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Head, who become the president of a non-profit group called the World Trade Centre Survivors' Network, helped counsel 9/11 victims and campaigned for donations.
However, she has now been removed from her position after none of the details of her account could be verified.
Ms Head claimed to have been badly burned on the 78th floor of the south tower but was saved by a man who died trying to rescue others.
She also said another victim had handed her his inscribed wedding ring before he died, which she later returned to his widow. And she claimed her husband, or in some accounts her fiancé, died in the north tower.
But, Merrill Lynch, where Ms Head told people she had worked, has no record of her employment. And the family of the man she said was her lover has denied ever hearing of her and discounted details of her story.
A statement on the WTCSN's website read: "Tania Head is no longer associated with the World Trade Centre Survivors' Network.
"Our organisation was created so that those affected by the terrorist attacks could help each other through crisis and its aftermath."
Ms Head has previously shown around former New York City Mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani and Mayor Michael Bloomberg around Ground Zero.
In recent weeks, she has cancelled three interviews, citing her privacy and emotional turmoil, and declined to provide details to corroborate her story.
On the fifth anniversary of the attacks, Ms Head said: "It was like King Kong had come up and basically taken a chunk out of the north tower.
"Black smoke was billowing out into the blue sky. It was such a contrast, I'll never be able to forget it.
"I hit the marble wall. When I came to I was in terrible pain, like a million needles were sticking in me at once. I realised that my back and my arm were burning. I couldn't stand.
"For I while I had heard people around me asking for help, moaning and screaming.
"I managed to start crawling, over people who were burnt, who had lost body parts and blood. There were piles of people - it was pure carnage."
She went on: "For me, and for New York, 9/11 was our worst day, and also our best day. Because that day the people here really shone through all the tragedy."
She added: "It's not about the death and destruction for us any more. We didn't have a choice on 9/11 - somebody took that choice for us. But we choose what we do with it now."
'Come and see the violence inherent in the system.
Help, help, I'm being repressed!'
“The more you tighten your grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your fingers.”
Norman Finkelstein has analysed the number of fake holocaust survivors over the years.
It would be no surprise if fake 9/11 survivors started to appear - either looking to make money, divert attention from substantive issues, or merely out of a psychological need for attention.
I would be surprised if there are not other fake 'surviors' already....
What I found so typical about this story was just how many mainstream news outlets were quoting it in this country, (try googling a few of the key words, you'll find them easily, many being the usual Murdoch tripe) and all quoting word for word the same.
So then I tried to find the website of the organisation itself, and eventually found it at www.survivorsnet.org
Expecting it to be sensationalised and splashed all over this website, I eventually found a small reference to it in 'current announcements'.
So it seems the media ignore many of the publicised demos, marches, questions and so forth regarding 911, especially on the sixth anniversary, yet a small announcement made in a very obscure (well, had you heard of this organisation before?) website of small charitable organisation is splashed around the world in seconds!!
Thermate911 wrote:Nice one Paul - I am sure you'd love to engineer an opening to see William Rodriguez, Kevin McPadden & that WTC7 emergency centre guy equally trashed?
I don't know the latter cases, but having heard Rodriguez speak and seen him not even take questions from the floor, I was far from convinced.
I have met and spoken to William Rodriguez more than once, each time he has visited the UK and I can promise anyone who doubts his experiences, that what you get is what you see, the genuine article.
Gangster family done for fraud.
Fake arm injury.
Shipped in from Spain.
Fakes suicide?
Debates in this household pondering the possibility of Tania Head being a mafia spy sent in to run 9/11 Survivors network as contolled opposition. But by whom?
Is there any equivalent I wonder in the UK 7/7 movement?
The 9/11 Faker
Thursday 11 September
9:00pm - 10:00pm
Channel 4
Of all the stories to emerge from the terrorist attack of 11 September, that of Tania Head is probably the oddest, the most baffling and, in its way, the most cruel. Shortly after the Twin Towers fell, Head, who claimed she worked at the World Trade Center, told anyone who'd listen that she had survived the collapse, but her boyfriend had been killed. Understandably enough, everyone fell for Head's highly convincing account and she became a beacon of the survivors' network, a loose coalition of people who'd escaped with their lives on 11 September, but who subsequently felt themselves lost and ignored. This riveting documentary peels away the layers of Head's story (which unravelled when suspicious newspaper journalists looked into her background), interviewing those who were taken in, including the parents of a young man who died leading others to safety just before the buildings fell.
