Even After Debunking, ‘Sybil’ Hasn’t Gone Away

> the True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities

I never knew where the name for “Sybil attack” came from. Until now.

Previously I was imagining a “Sybil” to be some kind of creature that was similar to a gopher, a beaver, or a capybara. For some reason.

Archive: https://archive.ph/8dnZH

somebody's debunking is another's occultation intended to improve the efficacy of torture-based techniques used to train non-existing secret agents and other sorts of slaves.

but this is just fantasy, not real life; by science.

Or maybe it’s the debunking that needs a debunking:

https://sybilandmpd.blogspot.com/2011/11/from-sybils-closest...

Dissociative identity disorder[0] remains a perfectly real thing:

https://didiva.com/2011/10/sybil-the-nathan-defamation/

Nathan is an advocacy journalist who argues that federal laws on child pornography and child sexual abuse are too strict. "Sex is such a highly charged issue in our culture that — particularly when it comes to child sex abuse — people are very irrational," Nathan says. "Many people are convicted who are innocent, in my opinion."[1]

Not necessarily a reprehensible take but this plus her “debunking” of DID, SRA, and any connection between pornography and criminality certainly suggests an agenda. The anti-David McGowan basically.

In related news, the real story of Girl, Interrupted is more interesting than one might think: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unlocked-crackpotoberf...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder

[1]: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=154309...