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Big surprise: Dobson misrepresents research

By AnnikaCarlson - Dec 19th, 2006 at 8:12 pm EST

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Not that it's shocking or new, but everyone's favorite uber-conservative moralist James Dobson misrepresented a bunch of research in his recent column for Time magazine.

The column, which lambasted Mary Cheney for-- gasp!--wanting to have kids like any other red-blodded American, cited research from renowned gender and human development scholar Carol Gilligan and others. He didn't mention that the researchers' conclusions contradicted his own, and that he was taking their findings totally out of context. Oops.

Check out this video Gilligan and others released on youtube, denouncing the latest of Dobson's many underhanded, slimy moves against gay Americans.

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on Gilligan's Island

By KPS Feb 6th 2007 at 12:50 pm EST

I think that it is undeniably wrong for Dr. Dobson to twist Carol Gilligan's research, but what is wrong is Gilligan victimizing herself when her own research and claims aren’t exactly credible. In fact, her data study on girls being left behind academically and emotionally in the 90s was not peer reviewed or ever published for others to view but she nonetheless used it to support her shoddy argument about girls in America being short-changed, turning a blind eye to how her research was actually hurting boys. Basically I think that she is a really poor specimen of upstanding representation of research and shouldn't be so flabbergasted by Dobson's misrepresentation of her findings and ideas.
For more on how ill conceived Carol Gilligan's work is I suggest that you read The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers. It's fascinating.

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