Have you seen the 2012 National Geographic documentary, The Woman Who Wasn't There? It's about a woman whose name is Tania Head. She said she was in the south World Trade Center tower when it was hit by one of the airplanes and that she lost her fiance, Dave.
A New York Times reporter was interested in her story but found out that she was in fact not in one of the towers when they were hit on 9/11, nor did she have a fiance by the name of Dave who was killed in the North tower on 9/11. She was not even in the USA at the time of the attack. Furthermore, many people are beginning to ask questions about a story she told where she lost one of her arms in an accident, but it was reattached by a surgeon.
Tania Head joined the World Trade Center Survivors Network which was formed by two survivors to "have their voices heard." At that time, much of the attention was given to the firefighters, police officers and people inside and around the towers who were killed on 9/11. This group was for survivors to help themselves and their colleagues. She was later elected president of that group. This was in 2004. Her wikipedia biography is here.
Apparently, Tania did not take any money nor did she make any money off of her 9/11 status. When she met with 9/11 victims, she would rent office space to accomodate them. Where did she get this money from? In fact, how did she survive if she did not have a job? How did she pay her apartment rent and utilties? She said she worked for Merrill Lynch in the south World Trade Center Tower, but they replied that no such employee with that name ever worked for them.
After some people in Spain began to see her on cable television walking with Mayor Rudy Giuliani and other New York City officials she was identified as Alicia Esteve, a Spanish graduate student in Barcelona at the time of 9/11 and her first trip to the U.S.A. was in 2003.
There are a lot of youtube videos about her, and the documentary (mentioned above) is interesting because you have to ask yourself, why was this woman so important that National Geographic would make a documentary about her for national television? Here is a a morning news show with Matt Lauer discussing the documentary with Angelo Guglielmo. At 4:00 to 5:00 in this video the director of the film, Angelo Guglielmo, says that he did not include the frantic actions of Alicia Esteve when she was seen in New York City in 2012 because:
Lauer: "The last scene in the documentary you start with just the very beginning of an encounter where you took a camera and confronted her. That turned that encounter into a bit of rage on her part, yet you didn't put it in the documentary, why?"
Guglielmo: "Well, you know, in the book, the character of the filmmaker and my relationship with Tania was well documented. In the movie, there's just no time for that, and we felt like bringing it in at the very end would have posed more questions than answers."
Why would a director of a documentary say something like that? I would expect a director of a documentary to investigate and research the subject and not be worried about raising questions. Can you see this is another attempt at damage control? It could be that these videos and the documentary are an attempt to prevent people from finding out who Tania Head/Alicia Esteve really is. There may have been enough interest generated about this woman that the Zionists had no choice but to make a TV show about her to prevent people from investigating her and to convince us to believe whatever the television show tells us.
If you have read any articles that Eric Hufschmid and Christopher Bollyn have written, then you know that the Zionist Jews were behind 9/11. It was an Israeli-dominated operation with American Jewish assistance to trick our military into invading the Middle East so that Israel could take over. You can look up "the dancing Israelis" and listen to Christopher Bollyn's interview on December 28, 2006. Bollyn, his wife and two children were kidnapped in June 2007 for his research and articles directly linking 9/11 to Israel and some American Jews. They are still held by their captors, apparently in Sweden.
Was Tania Head sent to New York City to infilitrate the 9/11 survivors network and get information about them and what they knew about 9/11? Do you know what a "sayanim" is? Here is some information about sayanim and what they do. Furthermore, some people on the Interent are beginning to wonder if Alicia Esteve is an Israeli or Spanish Jew. This would explain why she infiltrated the 9/11 survivors network and didn't need any money. So, what was she after? She may have been after information. At that time (in 2004), the Iraq war had been going on for a year and the war in Afghanistan had already been going on for three years. During that time, the criminal Jews were still winning their war of deception against the American people, but the Jews knew that they had to keep monitoring anyone who may have learned that 9/11 was staged by Israel and some American Jews. The 9/11 survivors and their network would have to be monitored to see if any of them had come across the truth.
