Ken Steele wrote:
"...If he actually quit APA over the issue then his professional career
would be finished..."
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Ken, I couldn't disagree more. Many working scientists,
scientist/practitioners, and teachers would applaud such an action, taken as
a stand on conscience. And I agree with Paul Brandon that going public at
this point is not posturing but likely rather an attempt to generate or
apply some political pressure.
I know lots of folks who would desperately like to see APA strap on a spine
and support a science-based approach to public policy on issues concerning
behavior, but despair of getting the organization to be what it claims to
be. This is far from the first gutless, boneheaded, and politically cowardly
thing they've done. I believe in the concept of APA, but the reality of what
APA really is, day to day, suggests that it may be unsalvageable.
Many of us haven't been APA members in over a decade, and our careers are
doing OK.
Michael Renner
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Michael J. Renner, Ph.D.
Interim Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs
Professor of Psychology
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
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Telephone: 610-436-3310
Fax: 610-436-2763
http://www.wcupa.edu/_facstaff/facdev/
"The path of least resistance is always downhill."
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