21/ I know well over 10 professors who have explicitly told me that they self-censor. I am sure there are many many more. Scientists are terrified to posit certain causal forces, even to broach certain topics.

22/ Of course, if you are a scientist who doesn& #39;t care about those topics, then you don& #39;t feel the tight walls of orthodoxy. And that& #39;s fine. Not everybody should challenge orthodoxy. And not every researcher needs to study human variation or sex differences.

23/ BUT, they should take the time to talk to the many people who have suffered massive consequences for challenging orthodoxy. And they should probably ask themselves if it& #39;s ok to inhabit a system in which people who challenge orthodoxy have to fear for their jobs.

24/ I& #39;m deeply pessimistic about the state of the social sciences, for a variety of reasons. But I hope that if we keep drawing attention to these problems, we will eventually succeed in mitigating the worst of the biases.

25/ In the meantime, our field will suffer, for a science that refuses to entertain an entire category of causal hypotheses for extra-scientific reasons is not really a science anymore, but an ideology.