“The worst reason to retract a peer-reviewed, published paper would be that you didn’t like the ideological implications that were inferred by honest work.”
I wonder if any science papers get yanked because some whacked-out skinhead web site uses them as proof of race supremacy?
The Bell Curve still stands published, so no.
“I wonder if any science papers get yanked because some whacked-out skinhead web site uses them as proof of race supremacy?”
The science on the racial differences wrt intelligence has already been pretty heavily self-censored.
Just look at what the “Bell Curve” book went through.
I guess the implication of that is a bit disturbing. If someone proved that life on earth was impossible to sponaneously emerge, would it be cast aside as unscientific? OTOH, if a paper cmae out that theorizes how it could emerge thusly, that would surely be a lauded scientific result. There is a bias even before any non-scientist gets involved.