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The junk science Republicans used to undermine Ford and help save Kavanaugh
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | October 7, 2018 | Avi Selk

Posted on 10/07/2018 4:02:01 PM PDT by artichokegrower

The politically convenient, scientifically baseless theory that sexual assault so traumatized Christine Blasey Ford she mixed up her attacker is now something like common wisdom for many Republicans.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: California
KEYWORDS: aviselk; california; christineblaseyford; chronicle; clickbait; defundnpr; defundpbs; duac; fakenews; ford; mediawingofthednc; npr; octobersurprise; partisanmediashills; pbs; presstitutes; sanfrancisco; scotus; smearmachine; squeakyfraud; witchhunt
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To: artichokegrower

“... something like common wisdom for many Republicans.”

Common wisdom? This is the first place I have seen it.


61 posted on 10/07/2018 4:43:50 PM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: carcraft; artichokegrower; All
It is just so convenient that Christine Blasey Ford and her lawyer team will not pursue her allegations any further, after Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as the newest Justice of the Supreme Court.

Lost in this whole hoopla, [as I am fairly sure Kavanaugh probably won't pursue any more action against CBF], is her motive and her 100% certainty that it was Brett Kavanaugh that sexually assaulted her. My theory is her payback at whatever slight she perceived she got from him when they were young. Brett Kavanaugh may not even know the grudge CBF held against him, let alone it simmered all these 36 years.

As the article eluded about “junk science” and whatnots, it will not prevent the next person who want his/her 5 minute of fame to allege another fake smear. Unless there are severe consequences suffered by those perpetrators, more innocent people are going to get hurt, and hurt badly. This won't end well.

62 posted on 10/07/2018 4:43:57 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: ZULU

A city where RAT feces literally runs in the streets.


63 posted on 10/07/2018 4:44:55 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I do believe she is lying. We are to believe she does not remember how she got there, she does not know how she got home, there were five or six or maybe seven people there ( depends on this scientific accurate memory) and nobody noticed she feft or cared? We have to believe Keyser didn’t remember ever meeting Judge Kavanaugh or being at the party because she is sick. I mean the only other female there disappears and Keyser was to sick to remember her friend leaving her all of a sudden ? Or perhaps nothing happened to her so Keyser doesn’t recall her best friend leaving? No follow up next day etc. Then we have to believe Ford doesn’t remember the location? It is a complete vacuum. When Mitchell mentioned memory recovery Ford didn’t seem to know a forensic interview was the best form of memory recovery. I mean she is a psychologist and she simply didn’t care to learn more about this life shattering event? So Ford never had a forensic interview? Then Ford claims her Doctors notes provide proof but nobody but the news paper gets to see them? Oh never mind we are destroying a life here. Can we call BS?


64 posted on 10/07/2018 4:45:35 PM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: artichokegrower

Let me help you out there, Avi Selk. I do NOT think “doctor” Ford got confused about who attacked her. I don’t think anyone ever DID attack her. I think she made the whole lying screed up out of whole cloth. That’s how she could “KNOW” it was him, but couldn’t remember anything else. And why her 4 so-called witnesses all denied knowing ANYTHING about it.


65 posted on 10/07/2018 4:50:36 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: artichokegrower
The politically convenient, scientifically baseless theory that sexual assault so traumatized Christine Blasey Ford she couldn't remember where she was groped, how she got there, how she got home, who all was there out of five (or was it six?) people, what month it was, but was dead certain of who it was (but only after 35 years) is the junk science of "recovered memories" that the FBI decided was garbage in the '90s.
66 posted on 10/07/2018 4:52:50 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Terabitten

“Yet misattributions in remembering are surprisingly common. Sometimes we remember events that never happened, misattributing vivid images that spring to mind to memories of past events that did not occur. At other times we mistakenly take credit for a thought, when in reality we are recalling it - without awareness -from something we read or heard. Misattribution can alter our lives in strange or unexpected ways”

Professor Daniel L Schacter, Head of the Schacter Memory Lab at Harvard University


67 posted on 10/07/2018 4:54:18 PM PDT by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: Mr Rogers
Even if she told the truth, the boys spent more time wrestling each other than her...

