he apologized

[rm]

http://ogi-ogas.livejournal.com/4311.html

That's interesting. Implies he's dealing with repercussions from our wrath. Good.

(for the record, he called me (and all of fandom) coward, so I have very little compunction about calling him, in response to this, liar.)

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I'm suspicious of any apology, in large part because I've assumed the worst from the very start, because it was clear from almost the beginning that these two "researchers" were approaching this study from an evolutionary psychology/genetic determinism standpoint, and that sort of research seems exceptionally rife with wretchedly designed and often utterly moronic-seeming studies that seem to be constructed solely to support the prejudices and biases (typically relating to gender norms, sexual preference, and occasionally racial stereotypes) of the people carrying it out. The degree to which this mess confirms all of my prejudices about evo psych and most of the researchers in that field is quite impressive.

In any case, if these two creeps are typical of similar researchers, this experience has in no way changed their minds except about anything other than how difficult it is to work with research subjects, who they likely consider to be utterly unreasonable.