George Clarke and the Grenfell baby
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Contrary to popular wisdom, eyewitness testimony is fragile, malleable and fundamentally unreliable. Every month catalogues the reports from ordinary people who have been deeply affected by an experience they cannot explain. Our supposedly shared reality spawns alternate personal histories, from the 9/11 attacks, to the death of Elvis Presley, to the hyphenation of Kit-Kat (see for a recent
