Bill Cosby Guilty!

[Joods]

Why would over 50 women all have the same story and go through the scandal of it all by telling the world CL, Roadrunner and Huggy?

First of all the trial didn't involve 50 women.

Secondly according to your logic you should accept that God exists simply based on the amount of people that say so...

You're right. It didn't involve 50 women. 

It involved five. And that is five women who will forever have to live with the terrifying memories of what that man did to them. It involved five women who bravely stepped up and outed a monster for who he is. It involved five women who did the right thing and got a sexual predator a guilty verdict that he absolutely deserved. 

God didn't have anything to do with it. And if he was real - he should have stepped in and stopped Cosby's abuses. So much for your "loving" god being present and doing the right thing.

[Rev. Rye]

I figured out that this is a good place to bring up the actual rates of false accusations and how likely they are to apply to Bill's case:

In the aftermath of George Takei being accused of sexual misconduct, I gave an estimate of how frequent false rape accusations are, using stats from RAINN that estimate 321,500 people get sexually assaulted in America (one every 98 seconds, and roughly 1% of the population every year GODDAM) and for every 1000, 341 will report it to the police. Roughly 109,632 reports per year. I found a study by the British Home Office (the biggest I was able to find) that roughly 2.5% were false. However, a while back, I thought about that to myself, and wondered if the numbers really applied to America. After all, we're a nation that could spend over a year and a half mulling the decision over, and still believe that the best choice for leader of the free world is an orangutan with all the political sensitivity of Nikolai Stavrogin and all the finesse of a WWE wrestling heel. Maybe it could be higher. So, I looked further, and I found a study that was even bigger and focused on America. It stated that the rate of false accusations is 5.5%.

109632*.055=6,030 cases per year. (One every 87 minutes, 8 seconds). Needless to say, this is not nothing.

However, this one doesn't break it down further by motivations, but from what I've been able to gather from my research, it seems that the most common scenario for such accusations tends to be that a young girl is caught with a boyfriend their parents don't like and claim he raped her because they're afraid of the consequences of what would happen if she stuck to her guns and told the truth (see Mayella Ewell). And I suspect that, if it's treated strictly as a false rape accusation, an accusation where the rape unquestionably occurred but the wrong person ended up being accused (see the Central Park Five) would also be common among these cases. What isn't terribly common, however, is malicious accusation, deliberately accusing someone falsely to destroy their reputation. It does indeed happen, but it's not common, and what really isn't common is having multiple people make accusations that are all dake. The only verified examples I can think of are the "Satanic Panic" day school trials of the 1980s, and those involved kids with young, pliable, minds being plied by ambitious prosecutors to fulfill a narrative they desperately wanted to make a reality.

If you could prove Bill Cosby's accusers, all 59 of them, were in on such a conspiracy, this would require serious evidence to back up, especially when we have a deposition where Cosby, under oath, drugged women to make them compliant to his sexual escapades.

[Catholic_Lady]

Why would over 50 women all have the same story and go through the scandal of it all by telling the world CL, Roadrunner and Huggy?

Lol my comment about freeing Bill was a joke

[Huggy Bear]

Hmmm, a black man convicted solely on inconsistent testimony with zero evidence...

LOL.  Of course you believe Cosby is innocent.  Why would I expect anything different from you?  Priest says he miraculously healed crippled dude = totally believable. It happened! Proof of a supernatural event!  Over 50 women testify that a popular male celebrity sexually assaulted them = ridiculous!  It’s a set up! He’s innocent!

Huggy, your brain is broken.

My question to you is: where is the line of demarcation between rare medical occurrences and divine intervention, and how did you establish such criteria? And remember, if you are asserting something is a 'miracle' that burden of proof is yours. Of course, all of this ignores the fact that testimonials are one of the lowest quality, and least reliable forms of scientific evidence. People lie.

*emphasis mine*

[Joods]

Leave it to you Huggy, to quote mine something from over two years ago that's not even relevant to this thread.

Jackass. One has nothing to do with the other and you shifting your goalposts just to make a point makes you look extremely foolish.

[Homeless Nutter]

Searching for a three year old quote, that takes dedication.

It takes all of 15 seconds, on my phone no less...

It also takes a special kind of humorless, insecure pr*ck, who holds a grudge over a dumb joke made years ago. Personally, I've yet to find a single post of yours worth remembering, let alone quoting in the future...

Typical, point out a white supremacists racism and they'll claim it was a joke.

You realize the KKK started as a "joke" right?

Hmmm, I'm not sure I knew that, but the words "KKK" and "joke" seem to fit well together...

[CapnAwesome]

It's a crazy world we live in, when it turns out Bill Cosby is one of the worst serial rapists of all time. Sad that he couldn't be caught until he's practically dead.

[Whateverist]

It's a crazy world we live in, when it turns out Bill Cosby is one of the worst serial rapists of all time. Sad that he couldn't be caught until he's practically dead.

What do you think of my idea of seizing all his loot and dividing between the victims leaving just enough to stick him in a senior assisted living home from which he is not allowed to  venture?

[Homeless Nutter]

What do you think of my idea of seizing all his loot and dividing between the victims leaving just enough to stick him in a senior assisted living home from which he is not allowed to  venture?

I'm guessing that's just a joke, but in case anybody seriously thinks that - I think that kind of thing might undermine public credibility of any victims of rich rapists, who might come out in the future.

An exceedingly "generous" charity donation might be a better option.

[CapnAwesome]

It's a crazy world we live in, when it turns out Bill Cosby is one of the worst serial rapists of all time. Sad that he couldn't be caught until he's practically dead.

What do you think of my idea of seizing all his loot and dividing between the victims leaving just enough to stick him in a senior assisted living home from which he is not allowed to  venture?

I'd be for it. Unfortunately he'll probably just die in a couple of months.