When Alicia Esteve was exposed in 2007 by New York Times reporter Donald Dunlap, the friends she made in the 9/11 survivor group were devastated, and rightfully so. Could you imagine being deceived like that? They began to wonder why in the world would someone from Spain travel all the way to America to join a 9/11 survivors group, be elected president of that group, and then vanish after she was exposed as a liar? She wasn't even picked up for questioning by the police or authorities. Why not? The FBI arrested a New York City woman, Nouel Alba, for her fraudulent claim about being related to one of the victims of the Newton, Connecticut shooting. So why doesn't the FBI arrest or investigate Tonya Head for her fraudulent claims? You can see how important this is. If she was working for the Mossad, or any Zionist organization, or passing information to criminal Jews, she should be questioned by the police. Who is Alicia Esteve and what is she doing?
As survivors we feel a responsibility to bear witness.
We will always remember those who are gone.
The World Trade Center Survivors' Network (WTCSN) is the only organization founded by survivors to serve those directly affected by the attacks on September 11, 2001. Our mission is to support and represent the interests of the survivors of September 11 and ensure that we will always remember.
Who are Survivors?
Survivors are those who were present at the attacks of September 11, 2001, worked or lived nearby, and the rescue and recovery workers, uniformed services personnel and volunteers present on the day of the attacks and the rescue and recovery efforts in the months afterwards.
What do we do?
Many survivors feel a mutual responsibility to share our historic legacy with others. The WTCSN provides survivors with opportunities to bear witness to the events of the day as well as to meet other survivors.
We work to provide opportunities for survivors to educate the public and add to the historic record -- thereby, ensuring that as a society we will always remember.
We have forged an association of survivors who inform, support and encourage each other.
We represent survivors' interests and needs and make certain that their viewpoints are recognized.
Photos from Past Anniversary Events
View of Brooklyn Bridge See the article about our gathering at Living Grove Memorial Park Survivor Tree in the Tribeca Trib. (Scroll down to "Survivors and the Survivor Tree")
9-11 Memorial Sign See photos of our group visit to the Memorial taken by members (photo galleries open in new windows)
--Photos from Doug
--Photos from Joyce
--Photos from Jeanne
--Photos from Peter Memorial Visitor Pass
Research Studies...
See the Research page for a list of links.
World Trade Center Evacuation Study
Worksite emergency preparedness: lessons from the World Trade Center Evacuation Study
Roadmap for the Protection of Disaster Research Participants
Factors Associated with High-Rise Evacuation
Physical and Mental Health Status of World Trade Center Rescue and Recover Workers and Volunteers
Stairs or Lifts? - A Study of Human Factors associated with Lift/Elevator usage during Evacuations.
Researchers from the Universities of Greenwich, Ulster and Liverpool have completed a three and a half year study into the evacuation of the twin towers.
NIST Fire and Bullding Safety Study
We thank all the universities and researchers involved for continuing this important research and ensuring that the lessons of September 11th can be used to save lives in the future.
spiv wrote:What I found so typical about this story was just how many mainstream news outlets were quoting it in this country, (try googling a few of the key words, you'll find them easily, many being the usual Murdoch tripe) and all quoting word for word the same.
So then I tried to find the website of the organisation itself, and eventually found it at www.survivorsnet.org
Expecting it to be sensationalised and splashed all over this website, I eventually found a small reference to it in 'current announcements'.
So it seems the media ignore many of the publicised demos, marches, questions and so forth regarding 911, especially on the sixth anniversary, yet a small announcement made in a very obscure (well, had you heard of this organisation before?) website of small charitable organisation is splashed around the world in seconds!!
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'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell http://aangirfan.blogspot.com http://aanirfan.blogspot.com
Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
‘It spiralled out of control’: The fantasists who pretended to be 9/11 survivors
Fake stories of heroism and grief became so common in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers that they came to be known as the ‘9/11 sign’, writes Bevan Hurley
Bevan Hurley In New York
Friday 09 September 2022 20:14 BST
An up-and-coming comedian hoping to advance his career, a Spanish MBA student with a love of all things American, a firefighter who told of pulling bodies from the smouldering rubble at Ground Zero.
From exaggerations to outright fabrications, the 9/11 terror attacks attracted countless fake tales of heroism and survival, of narrow escapes and lost loved ones.
