By Morton Hunt
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Unmapped Country: Genetic Influences on Behavior 145 Part 2: Attacks from the Right 6. Keeping Sex a Mystery 179 7. Just Say No 211 8. The War against Social Science Research 237 Part 3: Attacks from Points in Between 9. The Assault on Memory Research 263 10. Harming Harm-Reduction Research 273 11. Unhand That Rat, You Rat! 293 12. A Miscellany of Assaults on Research 315 Epilogue: The Boundaries of Freedom of Research: Second Thoughts 341 Notes 353 Glossary of Acronyms 373 References Cited 375 Index 395 Page vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am deeply grateful to John Gagnon for suggesting to Andrea Tyree, chair of the sociology department at SUNY, Stony Brook, that I be named an adjunct professor in order to enable me to receive the grant that supported my work on this book, and I thank Dr.
Moreover, as several social scientists I spoke to commented, many of the issues that social science researchers investigate are aspects of everyday life about which most people feel they have a right to opinions, even though in the past the majority have so often been wrong about such realities. Accordingly, these are the very areas in which the New Know-Nothings most actively attempt to halt studies they see as jeopardizing their beliefs and values. The second: In earlier decades, opposition to particular programs of social science research came largely from one or another subset of Americansreligious conservatives at one time, student radicals at another, and so on.
The diffusion of antiresearch attitudes and behavior throughout the body politic should deeply disturb all those who believe that science, rather than religious, political, or philosophic doctrines, offers the best hope of understanding the world and human nature. It is easy to see why extremists have no concern about the right to freedom of thought and expression of those whose ideas they oppose, but less easy to see why that is now also true now of so many more moderate groups. Thoughtful people I have talked to in the sciences and in government agencies, and others whose analyses I have read, have offered a number of answersand perhaps all their answers are correct; perhaps the phenomenon is overdetermined.