About the Witchhunt Webmaster

My interest in this subject began many years ago when I was an assistant professor of chemical engineering at MIT, trained as a scientist. Since then I have shifted careers to managing the development of quantitative financial models for asset managers risk management and decision support systems.
I have no training in psychology except
for studies (including a term paper on the seduction theory) I did of Freud 
and psychology in an undergraduate history class.

What does any of this have to do with witchhunt? I have also been interested
in a variety of political issues, especially issues involved in using science
and engineering knowledge. 
 
I frequently get questions about why I am interested in this topic. No I
am not a falsely accused (at least yet!), nor a member of a right-wing, 
left-wing, libertarian, or bizarre sex club. Nor has any close family 
member been stung. The closest personal contact I have had with the issue
before embarking on this is that my wife used to work with preschool
children and was active in Jewish religious education of children (as
a teacher and then as a principal). She had made a career change  to marketing
before I got interested in the subject.

My real interest in the subject began after watching "Innocence Lost"
a Frontline Documentary aired in July 1993. I actually only saw the second half,
but that was enough. The documentary described the ludicrous nature of the
Little Rascals case in Edenton North Carolina. There children were put in
therapy and badgered until they told stories of sexual abuse and being
thrown into shark infested waters and being sent to the moon by their
daycare teachers.

After a certain amount of reading, I set up the witch hunt mailing list because
I found that the problem was generally only locally covered in each area
where a trial was occurring. Internet provides a means for people all over the
world to talk about events in their community.
---Jonathan

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Jonathan G. Harris				    jgharris7@mail.com