P&C drink and review Pigweed’s cryo-hopped IPA, then discuss the Satanic Panic.
In the mid 80s and early 90s, workers at several daycare centers in Canada and the U.S. were accused of ritual satanic abuse of children. P&C review the cocktail of social trends that led to this madness, where hundreds of people were falsely accused of horrible crimes on the basis of “recovered” memories.
Investigators asked children leading questions, basically encouraging them to come up with outlandish stories. The mantra in the public was “believe the children.”
Many lives were destroyed as a result of this hysteria.