Telling the truth is more difficult in the social sciences than in other fields because the investigator lives in a social world and is usually involved in the phenomena being studied. But when one acts as a social scientist, one’s group loyalty to social science and its ideals ought to trump all other loyalties.

Jefferson M. Fish is a professor of psychology at St. John’s University in New York City.
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Fall 2005 The Conservative-Liberal Alliance Against Freedom