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Sunday, July 5th, 2009

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    7:21p
    Victim Blaming At It's Finest

    The Daily Telegraph, in a fine display of journaliatic integrity, completely distorts unfinished research to propagate the myth that 'rape victims had it coming'. Lovely.

    'But more than that, she told me, every single one of the first four statements made by the Telegraph was an unambiguous, incorrect, misrepresentation of her findings.

    Women who drink alcohol, wear short skirts and are outgoing are more likely to be raped? "This is completely inaccurate," Shaw said. "We found no difference whatsoever. The alcohol thing is also completely wrong: if anything, we found that men reported they were willing to go further with women who are completely sober." '

    Full article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/04/bad-science-rape-study-telegraph?commentpage=1

    Some of the comments are incredibly full of fail but persevere and there's some to help restore your faith in humanity too.

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