2013-06-18

The Tale of rebecca Watson and a Woozle.

Rebecca Watson is now claiming that 1/3 of all women in the U.S. military are raped.  Her source is an article in a small town newspaper called the Battleboro Reformer.  The writer of the 'article' isn't even a person it is an activist group called 'The WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER'.  Does the article even cite a source?  Sort of, but it is conveniently behind a pay wall, so it can't be evaluated.  Every other claim the 'article' makes in unsourced.

If there isn't any conflation in the research or between the research and the reporting, of actual rape and any of the usual things feminist like to conflate with rape, I'll eat a vegetable.

The funniest thing is that the article Becky cites doesn't even claim what she claims.  The research was among women who use the V.A. for medical care.  This is something less than 10% of veterans do (for very good reasons), so it is hardly very good sample selection.

This is an example of cherry picking data and modifying it just enough to claim it was an error if and when called out on it.  Later someone can cite her and do the same.  This is done recursively and before long you have a convenient woozle, the stock-in-trade of feminism.

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