Ethical standards, truths, and lies

Brand, Bethany L.; McEwen, Linda E.

doi:10.1080/15299732.2016.1114357

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“…It is based on far more research than proponents of the narrative ever conducted and it conveys much more subtlety than the view that "hundreds" of people were falsely convicted of ritual abuse during this period. The positive reaction to my book (e.g., Berry, 2014;Bowman, 2016;Brand & McEwen, 2016;Curcio-Alexander, 2015;"Recent publications," 2015;Walker, 2015, Whitaker, 2015, particularly from academics in law and psychology-including all but one contribution to this volume-suggests that things are changing. When the kind of healthy skepticism that characterizes any inquiring mind is routinely applied to "witch-hunt" claims, we will have made considerable progress.…”

Section: Have Things Gotten Better?mentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Staller's detailed focus on these nine pages comes at the exclusion of any mention of the deceptive editing of quotations by Ceci and Bruck that is documented in the same part of this chapter. One example is documented in Figure 1, which Brand and McEwen (2016) described as Ceci and Bruck having "combined pieces from different interview days and sometimes altered the chronological order of excerpts" (p. 263) In another example, a brief excerpt from an interview transcript was "edited" to compress several separate questions into one uninterrupted bunch, changing the appearance of the interaction from unobjectionable to highly objectionable. Figure 2 compares photographic reproductions of these excerpts, from the actual transcript and from Ceci and Bruck's book.…”

Section: The Role Of Ceci and Bruckmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Response to Articles and Commentaries onThe Witch-Hunt Narrative

Cheit

2017

J Interpers Violence

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The articles and comments in this issue bear out the enduring impact of The Witchhunt Narrative. There is not sufficient space to acknowledge or respond to most of this feedback. This response corrects an error that was identified by one commenter and it responds to questions raised by another commenter about my analysis of the "Concerned Scientists" brief. This response also documents how Wood, Nathan, and others have misapplied the term ritual abuse, misstated the facts of many cases, and promoted "mythical numbers" that significantly exaggerate the number of false convictions. These critics are wrong about the only three cases they discuss in detail. The McMartin Preschool case began with credible evidence of child sexual abuse that continues to be distorted by critics. The Keller case began with even stronger medical evidence that is not diminished by the dubious and incomplete "retraction" of the Emeregency Room doctor. The Fuster case involved overwhelming evidence of abuse, medical and testimonial, that continues to be distored or overlooked by critics. Those who promote the witchhunt narrative rely on selective use of evidence to reach an apparently predetermined result. That is politics and advocacy, not scholarship. This dismissive approach to children's testimony has caused documented harm to children.

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Section: Have Things Gotten Better?mentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: The Role Of Ceci and Bruckmentioning

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A Response to Articles and Commentaries onThe Witch-Hunt Narrative

Cheit

2017

J Interpers Violence

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“…Questions about the integrity of Ford's memory were largely limited to right wing and conservative media, and were rejected in statements from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and the American Psychological Association. Progress against the institutionalized mechanics of denial and unaccountability is substantive although clearly incomplete (Brand & McEwen, 2016).…”

Section: School Of Social Sciences University Of New South Walesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Brett Kavanaugh’s Nomination and the Moral Context of Trauma Science

Salter

2019

Journal of Trauma & Dissociation

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“…The Hoffman Report (Hoffman et al, 2015) outlined devastating details of APA's actions and inactions regarding ethics, human rights, and the protection of detainees (APA, 2015;Gómez, 2015d;Hoffman et al, 2015), with its behavior being described as a cover-up (Brand & McEwen, 2016). With these institutional betrayals by the U.S. governing body of psychology, it would be easy to focus all attention on the harm APA has caused.…”

Section: Institutional Reparationsmentioning

confidence: 99%