Thanks for replying, I only read an Amazon review of the book you linked, but it made me think more about anecdotes vs statistics for topics like this. If I ever get a badge to hand out I owe you one :P
You want a good long "What the fucking hell, this was real?" to read? Check this out. I was there in SoCal when this was going down. My DnD stuff was taken from me because, moral panic reasons? The therapist who made all this crap up walked away famous with a book deal and this poor family was destroyed. The single woman who made the initial allegations was a schizophrenic who quite literally drank herself to death. Yet the trial went on. And on and on. It was everywhere while I was escaping high school back a million years ago before the internet. This is the power of a media who does not care about anything but ad revenue; generating a good old-fashioned moral panic is one of the best ways to get those clicks and eyeballs.