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The Cook Report's 'The Devil's Work' is infamous as the peak of tabloid TV. Broadcast on 17th July 1989 it almost single-handedly started the Satanic Panic of the 1990s. Recent history shows just how many innocent people have been falsely accused, and how millions of pounds of wasted resources have been refocussed away from children in real need, to hunt down imagined satanic abusers. The 'hoax' for that is what it amounted to, has cost the UK many millions of pounds in unnecessary police action, social service investigations, government inquiries and misplaced funding for SRA projects chasing phantoms. This waste of resources also occurred in almost every other Christian country, particularly the USA where some innocent people spent time on Death Row before they were exonerated! (See : http://saff.nfshost.com/usasracases.htm ) The simplest way to illustrate how appalling Roger Cook's 'The Devil's Work' was is to allow one of those the Cook Report persecuted to tell his own story: "Almost every statement made by the Cook Report in The Devil's Work is a mis-truth or exaggeration. You will find incontrovertible evidence on proving this on http://tabloidtv.nfshost.com including a statement ordered by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) which was published in TV Times and broadcast on ITV and is therefore undeniable. Cook Got it Wrong. We can prove it without doubt but those who remain loyal to the oaf will tell you that this was not the case. Cook and his team, particularly the researcher-producer Tim Tate blackened my Character in a hyper-sensationalist programme which when looked at in the cool light of day had absolutely no substance whatsoever. Their 'evidence' was non existent, their narrative worse than tittle-tattle. You can learn about the network of conspiracy against me by looking at the Sub-culture Alternatives Freedom Foundation (SAFF) website. Start with: http://saff.nfshost.com/cbtatein.htm (where Tate admits he knew that I was being victimised by extremist fundamentalists, some of which took part in his programme). Or: http://saff.nfshost.com/coles.htm (where Tate's book 'Children For The Devil' was the subject of a court case and ended up being withdrawn and pulped because of inaccurate statements). Catch, http://saff.nfshost.com/panoramavip.htm which shows links between fundamentalist Satan Hunters and dippy therapists who have kept the Satanic Ritual Abuse myth alive for years whilst fleecing the National Health Service of badly needed funds for the discredited Recovered Memory Therapy which is at the root of all the thousands of false accusations of child abuse which have been aimed at many ordinary folk and celebrities over the past decades. It is shocking to think that the majority of the THOUSANDS of mentally vulnerable people now claiming to have been abused by Satanists had those awful memories implanted into their brains by hypnotic induction from therapists they trusted to heal them using an unproven 'recovered memory' therapy which actually made their patients more ill. When the patients claiming to have been abused woke up and realised what had been done to them they started legal action in the U.S. for MILLIONS of pounds in damages. The problem is that some of them NEVER wake up and will die believing dross about SRA. I am not responsible (not even peripherally or indirectly responsible) for ANY harm to children or adults; nor for anyone's death; but ask the Cook Team about Caroline Marchant and Carol Myers (fatal cases covered in detail by the SAFF website here http://saff.nfshost.com/marchant.htm and http://saff.nfshost.com/eyefelsteadmyers.htm) because both of these unnecessary and avoidable suicides were linked to fundamentalist Christians and therapists whom the Cook Report retained as advisers and promoted in their programme! Today there is an industry of conspiracy theorists on the internet promoting and holding seminars on SRA - all benefiting from the big bucks they can cream off from various charities and government departments - It runs into the millions. Cook's early programmes are indeed worthwhile and some of his media awards are well deserved; but the 'Devil's Work' was dangerous utter tripe from start to finish. These are obviously the types who are never going to admit that they were wrong, but here are the facts so you can judge for yourself: (1) Despite the emotional bleatings and shock-tactics of those interviewed in The Devil's Work, not one of the 20 case featured as 'evidence' came to fruition as proof of SRA. Every single one of them failed in the course of time. There was no threat, their warnings were poppycock. In the intervening 27 years not one of the things they said was happening has come true. Moreover, iin the course of time the very children the Cook Report told you were being Satanically Abused have grown up, escaped the clutches of the Social Services and come back to tell their own story. The case of Laura, the four year old shown being 'exorcised' in Kevin Logan's Blackburn church in a major scene from The Devil's Work, gives the TRUE story of what happened back then and how she suffered from being exploited by the Cook Report and a lunatic mother. See: http://saff.nfshost.com/childrenforthedevil.htm - scroll down the page to LAURA'S STORY and you will be incensed that a little girl could be mentally tortured in this way in an attempt to 'save children from harm' (2) The American Satanist Cook accused of child abuse in his programme had been exonerated as innocent BEFORE Cook broadcast the allegation. Yes folks the man was found innocent BEFORE the programme went out but the Cook Report went ahead and portrayed him as an abuser anyway! The Truth is out there, but you won't find it in The Devil's Work.You will find it if you use the links I've given you. Chris Bray