The junk science Republicans used to undermine Ford and help save Kavanaugh

[Trish]

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.

President Trump explicitly endorsed the theory Saturday, shortly after Brett M. Kavanaugh was narrowly confirmed as a Supreme Court judge, telling reporters he was “100 percent” sure Ford accused Kavanaugh in error.

In days leading up to the confirmation vote, the same notion was implicit in the rationale of every senator who attempted to defend Kavanaugh without wholly dismissing Ford’s accusations — her vivid testimony that he pinned her to a bed and tried to rape her when they were teens in the 1980s:

“I believe that she is a survivor of a sexual assault and that this trauma has upended her life,” said Susan Collins (R-Maine), who gave Kavanaugh his crucial 50th vote.

“Something happened to Dr. Ford; I don’t believe the facts show it was Brett Kavanaugh," said Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), the only Democrat to support the nominee.

“That would get me off the hook of having to make a hard decision,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), one of Kavanaugh’s most loyal defenders. “I don’t know if this is a case of mistaken identity.”


“I watched all the hearings that took place last week and was just floored at the number of people who offered that as an explanation,” said Ira Hyman, a cognitive psychologist who specializes in traumatic memories at Western Washington University.

“This story [of mistaken identity] that’s being offered here is a way of both trying to validate sexual assault and not deny it — which is a lovely change — but at the same time create a narrative that Kavanaugh couldn’t have been the person who did it," he said. "That’s just not consistent with memory research on misidentification.”


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...8Oq?li=BBnb7Kz

[Common]

I guess the FBI and the other witness' were junk science also trish

[Trish]

I guess the FBI and the other witness' were junk science also trish

Thanks for your contribution

[Lummy]

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.

It's a terrible shame, really, especially if she doesn't spend time in the pokey for this BS.

[Trish]

It's a terrible shame, really, especially if she doesn't spend time in the pokey for this BS.

Thanks for your contribution

[Common]

Thanks for your contribution

What kind of contribution would you like, what would make you happy

[Trish]

What kind of contribution would you like, what would make you happy

Huh? I was genuinely thanking you. I don't have a response for your comment but still wanted to acknowledge you for posting.

[Common]

Huh? I was genuinely thanking you. I don't have a response for your comment but still wanted to acknowledge you for posting.

Oh ok my fault, I took it wrong my apologies

[Peter1469]

I wonder if the Senate or the FBI got a look at Ford's therapist's case file on Ford. If any sort of regression therapy (to include hypnosis) was used, that would muck up her testimony. I know this wasn't handled in court, but courts give little to no weight to evidence after such treatment methods- because of the danger of creating false memories.

Just tossing that out- I have no idea what went on in Ford's 2012 therapy sessions.

Anyway, no witnesses corroborated Ford's testimony. Perhaps Ford should go ahead and file a criminal complaint in Maryland. That will start a rigorous process to get to the bottom of this.

[Common]

If ford was telling the truth and she may have been she had no chance of being believed by everyone because of the way the Democrat Senators used her. They exposed her when she wanted to remain anonymous, the held her information until the last minute to delay the confirmation until after midterms. Had they been on the up and up from the start, this may have gone in an entirely different direction. The democrats are to blame for the fiasco not the GOP and anyone impartial can see easily see that.

If the democrats handled themselves in a more mature manner they may have won over the country on this issue but they acted like wild kindergartners. Its over its done and they did it to themselves.