James Coan, a neuroscientist and UVA psychology professor, has decidedly mixed feelings about the experiment he inadvertently spearheaded. “I’m slow enough on the uptake that it took me a while to realize that the study I was doing was making people who had been sexually abused feel like I was their enemy,” he said. “That was completely devastating to me.” Although he has been asked to testify about false memory in countless court cases, Coan has always refused.