What does "plied her with alcohol" mean? Does it mean that Shermer spiked her drink or force fed her alcohol? Most likely she was drinking with him had a little too much to drink when up to his hotel room, had sex with him, in the morning regretted it and decided to declare it non-consensual.
Calling an encounter like the above "rape" is precisely what I'm objecting too.
Maybe it's as you describe, and maybe he was ignoring her saying no repeatedly. Why privilege only the hypothesis that makes Shermer innocent?
Also, the other accusations, while short of rape, are of bad behavior. Would you trust an ethicist who went around hitting people?
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