Social Science Should Be a Process, Not a Bloody Shirt.

PS: Political Science & Politics, June, 2000 by Muir, Edward

Jay Greene and Paul Peterson's response to my December 1999 PS article spills indignation over a case I did not make while avoiding my basic argument: Advocacy under the banner of science is irresponsible when researchers have not conformed to the norms of their discipline. Rather than wrestle with this troubling issue, Greene and Peterson attack a straw man. They argue that I am attempting to "pillory, marginalize, and suppress the results of scholarly research," "ban" their paper, and institute a "rule" to benefit advocacy groups--such as the one I work for, but not the provoucher advocacy groups that fund and publicize their provoucher research. This is an invention of my position, but it does allow them to wave the bloody shirt of "academic freedom" before the...

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