While some sought proximity to the attacks for sympathy or attention, others appeared to become so attached to these false narratives that they came to believe their own lies.
So common would these deceptions become among the patients of New York clinical psychiatrist Jean Kim that she came up with a term for it: the “9/11 sign”.
‘The woman who wasn’t there’
In 2001, Alicia Esteve Head was 28 and living in Barcelona. The daughter of a wealthy Spanish family, she had enjoyed an extremely privileged upbringing, and grew up riding pedigree Arabian stallions on her family farm in Mallorca.
She was generous to her friends, who would later recall her propensity for talking about mysterious, wealthy boyfriends that nobody else ever met.
On 11 September, Ms Head was enrolled at the Esade Business School where she was completing an MBA.
The next year she moved to Manhattan, taking an apartment in Midtown and a new first name: Tania.
In the years that followed, Ms Head became heavily involved with the network of survivors who had connected online and would meet up to swap stories and plan for a fitting 9/11 memorial. They eventually became like a family.
Among the shared tales of survival, Ms Head’s stood out. From reading over press reports and becoming immersed in the survivor’s group, she concocted an elaborate fantasy about how she had been chairing a meeting at Merrill Lynch on the 78th floor of the South Tower when the first plane struck the North Tower at 8:46am.
Her fiance ‘Dave’, a consultant at Deloitte, had been on the 100th floor of the North Tower. When the second plane hit at 9:02am she vividly described crawling through smoke and flames to get to safety.
Her story fused mundane and horrific details together. She would later say how her thoughts turned to the silly argument she and Dave had as they got out of their shared taxi.
In the next breath, she recalled the burning bodies flinging themselves out of the skyscraper, the screaming, the desperation to work out what had happened.
She later told members of the World Trade Survivors Network she saw the wing of the United Airlines Flight 175 Boeing jet slice like a knife into the building just above her.
Her assistant “Christine” was decapitated in front of her. Glass and debris flew everywhere as the walls imploded. As Ms Head was thrown against a wall, she could only wish that she would die quickly.
Her arm nearly severed, amid the dust and chaos she recalled incredibly vivid details. She later claimed was led to safety by a genuine hero of the attacks, the man in the red bandana, Welles Crowther.
A man emerged from the rubble with a ring that he asked her to give his wife. She later delivered the ring.
She claimed to have woken up in a hospital burns unit six days later, only to discover that her husband Dave had been killed in the north tower.
On and on the fantastical tale went, gathering such cinematic swagger that she would try to make actual survivors feel guilty about sharing their own trauma in front of her.
Ms Head threw herself into the work of the Survivors Network, founding a group of survivors from the South Tower.
In 2003 a man named Gerry Bogacz who had survived the North Tower got in touch, and they eventually merged to found the World Trade Center Survivors’ Network.
Ms Head poured energy, time and money into helping the group achieve tax-free status. And crucially, she never sought to claim any financial compensation, her family wealth meant she didn’t need to, and so she couldn’t be criminally charged for her deception.
She accompanied former-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, then Governor George Pataki and Michael Bloomberg on a tour of the site in 2005, as crucial debates were taking place about what would become of Ground Zero.
She eventually elbowed Mr Bogacz out of the network, becoming president.
As Ms Head’s fame grew, parts of her story began to unravel.
She described to friends in great detail Dave’s romantic proposal and how he had taken her to Hawaii for a small, non-legal commitment ceremony on the beach. They had been planning to get legally married in October, she said, and were living together in Manhattan with their Golden Retriever, Elvis.
But when friends would come to her apartment, Elvis was always being walked by her maid.
‘Dave’ was a real person, but reporters who spoke to his family discovered the relationship was imagined.
Plus, her injuries weren’t consistent with having a severed arm. She had scarring, but not the kind of injuries that could have come from what she had described.
These inconsistencies in her story were noticed, but let go by other survivors. It would have been crass to point them out, thought film-maker Angelo Guglielmo, who became embedded with the network of survivors and would go on to make a documentary about Ms Head, The Woman Who Wasn’t There.
Her story was finally exposed in a 2007 New York Times article.
Ms Head has not been seen publicly in more than a decade.
According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, she is still registered as living at the family home in Barcelona.
