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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Sex differences
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Date: Tue, 15-May-84 04:43:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 15 04:43:00 1984
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William Hughes puts forth a very good point. Actually, such public dismissal of
scientific research has already happened (actually, dismissal of *similar* re-
search).
	Remember back when Schockley came out with data that "proved" that
blacks were mentally inferior to whites? He was derided, villified, and denied
opportunities to present his data in a public forum (eg. speaking on college
campuses). No one was willing to check his data, no one was even willing to
*listen* to him; he was simply branded as a racist, and that was that. I sus-
pected at the time (and still do) that many of the people who villified him were
afraid that he might be right (and they were justifiably afraid, for if he was
right, there would be *serious* consequences, but that really is irrelevant to
the argument at hand).

Nota bene: The above should not be taken to mean that I agreed with Schockley.
I didn't and still don't. But I also didn't think that he should have been dis-
missed without an examination of his evidence.

				  --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard, MA)

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