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> I don't see any connection between the Guardian and the recovered memory movement.

It’s a comparison.

Respected or not she’s making the argument the “the body keeps the score,” which is redolent of the discredited book of the same name.

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> Respected or not she’s making the argument the “the body keeps the score,” which is redolent of the discredited book of the same name.

The body keeps the score is discredited?

Yes, the book is by one of the original nut bags behind the recovered memory craze. Here[1] is an academic publication talking about the problems with it.

[1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16483114/

As best we can tell through experimentation, trauma at least is passed on to subsequent generations. Comparing the science to discredited books that were based on the science and extrapolated without evidence is not a valid comparison. Like conflating UFOs with extraterrestrials, it takes a leap of faith to go from one to the other.

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