So a little while back, I came across this talk by a man named Scott Fraser.

Scott Fraser is a, he even was talking like eight years ago, but he was, he is someone

who studies memory.

And specifically he studies how we remember crime scenes.

So this is one of the things he does is that he gets, gets brought before courtrooms to

testify basically against or at least for how faulty eyewitness reports are.

In fact, in his talk one of the things he, he noted was that with the work of the Innocence

Project and the rise of like DNA testing, this movement has been able to overturn the

wrongful convictions of over 280 people who were not only accused, but also wrongfully convicted

of a crime they didn't commit.

In fact, of the 280 people, over three quarters of those people who were wrongfully accused

and wrongfully convicted, they were convicted based solely on the evidence of eyewitness testimony.

So they were considered guilty by someone who said, I saw this with my own eyes, I can

remember this accurately.

And so one of the things that Scott Fraser talks about is how inaccurate our memory can

be.

In fact, he calls it that oftentimes we can have a reconstructed memory.

We can live through a whole thing and then we just kind of, he calls it, confabulation.

We just make up a whole other thing.

We make up a whole memory out of a sort, a sort of, sort of, all their kinds of memories,

confabulation, which I think is a confabulous word.

You might have heard the term, the Mandela effect, have you heard that term Mandela effect?

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