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The Press
August 26, 2003
Ellis case
Letter to
the Editor
by B H Howard (Cashmere, Aug 22)
Sir--One could have hoped that, after demonstrating
her ignorance of both Peter Ellis' job qualifications and the difference
between a homosexual and a paedophile, Rosemary McLeod would have withdrawn
from a debate for which she is clearly unqualified.
But no, she is back (August 21), this time with erroneous views on memory and
the meaning of "liar".
To lie is to say what one knows to be untrue, so to relate a memory cannot be
lying.
This is so, even if the memory is a false one.
Those of us who suggest the possibility that the children in the Civic Creche
case may be harbouring false memories do not doubt their sincerity.
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