bio-chem said:
his educational background? he was an entemologist. his background was in bugs you idiot. and he did protect a child rapist just like i said, that bit of information came directly from the pbs documentary you are trying to tell everyone is so great. or did you miss that part in your close-minded cloud of ignorance and hatred.
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Bio,
Dr. Kinsey was Professor of Zoology at Indiana University. His speciality was Entomology (You being a University student, you might want to check your spelling of this word unless you just made a "typo"). He was a world reknown expert on the Gull Wasp. That research started before he began teaching as a Professor at Indiana University. He graduated from Harvard University - with honors if I remember right. He was one of the first Eagle Scouts in the Boy Scouts of America an honor he earned rightfully. He was married - very happily so - and had children - four if I remember right. His family loved him and he loved them. He was very dedicated and saw scientific research as a serious business. He felt that any of the work he did be as free from error as is humanly possible, accurate and complete as possible, thorough as possible and that THAT RESEARCH HELP OTHERS for the common good of ALL people. To BE credible and ultimately good at what you do, especially as an educator, scientist, and researcher, you would want to be. Your name and your reputation rests on the work you do and how you do it. He knew that for sure. All his life and all the work he did he worked very hard to that end. And he was as honest and sincere as is possible. Was he perfect? No one is. And he never said he was. Was he a human being - absolutely. And, as with any human being, made his share of mistakes.
The child rapist you speak of - Kenneth S. Green - Dr. Kinsey did not know of until around 1944 (Dr. Kinsey's - and his Associates' first volume on the SEXUAL BEHAVIOR OF THE HUMAN MALE was published in 1948 and took years to write) when the man himself was in his sixties and not long before the man died.
With regard to Kenneth Green and Dr. Kinsey's use of material Green gathered I quote from this book: SEX-THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS; A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey, by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, 2000):
"*His use of Green's findings formed the basis of recent attacks on Kinsey so scurrilious and shoddy in manner (equating him with Mengele for instance) and so ludicrous in argument - ignoring the fact that all the material was collected many years before Kinsey had even heard of Green - that it neither deserves nor requires refutation. It seems that the religious Right in America attributes all the liberal development of the last fifty-odd years, which it so hates, to Kinsey and thinks that if it can destroy Kinsey everything it hates will vanish..." (page 223). See the whole book and see what is written therein about this and the WHOLE of the matter not just parts of it.
Read this book and others from ALL perspectives. READ COMPLETELY AND THOROUGHLY each of his books (SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HUMAN MALE and SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HUMAN FEMALE) (originally published 1948 and 1953 respectively) and those of the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana). SEE ALL POINTS OF VIEW. View the movie, view the Documentary in THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE series which is available from
www.pbs.org
Go to the website:
www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/
This site goes into more detail and answers questions with regard to Dr. Kinsey's research and the research of the Institute for Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University.
From SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HUMAN MALE, By Dr. Alfred Kinsey and Associates, Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Company, 1948; reprinted by Indiana University Press, 1998):
"Seen from the four points of the compass a great mountain may present aspects that are very different one from the other - so different that bitter disagreements can arise between those who have watched the mountain, truly and well, through all the seasons, but each from a different quarter. Reality, too, has many facets - some too readily disputed or denied by those who rely only on their own experience. Nor can science itself rightly lay claim to finality or the complete comprehension of reality, but only to honesty and accuracy of the additional facets it may be permitted to discover and report. I say "may be permitted" since the human race is familiar with the supression of truth in both small matters and great. The history of science is part of the history of the freedom to observe, to reflect, to experiment, to record, and to bear witness. It has been a perilous and a passionate history indeed, and not yet ended.
Living creatures possess three basic characteristics or capacities - growth, adaptation, and reproduction. In human biology, the reproductive function has been the least and the last studied, scientifically... Among these studies the findings of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and his associates at Indiana University deserve attention for their extent, their thoroughness, and their dispassionate objectivity. Dr. Kinsey has studied sex phenomena of human beings as a biologist would examine biological phenomena, and the evidence he has secured is presented from the scientist's viewpoint, without moral bias or prejudice derived from current taboos.
Certainly no aspect of human biology in our current civilization stands in more need of scientific knowledge and courageous humility than that of sex. The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealth with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, supression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty or human dignity.
These studies are sincere, objective, and determined explorations of a field manifestly important to education, medicine, government, and the integrity of human conduct generally. They have demanded from Dr. Kinsey and his colleagues very unusual tenacity of purpose, tolerance, analytical competence, social skills, and real courage. I hope that the reader will match the authors with an equal and appropriate measure of cool attention, courageous judgment, and scientific equanimity." - Alan Gregg (The Medical Sciences, Rockefeller Foundation, Nw York City) from the Preface, pages v-vi.
Dr. Kinsey's works have stood the test of time. They have been under EXTREME scrutiny which he knew they would be. He expected that and wanted that scrutiny. As did his Associates. They understood especially the more they did their research what the end result would be. They desired and worked very hard to be very credible and accurate and complete and honest. They presented the facts as they were gathered without prejudice and bias.
John H.
I see 3 that are neck and neck right now: Vieope, Johnnny, and John H. What do you think? 
I'm gonna make the poll right now. Slow down man!