Probably not, there wasn't much study of the D&D moral panic in the 80's at the time either. Academic interest comes much later, not in time to help. For examp

Probably not, there wasn't much study of the D&D moral panic in the 80's at the time either. Academic interest comes much later, not in time to help. For example, Elizabeth Loftus [1] was pivotal in discrediting the "satanic abuse" panic of the 80's (which as other comments say was related to the D&D panic). But she did so a decade later. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Loftus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Loftus