The Independent was unable to verify a Linkedin profile for Alicia Esteve Head that appears to match her biography and claims she is still working at the Esade Business School and living in New York.
The Esade business school did not respond to requests about whether she was working there.
No record of anyone matching Mr Stein’s name could be found on publicly searchable databases.
When contacted for this article, Mr Bogacz said he had put his experience with Ms Head behind him.
“Almost all that I’ve talked about in the past has been on Tania Head’s fabrications which destroyed the WTC Survivors’ Network,” he said.
Monica Iken-Murphy says the pain of losing her husband Michael in the Twin Towers is just as intense 20 years on
Monica Iken-Murphy says the pain of losing her husband Michael in the Twin Towers is just as intense 20 years on (Monica Iken-Murphy)
Monica Iken-Murphy, who lost her husband Michael Iken on 9/11, got to know Ms Head through her work helping to create the 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero in Manhattan’s Financial District.
While the pain of losing her husband is just as intense 20 years on, she long ago let go of any ill-feeling towards Ms Head.
“I don’t get angry, I just feel bad that they feel that it’s OK to do that,” she said.
“I can’t be hurt because it’s not me doing it. I feel really sorry for her. And if you feel it’s good to lie about something like that, those poor souls?
“You cannot escape that. There is a time that you can get away with it, but you’re not going to get away with it forever.”
Mrs Iken-Murphy told The Independent many people “came out of the woodwork” after 9/11 seeking to benefit from her misery.
“They thought I won the lottery,” she says.
“There was no lottery for me. I was a happily married woman, and I actually watched my husband get murdered on live television.
“So I had to deal with that problem, with blood money. You may think you want to be me, but you don’t want to be me.”
To this day, no remains of her husband have ever been found. She has since remarried and poured herself into projects such as her Iken Science Academy, a preschool she founded on New York’s Upper East Side helping children into the sciences, helping create the 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero, and raising her children.
‘We all sometimes lie and exaggerate a story to seem cooler’
Years after the attacks,actor and comedian Steve Rannazzisi spoke of his own narrow escape from the 54th floor of the north tower.
Mr Rannazzisi, who had a lead role in comedy series The League, first made the claim in a 2009 interview on the WTF Podcast with Marc Maron.
“Yeah, I was there, and then the first tower got hit and we were like, jostled all over the place and then the Port Authority came on the loudspeaker and they were like, ‘Hey, uh, explosion in Tower One, um, things are being taken care of, everyone remain where you are. Stay calm. We’re figuring things out.
And I was like, ‘well, I’m going to go check this thing out.’ So I went downstairs, walked outside, saw all of the pandemonium and then about five or six minutes later… bang.”
In reality, Mr Rannazzisi was at work nearly 40 blocks away in Midtown when the planes hit.
He repeated the false claims in several other interviews, even claiming his wife had been supposed to have been in the towers but a delay had saved her life.
He told interviewers that he had “those falling dreams” for years.
In 2015, when confronted by The New York Times, Mr Rannazzisi apologized and admitted the deception.
“It is to the victims of 9/11 and to the people that love them – and the people that love me – that I ask for forgiveness.
“It was profoundly disrespectful to those who perished and those who lost loved ones. The stupidity and guilt I have felt for many years has not abated. It was an early taste of having a public persona, and I made a terrible mistake.”
At the time Mr Rannazzisi was called out by comedian Pete Davidson, whose firefighter father Scott died after being sent into the World Trade Center.
“It’s ok @SteveRannazzisi people make mistakes … Can’t wait to meet my dad for lunch later,” Mr Davidson wrote on Twitter.
The SNL comedian later told his followers to “take it easy” on Mr Rannazzisi, saying he had received and accepted a personal apology from him.
“We all sometimes lie and exaggerate a story to seem cooler.”
When contacted, Mr Rannazzisi said he had nothing more to say on the matter.
An even more brazen 9/11 imposter dressed in an FDNY uniform as he told an audience at the 10th anniversary ceremony in 2011 how he had taken part in rescue missions as captain of Ladder 133 in New York City.
Jordan Liflander claimed to have attended 47 funerals in three weeks for those who perished in the attacks.
A year later, Mr Liflander was exposed as a fraud, never having worked at FDNY, let alone helped with the rescue and recovery.
