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In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.

— Elizabeth Loftus Eyewitness Testimony (1979)

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To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.

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The problem is clear: the unreliability of eyewitness identification evidence poses one of the most serious problems in the administration of criminal justice and civil litigation.

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Memory works like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people.

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