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> The women aren't deliberately lying, but they're not telling the truth either. They've talked themselves into believing these things, forming false memories.

Saying that without knowing it is inexcusable, and you can't possibly know it.


But I do know it.

I know it because it happens to everyone. It's universal. Your memories work like this. My memories work like this.

And the more this is discussed publicly, the more those who have ever spent time with the man (going back all the way to the 1960s, I expect, before even) will try to recall if anything happened to them.

This is a natural reaction that will happen for everyone.

Do you know what happens when someone tries to remember something from the 1970s when their memories are quite mutable and they've just been primed with weeks worth of seedy Hollywood gossip?

I do. This is inevitable.

None of this would be at issue, except for the "where there's smoke, there's fire" fallacy/meme which is still too embedded in the human psyche. Worse, the only way you people can imagine that multiple people would make the same false accusation is if they're conspiring.


My eyes glazed over, yes. Your comments are noxious.


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> Did you even bother to read

> You're not used to thinking

These comments break the HN guidelines. Please stop.


My comments were a response to those that already broke the guidelines.

The comment confessed to not reading what I wrote, but with a bragging tone.

Pointing out that someone is irrational may be a little uncouth, but it needs to be done.


If someone else is breaking the guidelines, you're welcome to email us, but not to break them yourself.

> Pointing out that someone is irrational may be a little uncouth, but it needs to be done.

It needs not to be done. Making it personal like that never helps. When someone says something untrue, politely point out what is true, and make it about the topic, not them.


NoMoreNicksLeft, these were adult women, not children. And Bill Cosby is a comedian, not a day care provider.


Yes, adults.

Adults do the false memory thing all the time.


People said the same about Saville and Glitter and Max Clifford and Rolf Harris and DLT and etc etc.




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