BYU sociologist tells Gee to stay in his swim lane

[_Dr Moore]

How does publishing something so demonstrably false and such a clear example of a blatant misuse of sources not get Gee in trouble with BYU? This seems like a huge embarrassment for Gee's employer. Doesn't it erode BYU's scholarly credibility when one of their professors is publishing such crap?

I guess there is a wider berth afforded to bypassing the generally accepted rules of scholarship if (and only if) the aim is to support the church.

[_Yahoo Bot]

Dr. Moore,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

What Shafer points out is eerily similar to the Ritner rebuke about abuse of scholarship. Shafer takes issue with Gee's utilization of dubious research articles to support his assertions about causality between homosexuality and childhood trama -- specifically, that homosexuality can be caused by childhood abuse. One of Gee's cited sources (Mayer and McHugh) was based on a meta-analysis in which the authors actually clearly and definitively arrived at the OPPOSITE conclusion as Gee's interpretation, "“sexual abuse does not cause individuals to become gay, lesbian, or bisexual."

How does publishing something so demonstrably false and such a clear example of a blatant misuse of sources not get Gee in trouble with BYU? This seems like a huge embarrassment for Gee's employer. Doesn't it erode BYU's scholarly credibility when one of their professors is publishing such crap?

What ever happened to that BYU prof who lectured and wrote about 9/11?

[_toon]

What ever happened to that BYU prof who lectured and wrote about 9/11?

Placed on paid leave and then agreed to retire.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Jones

[_Kevin Graham]

Gee can't swim, he needs to get out of the pool