“The same way I’m sure I’m talking to you right now,” Ford, a psychologist, said. “Basic memory functions. And also just the level of norepinephrine and epinephrine in the brain that sort of, as you know, encodes that neurotransmitter encodes memories into the hippocampus so the trauma-related experience is locked there whereas other details kind of drift.”
Is she, a woman, allowed to use science and big words in front of these old white men?
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Senator Durbin: Dr. Ford, with what degree of certainty do you identify Judge Kavanaugh as your assailant?
Prof. Blasey-Ford: 100% Certainty.
Based on what I’ve heard, Professor Blasey-Ford is a completely credible witness.
I want to know more about the two guys who were willing to take the fall for Kvanaugh and his pal. Do they really think maybe it was them? Were they teenage drunks, too, and really don’t remember? Have they been paid off?
Doubtful.
Yes, and again, doubtful.
Yes.
An oops moment worthy of Sec. Energy Perry. I don’t think GOPers bargained for an assault victim and an expert witness in psychology of trauma memory formation. Blowing up their whole he-said/she-said design for this hearing.
I want to know if they are willing to tell prosecutors in MD this same story.
I misread that as:
“Is she allowed to science us?”
Sorta the same thing and it at least made me laugh.
Just for that here’s this
Don’t matter. I’m sure the statute of limitations expired decades ago.
There seems to be debate about that. Apparently in MD today there is no such limit on sexual assault charges. Was there in '8x?