Friday, January 12, 2018

Republican senator sponsors bill to fund 'junk science' in rape investigations - The College Fix

Republican senator sponsors bill to fund 'junk science' in rape investigations - The College Fix
"...Emily Yoffe’s recent Atlantic series on rape investigations, on and off campus, shone a light on the alarming expansion of “trauma-informed” techniques, enthusiastically endorsed by the Obama administration and its Department of Education.
Image result for “trauma-informed” techniques,Memory and neuroscience experts told Yoffe there was little evidence backing these pseudoscientific claims – that sexual assault creates “neurobiological change,” induces “tonic immobility” in the victim during the act, represses memories that can be accurately recalled much later (just not immediately after), and that contradictory or changing narratives are actually evidence of assault..."
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