Flutterby™! :

Dorothy Rabinowitz provides us with a teaser of her book No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times in a short OpinionJournal essay:

I did not know then that a core of prosecutors' witnesses--verifiers of abuse--all worked from the same list of alleged abuse crimes and symptoms. Not for nothing did the "secret room" the well-traveled bad clown, the magic juice drink and the rest all make their appearance in the trials held around the country in the 1980s and the early '90s.