Lies

Pretty horrible show for a lot of reasons...
I just saw the episode titled Memory. Here are some of the things wrong with it...

1. I'm not saying I'm a genius, but where did they find those people? Except for the very first test, almost nothing in any of their memory tests fooled me like they said they fooled 100% of people they tested. Perhaps this was because, after the very first test, I knew I was going to be fooled by them. But getting pretty much every single thing right every time got very boring really fast. It's fun to be fooled, but their tests were way too easy.

2. They said that Travis Walton probably didn't really get abducted because he remembered everything "too well." Really? Six men saw a space ship up close, and then one of them disappeared without a trace for a week. But his memory played tricks on him, and he had a false memory of things in great detail that many other people have also remembered, including accounts written down in the 1800s that were completely forgotten until...

Great Series
My Psychology Student's love it. It shows just how "wrong" we can be about what we think we hear and see.

A Hopeful Start...
I watched the episode of this series on memory. Some quotes: "Remembering is Believing" "... the story is familiar-we tend to overestimate its truth..." "... this is a psychological phenomenon known as the 'Illusion of Truth Effect' "! I should have liked this show especially given my absolute distrust of our running-dog media and the abuses of current propagandistic pop history. The crux of this episode was the fallibility of human memory and how easy false memories or inaccurate memories are to create. Sadly that same running-dog mentality reared its ugly head with an awkward and false drubbing of 9/11 conspiracy theorists. There are PLENTY of real reasons to believe 9/11 was a true conspiracy other than Bush's so called memory lapse about planes hitting the tower. To include that vignette in this episode was a cowardly roll-over to satisfy current Official History and its neocon Keepers. The Tiananmen tank photo with the crowd of onlookers aroused twisted memories in subjects...

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