1 in 5 women get raped?

However, the way this works is that scientist affiliated with the university that pisses the feminists off is going to find their career under great threat, primarily though finding loss, and any scientist outside of the university orbit that pisses off the feminists can kiss away any chance of hitching up the the university gravy train in the future.

Professors teach for a living, and a university doesn't exist without them. They aren't on a "gravy train"--they receive a salary.

and dealing with your nonsense, and ignorance, is boring and not worth my time.

The main reason to be at the university if you are a scientist is to be able to hook up with money to do science, and while they teach because they have too most make it very clear they have no interest in it.

The main reasons to be at the university if you are a feminist is to have a day job teaching so that you can put food on the table, and to use the platform to indoctrinate the young in the faminits fantasies, to try to spread your political beliefs under the false flag of science, and too keep on eye on the real scientists and then bully them into submission if they threaten to get get into areas that you dont want them to.

So you have been saying for years, but you keep coming back because my arguments backed up with the evidence I bring to the table tends to be too compelling to be ignored.

I am not with you on this Hawkeye here. I side with Firefly on this tangent.

The feminists claimed in the seventies that 2% or less of the claims are not true, and that was that, nobody ever checked.

That's blatantly untrue. You're simply ignorant of decades of research since then

You're really embarrassing yourself by so openly admitting gross ignorance of the topic.

One highly respected legal academic, elected by her peers as
president of the prestigious Association of American Law Schools,
recently reported that "the overwhelming consensus in ... research
relying on government data is that false reports account for only
about 2 percent of rape complaints." 9 It is indisputably true that,
largely through the efforts of legal dominance feminists, there now
exists a consensus among legal academics that only two percent of
rape complaints are false.' 0 This purportedly empirical statement is
ubiquitously repeated in legal literature. Dozens of law review
articles reiterate that no more than one in fifty rape complaints is
false." This empirical fact, however, is an ideological fabrication. 12

As far as can be ascertained, no study has ever been published
which sets forth an evidentiary basis for the "two percent false rape
complaint" thesis.' 3 "Measuring false allegations is all the more difficult
since policies on unfounded criminal complaints differ from
one jurisdiction to another, resulting in very different numbers."' 14
The basic problem with accurately ascertaining the percentage
of wrongful accusations is that the overwhelming majority of rape
cases result in plea bargains, a "black box" in which there is neither
adversarial process, jury fact-finding, appellate review, nor even a
record for scholarly analysis. There are numerous reasons why both

innocent and guilty defendants accept plea bargains, including
avoiding the risks of going to trial.' 5 There is thus no firm evidence
that the plea bargaining process differentiates between innocence and
guilt any more accurately than trials. Whether by trial or by pleabargaining,
roughly half of accused rapists are convicted. 16 Even if
we assume arguendo that all those convicted are indeed guilty, and
that a full two-thirds of those acquitted at trial were also guilty, we
would still wind up with a situation in which one-sixth of those actually
tried are really innocent

The answer is that Brownmiller said it in 1975, bringing no proof with her, a whole lot of people repeated the number over the years claiming it was fact when clearly it was not, and no one checked to see what the truth was...FOR 40FUCKING YEARS! Houston, we have a problem here.

An the few smaller academy studies that had been done show a hell of a lot higher rate of false charges.

Hawkeye I can not see large scale studies being allowed to be done or at least not funded as too many people in power have benefit far too greatly by promoting the rape crisis/rape culture nonsense.

Of course there are now a kickstarter type of site to directly fund scientific research so maybe some researchers will be brave enough to set up such a research program and funded it in that manner as not major university less alone the federal government will do so.

The answer is that Brownmiller said it in 1975, bringing no proof with her, a whole lot of people repeated the number over the years claiming it was fact when clearly it was not, and no one checked to see what the truth was...FOR 40 ******* YEARS!

