Joe Biden pushes debunked ‘one in five’ sex assault statistic at Democratic convention

Even though Democrats, activists and the media insist campus sexual assault is such an “epidemic” we have to eviscerate due process rights to solve it, there has been little mention of the issue at the Democratic National Convention.

Even the biggest campus sexual assault fearmonger of them all, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ignored the issue during her convention speech. There’s hardly any mention of it in the Democratic Party platform.

But Vice President Joe Biden, one of the other peddlers of the alleged epidemic, did mention the issue in a video that played prior to his convention speech. The video pushed the debunked statistic that one in five women will be sexually assaulted in college campuses. Anyone who’s looked into the statistic beyond the talking points of the biased people who crafted the survey it’s based on will see that it is nonsense.

“Researchers” put out the same survey with the same deep flaws again and again, and insist that since all these flawed studies show the same thing, they’re true.

The statistic is based on a self-reported survey, something ordinarily mocked within the scientific community and by the media when it shows something they don’t like. But when this cheap tactic is used to scare the masses into thinking rapists are around every corner on college campuses, it’s acceptable.

Even with 20 percent of women answering in the affirmative that they have experienced sexual assault (the definition of which is incredibly broad in these surveys and includes everything from a stolen kiss to actual rape) they don’t think they’re victims. More than 70 percent say, when asked why they didn’t report, that they didn’t think the experience was “serious enough.”

Back in the ’80s, when surveys like this were first peddled, women were asked if they believed they were a victim of sexual assault. They overwhelmingly responded “no.” It’s no wonder the question was changed in subsequent surveys.

Biden didn’t mention the statistic in his actual speech, but he never shies away from a chance to mention it. The statistic claiming an “epidemic” is akin to the satanic day-care cult fearmongering of the 1980s and ’90s. And Democrats will continue to ride this fear to the bank, and the media will happily oblige.

Ashe Schow is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.

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