Re: Strong evidence of the rarity of false rape accusations

David Lee Kollberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 3 Dec
2003 12:57:50 +0100:
> "Alan Mackenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

>> Quite simply, there have been very few victims of such accusations
>> posting here on t.r.  In fact, I cannot recall a single one in nearly
>> five years of posting here.  Not even in the crossposted threads from
>> soc.men, where one would expect such to appear.

> That doesn't stand for much, I guess. You seem to regard this talk
> group (or Usenet in general) as the heart of the world, but I'm quite
> sure it isn't.

:-)  Not really.

> Whatever the case may be, it's rather foolish to label any reference
> (or lack of reference) in this marginal newsgroup as "strong evidence",
> don't you think?

Not really.  Maybe t.r. would not naturally attract lots of FRA victims.
But surely soc.men would, if there were some.  The only substantial
evidence of FRAs is that posted by Waldo every now and then, which he
presumably finds by googling the world's press on the net every few days
(or something like that).  It seems reasonable to conclude that FRAs,
though they undoubtedly happen, don't happen that often.

> DLK

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