“It was just ego,” Mr Liflander would later say in an interview about why he had impersonated a grieving firefighter.
“Silliness. Trying to fit in and be one of the guys. It just spiralled out of control and became a lie I had to live.”
‘The 9/11 sign’
In the years after the attacks, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at George Washington University Jean Kim began noticing more and more of her New York patients claiming to have lost a loved one on 9/11.
The attacks on the Twin Towers was an act of mass murder unlike anything experienced in modern America. But Dr Kim realised the 2,977 people who died simply didn’t correspond with the number of patients who were reporting lost friends and relatives.
“My cynicism started to creep forth,” Dr Kim wrote in the Washington Post in 2015.
“Anyone with a report of a 9/11 death in their history was likely seeking some sort of secondary gain, at best in the form of greater sympathy in the face of a multitude of other tough psychosocial stressors in their lives, or at worst, to get controlled substances or even to apply for special 9/11 benefits.”
Her suspicions were confirmed when she checked out one patient’s story, and found it to have been false.
She coined the term, the “9/11 Sign”.
‘Where were you on 9/11?’
Like the assassination of John Kennedy or the death of Princess Diana, major tragedies that play out in full public view often become seared into people’s consciousness.
They’re known as flashbulb memories, Dr Elizabeth Loftus, the leading authority on false memory and cognitive psychology in the US, explains.
Dr Loftus, a distinguished professor in psychological science at the University of California, says most people who experience a momentous historical event over the age of eight can readily recall where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news.
Now 76, Dr Loftus remembers with crystal clarity how she learned of President Kennedy’s death, aged 19, and having just hopped off a plane in New York City on her way to the Harvard-Yale football game.
Memories of learning about the Twin Towers attacks aren’t quite as indelible, but she still has a distinct recollection of being told of the attack by a friend in Washington state where she was living at the time.
(AP)
Dr Loftus has testified about the fallibility of memory in dozens of high-profile criminal cases from the 1993 trial of officers accused of assaulting Rodney King to Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault case last year.
And having appeared as a defense witness for some of the most vilified criminals of our time, she believes we should be more empathetic and less judgmental.
She cites the example of MSNBC anchor Brian Williams falsely claiming he had been riding in a Chinook helicopter that came under RPG fire and required an emergency landing in 2003.
Mr Williams was fired from his job as host of NBC Nightly News over the scandal, a harsh outcome according to Dr Loftus. She thinks Mr Williams’ memory evolved over time, and believes a similar thing has happened with 9/11 glory seekers.
“Even really, really, really, smart, educated people have come to believe that they had experiences that they later had to admit just never happened,” she says.
She says people’s stories often get a little bit more lurid and dramatic with each telling, and pretty soon the account has evolved into something far from the truth.
“It may be that people are lying to get sympathy and empathy and the other rewards that come from being a victim of one of these experiences. And they end up believing these lies.
“We’ve got to leave room for scorn against the ones that get limited victim’s compensation funds. We don’t have to have too much compassion for them.”
‘There are lies and then there is self-delusion’
Felipe De Brigard is a professor of philosophy and cognitive neuroscience at Duke University and works at the intersection between imagination and memory.
He says determining whether a person is being intentionally deceitful, or has come to believe their own lies, is complex.
“Suppose that I tell you something I think is false and it turns out to be true: am I lying to you?” he asks.
“And if I tell you a fact that is false but I happen to believe it to be true, am I lying?”
He has studied the phenomenon of confabulation in patients who had damage in the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that influences complex tasks such as planning, social interaction, personality and memory.
In some cases, brain damage possibly brought on by alcohol abuse had caused patients to attach themselves to a narrative that was “clearly wrong”.
He says there is a point in which the pathology was such that the lie was no longer thought of as a lie. It became their truth.
“If I could tell by some neural signature, whether a particular thing that a person is experiencing as a memory is a lie or a run of the mill false memory, I would be rich. It is very difficult if not impossible to separate those things.”
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'Suppression of truth, human spirit and the holy chord of justice never works long-term. Something the suppressors never get.' David Southwell http://aangirfan.blogspot.com http://aanirfan.blogspot.com
Martin Van Creveld: Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Martin Van Creveld: I'll quote Henry Kissinger: "In campaigns like this the antiterror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing."
