I hope the ASA and others do condemn this “study” as it is being used to hurt and vilify the LGBT community and causes.

I am working on my finial degree right now- an MFA-W. I have an MA in Women’s Studies and History from Goddard College in Vermont (Done under the IMA program). I spent ten years at a school in Georgia studying History and Archaeology until I was forced out due to a combination of homophobia and transphobia. In total, I have spent twenty years pursuing academic degrees, and been part of the internal politics within the schools. Since I do not have enough evidence to prove that I was forced out due to transphobia or homophobia, I do not tend to name that university because I am a decent person in that respect. While I was there, though, there was a scandal involving a professor who accused several students of cheating. I was able to find out that the professor pretty much set the students up and framed them for cheating, but the university didn’t want a scandal to erupt involving their professor, so they squashed everything. I also saw them not discipline or fire a professor who was caught deliberately deflating student’s grades, and another professor who inflated a student’s grades for sexual favors.

So, yes, most colleges and universities hide their dirty laundry pretty well.

http://lezgetreal.com/2012/08/university-of-texas-find-no-misconduct-by-anti-gay-researcher-regnerus/

And the fact that one of the men who conducted the peer review was not only the person who helped fund the study, but was a paid consultant on the study:

http://lezgetreal.com/2012/09/man-who-helped-fund-regnerus-also-on-board-of-journal-to-publish-it/

And just because someone came from a top ranked school doesn’t mean that they’re an unethical person. Additionally, I’ve been in academia long enough to know that most schools love to hide their problems and are usually good at covering things up.

Now, if you are done wasting my time, Phil in Ohio, I have work to do.

I also see that “The University of Texas at Austin has determined that no formal investigation is warranted into the allegations of scientific misconduct lodged against associate professor Mark Regnerus regarding his July article in the journal Social Science Research”. See: http://www.utexas.edu/news/2012/08/29/regnerus_scientific_misconduct_inquiry_completed/

I don’t see anything on your website that points that out. It’s hard for me to believe that you don’t have an agenda and want to attack any research that doesn’t coincide with your beliefs. Guess what? That’s why we have research!

As a life long academe, Regnerus broke almost every single ethical code out there. His research was conducted in a manner to provide a specific conclusion. This is not ‘shooting the messenger.’ If he had come to his conclusions through viable, and accurate, methodology, that would be one thing, but he did not. He manipulated his data to come to a conclusion that the people paying him wanted him to come to.

Hope they learn quickly. If their supporters could only learn how their donations have been wasted…

Always something new to learn.