A few points:
(1) I'm not sure why one would call the Thomson case the mother
of all false memories because the only really significant thing about
it was that his alibi was that he was on TV at the time of the rape
and this was true.
(2) The Thomson case is not news and has been presented in a
An interesting article in today's NY Times on the use of new
techniques for analyzing data from a variety of new sources
such as cellphones, GPS, and other wireless sensors that
are becoming increasingly common. See:
Similar to the story cited by Stephen but not nearly so dramatic:
My twin brother I were at a bluegrass festival at the Pine Hotel in the
Catskills. He was left-handed and played guitar bass fiddle. I am
right-handed and play fiddle, banjo bass. The story I later related to my
family was
On 30 Nov 2008 at 10:40, Pollak, Edward wrote:
Similar to the story cited by Stephen but not nearly so dramatic:
My twin brother I were at a bluegrass festival at the Pine Hotel in the
Catskills. [snip]
Neat story, Ed (both: the original and whose memory it was). Mirror
image twins,
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