Reviving this Blog

            This blog was launched in conjunction with publication of The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, 2014). The blog concentrated on events and news related to the book. In other words, focused on high-profile child sexual abuse cases from the 1980 and early 1990s. The posts from the five years after launch are archived and available below. The final post was a critique of a column by Dorthy Rabinowitz of Wall Street Journal, who continues to spread falsehoods about the infamous day-care sex-abuse cases.

            That post was almost exactly six years ago. Unfortunately, falsehoods about the McMartin case have not subsided at all. If anything, they have gotten worse. A lengthy analysis in the New York Times about the Right and its crusade involving child sexual abuse -- prompted by the current attention to the Epstein story -- is so inaccurate about McMartin that it cries out for corrections and context. That will be the first post of the new era.

In the coming months, look for:

• Lawrence Wright’s Incredible Mistake about Dr. Roland Summit and how The New Yorker continues to cover it up

• The Many Ways that Sarah Marshall is Wrong About “Satanic Abuse” Cases

• A Chronicle of Dorothy Rabinowitz’s (Award-Winning) Misreporting

•  How Maggie Bruck Revealed Her Bias in a Letter to the Editor

•  Why NCRJ should forever be known as the Pedophile Defense Fund