.