{"id":2647,"date":"2016-08-07T01:06:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T01:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2016-08-07T01:11:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T01:11:57","slug":"perhaps-n-y-times-needs-some-new-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2647","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps N.Y. Times needs some new experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"160806Sizemore\"Aug. 6, 2016<\/p>\n

It\u2019s appalling to see the New York Times, in its Aug. 5 obituary on Chris Costner Sizemore, \u201cthe real patient behind \u2018The Three Faces of Eve\u2019, quote as experts Dr. Colin A. Ross and Dr. Richard Kluft, psychiatrists who validated and promoted the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d moral panic of the 1980s and early \u201990s.<\/p>\n

For decades Dr. Ross has spun out cockamamie ideas from supernatural \u201ceye beams\u201d to CIA conspiracies. And as recently as a 2009 interview on CBS \u201cSunday Morning,\u201d Dr. Kluft confidently posited<\/a> a nationwide epidemic of undiagnosed cases of \u201cmultiple personality disorder\u201d:<\/p>\n

Tracy Smith: So do you think that there are, what, thousands of people walking around out there with MPD who don`t even know it?<\/p>\n

Kluft: Oh, easily.<\/p>\n

Smith: Tens of thousands?<\/p>\n

Kluft: Easily.<\/p>\n

Smith: Hundreds of thousands?<\/p>\n

Kluft: Easily.<\/p>\n

Smith: Millions?<\/p>\n

Kluft: We might be at that level.<\/p>\n

Do Ross and Kluft really provide the kind of authority the Times needed for this story?<\/p>\n

The full obituary on Chris Costner Sizemore is here<\/a>, cached here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Aug. 6, 2016 It\u2019s appalling to see the New York Times, in its Aug. 5 obituary on Chris Costner Sizemore, \u201cthe real patient behind \u2018The Three Faces of Eve\u2019, quote as experts Dr. Colin A. Ross and Dr. Richard Kluft, psychiatrists who validated and promoted the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d moral panic of the 1980s and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}