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Believe Evidence: The Death of Due Process from Salome to #MeToo
Women lie #MeToo has destroyed the lives of many men, but to what end?Good men, innocent men have lost their jobs, their families, their friends. Not because of any evidence, but at mere accusations.Internet lynch mobs are moving from target to target, with slogans like "believe women."But what if these women didn't tell the truth? But what if these women lie? And how do you protect your loved ones from them?Award-winning journalist Megan Fox pulls back the curtain on the #MeToo movement and the mounting evidence that so many of these accusations are hoaxes! She shares practical and timeless advice to help your family avoid being caught up in the #MeToo cultural revolution.Read this book.
242 pages, Paperback
Published March 9, 2019
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March 16, 2019
An important topic handled fairly well
I listened to an interview with the author and she sounded knowledgable and genuinely concerned on the topic of due process. I bought the book expecting a rigorous catalogue of case studies and in-depth analysis. I got a book full of religious tradcon (traditionalist conservative) clap-trap intermingled with examples of women behaving badly. Towards the end of the book the author has some decent suggestions for raising girls and boys with a mind toward inoculating them against far-leftist nonsense. Stripped of the religious elements these can be summarized thusly: Teach boys to vet women for character and raise girls with character. These is no analysis of gynocentrism and our failure as a civilization to hold women to the same standers as men. This is what is required for equality.
The author sounded more intelligent and interesting in her interview. Her book was disappointing and failed to do justice to the problem we face of the continued attack on due process. I rate the book a solid MEH.
I listened to an interview with the author and she sounded knowledgable and genuinely concerned on the topic of due process. I bought the book expecting a rigorous catalogue of case studies and in-depth analysis. I got a book full of religious tradcon (traditionalist conservative) clap-trap intermingled with examples of women behaving badly. Towards the end of the book the author has some decent suggestions for raising girls and boys with a mind toward inoculating them against far-leftist nonsense. Stripped of the religious elements these can be summarized thusly: Teach boys to vet women for character and raise girls with character. These is no analysis of gynocentrism and our failure as a civilization to hold women to the same standers as men. This is what is required for equality.
The author sounded more intelligent and interesting in her interview. Her book was disappointing and failed to do justice to the problem we face of the continued attack on due process. I rate the book a solid MEH.
March 18, 2019
Mothers should make this required reading for their sons!
This isn't a basic political rant. It closes with sound advice for young men to protect themselves from false allegations.
This isn't a basic political rant. It closes with sound advice for young men to protect themselves from false allegations.
March 16, 2019
Loved it!!!
Megan Fox has written an extraordinary book that everyone who wants to know the truth about the #Metoo movement should read. It's a thoughtful and well researched book. If you want to learn how to protect both your sons and daughters from a culture of lies that have wrecked many lives, then you should read this book. I didn't want to put it down from the first chapter to the last.
Megan Fox has written an extraordinary book that everyone who wants to know the truth about the #Metoo movement should read. It's a thoughtful and well researched book. If you want to learn how to protect both your sons and daughters from a culture of lies that have wrecked many lives, then you should read this book. I didn't want to put it down from the first chapter to the last.
January 15, 2020
During the confirmation hearings for the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Megan Fox wrote two online opinion pieces:
• How to 'Christine Blasey Ford-Proof' Your Son – preparing one’s son to avoid or at least cope with a false accusation of sexual misconduct
• How to 'Christine Blasey Ford-Proof' Your Daughter – teaching one’s daughter not to make false accusations and how to avoid situations which might tempt her to make a false accusation
This book, a polemic if I ever saw one, expands on this work and consists of three sections:
• A section documenting historical examples of women making false accusations
• A section documenting recent examples of women making false accusations
• A section with recommendations on how to cope with and hopefully turn around current trends to uncritically accept accusations of sexual misconduct without proper investigation
The book is a challenge to the Me Too premise that women should be believed when they make accusations of sexual misconduct. This is not to say that it we should disbelieve them. The author, a woman, is not stupid. Rather, accusations should be taken seriously and investigated, with conclusions drawn based on the evidence. Why not just believe women? Because they are not perfect beings who exist on a higher plane of existence than men. They are capable of being mistaken and even lying, and punitive action based on uncritical belief in such instances can cause grave miscarriages of justice. This is why most of the book is dedicated to examples of women making false accusations.
It should be obvious that I agree wholeheartedly with Ms. Fox’s conclusions. That said, I do have some issues with the book. First, two of the examples in section 1, on historical examples, uses literature as a basis. Lady Macbeth is not a historical character, although I understand why she would be a tempting example. Fiction often imitates real life. As I have repeatedly stated, if fiction writers didn’t have reality to give them ideas, they would be totally screwed. In other words, Lady Macbeth may have been a fictional character, but she probably had a basis in historical fact. I am somewhat uncomfortable with “probably” being used as a justification for Ms. Fox’s arguments. A second issue is her use of the media slander of the Covington Catholic school boys as an example of women making false accusations. The false accuser was a man. The women accusers to whom Ms. Fox was referring were media personalities gleefully relaying the slanderous accusation against them. I completely agree that these media personalities should not have done this, but to use this as an example of women making false accusations is a stretch. They didn’t make it up; they passed it on, and not because of their gender, but because of their political bias.
My final observation about the book is that no one can bash women like a woman. As a man, I am conditioned to be a provider and protector. Ms. Fox’s rhetorical choices in this polemic were quite jarring to read. I agree with much of what she has to say but would be exceedingly uncomfortable saying it that way myself. For that matter, a man would probably get into a lot of trouble for doing just that. A man can’t get away with it, but a woman can. I guess women need to check their privilege.
