Anonymous ID: e53975 Sept. 6, 2023, 4:57 a.m. No.19499557   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

While the current obsession with Satan was boosted in part by the QAnon community, partisan media and conservative politicians have been instrumental in spreading newfound fears over the so-called ritualistic abuse of children that the devil supposedly inspires, sometimes weaving the allegations together with other culture war issues such as LGBTQ rights. Those fears are powering fresh accusations of ritual abuse online, which are amplified on social media and by partisan media, and can mobilize mobs to seek vigilante justice.

Anonymous ID: e53975 Sept. 6, 2023, 8:13 a.m. No.19500243   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>19500240

The Weizmann Institute team say their "embryo model", made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo. It even released hormones that turned a pregnancy test positive in the lab.

Anonymous ID: e53975 Sept. 6, 2023, 8:15 a.m. No.19500254   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>0272

Legally distinct

The work also raises the question of whether embryo development could be mimicked past the 14-day stage.

This would not be illegal, even in the UK, as embryo models are legally distinct from embryos.

"Some will welcome this - but others won't like it," Prof Lovell-Badge says.

Prof Alfonso Martinez Arias, from the department of experimental and health sciences at Pompeu Fabra University, said it was "a most important piece of research".

"The work has, for the first time, achieved a faithful construction of the complete structure [of a human embryo] from stem cells" in the lab, he said, "thus opening the door for studies of the events that lead to the formation of the human body plan".

The researchers stress it would be unethical, illegal and actually impossible to achieve a pregnancy using these embryo models - assembling the 120 cells together goes beyond the point an embryo could successfully implant into the lining of the womb.

Anonymous ID: e53975 Sept. 6, 2023, 8:20 a.m. No.19500285   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>0289 >>0293 >>0294

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/satanic-panic-making-comeback-fueled-qanon-believers-gop-influencers-rcna38795?

Satanic panic is making a comeback, fueled by QAnon believers and GOP influencers

Baseless accusations are branding people as satanist pedophiles at the speed of the internet โ€” just ask a GOP prosecutor who recently lost re-election.

On June 1, David Leavitt, the prosecuting attorney for Utah County, stood behind a lectern in his windowless Provo office before a gaggle of reporters. Wearing a gray suit and an exasperated look, he wanted to make something categorically clear: Neither he nor his wife were guilty of murdering or cannibalizing young children.

It was, by all accounts, a strange declaration from the progressive Republican prosecutor, a Mormon and younger brother of a former Utah governor, Mike Leavitt, who had earned a name for himself by prosecuting a well-known polygamist in 2001. But David Leavitt was up for re-election, Utah County voters would start casting ballots the next week, and the allegations, ridiculous as they may have sounded, had started to spread online and throughout the community.

Some of Leavittโ€™s most high-profile political opponents were willing to at least wink at the allegations against him: Utahns for Safer Communities, a political action committee opposing Leavittโ€™s re-election, posted his news conference to YouTube with the caption, โ€œWethinks He Doth Protest Too Much,โ€ and on their website, the group wrote that Leavitt โ€œseems to know more than he says.โ€

Leavitt lost the election, most likely not just because of the allegations against him but because of his liberal style of prosecution in a deeply conservative county where opponents labeled him as โ€œsoft on crime.โ€ But the allegationsโ€™ impact on Leavitt was clear. After decades of serving as a city and county attorney with grander plans for public office, Leavitt now doesnโ€™t think heโ€™ll run again.

โ€œThe cost is too high,โ€ he said recently in an interview from his home.

Leavittโ€™s experience is one of a spate of recent examples in which individuals have been targeted with accusations of Satanism or so-called ritualistic abuse, marking what some see as a modern day version of the moral panic of the 1980s, when hysteria and hypervigilance over protecting children led to false allegations, wrongful imprisonments, decimated communities and wasted resources to the neglect of actual cases of abuse.

While the current obsession with Satan was boosted in part by the QAnon community, partisan media and conservative politicians have been instrumental in spreading newfound fears over the so-called ritualistic abuse of children that the devil supposedly inspires, sometimes weaving the allegations together with other culture war issues such as LGBTQ rights. Those fears are powering fresh accusations of ritual abuse online, which are amplified on social media and by partisan media, and can mobilize mobs to seek vigilante justice.

Anonymous ID: e53975 Sept. 6, 2023, 8:26 a.m. No.19500306   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>19500289

A spate of recent examples in which individuals have been targeted with accusations of Satanism or so-called ritualistic abuse mark what some see as a modern day version of the moral panic of the 1980s.

Bendik Kaltenborn for NBC News