Denial about moral panics occurs in multiple forms.

Evidence

Such reactions form exactly the discourse of denial: literal denial (nothing happened); interpretative denial (something happened, but it’s not what you think) and implicatory denial (what happened was not really bad and can be justified). — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics, 125

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics: the…, 125
• XREF: connects to: The Satanic panic was a moral panic of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse, starting in the 1980s and persisting today. — Satanic panic — Wikipedia; People experiencing cognitive dissonance often avoid or reinterpret contradictory information rather than abandoning their beliefs when confronted with truth. — Festinger’s Law; Volunteer apathy can be read as cognitive dissonance reduction, psychic numbing, or denial. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 83