the crucial point to learn from that sorry episode is this: It has now become acceptable to launch an investigation of the journal review process by which any sociology article is published as long as enough readers do not like the findings of the article and can mobilize enough protesters to pressure an editor into submission. With this, we have turned a decisive corner toward the tolerability of scholarly review by mob intimidation. And that is the end of credible social science. The consequences of this episode are colossal and malign. So why are more sociologists not disturbed by what
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