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Whoa...that's not the percentage proven false, it's the percentage where authorities decided that there wasn't enough evidence to proceed with the case! (That includes cases where too much time has passed to collect evidence, cases where an accuser doesn't want to testify, cases where the authorities assume nobody will believe a woman because of how she was dressed that night, etc. etc.)
The proven false rate comes in around 5%-6% in most studies:
The Prevalence of False Allegations of Rape in the United States from 2006-2010
https://atixa.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Lisak-False-Allegations-16-VAW-1318-2010.pdf
That's still significantly higher than for other crimes, but to state that nearly half of rape claims are false is wrong and dangerous.
I'm not going to argue this, as it would sidetrack the thread, but my number is for what I said it was. I am not wrong, and stating the facts is not dangerous, except to those with an agenda.