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Re:Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship by johnnybgoode on Sunday July 12, 2009 @09:49PM (#700887)
This is an important issue in and of itself, but I want to point out that such problems are not limited to this field. See the comments at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=623420.
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Re:Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship by frossie on Sunday July 12, 2009 @10:23PM (#700942)
such problems are not limited to this field

I agree - it seems to be particularly common in fields that touch, no matter how obliquely, onto issues of public policy. On more than one occasion I have tried to find a definitive reference for a claim and found nothing.

Now that evidence-based medicine has done so much for us, one can only wish for evidence-based sociology. Admittedly, it is a bit harder...

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