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The accusations fail several basic tests of plausibility

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David French has this article in the National Review, with the above subhead, on the new and old allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Among other issues, the New York Times (according to its own correction) simply left out of its article the fact that one of the people supposedly abused "declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident." Didn't think that was important to mention?  "All the news that fits our agenda."

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Given what happened to Dr. Ford after she went public and testified, is it any wonder that another woman would decline to be interviewed and claim not to remember the incident in order to preserve her anonymity? In my experience, this happens in cases that get zero public attention, let alone a case like this one.

And perhaps there is no "corroboration" (as French states) for any of these allegations because the FBI background investigation was so severely curtailed as to be a sham.

It seems that the truth is in the eye of the beholder.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/kavanaugh-allegations-trump-control-over-fbi-doj-scotus.html

Or maybe just that all Kavanaugh accusers have a fear of flying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd5t8m_-SS0

Here's an article about the just-published memoir by one of Larry Nassar's victims, entitled (appropriately) "What's a Girl Worth?"

Most compelling quotation from the article, and so very relevant here: "If you can't prove it, don't speak up. Because it will cost you everything."

https://slate.com/culture/2019/09/rachael-denhollander-memoir-larry-nassar-abuse-evangelical-church.html

And all these victims have degrees in psychology, as both Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill.

That’s quite a trick. If someone makes an accusation, he did it. If she doesn’t make an accusation, he did it.

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