• How to 'Christine Blasey Ford-Proof' Your Son – preparing one’s son to avoid or at least cope with a false accusation of sexual misconduct
• How to 'Christine Blasey Ford-Proof' Your Daughter – teaching one’s daughter not to make false accusations and how to avoid situations which might tempt her to make a false accusation
This book, a polemic if I ever saw one, expands on this work and consists of three sections:
• A section documenting historical examples of women making false accusations
• A section documenting recent examples of women making false accusations
• A section with recommendations on how to cope with and hopefully turn around current trends to uncritically accept accusations of sexual misconduct without proper investigation
The book is a challenge to the Me Too premise that women should be believed when they make accusations of sexual misconduct. This is not to say that it we should disbelieve them. The author, a woman, is not stupid. Rather, accusations should be taken seriously and investigated, with conclusions drawn based on the evidence. Why not just believe women? Because they are not perfect beings who exist on a higher plane of existence than men. They are capable of being mistaken and even lying, and punitive action based on uncritical belief in such instances can cause grave miscarriages of justice. This is why most of the book is dedicated to examples of women making false accusations.
It should be obvious that I agree wholeheartedly with Ms. Fox’s conclusions. That said, I do have some issues with the book. First, two of the examples in section 1, on historical examples, uses literature as a basis. Lady Macbeth is not a historical character, although I understand why she would be a tempting example. Fiction often imitates real life. As I have repeatedly stated, if fiction writers didn’t have reality to give them ideas, they would be totally screwed. In other words, Lady Macbeth may have been a fictional character, but she probably had a basis in historical fact. I am somewhat uncomfortable with “probably” being used as a justification for Ms. Fox’s arguments. A second issue is her use of the media slander of the Covington Catholic school boys as an example of women making false accusations. The false accuser was a man. The women accusers to whom Ms. Fox was referring were media personalities gleefully relaying the slanderous accusation against them. I completely agree that these media personalities should not have done this, but to use this as an example of women making false accusations is a stretch. They didn’t make it up; they passed it on, and not because of their gender, but because of their political bias.
My final observation about the book is that no one can bash women like a woman. As a man, I am conditioned to be a provider and protector. Ms. Fox’s rhetorical choices in this polemic were quite jarring to read. I agree with much of what she has to say but would be exceedingly uncomfortable saying it that way myself. For that matter, a man would probably get into a lot of trouble for doing just that. A man can’t get away with it, but a woman can. I guess women need to check their privilege.
March 26, 2019
Have you ever read a potential classic? One of those books where with minor changes, it would have been great and even a classic? "Believe Evidence" falls into that category.
"Believe Evidence" is a timely book on reminding us of the Biblical stories warning us that women can and do lie about rape, whether to hide their infidelity or simply to hurt their target. It moves on to the black men murdered by white lynch mobs before the Civil Rights era, killed because of the false allegations that they'd sexually abused (or just made advances at) white women.
It moves forward to more recent cases of men jailed for years because a woman lied about rape. In one New York case, the men spent years in prison and the state of New York continues to protect her identity. In multiple cases detailed in the book, the women faced no real consequences when proven to have lied about rape. For example, one man falsely accused of rape spent four years in prison before she admitted she lied. Her punishment? Two months in prison. The book moves forward through cases from the 1980s, the 1990s, and the recent time.
The biggest weaknesses of the book? Injecting mentions of recent cases in the older stories. Throwing a mention of the Kavanugh case in multiple Biblical stories disrupts the narrative - that we must have due process to protect the innocent from being falsely accused because it has always been a problem.
The second weakness of the book is falling into hysterical language. Do talk about liars, hypocrites, frauds. Throwing in terms like hussy and more theatrical insults detracts from the seriousness of the message. That renders the book a "preaching to the choir" piece instead of the universally accessible work that is needed - and that this could be.
"Believe Evidence" is a timely book on reminding us of the Biblical stories warning us that women can and do lie about rape, whether to hide their infidelity or simply to hurt their target. It moves on to the black men murdered by white lynch mobs before the Civil Rights era, killed because of the false allegations that they'd sexually abused (or just made advances at) white women.
It moves forward to more recent cases of men jailed for years because a woman lied about rape. In one New York case, the men spent years in prison and the state of New York continues to protect her identity. In multiple cases detailed in the book, the women faced no real consequences when proven to have lied about rape. For example, one man falsely accused of rape spent four years in prison before she admitted she lied. Her punishment? Two months in prison. The book moves forward through cases from the 1980s, the 1990s, and the recent time.
The biggest weaknesses of the book? Injecting mentions of recent cases in the older stories. Throwing a mention of the Kavanugh case in multiple Biblical stories disrupts the narrative - that we must have due process to protect the innocent from being falsely accused because it has always been a problem.
The second weakness of the book is falling into hysterical language. Do talk about liars, hypocrites, frauds. Throwing in terms like hussy and more theatrical insults detracts from the seriousness of the message. That renders the book a "preaching to the choir" piece instead of the universally accessible work that is needed - and that this could be.
February 28, 2020
Well written
Well researched and thought out, this book reaffirms “The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if her mendacity takes the form of slander she may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest person or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad person with untruth.” — Theodore Roosevelt”
Well researched and thought out, this book reaffirms “The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if her mendacity takes the form of slander she may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest person or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad person with untruth.” — Theodore Roosevelt”
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