C o n c l u s i o n

Again, one of the most important challenges
for successfully investigating and prosecuting
cases of non-stranger sexual assault is the
idea that many—or even most—reports are
false. As long as this belief is accepted by law
enforcement professionals, prosecutors,
jurors, and others, our efforts to improve the
criminal justice response to sexual assault
will have only limited impact. Only those
cases that look like our societal stereotype
of “real rape” will be successfully investigated
and prosecuted.
To move beyond this issue of false reporting,
one of the most important steps we can take
is therefore to recognize that the “red flags”
that raise suspicion in the minds of most
people actually represent the typical dynamics
of sexual assault in the real world.
Once we accept this reality, we can begin to
move beyond this issue to more successfully
investigate and prosecute sexual assault
cases, especially those involving nonstrangers.

Widening Spotlight on Assault of Women
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
DEC. 4, 2014

WASHINGTON — There is little to intersect the lives of a college freshman, a 59-year-old former model and a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq war. Their targets — a prestigious state university, a long-beloved entertainer and the United States military — do not have much in common, either.

But in just the last week, the governing board of the University of Virginia has scrambled to answer allegations that it has mishandled sexual assault claims by women after Rolling Stone magazine published an account of a freshman who says she was raped at a fraternity party, and more than a dozen women, long in the shadows, have come forward with allegations that they were raped by the comedian and actor Bill Cosby. A new military study released Wednesday night demonstrated that reports of rapes and sexual assaults had increased 8 percent, and Congress reopened the debate over how to best address that problem — one that potentially threatens the life of a major defense bill and perhaps the confirmation of a new defense secretary.

While protests of the so-called rape culture on college campuses have surfaced before — Take Back the Night marches are decades old — the sudden convergence of exposure and outrage over these acts of sexual violence suggests a tolerance tipping point in American culture for a problem that institutions and victims alike have long hidden from view.

“I think we are at a critical moment,” said Eugene R. Fidell, an expert on military justice at Yale Law School. “The military is not on an island all to itself, and the debate in the country is over what is the medicine we need to take. The fact that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way our society treats women is a proposition on which there is now general agreement.”

What has changed are the willingness of women to come forward in ways that would have been unthinkable in the past and, as a result, the pressure on institutions to respond to issues that were once allowed to fester just out of sight.

“As women expect more equality,” said Michael S. Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, who banned some fraternity functions after two separate assault cases, “the prevalence of this archaic behavior becomes increasingly intolerable. You now find flash points where you can protest against that behavior on college campuses and in the military, and there will be others where women and others can get attention for their claims.”

What is still in question is whether awareness will lead to effective change in an emotionally charged landscape where the overall problems are clear, but the facts in individual cases can often be elusive.

For all the talk of “zero tolerance” on campuses, in the military and in the White House of sexual assault, extensive legislation on Capitol Hill has yet to move forward and President Obama has largely stayed out of the fray on the issue. The Obama administration has begun to put more pressure on universities and expose which ones are under investigation. But the federal government has yet to pull out its biggest gun: the ability to take away federal funding from universities that are found to violate student rights in sexual assault cases. Critics note that a two-decade-old federal law requiring colleges and universities to disclose information about crime on and around their campuses, including sexual offenses, is rarely enforced.

After the Rolling Stone article detailing a gang rape allegation and an emergency meeting of the board, the University of Virginia found itself under increasing scrutiny this week. Virginia lawmakers have called for hearings on the matter; the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges sent the university a letter asking officials to demonstrate they are in compliance with student safety standards; and more than 1,000 alumni have written emails about the incident.

On Tuesday, former President Jimmy Carter denounced Yale’s handling of an assault case and suggested the military was falling down on the job of adjudicating cases. The issues came together further Thursday when the secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, announced that the Navy would revoke Mr. Cosby’s title of honorary chief petty officer.

Almost every day, another woman emerges to detail rape or assault allegations against Mr. Cosby. This week in the Senate, lawmakers again presented different versions of bills that would address sexual assault in the military, potentially setting up a legislative conflict that may well hold up a defense bill.

