From Satanic Panic to Pizzagate and QAnon

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Investigative journalist Dr Rosie Waterhouse has been researching and writing about what has become known as the Satanic Panic for 34 years. Tonight she explains how believers in Satanic Ritual Abuse claim that depraved Satanist paedophiles breed, rape and sacrifice babies and children, and drink their blood for Adrenochrome, a mythical elixir of life. She describes the origins and spread of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and 1990s from Canada and the USA to the UK and beyond. She explains how since 2016 it has morphed into Pizzagate and then QAnon, as a global conspiracy theory, amplified by social media, that the world is run by an international network of paedophile Satanists, and that Donald Trump is the saviour. Will this bizarre conspiracy theory have any influence in the US presidential election just a week after this talk?