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Your Code as a Crime Scene
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Your Code as a Crime Scene

by Adam Tornhill
March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
218 pages
5h 3m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Witness Groupthink in Action

Let’s get back to our story of Thomas Quick. Quick was sentenced for eight murders before he stopped cooperating in 2001. Without Quick’s confessions, there was little to do—remember, there was no hard evidence in any of the murder cases. It took almost ten years for the true story to unfold.

What had happened was that Thomas Quick was treated with a pseudoscientific version of psychotherapy back in the 1990s. The therapists managed to restore what they thought were recovered memories. (Note that the scientific support for such memories is weak at best.) The methods they used are almost identical to how you implant false memories. (See The Paradox of False Memories.) Quick also received heavy dozes of benzodiazepines, ...

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