What’s in the hippocampus is not necessarily indelible

By Jack Kingston

Published October 4, 2018 4:00am ET

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What’s in the hippocampus is not necessarily indelible — UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 27: Christine Blasey Ford, center, flanked by attorneys Debra Katz and Michael Bromwich, testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, focusing on allegations of sexual assault by Kavanaugh against Christine Blasey Ford in the early 1980s. | (Tom Williams/Pool Photo via AP)

As a partisan, I wanted the Brett Kavanaugh hearing to be decisive. I wanted Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony to crumble and Judge Kavanaugh’s to be flawless. Ultimately, however, as with most political debates, each side made points and neither could claim victory. The main take away for objective observers was that both were credible.

How is that possible? The answer seems to be more in psychology than politics.

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