Ideological bias in the Journal of Traumatic Stress

✍ Scribed by Norman A. Milgram

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 280 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490070312

✦ Synopsis

The ethics of the scientific enterprise and professional practice bar the intrusion of one's ideological and political views in one's professional and scientific research and writing. Unfortunately, a letter to the editor, a case study, and a research report have recently appeared in the Journal of Traumatic Stress that violate these ethical strictures. The letter is "A traumatic experience,'' by Giel (1991). The studies are "A testimony on the moment before the (possible) occurrence of a massacre: On a possible contradiction between the ability to adjust which means mental health and the maintaining of human moral values," by Bar-On (1992) and "A study of attitudes of viewers of the film "Shoah" toward an incident of mass murder by Israeli soldiers (Kfar Kassem, 1956)," by Charny and Fromer (1992).