{"id":616,"date":"2012-08-29T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T12:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=616"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:04:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:04:40","slug":"what-caused-inability-to-think-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"What caused ‘inability to think straight’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aug. 29, 2012<\/p>\n

\u201cLos Angeles County\u2019s Satanic Abuse Task Force, an official sub body of the Los Angeles County Women\u2019s Commission, concluded (in 1992) that Satanists were trying to pump diazinon poison into their office and home air vents in order to silence them. Task force members became suspicious, according to president Myra Rydell, after experiencing bouts of profound exhaustion, headaches and, perhaps most significantly, \u2018the inability to think straight.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cMcMartin parent Jackie McGauley, also a task force member, told a reporter that, according to her doctor, diazinon would be \u2018virtually impossible to detect\u2019 if given in small doses over a long time period. The County\u2019s epidemic specialist said that diazinon was easy to detect and after his own investigation called the claims \u2018outrageous.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 From \u201cThe Dark Truth About the \u2018Dark Tunnels of McMartin\u2019\u201d\u00a0by John Earl (IPT Journal, 1995)<\/em><\/p>\n

No single reason accounts for the country\u2019s belated skepticism about ritual abuse, but the poison-gas episode in Los Angeles surely qualified as a \u201cjump the shark<\/a>\u201d moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aug. 29, 2012 \u201cLos Angeles County\u2019s Satanic Abuse Task Force, an official sub body of the Los Angeles County Women\u2019s Commission, concluded (in 1992) that Satanists were trying to pump diazinon poison into their office and home air vents in order to silence them. Task force members became suspicious, according to president Myra Rydell, after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}