I feel, with all these allegations about various elderly celebs surfacing, that one must be exceptionally aware of the phenomenon of *false memory syndrome*. Remember when there were some unsavoury allegations of parents abusing children some years ago, recollected from adulthood; and suddenly hundreds of people were remembering things their papas had done to them while bathing them when small, which were admitted upon investigation to have been more imaginative than factual, triggered off by these other tales they had been reading inducing 'recollections' of what had never actually happened.

So, a possibility I feel in this present thing. Allegations have been made about elderly, or recently dead, famous men; and perhaps some of the people reading them are saying to themselves, "Why, I met the famous Sir Whatname Who when he visited all those years ago when I was 10. And, goodness me, now I think of it, wasn't he perhaps a bit familiar? Should I blow the whistle about it after all this time, I wonder?"

Not saying this is what is happening in all these cases ~~ or even in any of them. But I do feel it a possibility that should be kept in mind.

~M~