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Canada

McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring

In 2020, a Canadian university tore up its psychology department in search of a non-existent network of sexual predators. Documents obtained by Quillette reveal how administrators allowed it to happen.

14 June 2023

USA

The Stanford Rape Hoax

Jennifer Gries used claims of rape to punish a co-worker. Activists at Stanford used her lies for their own purposes.

3 April 2023

Recalibrating the #MeToo Movement

Men subjected to public shaming and career destruction over either false or trivial accusations, or over complicated and messy relationships, should never have been regarded as acceptable collateral damage.

10 March 2023

England

Is Clive Freeman’s claim of innocence plausible?

Clive Freeman is 79 and in his 35th year in prison for a murder he says never happened. Nine pathologists have since disputed the prosecution pathologist’s conclusion that Alexander Hardie was suffocated — and the CCRC has rejected four applications.

1 March 2023