These data suggest that at least 9 percent and probably closer to half of all rape claims are false
I haven’t read this book, and its “methodical” examination of “a wealth of empirical data”. It seems to go against other research that shows rape is underreported rather than overreported. Obviously it is eagerly seized on as Gospel truth by Mac Donald.
However, if it is correct, and – worst case scenario – half of all rape claims are false, this implies that half of them are not false. Mac Donald, on the other hand, implies that all rape claims are probably false unless it is by a stranger in a dark alley.
I have been quite astonished by the embrace of the double standard and the outright misogyny shown by the vast majority of commenters on this thread and on my original article.
Perhaps such attitudes are more widespread among Americans that among Britons. I just assumed that fairness – that is rejection of the double standard – was a given.
