As a creative process, there need to be checks to ensure that only the truth comes out. Good therapists, he said, do not suggest or encourage memories of abuse. Bloomberg argues that false claims usually go in cycles. The first claims eventually lead to near hysteria. But the issue of childhood sexual abuse presents skeptics with a larger problem.
Sexual abuse is a highly charged, polarizing, and prominent social issue.
It is also too prevalent to discount. Sexual assault, in all its forms, leaves deep emotional scars. And the skeptic will question claims in which there is no corroborating evidence, even those that could be true. Bloomberg seemed far more comfortable talking about ritual abuse and alien abductions, where a skeptic's point of view would run into less resistance, than about sexual abuse. A lot of people, Bloomberg said.