For a number of years, I’ve been teaching a graduate seminar at the University of California, Irvine, titled Memory and the Law. The course has a strong focus on the repressed memory controversy. In the 1990s, thousands of individuals claimed to have recovered repressed memories of extensive brutalization, often after suggestive psychotherapy. Sometimes they claimed they were forced to participate in horrif ic satanic ritual abuse. Rarely was there an iota of corroboration. Graduate students must write a f inal paper, and one paper submitted by Emma Rodgers was so unusual, so impressive, that I thought it needed to have a wider readership than just one single professor who would be providing her with a grade for the course. I asked Rodgers whether she would be interested in submitting the paper to the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, and she was thrilled with the idea. It turns out she had long been a devotee of the magazine—an interest she shared with her father. And so that is how it came to be that a relatively new graduate student would come to be writing for this splendid magazine.