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I read this as a single researcher (Prause) in a university with an agenda to push. Sometimes conventional wisdom is conventional for a good reason.

• nickpsecurity 10y ago
  You should look up Masters and Johnson. The first time any science at all was performed to test conventional wisdom showed conventional wisdom was mostly nonsense. Often nonsense passed down from one person to another with negative effects on people. That was mostly the physical stuff. Now, we need to know the psychological stuff. As before, people's pre-existing beliefs and social structures make it hard to even test the conventional wisdom. Contradicting it is declared evil or foolish before-hand. Given history of "wisdom" in this area, it's right to test it in ways that might show contradictions. People have always been exceedingly foolish on these things when they cast judgment before collecting data. No reason to believe it will be different this time.
• kawera 10y ago
  This article is based on research done by 11 universities in 6 countries; Prause's is just one of then.