One version, sponsored by Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, which will be included in the broader defense bill, offers various changes to the system to give victims more rights and assistance. Another, which would be offered as a possible amendment and is sponsored by Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, would strip commanders of their role in prosecuting the cases.

There are several similarities in the challenges faced by colleges and the military, where the adjudication of sexual assault often is conducted outside the criminal justice system. Providing accountability, protections for victims and due process for the accused, while fostering a new culture in which such violence is not tolerated and in which victims are not intimidated or bullied out of reporting the crimes, are common goals. Ms. Gillibrand and Ms. McCaskill are also the authors of bills to address campus assaults.

At the same time, the Obama administration has pressed universities hard to better report and deal with sexual assault under laws many have flouted.

“I have said I believe we should support survivors of attacks,” said Mr. Roth, the Wesleyan president. “The second thing we need is to have clear public procedures for punishing perpetrators.”

Some universities are also reconsidering their policies on Greek life, which some critics have insisted are at the center of sexual violence on campus. At the University of Mary Washington in Virginia, the consideration of establishing a fraternity and sorority system was delayed this week by President Richard Hurley.

At Wesleyan, Mr. Roth suspended the fraternity Psi Upsilon’s ability to hold social events until the end of 2015. The University of Virginia has suspended its fraternity activities until January.

That university’s Board of Visitors is expected to develop new and tougher policies for assaults on campus that officials desperately hope can rewind its growing image as a symbol of rape culture.

But in the case of all violence, there are matters ingrained in the culture that experts on sexual violence say go far beyond the institutions now under fire.

“The fix that I’d like to see,” said Erin Buzuvis, the director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Western New England University School of Law, “and one that is relevant whether we are talking about Cosby or the military or U.Va. is to cultivate as individuals and society intolerance to the ways violence against women is normalized in the media, through sports, on TV and in movies, in video games, in advertising and online.”

Skeptics may say that is more an aspiration than a change likely to occur anytime soon. But Ms. McCaskill, who prosecuted sex crimes before she joined the Senate, said there was something real building, beginning with the willingness of victims to come forward in ways they had not.

“What you’re seeing with Cosby and college campuses and the military is that victims are gaining strength by seeing the courage of other victims,” she said. “I have seen this incredible increase in the number of people who have come out and are saying, ‘I want people to know that this happened to me.’ ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/us/string-of-sexual-assault-cases-may-lead-to-tipping-point.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As&_r=0

• 2.1% (Heenan & Murray, 2006)
• 2.5% (Kelly et al., 2005)
• 3.0% (McCahill et al., 1979)
• 5.9% (the present study)
• 6.8% (Lonsway & Archambault, 2008)
• 8.3% (Grace et al., 1992)
• 10.3% (Clark & Lewis, 1977)
• 10.9% (Harris & Grace, 1999)

Of the 136 cases of sexual assault 8 (5.9%) were coded as false reports, 61 (44.9%)
did not proceed to any prosecution or disciplinary action, 48 (35.3%) were referred for
prosecution or disciplinary action, and 19 (13.9%) contained insufficient information to
be coded (see Table 2). It should be noted that in no case did the research team “override”
the classification of a false report made by the police department. The eight cases
that were described as false reports by the police investigators were also categorized that
way by the coders.
Of the eight false reports, three involved clear admissions from complainants that they
had fabricated the report for ulterior motives, and a fourth investigation yielded a partial
admission, combined with other evidence that facts had been fabricated. Three cases were
coded as false reports after extensive police investigation—multiple witness interviews
and careful fact checking—yielded evidence that the reports were fabricated, even though
the complainant did not ultimately state that her report was false. A final case was coded as
a false report even though it was complex and ambiguous. The complainant recanted her
report, but the facts yielded by the investigation suggested that her initial report was as
much a mislabeling of the incident as a deliberate effort to fabricate

that school is under federal investigation for its handing of sexual assault cases quite apart from anything in the RS article