"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Elizabeth Loftus - False Memories

An interesting TED Talk for you thinkers.  The human mind is believe it or not one of the great largely unknown areas of science.  This specifically deals with the issue of false identifications of criminal suspects...and why law enforcement in general frequently has a healthy distrust of eyewitness identifications, no matter how "sure" they are.


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