“The world as postulated by the recovered-memory theorists is not an impossible one—just an extraordinarily unlikely one.”

—  Robyn Dawes

Source: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 9, “Sexual Abuse Hysteria” (p. 176)

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