[John H K]

As I've pointed out in other posts, eyewitness reports are shockingly bad even from intelligent, sane people.

A crutch of many conspiracy theories is the foil hatter belief ALL eyewitness reports are 100% infallible and they only way a report can be wrong is if the witness is a liar or insane, thus when you question the eyewitness report you're questioning the credibility of the witness.

Also, eyewitness reports can be badly skewed if the eyewitness is not interviewed correctly (it's easy to subconsiously "lead" a witness into telling you what you want to hear) or if the eyewitness is "contaminated" by hearing other eyewitness reports.

[Landru]

re; #24...What you say is very true; moreover, people working in areas of our legal system (ie, prosecutors, defense counsels, investigators) are well aware of the phenomenon.
According to what the desired outcome one wants, determines the angle one choses when *working* how the phenomenon's manipulated.
Again; when one's listening to this stuff, as alaways...Buyer Beware.

Unless one *likes* the thrill of chasing wild water fowl hither & fro' day & night.

[KneelBeforeZod]

hmm any cop will tell you eyewitness reports are 100% accurate, all the time!! ;o)

[grania]

As I've pointed out in other posts, eyewitness reports are shockingly bad even from intelligent, sane people.

I tend to give more credibility to EARLY eye witness reports, those that are given (1)before any news of the event has been reported and (2)have not been skewed by other eyewitness reports. It's also valuable to know the vantage point of the eyewitness.