Talk:Pizzagate

This deserves discussion, more than I can muster at the moment. As the only American/USAan core member here anyway, I should weigh in. Disturbing possibility, obviously. We have a sick system of some kind, and there's a lot of detail offered to make sense of otherwise completely bizarre passages, But there are also red flags here, reminding me of the satanic panic of the 80s, with its own elite occult child abuse allegations coming from anti0rational religious types, using hypnotherapy to have kids in day car centers recalling flying witches and poop eating ... was that partly true, or is this totally bogus despite the detail? It's not an area I've sworn to examining, and I'm not eager to be the guy who latches onto these things, as they'll seem patently ludicrous to most, but I've done that before with pride and if it might be true, I shouldn't be the guy who ignores it either. I suppose I should look into it more, first by checking the supposed debunks. If they're convincing enough, maybe that could be it. I've been very slow, though, so no promises when or even if. --Caustic Logic (talk) 02:11, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

== I haven't followed this story, but a similar story has been running in the UK since 2012 when an MP asked a parliamentary question about -"a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No 10". It's clear that paedophiles work in networks over many years to get unsupervised access to children and to promote and protect each other. In the UK such a network was running several children's homes during the 1980s and 1990s, and its members included Conservative politicians and at least one academic expert in children's welfare. However the story has repeatedly been discredited by allegations (by genuine victims who appeared to have been coached) about high-profile individuals that were shown to be obviously false. Generating implausible stories that can easily be debunked may be one way to confuse and divert an investigation of a real paedophile network. Pmr9 (talk) 11:06, 27 November 2016 (UTC)