“It wasn’t a mistake to rely on someone [so] emotionally fragile,” Erdely said softly on the witness stand, as her voice broke and tears flowed in an otherwise silent courtroom. “It was a mistake to rely on someone who was intent to deceive me.” Day 4: Erdely gives scarring testimony Hawes Spencer, C-Ville.com 10/20/16

Sabrina Ruben Erdely, a highly paid professional writer for ROLLING STONE, wrote a libelous story about UVA, the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and Dean Nicole Eramo based on the lies told by a girl named Jackie Coakley. It's not her fault, she says, she was lied to:However, in a previous article, she wrote a libelous article about the Catholic Church, also based on an unreliable witness, and in a third article, she wrote a libelous article about the US military—also based on an unreliable witness.

Here's the Catholic Church story:

http://t.co/EqNTSl1qyt The Rolling Stone article from CNP #8- The catholic church sex crime files — Coastal Noise Media (@CoastalNoise) August 2, 2013

And here's the US Military story:

The Rape of Petty Officer Blumer - Rolling Stone https://t.co/etIp9A7EAj — Abiyomi Kofi (@TheAngryindian) July 29, 2016

In an article in 2014 I wrote that

The point of this story is this: the evidence is clear all over the face of this story that Erdely – as enabled by her editors at Rolling Stone – has a serial habit of reporting rapes without conducting any more fact checking than she did of the UVA story. It is facially obvious that she did not talk to the accused rapist because there wasn’t one. There is no evidence that she talked with anyone who was present at any of the bars where Ms. Blumer drank on the night before her DUI to attempt to verify even her story about meeting the three guys. And, again: the sources who spoke to RedState were clear that Ms. Erdely made no effort to contact any member of the Naval command who was involved with the investigation to get their side of the story with respect to what manner of investigation was conducted into Ms. Blumer’s allegations or what that investigation revealed. After an exhaustive investigation that spanned a year and a half (which Erdely and Rolling Stone ignored and/or did no research into whatsoever), no one was able to produce any evidence that a sexual assault had occurred, physical or otherwise. The alleged victim herself had no recollection of it happening, did not report it to the police who arrested her, and had a ready motive for latching on to the narrative, which is that it would have stopped or possibly prevented punishment at the hands of her military superiors and possibly prevented her from permanently losing the top secret clearance necessary to keep her job. Sabrina Rubin Erdely's OTHER Possibly Fake Rape Story | RedState, April 7, 2015

There was actually a drug test—reported by Erdely— which came up negative. Leon Wolf of RedState, who doesn't like us, not only came to the same conclusion, but verified it by original reporting with interviews with USN personnel. Quote from Wolf:I'm sure Wolf would reject as deplorable Steve Sailer's suggestion that Erdely was motivated by "anti-Gentilic" prejudice. After all, as Steve admits, "anti-Gentilic" isn't even a word.

But there does seem to be a pattern here. And the anti-military and anti-Church stories are still online, unretracted. And now that you know about Erdely's (and Rolling Stone's credibility) in these cases, here's what Rolling Stone is doing now: