{"id":432,"date":"2012-03-19T22:49:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T22:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=432"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:42:45","slug":"the-right-man-was-the-wrong-man-no-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The right man&#8217; was the wrong man? No way!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120319Trivers.jpg\" alt=\"120319Trivers\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>March 19, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">In \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Folly-Fools-Logic-Deceit-Self-Deception\/dp\/0465027555\/ref=pd_sim_b_1\" target=\"_blank\">The Folly of Fools<\/a>: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life\u201d (2011), Robert Trivers briefly addresses the causes and costs of the ritual abuse mania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">I asked Trivers, professor of anthropology and biological sciences at Rutgers University, about the role played by prosecutors in such cases:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cProsecutors are notoriously vulnerable to tunnel vision \u2013 i.e., once a suspect has been identified, others disappear from sight; they also need to justify themselves in retrospect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cI was told by (Innocence Project cofounder Peter J.) Neufeld that even after incontrovertible DNA evidence, 75 percent of the original detectives who came up with (and helped convict) the wrong person still say they believe they got \u2018the right man.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 19, 2012 In \u201cThe Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life\u201d (2011), Robert Trivers briefly addresses the causes and costs of the ritual abuse mania. I asked Trivers, professor of anthropology and biological sciences at Rutgers University, about the role played by prosecutors in such cases: \u201cProsecutors are notoriously [&hellip;]<\/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-432","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\/432","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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}