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In reply to the discussion: Searching For The Science Behind Reincarnation [View all]idwiyo
(5,113 posts)2 yo child describing his previous life? Seriously? Have you ever spoken to a 2 yo child? FFS! Never mind the "researcher" never heard the actual child telling him that story.
There is a good damn reason I mentioned "repressed memory syndrome" as another example of the same clap-trap. You might want to find a documentary about Little Rascals case, it has a damn good footage about an experiment showing how fast and easy it is for a child to believe that something really happened to them after they heard a story and were asked to repeat that story several times over few days.
Even adults can be made to "remember" things that never happened if someone presents them with fake "evidence".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_mall_technique
So, yeah, pardon me if I laugh at "science" behind reincarnation claims.