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Opinion | Confirmation Bias Hurts Social Science
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Opinion: The overdue debunking of an implausible study about the harms of stigma points to a larger problem in academia, writes McCormickProf

Humility can be hard to come by in professional research, which is why it’s worth noting the retraction last month of a major study on the social effects of attitudes toward sexuality.

The journal Social Science & Medicine withdrew a 2014 analysis purporting to show that widespread traditional beliefs about sexual morality—or “structural stigma”—gravely imperil the health of people who don’t identify as straight, whom the study classified as “sexual minorities.” Lead author Mark Hatzenbuehler, a professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, is a renowned expert on stigma and health. The study has been widely...

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