Review: Interesting analysis
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2013
The Sandy Hook massacre was, of course, not a hoax. I was half-expecting this book to be a claim that it was, but this is not the case. Dr. Benton provides a clear and well-researched account of just how the idea got started that the massacre was a hoax, looks at why people would believe such a thing, how strange claims "go viral". An excellent and complete account of all the variations on this strange phenomenon and what it implies for similar easily-debunked things that are widely believed (faked moon landings, Obama born in Kenya, holocaust never occurred, etc.)