As the bandwagon to censure Mark Regenerus and his work on marriage grows, following its harsh rejection by a MIchigan judge, the hoard focuses on conservative funding of social science and attempts to create the appearance of a debate within the field for the purposes of public relations and for legal action. Nevertheless, there is much more that should be considered.
Let me first be a little personal. In 1990 I went to Buenos Aires as a recently minted Ph.D., on a Fulbright grant, to help train a new generation of social scientists since their ranks had been decimated by the dirty wars, when voices raised in concern or opposition, and science that ran counter to official presumption, were silenced, often for good. At the time, it seemed to my naive self that the military government’s censoring of social science was a rare event.
