Regarding the response to Dylan Farrow's letter:

[jeff47]

89. Nope.

Those examples were used because they're reasonable accessible to everyone.

If you'd like, there's other stories where DNA testing proves a woman remembered the wrong person as her rapist. In all those cases, people hammered home "that is the guy" until she started remembering it that way.

There's other cases where people remember being molested as a child, which run into the problem of the molester being in another state during the attacks.

Sure, you could compare the red barn experiment to whether or not Dylan said there was a white box on the floor of the attic where she was molested. NOT to whether or not she was molested.

McMartin preschool students remembered being sexually abused. Problem is none of it happened. The fact that the accusations were the result of coaching did not come to light until the kids got fairly creative - remembering being force-fed fetuses set off alarm bells.

Was Dylan abused? I don't know. My caution comes from Mia Farrow's actions - She supports Polanski. That makes no sense to me if her own daughter was abused. OTOH, there have been cases where angry "spouses" have coached the children to remember abuse that did not happen, and that would fit with supporting Polanski. Couple that with the nanny that claims Mia tried to get her to lie about the case back when it was first investigated, and the story gets murky. Especially because that nanny's claims are coming through Allen.

But that caution does not mean I think Allen is a saint. It means I am not jumping on the "let's get Allen" bandwagon until more comes out. Hopefully there will be an investigation to clear up some of that murk.