What research?
You ask a very relevant, though somewhat impertinent question.
What is your criteria for acceptable research? Would you take seriously all research, or just published research, or attempts to publish but turned down, or proposed research currently unfunded? Or do you recognize only the musings of Ward Churchill?
How about the research of Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University, for their inevitable report "Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans."
[PUBLISHED IN: Human Nature, vol. 13, no. 3, 2002, pp. 383-9.]