I believed it when it all first came out.

He loved to trash talk people who do not meet his standards, while he does not meet his own.

I want to see stronger laws making it where a demonstrably false accusation to the police leads to significant jail time.

They hurt real victims too much.

False accusations is already a crime. Rape is rarely ever even prosecuted, let alone under false pretenses. That happens very rarely.
People often bring up the false accusations argument to deflect from the crime of rape. My rapist sure did act all astonished at the accusation and accused me of making false accusations. That should be a crime in itself. Rapists are more likely to lie than victims.

If victims were believed, maybe the prosecutor would have let it go to a grand jury based solely on the email exchanges between us where I accused him of raping me and he was apologizing for it, trying to avoid me going to the cops.

That much is obvious. They believe the man over the woman. And even if they don't they do not feel like rape is a high priority crime. Won't even bother to test the evidence from the rape kits.
Why you think that false accusations has anything to do with it I do not know. Might be a way of self consolation, hoping that they would care about us, if it weren't for those 'bad' ladies who falsely accuse. I feel bad for saying this, but no, they still would not care.
Now, if thousands of men were being raped everyday in this country, effort would be put into ending the scourge of rapism. As it is, a man can rape a child and get probation. That kid grows up, gets on drugs and that kid get 20 years for self harm.

his original civil suit in '06 or so.

I didn't know about that story.

Not to say he couldn't have done, or that the women accusing him are liars, but that I just don't know enough at this point and I won't just place the rapist label on him without some further evidence.

and the stories are remarkably similar.

People say someone who is in fact guilty of the allegations made might settle to avoid the publicity of a trial. But people could also claim that a person bringing the suit under questionable circumstances might choose to settle because they doubt their case may hold up at trial and they could end up with nothing.

In the end, however, most civil settlements are business decision. It's hard to read tea leaves into a settlement.

is very naïve and dangerous. I don't think someone should be thought as a rapist unless there is evidence.

Yes, there have been cases like the Duke Lacrosse accuser, but I don't recall any vast conspiracies of this nature.

I can't see the evidence, so it is better is someone investigates who has the power and ends it that way this deserves investigation, I hope it gets it.

If the police did not investigate at the time, it is on them, if people did not report it in the correct decade, there is not much to be done. I have been intimidated by people, I have been touched inappropriately by men. I have complained to the police who did nothing (man pulling me into an abandoned building kicking and screaming - must have gotten a good shot at him as got away just inside the door way), When I was young I reported it to the school (guys standing in the hall way grabbing tits and ass more than once) the attitude was like boys will be boys, I have kept silent because I could not prove anything could not identify the person and was scared shitless. Long and most dangerous story. None were good solutions, none made me feel safe. none caught the offenders.

I have also seen people accused of things be proven innocent years later, so I don't want to make an absolute judgement, I would rather someone who does this for a living investigate. Live long enough you see a lot of things, and one was someone who was innocent being accused and never being able to clear their name - this was a non-sexual offense they were accused of, but one evil blogger/rumor monger ruined their reputation and cost them their career.

The video is not on you tube, and it does take a while to get it, (probably because of huge number of people linking to it)
. You decide..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/11/17/new-bill-cosby-accuser-surfaces-says-comedian-assaulted-her/

That is all - and there are women who will lie for money

Don't get me wrong Uncle Clarence is a serious harasser of women no question but not rape

someone rich and powerful, who could easily sue them for every penny they have for defamation, and it turned out that they were all making it up?

these guys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_lacrosse_case