Ep. 18 | Dr. Elizabeth Loftus Discusses NYU's Decision To Cancel Her Distinguished Lecture
The Harvey Weinstein Trial: Unfiltered
The Unreported Story Society
4.2 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
As there was no court on Monday - this special episode features an exclusive interview with Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, an expert witness for the Harvey Weinstein defense team. Dr. Loftus was recently scheduled to give a Distinguished Lecture at NYU, but the event was abruptly cancelled upon the announcement that she would testify for the defense. This news came after NYU had purchased airline tickets. According to Loftus, the plans had been in place for a long time. Dr. Loftus has asked several times but as yet no reason has been given for the cancellation. Dr. Loftus believes it is because she was expert witness for the Weinstein team. She discusses her disappointment with NYU's action as well as the importance of having free and open discussions on college campuses around the country.
Is this another case of cancel culture? Harvard recently removed a professor from an internal post after students protested when he announced he was joining the Weinstein legal team.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Anne McElhie and welcome to the Harvey Weinstein trial on Filtered a daily |
| 0:05.2 | podcast looking at the Harvey Weinstein trial in Manhattan, New York. |
| 0:11.3 | And we have a bonus feature today for our audience. |
| 0:14.0 | We have, we're welcoming Dr Elizabeth Loftus to the podcast who recently gave expert testimony |
| 0:20.4 | for the defense in the Harvey Weinstein case. Welcome Dr Loftis. Thank you. |
| 0:26.2 | Dr Loftis just I want to just give our audience some of the background about who Dr Loftus |
| 0:31.9 | says. One thing I would say is if we were to list all her qualifications. |
| 0:35.0 | We'd be here forever. |
| 0:36.0 | It would be the full podcast. |
| 0:37.2 | So we're going to try and give just a little taste of it, |
| 0:40.4 | but that's actually a really good point, |
| 0:41.6 | feeling because Dr Loftus has a |
| 0:43.4 | very lengthy and impressive CV and she is the distinguished professor of |
| 0:48.0 | psychological science and law at UC Irvine a member of the National |
| 0:51.4 | Academy of Sciences and let's just explain what the National Academy of Sciences. And let's just explain what the National Academy of Sciences are. |
| 0:55.0 | It's a very prestigious post and I think as Dr. Loftus said in the court, if your field doesn't have a Nobel Prize that the |
| 1:07.5 | member of the National Academy of Sciences is the highest honor you can get. And Dr Loftus is one of the nation's leading experts on |
| 1:16.1 | memory and has been an expert witness or consultant in hundreds of criminal |
| 1:21.8 | and other style cases. |
| 1:24.0 | Including the Macmartin preschool molestation case. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, the satanic abuse trial, which many people would remember her for. |
| 1:32.0 | But she's been in other trials, Oliver North, Rodney King, a whole list. But the reason, you know, we have come across her is obviously because Dr Loftis, you give evidence in the Harvey Weinstein case. |
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