I wonder how often this sort of censorship
takes place in a way that may influence the evolution of an academic
field - beyond the obvious example of alcohol researchers' twelve step
membership likely "remain[ing] inside the protected province of alcohol
researchers".
I also wonder if there's been an
unbiased study of any biasing influence of AA members upon
alcohol studies/research, if such a thing is possible.
In the case of Jellinek, the time lapse between the
infraction (or even his death) and its discovery/outing
(declassification) has been long enough to overcome any and all
criticism of whistle blowing. I guess the question is, if he lied about that,
could he have fudged some data.
Dave
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Subject: Jellinek's troubled c.v.
... should
have remained inside the protected province of alcohol researchers, as a kind
of “insider knowledge” that is not allowed to sully a revered scientist in a
field still struggling for scientific legitimacy.
...
Thanks.
Ron
Roizen
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Subject: Re: Does any one know anything
about this - AA works for a few people
I wonder how many
people who've heard of Jellinek found out that he was a fraud? He claimed to
possess a PhD but in fact had attended college for less than a year.
At the time he
claimed to have been awarded his degree, all German and Austrian universities
had excluded Jews (he was Jewish), and he wouldn't have been permitted in
their buildings, let alone awarded a degree.
He later claimed
that all records of his academic work had been destroyed in the war, and was
able to advance his fraudelent career as a
'researcher'.
His Jellinek Curve
has nothing to do with the progression of alcoholism for most people, and his
5 types of alcoholics could have been described by any observant bartender or
minister.
Just like most of
AA's tenets, Jellinek's work has no validity
whatsoever.
I wonder how many
of the folks who spout about alcoholism/alcohol dependence being a disease
have ever read Jellinek's "Disease Concept of
Alcoholism"?
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