Talk:Eddie Lee Sexton

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Notability

According to one investigator, this case is one of the worst in American criminal history. The tagging by some person that its notability is questionable is ludicrous.Mike Hayes (talk) 04:03, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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"fringe" ?

welcome to wikipedia, where a short paragraph discussing Eddie Lee Sexton and quoting a few sentences from a book written by an Ivy League professor and published by Oxford University Press {1} is determined to be "fringe theory"; while a true-crime book with no bibliography or index and very few identified sources, and printed by a popular-market company that discusses Eddie Lee Sexton's satanism {2} is _not_ fringe theory.

{1} The following quote and citation was deemed "fringe": 'Ross E. Cheit, political science professor at Brown University, discusses the Sexton family case in his 2014 book The Witch-Hunt Narrative about satanic ritual abuse cases in the 1980s and '90s. While Cheit agrees there is no evidence supporting the existence of widespread networks of satanists committing murder and abuse, he also criticizes those who he says overstate or misapply skepticism about ritual abuse by ignoring or dismissing cases that contain elements of satanism or ritualized acts: "Eddie Lee Sexton, Sr., also ran his family like a cult, subjecting them to the kinds of rituals that [skeptics] claim [are] only imaginary. But the horrors were real"' Cheit, Ross E. (2014). The Witch Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology and the Sexual Abuse of Children. Oxford University Press

{2} Lowell Cauffiel (1997) House of Secrets, Kensington Books, New York

regarding {1}, to quote the WP:Fringe page: "Reliable sources on Wikipedia may include peer-reviewed journals; books published by university presses; university-level textbooks; magazines, journals, and books published by respected publishing houses; and mainstream newspapers. Academic and peer-reviewed publications are usually the most reliable sources in areas where they are available..." Cheit is one of the only academic sources I was able to find that discusses Sexton, which is why I included Cheit's book as a citation in the first place. Baffling to me that the data from Caufiel on cult-like Satanism etc was _not_ deemed fringe, yet simultaneously Chiet's comment is "fringe" even though he is noted as explicitly agreeing with the mainstream consensus on satanic ritual abuse.

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