More in sorrow than in anger, a prominent psychiatrist named Dr. Lawrence S. Kubie last week unraveled the Kinsey Report. Despite his professional courtesy and his careful occasional praise, Dr. Kubie's article, in the current Psychosomatic Medicine, was the most devastating scientific attack on the report yet.
Dr. Kubie stuck a scalpel into the heart of Zoologist Alfred C. Kinsey's whole project: the interviews. Kinsey and his coworkers, he said, give human memory a precision it does not have; "they recognize that we can 'forget,' but not that we can 'misremember.'" For instance, he...
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