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I'm just saying that false accusations happen, a lot, and yeah, my one friend is just a single data point, OTOH:
https://www.nsvrc.org/publications/articles/false-reports-moving-beyond-issue-successfully-investigate-and-prosecute-non-s
"The article begins by reviewing up-to-date research suggesting that the rate of false reporting for sexual assault is in the range of 2-8%."
That's not me saying this, that's the National Sexual Violence Resource Center saying this.
So in a year with 734,630 rapes*:
https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics
Somewhere between 14,692 and 58,770 are going to be false accusations? That's a lot. Like "a lot" a lot. Potentially 10K more than the annual number of gun deaths and 2x the number of gun suicides.
*Unclear if that's an estimated number of rapes or the reported number of rapes. I'm assuming reported because it's the only number we've got here and there's no way to know the actual number with certainty.
A lot? No. I call bullshit
Between 14k and 50k lives potentially ruined [out of roughly ~700k already destroyed]? It takes a special kind of willful ignorance to say that isn't a lot, and a certain kind of stupidity to deny the evidence supporting it.
Edit: Added some words since reading comprehension is difficult for some.
That's around 700000 lives definitely ruined mate, don't know where you get 50k
Yes, we already knew this because of the data and the context of the thread. The other poster was not questioning that, which is why I only referenced the cases in which someone innocent could be falsely accused.