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How much did serial killing actually go up in the 60s versus public awareness of it? Were the decades of the 60s and 70s actually a “golden age” for serial killers, or was it the end of a much longer one?

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How do historians deal with unproven conspiracies and lack of available evidence of something they believe or theorize likely happened? How do you academically study successful cover-ups and unwritten history without just turning into a quack conspiracy theorist?

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Did the Catholic Church use nudity in their art to bait their perishoners into having sinful thoughts that would require confession and atonement and/or paying indulgences?

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How much did serial killing actually go up in the 60s versus public awareness of it? Were the decades of the 60s and 70s actually a “golden age” for serial killers, or was it the end of a much longer one?	177
How do historians deal with unproven conspiracies and lack of available evidence of something they believe or theorize likely happened? How do you academically study successful cover-ups and unwritten history without just turning into a quack conspiracy theorist?	9
Did the Catholic Church use nudity in their art to bait their perishoners into having sinful thoughts that would require confession and atonement and/or paying indulgences?	1