I haven't listened to this yet, so I'm not sure if this comes up during these episodes. But if you want a good book about stuff like this I'd recommend Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children by Ross Cheit. I'm still working my way through it (it's like 500 pages worth of dense and heavy material), but it's very well researched. You can find it on library genesis.

Here's part of the description pulled from Goodreads:

Drawing on years of research into cases in a number of states, Cheit shows that the issue had not been blown out of proportion at all. In fact, child sex abuse convictions were regular occurrences, and the crime occurred far more frequently than conventional wisdom would have us believe. Cheit's aim is not to simply prove the narrative wrong, however. He also shows how a narrative based on empirically thin evidence became a theory with real social force, and how that theory stood at odds with a far more grim reality. The belief that the charge of child sex abuse was typically a hoax also left us unprepared to deal with the far greater scandal of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, which, incidentally, has served to substantiate Cheit's thesis about the pervasiveness of the problem.