--- title: "1 1980s Quotes By Ross Cheit" description: "1 1980s quotes by Ross Cheit. Plus more from Ross Cheit and more 1980s sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b8/ross-cheit-50134_1980s_the-witch-hunt-narrative-is-now-the-conv_3027053.jpg" --- > [“The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that there would seem to be nothing left to say about these cases.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-cheit/the-witch-hunt-narrative-is-now-the-conventional-wisdom-about-these/) [Ross Cheit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-cheit/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b8/ross-cheit-50134_1980s_the-witch-hunt-narrative-is-now-the-conv_3027053.jpg) ## More by Ross Cheit > [“The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of them fits…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-cheit/the-book-argues-that-even-though-many-cases-have-been-held-up-as/) [Ross Cheit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-cheit/) > [“The witch-hunt narrative is a really popular story that goes like this: Lots of people were falsely convicted of child sexual abuse in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-cheit/the-witch-hunt-narrative-is-a-really-popular-story-that-goes-like/) [Ross Cheit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-cheit/) > [“For all this talk about us being a nation at war with child abuse, and for all the media hype about witch-hunts and false…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-cheit/for-all-this-talk-about-us-being-a-nation-at-war-with-child-abuse-and/) [Ross Cheit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-cheit/) > [“interview from Ross E. Cheit about The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, February 2014). In the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-cheit/interview-from-ross-e-cheit-about-the-witch-hunt-narrative-politics/) [Ross Cheit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-cheit/) > [“An undergraduate researching the "witch hunt" cases asked for evidence that there had been more than one hundred cases, noting that the major lists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-cheit/an-undergraduate-researching-the-witch-hunt-cases-asked-for-evidence/) [Ross Cheit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-cheit/) > [“The Legend of Robert Halsey This article examines the criminal conviction of Robert Halsey for sexually abusing two young boys on his school-van route…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-cheit/the-legend-of-robert-halsey-this-article-examines-the-criminal/) [Ross Cheit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-cheit/) > [“The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so widely endorsed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-cheit/the-witch-hunt-narrative-is-now-the-conventional-wisdom-about-these/) [Ross Cheit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-cheit/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1980s/ross-cheit/#itemlist", "name": "1 1980s Quotes By Ross Cheit", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that there would seem to be nothing left to say about these cases. But a close examination of the witch hunt canon leads to some unsettling questions: Why is there so little in the way of academic scholarship about these cases? Almost all of the major witch-hunt writings have been in magazines, often without any footnotes to verify or assess the claims made. Why hasn't anyone writing about these cases said anything about how difficult they are to research? There are so many roadblocks and limitations to researching these cases that it would seem incumbent on any serious writer to address the limitations of data sources. Many of these cases seem to have been researched in a manner of days or weeks. Nevertheless, the cases are described in a definitive way that belies their length and complexity, along with the inherent difficulty in researching original trial court documents. 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