Make of it what you will.
I can't say whether this is right or wrong, because I'm no scientist. It does occur to me, though, that the scientific community is awfully quick to hang the loony tag on anything that assaults their liberal senses. Oops, I made it political. The last paragraph is what's wrong with the world today, by the way.
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The Freak-a-nomics dude gets the same kind of hassle all the time.
I can't believe I am going to write this, but here it goes. I have always felt that Scientific findings, wheter uncomfortable or not, should always be shared. However, I do recognize that studies like this can make it easy for lazy people like me to dismiss whole groups of people based on a sceintific finding. Are we as a society responsible to make everyone feel good about themselves? No. But I can see the "hurt feelings" that can come from a study like this.
I totally agree with you Fryan.
Its not so much the sharing of the information that is bad, but what gets done with it. As you say, its pretty easy to take studies like this and use it against the group being studied. I don't think that's the scientists goal at all.
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