SIO279: How 'The Cut' Dangerously Mishandled Recovered Memory, with Carrie Poppy
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
A recent article in The Cut discusses allegations of sexual abuse which were made based on "recovered memories." Regardless of the truth or falsity of the accusations, the science of memory may have been very badly represented in this article, to harmful effect. Carrie of Oh No Ross and Carrie breaks it down for us! Complete with a Satanic Panic tie-in.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Serious Inquiries Only. |
| 0:28.3 | Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries Only. |
| 0:30.3 | This is episode 279. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Thomas and I've got such a good episode for you today. |
| 0:37.2 | It's an interview with Carrie Poppy from Oh No Ross and Carrie. |
| 0:40.6 | We're talking about recovered memories and a whole thing that happened that she's going |
| 0:44.2 | to explain, evolving a story on the cut. |
| 0:47.1 | It's really fascinating stuff. |
| 0:49.0 | Just a couple of quick things before then. |
| 0:51.2 | I know I didn't do this. |
| 0:53.2 | We had this kind of a scheduling thing. |
| 0:54.4 | This was supposed to be last week, scheduling thingy. |
| 0:57.2 | Then I also had intended to do a Q&A. |
| 1:00.7 | I was experimenting with doing a Q&A on the Twitch stream, Twitch.tv slash SRS NES, everybody. |
| 1:08.3 | If you'd like to join along there and we talk stuff, it's not all Zelda. |
| 1:13.2 | There's Battletoads. |
| 1:14.2 | There's other games, but also we talk politics. |
| 1:16.2 | We talk social justice, lots of stuff. |
| 1:18.9 | I tried to do a Q&A with Lindsay over there and I just personally didn't feel like it |
| 1:24.2 | worked out the way I wanted it to. |
| 1:26.8 | Anyway, long story short, I was going to release some Q&A and that's why there was kind |
| 1:30.6 | of a gap week there. |
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