Nestled in southern Indiana, there is a beautiful
university. On the campus you will see Gothic –style buildings with
limestone facades, winding sidewalks, majestic trees, and buildings with tunnel-like
breezeways that separate different parts of buildings. In the spring and fall
of each year, you will find it difficult to find a more beautiful college
campus.
When I first visited this university, its beauty captured
me. It was one of many reasons I decided to apply to Indiana University.
As a freshman in large lecture halls, I sat submissively writing
notes from professors. At the front of the lecture hall, a learned professor
would speak to hundreds of students. I sat in humble awe of the professor. I dare not question any professor.
Who questions the accuracy of a professor? At the time, I
never thought of posing an opinion different from my professor. We took the
notes, gobbled required readings, wrote papers, and took tests.
By the time I entered Indiana University research from
professors had never been seriously questioned. Do you know any studies that
need to be debunked? I do. The science of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey ...
If only more people
had questioned Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s research and publication of the landmark
book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.
According to Sue Ellin Browder an award winning
investigative journalist some scientists actually questioned his research and
his findings. Kinsey’s book was published in 1948 with rave reviews and sold
200, 000 copies in two months. *
Browder states, “But beneath the popular approbation, many
astute scientists were warning that Kinsey’s research was gravely flawed. The list of critics, Kinsey biographer James
H. Jones observes, “read like a Who’s Who of American intellectual life.” They include anthropologist Margaret Mead and
Ruth Benedict; Stanford University psychologist Lewis M. Terman; Karl Menninger,
M.D. (founder of the famed Menninger Institute); psychiatrists Eric Fromm and
Lawrence Kubie; cultural critic Lionel Trilling of Columbia University, and
countless others.
“In December 11, 1949, New York Times, W. Allen Wallis, then
chairman of the University of Chicago’s committee on statistics, dismissed “the
entire method of collecting and presenting the statistic which underlie Dr. Kinsey’s
conclusions: Wallis noted, “There are six major aspects of any statistical
research, and Kinsey fails on four."
By the time Kinsey’s volume about women (Sexual Behavior and the Human Female was
published in 1953) many journalists the admiring throngs has joined the
critics. Magazine articles with the titles like, “is the Kinsey Report a Hoax?
And “Love is Not a Statistic”. Time magazine article ran a series of stories
exposing Kinsey dubious science. (One
was titled Sex or Snake Oil)
*Source: Kinsey’s Secret: The Phony Science of the
Sexual Revolution.
Both of the Kinsey’s studies were published before I was
born. Yet its impact continues to shape law and policy.
Beautiful campuses can hold dark ugly secrets that
masquerade as science.
