The Saucer Hovers posted:

The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children
Ross E. Cheit

Abstract

Child sexual abuse became part of the public discourse in 1984 with a series of high-profile criminal cases involving day-care centers. Epitomized by the McMartin Preschool case, this one and dozens of others were eventually seen as “witch-hunts.” Under this view, the charges were the result of suggestive interviewing, overzealous prosecutors, and a gullible press. This is the first scholarly book to challenge that view. Based on fifteen years of original trial court research, it argues that the evidence for the witch-hunt narrative is weak at best, in many cases ignoring significant evidence of abuse and in others ignoring complexity. The McMartin Preschool case, for example, involved a significant injustice to five defendants, but the picture is much murkier for two others. The claim that there were hundreds of these cases across the country is even more misplaced. Indeed, there is an untold history of child sexual abuse that involves minimization and denial, where the witch-hunt narrative claims there was only “hysteria” about the issue. The Kelly Michaels case became a turning point. Academic psychologists helped persuade the court that problems involving “child suggestibility” undermined the entire case. This book argues that this conventional wisdom is incorrect. The final chapter considers recent developments, including Megan’s Law and scandals connected to Penn State and the Roman Catholic Church. The book ends with concerns about expansive views of child suggestibility and the attack on frontline professions providing services to sexually abused children.

quote:

FBI Accidental Data Dump - After reading the wiki article and getting familiar with the case go to the FBI's Freedom of Information Act website and download "The finders PDF" by searching "The finders" in the websites search bar(or click my link). Go to page 48-49 pdf after download. Take note to read the end in which the FBI foresenic team states there investigation was cut short due to time restrictions and there where more to be explored. "The finders" case has no correlation to the McMartin case and it can be assumed page 48-49 should not be in the file dump. I assumed this was a fake website spoof for Halloween upon seeing it myself, but its definetly not as the the FBI's official twitter handle links to it.

FBI Links-

The Website - https://vault.fbi.gov/the-finders/the-finders-part-01-of-01/view

The Saucer Hovers posted:

The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children
Ross E. Cheit

Abstract

Child sexual abuse became part of the public discourse in 1984 with a series of high-profile criminal cases involving day-care centers. Epitomized by the McMartin Preschool case, this one and dozens of others were eventually seen as “witch-hunts.” Under this view, the charges were the result of suggestive interviewing, overzealous prosecutors, and a gullible press. This is the first scholarly book to challenge that view. Based on fifteen years of original trial court research, it argues that the evidence for the witch-hunt narrative is weak at best, in many cases ignoring significant evidence of abuse and in others ignoring complexity. The McMartin Preschool case, for example, involved a significant injustice to five defendants, but the picture is much murkier for two others. The claim that there were hundreds of these cases across the country is even more misplaced. Indeed, there is an untold history of child sexual abuse that involves minimization and denial, where the witch-hunt narrative claims there was only “hysteria” about the issue. The Kelly Michaels case became a turning point. Academic psychologists helped persuade the court that problems involving “child suggestibility” undermined the entire case. This book argues that this conventional wisdom is incorrect. The final chapter considers recent developments, including Megan’s Law and scandals connected to Penn State and the Roman Catholic Church. The book ends with concerns about expansive views of child suggestibility and the attack on frontline professions providing services to sexually abused children.

cagliostr0 posted:

My fav little crack pings about the preschool case is the FOIA'd FBI files confirm the existence of the tunnels that the official story said didn't exist and mentioned a link to the finders and that the finders were a CIA asset

bedpan posted:

I read "Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties" and when Otto Skorzeny entered the narriative I had to step away from the book. I had to step away again when Jolly West and JFK were brought up later.

MonsieurChoc posted:

Yeah, I've yet to finish the book because of that.

TapesFromTheFuture posted:

If anyone wants to know anything about any of this, just ask. This is sadly the world that I know the most about firsthand.

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

I'm about 99% sure that the "Satanic Panic" of the 80's was an attempt to discredit actual child trafficking by laundering it through America's stupidest demographic-the religious right, who went about stopping it by...banning Dungeons & Dragons and convinced everyone else that it was just the religious crazies at it again, nothing so see here.

And if you apply this rule to Epstein, you get....

You cant post this and not elaborate.

smarxist posted:

Impkins Patootie posted:

smarxist posted:

they're loving with us again
https://twitter.com/0xPolygon/status/1410976559008305161

gradenko_2000 posted:

That thread on depression, genetic disposition towards mental illness and its (false, planted) relationship with artistic genius branched off into Katherine Graham setting up to take over the Washington Post from her husband under circumstances that suggest he was set-up/coup'ed from within.



and you put this together with how the Washington Post was the one that ran the Pentagon Papers (and even got a brilliantly sycophantic Tom Hanks movie made about it to Defend the Free Press Against Trumpian Attacks)

and all this time the hagiography of Katherine Graham was that she's this weeping widow that was out of her depth when she was thrust into the ownership of a major newspaper against her will by the tragic sudden death of her husband

Tubgoat posted:

Was Finonce taken?

Shear Modulus posted:

no but Vatican Bank was

smarxist posted:

man, i'm staring at a wikipedia rabbithole right now on "Institute for the Works of Religion"

has anyone made any interesting headway into the private sector institutions that interface with religious orgs and what that whole mess looks like?

gradenko_2000 posted:

Pope John Paul the First

inconsequential posted:

New Epstein black book just dropped

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-other-little-black-book-2021-6

smarxist posted:

here's the black book pages:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20973204-jeffrey-epsteins-other-little-black-book-redacted#document/p5

Shear Modulus posted:

quote:

At McKinsey Daniel developed the concept of critical success factors. He hired and mentored future managing director Rajat Gupta.[1] He was Jeffrey Skilling's former boss before Skilling became CEO of Enron.[2]

In 2004, he described himself as "the bridge between McKinsey's founding generation and the present".[3]

Outside McKinsey he was a director of Yum! Brands and chairman of New York-based private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings.[2]
Non-profit

Daniel has a longtime affiliation with Harvard University. He served for many years as treasurer of the university. Daniel was also a member of the Harvard Corporation, the institution's ultimate governing body, and chairman of the board of the Harvard Medical School. He was also chairman of the Harvard Management Company, which oversees over $20 billion in assets and endowments.

Daniel also holds an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Wesleyan and is chairman emeritus of the school's board of trustees. He is a member of the board of Thirteen/WNET (New York's public broadcasting station). He is also a member of the board of the Brookings Institution, and a trustee of Rockefeller University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations.[2][4]

smarxist posted:

I've been assured by dersh that during his entire tenure of association with Jeffrey epstein, he maintained legal and vigorous heterosexual sex with his wife and only his wife in the privacy of their own home bi-daily

smarxist posted:

I've been assured by dersh that during his entire tenure of association with Jeffrey epstein, he maintained legal and vigorous heterosexual sex with his wife and only his wife in the privacy of their own home bi-daily