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by laken 2928 days ago
Re: Brian Williams - many leading memory scientists say that Brain Williams didn't sensationalize his story, but rather created a false memory over time. There's a lot of evidence of this, and 10+ years is a long time in terms of memory and you will start combining multiple people's stories in your own recollection.

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/was-brian-williams...