Research (background reading) for the question Are rape vans real? is unpleasant. I found evidence for an answer in the affirmative: Snopes and Wikipedia identifying (and/or narrating) a criminal case involving rape, torture, and murder. Is this a topic people want on the Skeptics site? On the ...

I was very surprised to have a popular answer unilaterally deleted by a moderator, and I was even more surprised by their reasoning: This is an answer based purely on a theoretical model. We expect answers to be based on empirical evidence rather than speculative predictions. The answer has b...