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JoAnn Wypijewski, in her March 16 "Carnal Knowledge" column, tells us that Paul Shanley's "defense counsel offered not a single study or witness to rebut" the legitimacy of repressed memory. Is she unaware that the highly aggressive discreditor of repressed memory Elizabeth Loftus was put on the stand by Shanley's highly aggressive (and expensive) lawyer? Or did Wypijewski repress that memory? Also, I would find it amusing if it were not so ludicrous that Wypijewski thinks this is "a case that some powerful interests no doubt hoped was as settled as the grave." And exactly which powerful interests might that be: survivors/victims of Paul Shanley?
LUCIA MUDD
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