It smacks a little of "Well, we don't know how vaginas work, the only thing we know is they're powerful and mysterious and a little bit scary." That kind of superstitious ignorance is surprisingly big, but then I got to "he learned that several of the things she reported were outright premeditated fraud, but he wouldn't dismiss the other parts of her claim." Clearly not a guy used to meticulous reasoning.

"the suspicion that..."