Makes sense. Given a choice... What kind of girl would you want to go to second base with when you were 17?


68 posted on 10/07/2018 4:55:21 PM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Correct, they're trying not to pile on 'no-fly, two-door Ford' (hat tip Freeper NautiNurse) by calling her a liar, but the preponderance of evidence and lack thereof does not speak well of her or her case.

There is lots of evidence to support the idea that this was a coordinated hit job by a political machine --with all their deceits and deceptions--that will do anything to stop DjT and his juggernaut. If dems fail to win the house; They. Are. Dead. D-e-a-d. They and they're deep-state cabal.

In my lifetime, I never thought I'd see 3 things; A tsunami, a Cubs World Championship, or anyone clean the bad guys out of our politics, but By God it's all happening !

69 posted on 10/07/2018 4:55:30 PM PDT by chiller (Race is irrelevant in these United States; just shades of skin color)
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To: artichokegrower

Why are not these media outlets making the obvious connection that there was no actual evidence to support their stories?


70 posted on 10/07/2018 4:56:55 PM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: artichokegrower

The rate of false rape allegations is five times higher than for any other crime.

The Prevalence of False Allegations of Rape in the United States from 2006-2010
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315728247_The_Prevalence_of_False_Allegations_of_Rape_in_the_United_States_from_2006-2010=ResearchGate

The rate of false “rape cases” is far higher in Title IX tribunals where they reflexively believe the victim, abandon due process and combine the investigation and judging into a single board stocked with social justice bullies.


71 posted on 10/07/2018 4:57:55 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: artichokegrower
I''ll take the "junk science" over the junk "morality" which postulates:

"Women would NEVER lie about something like that!"

72 posted on 10/07/2018 4:58:23 PM PDT by lightman (Obama's legacy in 13 letters: BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA. New axis of evil.)
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To: artichokegrower

Good comment, but this is just another indicator that the “recovered memory” was fabricated memory.

Leftists always try to divert from their crimes by accusing others of the same or similar crime. Junk science is their way to divert from the techniques used by Christine Ford to self-hypnotize, fool her Husband with false memory, use her own techniques to scam a sham lie-detector.

Since it is so obvious these were used, the opposition must be accused of the corresponding crime or shortcoming thus diverting from having the obvious called on them. It is generally pre-emptive or done before their obvious criminality or failing is heavily analyzed.

This whole thing was made up because she was of the same community and she had been a darling of the left with bogus studies on the abortion pill. Her lawyer is a school buddy that was an FBI lawyer — ‘nough said.


73 posted on 10/07/2018 5:01:00 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: artichokegrower

IIRC Dr Fraud repeatedly said she wasnt sure it was Kav until she spent alot of time with her DemocRAT lawyers. After which she was 100% sure!


74 posted on 10/07/2018 5:04:29 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: artichokegrower

Oh, I never subscribed to that theory.

I recognized malicious perjury from jump.


75 posted on 10/07/2018 5:05:37 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (The 2016 foreign meddling came from UKistan, and is a weasel borne plague.)
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To: artichokegrower

When was this theory ever advanced by those who were skeptical of Ford’s claims? I have seen only two given: Either Ford was outright lying or something happened and the person involved was not Brett Kavanaugh. I never read that it was suggested that the trauma of sexual assault had messed up her memory.


76 posted on 10/07/2018 5:06:05 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Lol


77 posted on 10/07/2018 5:07:59 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: BenLurkin

It’s a used vehicle thrown under the bus


78 posted on 10/07/2018 5:09:43 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: artichokegrower

Many people have been stating that Ford was a Stanford professor merely because she worked in Palo Alto.

No, she was at Palo Alto college, a hacktastic academic slum where - wait for it - social justice is literally the top priority listed on their web site.

If people want junk science they might start with women’s and ethnic ‘studies.’


79 posted on 10/07/2018 5:10:24 PM PDT by relictele
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To: artichokegrower
The junk science Republicans used to undermine Ford and help save Kavanaugh

Republicans?

REALLY??!!??

80 posted on 10/07/2018 5:10:25 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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