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<blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4446458" data-attributes="member: 65637">As someone said earlier, one way of understanding how people could believe this is to understand that D&amp;D wasn't the only &quot;EVIL SATANIST CULT&quot; scare going on.&nbsp; There was a lot of that kind of thing.&nbsp; People who were a large discredit to their education even became &quot;specialists&quot; at it; to put it in slight perspective, imagine if those loons that host unofficial therapy groups for UFO abductees were suddenly allowed to freely work with and give advice to the police, who in turn earnestly believed that UFOs WERE abducting people, and that they as the police needed to get involved.&nbsp; There were quite a few murders that were thought to be the work of &quot;EVIL SATANIST CULTS&quot; only for the police to discover later that these &quot;specialists&quot; had no true education in the matter and were generally very, very loopy in the head.The horrifying thing about the whole mess is that, as Gary stated, teen suicides were very strongly on the rise, but parents constantly went out of their way to find new and interesting things to blame.&nbsp; I can't help but wonder if it was perhaps this behavior that lead to some of those suicides.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ProfessorCirno, post: 4446458, member: 65637"] As someone said earlier, one way of understanding how people could believe this is to understand that D&D [i]wasn't[/i] the only "EVIL SATANIST CULT" scare going on. There was a [i]lot[/i] of that kind of thing. People who were a large discredit to their education even became "specialists" at it; to put it in slight perspective, imagine if those loons that host unofficial therapy groups for UFO abductees were suddenly allowed to freely work with and give advice to the police, who in turn earnestly believed that UFOs WERE abducting people, and that they as the police needed to get involved. There were quite a few murders that were thought to be the work of "EVIL SATANIST CULTS" only for the police to discover later that these "specialists" had no true education in the matter and were generally very, very loopy in the head. The horrifying thing about the whole mess is that, as Gary stated, teen suicides were very strongly on the rise, but parents constantly went out of their way to find new and interesting things to blame. I can't help but wonder if it was perhaps this behavior that [b]lead[/b] to some of those suicides. [/QUOTE]

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