An official inquiry has cleared a University of Texas researcher of misconduct charges in his scientific study of children raised by homosexual parents.
Mark Regnerus' extensive "New Family Structures Study" shows a negative impact on children raised by same-gender couples. When it was published in Social Science Research, a journal that publishes papers devoted to quantitative social science research and methodology, activist blogger Scott Rosensweig, who calls himself Scott Rose, filed a complaint because he disagreed with the findings. A panel of experts was soon put together to investigate the research ( see earlier story).
Alliance Defending Freedom attorney David Hacker tells OneNewsNow, "America's universities should always serve as truth-seeking, free marketplaces of ideas."
"Disagreeing with a study's conclusions is not grounds for allegations of scientific misconduct," he continues. "We're not surprised that those accusations were found baseless."
Regnerus stated openly at the time of the complaint that the research would stand up to scrutiny. Still, the University of Texas at Austin did not hesitate to assemble a panel.
"This was a comprehensive, peer-reviewed research study consisting of leading scholars and researchers across disciplines and ideological lines in a spirit of civility and reasoned inquiry," the attorney details.
Now, a memorandum from UT Austin declares that none of the allegations of scientific misconduct from Rose were substantiated in any fashion.