>> Leigh Meyers wrote:
(in re the study of sexuality itself... not the topic!)
>>
>> taints
>> unclean
>> sordid
>>
> Topic make you a little anxious?
>
> Doug
>
>> No.. no... no performance anxiety here.
It's what happens when my inner sociologist thinks with it's "little head". Then I *know* I'm thinking clearly.
On Wednesday, July 06, 2005 7:11 PM [PDT], Grace Loehr <divinegracie at earthlink.net> wrote: <...>
>>> because a casual glance at the study and its methodology led me to
>>> conclude
>>> it was shoddy and suspect. At best, it seemed like the typical
>>> mainstream
>>> press distortion of research:
>> Quotes herself from another of her posts:
>> 1. Dr. J. Michael Bailey had to step down from the chairmanship of
>> the psychology dept. at Northwestern just last year because of ethics
>> charges
>> related to earlier research.
...Then quotes:
> Michael in New York
>
> http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/07/bisexuality-study-nyt-gives-
> prominen
> ce.html
>
> Bisexuality Study: NYT Gives Prominence To Disgraced Researcher
> by Michael in New York - 7/06/2005 11:38:00 AM
>
> Everyone is probably familiar with this New York Times article about a
> study
> on bisexuality. It was one of the top five emailed stories on the NYT
> website and probably got picked up around the country. I ignored it at
> first
> because a casual glance at the study and its methodology led me to
> conclude
> it was shoddy and suspect. At best, it seemed like the typical
> mainstream
> press distortion of research: one little study makes one little
> observation
> and it gets trumpted around the country as a "fact," in this case the
> idea
> that men aren't bisexual, they're just either gay, straight, or lying.
>
> You would think, you would hope that the New York Times would do a
> little
> research of its own before splashing the work of Dr. J. Michael
> Bailey, a
> professor of psychology at Northwestern and the study's lead author.
> But no.
> It took threader Kathleen to alert me to what the NYT should have
> known before presenting this study uncritically.
>
> 1. Dr. J. Michael Bailey had to step down from the chairmanship of the
> psychology dept. at Northwestern just last year because of ethics
> charges
> related to earlier research.
>
> 2. Bailey has been linked to a racist, neo-eugenics movement called
> the Human Biodiversity Institute by the Southern Poverty Law Center
>