Neuroscience Shows It’s Possible Brian Williams Really Could Have Misremembered

Brian Williams’ future remains in limbo after the “NBC Nightly News” anchor falsified his account of a helicopter ride taken while reporting in Iraq in 2003. Critics are accusing the newsman of being an outright liar, but in a conversation with HuffPost Live on Tuesday, Dr. Stephen Lindsay, a professor of psychology at University of Victoria in Canada, explained how it’s possible that Williams earnestly “misremembered,” just as the veteran broadcaster is claiming.

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