An Academic Auto-da-Fé

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

A sociologist whose data find fault with same-sex relationships is savaged by the progressive orthodoxy

By Christian Smith

Whoever said inquisitions and witch hunts were things of the past? A big one is going on now. The sociologist Mark Regnerus, at the University of Texas at Austin, is being smeared in the media and subjected to an inquiry by his university over allegations of scientific misconduct.
 
Regnerus's offense? His article in the July 2012 issue of Social Science Research reported that adult children of parents who had same-sex romantic relationships, including same-sex couples as parents, have more emotional and social problems than do adult children of heterosexual parents with intact marriages. That's it. Regnerus published ideologically unpopular research results on the contentious matter of same-sex relationships. And now he is being made to pay.

http://chronicle.com/article/An-Academic-Auto-da-F-/133107/

[JohnnyReb]

When you can't argue with facts......just shout them down.

[thundley4]

Kill the messenger has been changed to slander and silence the messenger by the left.

[ADsOutburst]

My favorite part might have been this:

It is also easy for some sociologists to lose perspective on the minority status of their own views, to take for granted much that is still worth arguing about, and to fall into a kind of groupthink. The culture in such circles can be parochial and mean. I have seen colleagues ignore, stereotype, and belittle people and perspectives they do not like, rather than respectfully provide good arguments against those they do not agree with and for their own views.

I'm glad others have noted the cliquishness of progressives.