The women who came forward against Harvey Weinstein reacted with fury after the disgraced media mogul’s rape and sexual assault convictions were overturned by a New York appeals court on Thursday.

Weinstein, 72, was found guilty in 2020 of raping and assaulting two women, and is serving his 23-year sentence at a prison in upstate New York.

In a 4-3 decision on Thursday, New York’s highest court ruled the original judge made “egregious errors” in the trial by allowing prosecutors to call witnesses whose allegations were not related to the charges at hand.

Weinstein was once one of Hollywood’s most well-connected and powerful producers who made a series of Oscar-winning films. But behind the glamourous facade, it was a different story. More than 80 women have accused him of abuse ranging from groping to rape. Even with his conviction overturned in New York, he remains convicted of rape in California.

The Weinstein revelations launched the #MeToo movement in 2017, which saw women from all corners of society come forward to talk about their experiences of sexual harassment and assault.

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    Nobody that has claimed to have found two seperate identical fingerprints has been able to back that up either. I’m pretty sure most myths are associated with the unlikeliest scenario and not the opposite like you are doing. By their very nature they are usually outlandish, religiously outlandish or old wives tales that turned out to be false.

    You’re basically saying “it’s a myth that spiders don’t crawl into our mouths as we sleep”. It kind of makes the opposite sound like a regular occurrence and saying “we haven’t watched every person sleep throughout history to know if it’s 100% always the case” is not a valid reason to say it

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      Again- no one has to say that because the burden of proof is on the claimant. This is true every single time.

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        Where is your proof that two fingerprints can be the same?

        And before it comes about, the absence of proof isn’t proof. “Could ofs” and “maybe exists” don’t really cut it. I hope you understand this is why appeals to ignorance don’t work and you can’t use the fact that we haven’t gathered all data especially when all the current data point squarely point one way.

        This is why labeling something as false, a myth or a fantasy needs more than just a slight possibility.

        We could label physics as a myth by arguing we just haven’t found the cases in which it doesn’t work yet. These things have happened before and there’s always a slight possibility but to bungle about saying it’s a myth is a bit silly imo.

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          Where is your proof that two fingerprints can be the same?

          Ah, you’re back to lying about what I said again. I think this conversation is over.

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            It is a myth because it is not a provable claim

            This is what you wrote. Is “Fingerprints aren’t all unique” a provable claim? This is why your logic isn’t sound, it can be applied to all of it and makes things that clearly aren’t myths into myths. And practically nothing is provable beyond a doubt especially when you need all data in all of space and time as you imply.

            You basically explained it to yourself with the spider example.

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              I know what I wrote.

              I also wrote this, which I have said in reply to you twice now. I will bold the relevant parts to help you comprehend what you’re reading.

              We have no idea if there have never been two people with the same fingerprints. It’s never been tested and there’s no way to test it since the majority of people who have existed are now dead.

              And since you have decided to lie about it again, this will be my last reply to you. Go ahead and lie about me a third time if you like. Or a fourth time, I suppose, depending on how you count these last two replies.