Almost half of all rape accusations are false.

Interesting second round. My opponent has certainly tried to prove my chink in the armour pretty well. Now I am actually at my vacation right now. If it weren't for the fact that the hotel I'm staying in charges crazy amounts for the usage of their wifi I would have had more time to fill in more of the blanks. In this round due to shortage of time I might try to give more general answers in this round and, when I have some time, try to back them up with more facts and figures in the next round. People are often saying that "information should be free". If you ask me, information shouldn't be free but wifi should be free and charging for wifi should not be considered a viable business model! You see a hotel with the audacity to do that, boycott them out of existence! For starters, it seems my opponent has obsessed with focusing onfallacies that certain aspects of my arguments he seems to have overlooked. unlike what my opponent has claimed, I did provide a clear-cut case in the example of the woman who claimed she was abducted at knifepoint who used self-inflicted wounds to frame her accuser. I also provided an example of 13 women who made a joint false accusation against a boy their age. Also in the source I provided 13 different cases of false rape accusations was listed with 13 different reasons listed. Among the listed reasons we have everything under the sun, from covering up infidelity, for failing school exams, because of attention, to make boyfriends jealous, because the sex was bad, etc. In one case the woman punched herself in the face, ripped her clothes of and told police that two men had broken into her house and raped her. In another one of those cases a woman scratched her face and tore her clothes apart and claimed a man had raped her. That's only a few cases listed. There are many more similar cases if for some reason these cases do not pass muster and my opponent claim these do not reflect a population basis. The fact that women use false claims for many different purposes is all clear by now. The only question remaining is, do women generally use rape claims for such casual purposes in general. In fact many independent prosecutors and judges can attest to this being the case. Here is a quote from Craig Silverman, a man who can be considered a veteran in sex crimes and has been heavily involved in sex-crime cases for many, many years. "For 16 years, I was a kickass prosecutor who made most of my reputation vigorously prosecuting rapists. I am unaware of any Colorado prosecutor who put as many rapists away for as much prison time as I did during my prosecutorial career. Several dozen rapists are serving thousands of years as a result of my efforts. However, during my time as a prosecutor who made case filing decisions, I was amazed to see all the false rape allegations that were made to the Denver Police Department. It was remarkable and surprising to me. You would have to see it to believe it. Any honest veteran sex assault investigator will tell you that rape is one of the most falsely reported crimes that there is. A command officer in the Denver Police sex assaults unit recently told me he placed the false rape numbers at approximately 45 percent. Objective studies have confirmed this. See Purdue Professor Kanin's nine-year study published in 1994 concluding that over 40 percent of rape allegations were demonstrably false." In Bavaria police officals agree that way over 50% of accusations are false (I'll get into more detail down below). They confirm the picture that even highly questionable claims fall at the laps of prosecutors for sexual assault/rape, not for false claims of said crime, hence the highly skewed statistics of false claims in the first place. Only 7,4% of cases are forwarded for prosecution of false rape, either where evidence has been blatant or accuser has confessed. In 64% of the cases the charges were dropped by prosecution due to lack of evidence. These police officials initially in charge of the investigations deemed them false. There are way more officers and people who are deep down in the sexual crimes trenches that I can cite, but it's very clear to me so far that these people certainly attest to women going to extreme lengths to make false claims to the police, concocting detailed stories of assaults, even colluding with other women to make it more credibleto the police, etc. They've seen it all and they consecutively cite figures as high as 40 %. There they studied 1894 cases and concluded that more than 50% were false. Now. I think we have enough data to reasonably believe they might in fact be telling he truth. Also, the police is not a think thank organisation and can't like feminists do skew any statistics to favour some agenda. Police is ultimately answerable to authorities and as such they do not just make sh*t up. Now, with that said, my opponent has not rejected any of the claims in the studies themselves. He could have used his second round to do that but chose not to. Instead, my opponent rejected me drawing the conclusion of a 50% falsity rate based on those studies (albeit in addition with other pieces of evidence). Now we actually have two studies, one with 1200 that came up with a 60% falsity rate and one with 1900 that came up with a 50% rate. In addition we have by account of police who've worked intimately (thereby conducted there own small studies you could say) with many hundreds of sex-crimes come up with a similar rate. Now In high school, and that was over a year ago, used to do some college-statistic math like standard deviations, confidence levels, confidence intervals, etc. and I could, if I had enough time and maybe a calculator, do some calculations and try to get a number on the probability of it relating to a whole population basis. Now I don't want our debate to be about troweling through a lot of mathematical terms and do it in a overly complicated. Besides, as I write it I only got 17 minutes left so if you insist on that point I'll see what I can do in the next round. So far we have many comprehensive studies, both smaller and with larger samples, converging on a range between 40-60% and on top of that police concurring and telling the exact the same story as that presented by the studies. I think in combination with other pieces of evidence and hopefully with further studies conducted (if academia deigns to conduct another such a politically incorrect study) we will see it more or less converging around 50%. All current evidence suggest that. Now as to the "women are crazy" and there's no parallel, sure, in and of itself it's not evidence enough. However, when looking at the broader picture it does make sense. In light of everything I've presented so far it serves as an explanatory model as to how it can be that so many women do this. And edit, it's not 0,65% but half, 0,35% of all those borderline women who in one point over the course of a year would account for all false charges brought forth to police in America. Now as to the male-female dichotomy, sure, genders rape each other and now and then there are some false rape accusations that do not belong to the archetypical "female-against-male-accusation" scenario. Now it's 10min left and I won't have time to gather any statistics, that I can do for the next round. However, in the broader scheme of things, those numbers are so tiny that they can be overlooked in the context of women falsely accusing men. There's just no comparison and they don't make a difference. As to my opponent claiming there are women who won't stand a policemans probing question and procedural work and therefore might not want to cooperate, I seriously doubt anyone with a sound conscience would forego an investigation if that meant they could prevent a real rapist from ever raping again. I've can look at that for next round. Here's the link to the study in Bavaria. http://human-stupidity.com... It's 4 minutes left but there's no point overdoing it in the last remaining minutes. I'll try to get better wifi reception for next round. :)