Dr Julia Shaw says false memories of our past can threaten our future. As false memories can be intentionally or unintentionally implanted into people, false evidence and false confessions can be the direct result.  This can undermine the criminal justice system.  

False history has the same fingerprint worldwide. Mila Oiva Mila Oiva, as a Senior Research Fellow at CUDAN Open Lab at Tallinn University discusses why and, and what purposes were served by false history in Finland. Mila Oiva – “The Ancient Finnish Kings”: pseudohistory, conspiracy theories and text reuse

Article No 2 in the series of a commentary on Alternative Mother and Baby Homes Report, authored by 21 Irish legal academics and one sociologist. Exaggeration is the pillar of comedy, we can all spot it, and the resultant absurdity is so unrealistic, it causes laughter. In the area of science concerned with studying the…

Recent research conducted by the investigative historian Eugene Jordan during 2020 has found that infant mortality rates at the old Rahoon Parish in Galway city, during the 1950s, were extremely high and were multiples of the national infant mortality rate. The parish was known — for almost a century before — to have had higher…

A violation of law is one thing but accusing people of violating laws which don’t exist or did not exist in the past, is considered to be such an abuse of power that the constitution of many countries, including Ireland, prevents their governments from enacting such laws — legally termed ex post facto law.[1] Surprisingly,…

During the recent floods in Germany during the summer of 2021, many people on social media — even those with good intentions — spread the fake news that the bodies of 600 children were found when the flood waters receded. The German news station DW investigated the false story and quotes Andre Wolf, a communications…

The commission of investigation into mother and baby homes named the following people for conducting vaccine trials on children without obtaining permission. The trials were carried out through an arrangement with doctors in charge of various mother and baby homes. The authorities who ran these homes had no idea that children in their care were…

Many academics were made to look foolish because the final report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes rubbished many of the allegations they presented as historical fact. Consequently, and to save face, 25 academics have produced an alternative mother and baby homes report or at least and alternative or reinterpreted executive…

The Post-Truth Era hit Ireland earlier than most other nations. Women’s studies at the universities provided a fertile breeding ground for false histories. In no time, the notion of the ‘misogynistic nation’ took hold and grew into a full-blown conspiracy theory. One article in particular from NUI, Galway published in 2016, provides us with the…

Florence Nightingale wanted to learn her nursing craft from the best nurses in the world, the nuns at St Vincent’s Hospital Dublin. Dubliners have enjoyed world-class healthcare provided by the Sisters of Charity, a remarkable achievement by a group of women, yet Irish feminists excoriate these great women. Nightingale’s famous mission to the Crimea was…