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Bad Murder Cases

I don't know if anybody remembers the Satanic Panic of the 1980s /1990s.
There were people convicted of crimes related to it, but no evidence it actually really occurred.

I wonder if the arrests / convictions of nurses killing patients is not a similar situation. It happens few times but there is a belief that it is occurring and there is a hunt for nurses doing it when most are not guilty.

There is always going to be some deaths with nurses because they are dealing with sick patients and sometimes they will cluster.
 
Desert Fox said:
I don't know if anybody remembers the Satanic Panic of the 1980s /1990s.
There were people convicted of crimes related to it, but no evidence it actually really occurred.

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That's what the West Memphis Three case was all about. One of my 'fondest' memories of this case was the expert on Satanic practices in the US. His name escapes me, but he got his PhD from a mail-order diploma mill.

In his doctoral thesis, he said that the presence of large amounts of blood was proof of a human sacrifice, and therefore proof of stanic rituals. In court, he said the absence of blood was proof that the blood of the victims was saved for future use, and was therefore proof of satanic rituals.



Apparently falsifiability in not necessary in satanic theories.
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John Jones said:
That's what the West Memphis Three case was all about. One of my 'fondest' memories of this case was the expert on Satanic practices in the US. His name escapes me, but he got his PhD from a mail-order diploma mill.

In his doctoral thesis, he said that the presence of large amounts of blood was proof of a human sacrifice, and therefore proof of stanic rituals. In court, he said the absence of blood was proof that the blood of the victims was saved for future use, and was therefore proof of satanic rituals.

Apparently falsifiability in not necessary in satanic theories.
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I was a Wiccan for a long time. . . .I can thank James Randi's Flim Flam for getting me out of that. Most Wiccans I knew were good people but just believe stuff that is not true.

The Satanic Panic hit Wiccans as bad as anybody because people are unwilling (they are not unable) to tell the difference between Wicca and their cartoon Satanism.

I have a book written from interviews of cops from the 1980s (or early 1990s) and many cops believed in the garbage of the Satanic Scare. There was a PBS Frontline special about it years ago and wish it was available online.
 
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