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Subject: Re: Uproar over challenge to campus date-rape study
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.095137.1@dev8b.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 4 Jun 91 09:51:37 GMT
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In article <1991May31.195050.12567@netcom.COM>, greg@netcom.com (Greg Bullough) writes:
>
> The article, by a Cal Berkeley social welfare professor, which
> challenges the findings of a campus date-rape study has caused
> a tremendous media uproar.
> [some deletions]
> It makes me wonder if these people want accurate information,
> or any information accurate or inaccurate which supports their
> position.
>
> This strikes me as a classic case of politics attempting to bully
> science.
>
>
> Greg
>
--

  Like, this is a surprise? There is historical evidence to support
the contention that the men who condemned Galileo for violating
church doctrine privately agreed with his findings, but condemned him
anyway as a matter of protecting the church's perfect image. Likewise,
records have been discovered which show that many judges in the witch
trials (the middle ages, not today) did not, themselves' believe
in witchcraft, but were motivated by political necessity, or
plain greed.

  Galileo's conviction did not change the reality that the Earth moves
around the Sun. Likewise, all the political rhetoric will not
change the reality that the majority of men are NOT lust crazed
date-rapists, but average decent men who want a good family life.

Michael


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