Do you have the documentation on that number? I’ve got some folks I’d really like to show that to!
Laird Wilcox did a study on this stuff in the early 90’s. The title was ‘The Hoaxer Report’ and it addressed such hoaxes on both the left and the right. The vast majority were on the left. His study indicated that ‘more than half of the incidents reported were hoaxes perpetrated by the person reporting them.
Can you remember that last time where, in a case like this, the ‘victim’ wasn’t also the ‘perp’?