Commenter Neil calls our attention to this Chronicle piece from 26 July on the Regnerus affair (previously treated here and here at New APPS).
The peer-review process failed to identify significant, disqualifying problems with a controversial and widely publicized study that seemed to raise doubts about the parenting abilities of gay couples, according to an internal audit scheduled to appear in the November issue of the journal, Social Science Research, that published the study.
The highly critical audit, a draft of which was provided to The Chronicle by the journal’s editor, also cites conflicts of interest among the reviewers, and states that “scholars who should have known better failed to recuse themselves from the review process.”
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Nor shall any right-wing publication, or part thereof, be subject to criticism by private parties, because shut up, that's why.
Fans of full disclosure will also appreciate this little nugget in Smith's 23 July piece:
Regnerus was trained in one of the best graduate programs in the country and was a postdoctoral fellow under an internationally renowned scholar of family, Glen Elder, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Full disclosure: I was on the faculty in Regnerus's department and advised him for some years, but was not his dissertation chair.)
But apparently it was only the sort of "full disclosure" that would have passed muster in pre-Internet days. But in this contemporary world of today in which we live, you can pull up an image of Regnerus's cover sheet of his dissertation. And lo and behold, what did the research of Eli Rabbett find? Lulz, as the kids would say:
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