r/ContraPoints • u/HoraceIG • 5d ago

Conspiracy: Book suggestion

I have this ebook that I began long ago and back to reading it again and recommend it for those who enjoyed the video; "We Believe the Children" by Richard Beck which explored the moral panic on the abuse that happened in day schools in 1980s America. It ties in with the satanic panic, conspiracy theories of grooming rings as well as the "Michelle Remembers" which Mother touched upon

Some of the allegations that came out was quite insane, even though in some cases there was actual abuse, but for most were innocent daycare workers who were accussed as well as forced testimonies of children who were never abused but we given leading questions that created the "satanic panic"

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u/JesseMorales22 5d ago

Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens Book by Susan Clancy 

Is a good one on the subject. Since it was too complicated to study people making up abuse allegations, the author of this book decided to study the phenomenon from a different angle: how did people reach the conclusion that they had encounters with aliens? 

The idea is that both the satanic panic folk & abductees had false memories and were highly suggestible types of people, susceptible to a convenient explanation for their general feeling of alienation in life.