Original sentence: And should this research be applied to “false” memories in therapy.Crook also states that it has been demonstrated that the “methods, data, and assumptions in the mall study have not been subjected to rigorous scientific scrutiny” yet its results have been reported to the media to support the claim that “therapists can implant false memories of childhood trauma.Crook states that the Lost in a Shopping Mall study’s application to therapy situations appears to be “limited to a narrowly defined and perhaps even unlikely situation.He also talks about the problem of confounding variables in the study.He questions the analogy of a memory of being lost in the mall as being equivalent to that of child rape.If an older family member claims to have seen the “false” memory, can a therapist make the same claim.Others have also critiqued Loftus’ scholarship and accuracy or that Loftus’ has done research that may contradict her own beliefs of recovered memories.Several studies and authors have critiqued the Lost in the Mall study.” Pope also questions the study.” She cites a similar study where none of the participants had “accepted an implausible false memory that they had received a painful enema as a child from their parent.” She mentions that the study’s “internal scientific methodological errors cast doubt on the validity of the claims” of the study