Nearly 20 years ago, in 2006, back when the mainstream news media still had the power to direct events by pushing narratives with little more than a whim inspiring them, three players on the Duke University lacrosse team were charged with raping a stripper they had hired for a team party. Partly because the “rapists” were white and the “victim” was black, the case sparked a moral panic in Durham, North Carolina and around the nation. Many young lives were instantly destroyed, while the cherished American legal standard of a presumption of innocence was tossed aside like nothing more than inconvenient trash.  

In the end, it turned out—just as many had always suspected given the flimsy evidence—there was no rape of any kind. It was all a fabrication concocted by Crystal Mangum, the stripper in question who last week admitted as much in a podcast interview conducted from prison, where she is serving time for having killed her then-boyfriend. In 2006, however, the lack of evidence and Mangum’s lack of credibility as a witness, did not stop a corrupt local prosecutor, a broken news/sports media, and a braying public from insisting on pushing the salacious story having no appetite for questioning the word of a black female, even one with a very dubious background.

While it has long been assumed by people with functioning frontal cortexes that the entire story was a fraud—with the accused having been exonerated and multiple lawsuits having been adjudicated in their favor, including one from the coach who was fired at the time and subsequently banished from big-time athletics—the case finally got complete closure last week.

Nevertheless, it is rather surprising how much attention this not-so-shocking “revelation” has garnered. It seems there is so much pent-up anger and distrust regarding our judicial system and the news media in general, that any story that further discredits them—even when it really is not “news”—has a rather large built-in audience.

While I am pessimistic by nature, I would like to believe that the renewed attention to the gross injustice that happened at Duke might open some minds, especially in the news and sports media world, about similar cases where there may have been even be more egregious examples of false sex abuse. My own investigative work has revealed at least four cases which should easily qualify for radical reevaluation.

The three easiest among those are the sex abuse allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, pop superstar Michael Jackson, and former NBC Today Show host Matt Lauer. Having very extensively researched each of these three stories (the Lauer claims more so than anyone in the world, and the Jackson Leaving Neverland accusations almost to that level), it seems very clear to me that, contrary to what almost all of mainstream media has reported, none of these claims even comes close to being credible. Indeed, all the accused are very likely totally innocent.

As ridiculous as most conservatives already know the obviously politically motivated charges against Kavanaugh were, the cases against Jackson (which may soon be the subject of a civil trial after all these years) and Lauer—who has very tellingly never even been sued—are just as absurd and exasperating. But it is the fourth story, one to which I have devoted about decade of my life at great economic cost to myself, where the true story is by far the most mind-blowing to the average person.

As hard as it may be to believe, the entire Penn State/Joe Paterno/Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal—which came to national prominence in November of 2011 and became a far bigger and more consequential story (Sandusky is still in prison, and three highly-respected Penn State administrators also served significant time) than the Duke Lacrosse story, was also fraudulent to its core. There simply is not any credible evidence that it did (only old, dateless, uncorroborated, and contradictory testimony from adult males who were all paid millions of dollars).

Even though nearly everyone has just accepted it as an article of faith that the accused were guilty, the evidence shows that was no sex abuse by Sandusky, and, consequently, there was no cover-up by anyone at Penn State. As I believe was proven in my epic podcast “With the Benefit of Hindsight,” and as has been validated by numerous other credible and courageous researchers, the entire saga was inadvertently set up by misguided prosecutors working in conjunction with a moronic news media (mostly ESPN) to  create a classic moral panic within an almost comical perfect storm of unique circumstances.

Sandusky, an innocent man whose trial was an absolute abomination lacking even basic due process, is 80 years old and doomed to die in a state prison without the major news media ever even giving his side of the story a serious examination. Mangum, whose lies created enormous damage to countless innocent people and who killed a man, is scheduled to get out of a correctional institution in less than two years when she will be just 48.

What a world…