Long story short: Mark Regnerus dared to publish peer-reviewed sociological findings that cut the sacred project of American sociology to the quick, and consequently he was made, no matter how unjustly, irrationally, or indefensibly, to pay a personally and professionally highly damaging price for doing so. Also very important is this fact: As collateral damage in social science more broadly, the chance that any other sociologist will publish findings similar to Regnerus’ or even consider researching this topic with an open mind, that any sociology journal editor will consider publishing
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