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On Gregory and Lisak

By K.C. Johnson

Duke Women?s Center director Ada Gregory came under justifiable criticism for her preposterous recent assertion to the Chronicle: ?The higher IQ, the more manipulative they are, the more cunning they are . . . imagine the sex offenders we have here at Duke?cream of the crop.? Gregory subsequently claimed that she had been quoted out of context, though it?s hard to imagine what an appropriate context for her remark could have been. In the event, as I noted last week, she essentially repeated her claim in her damage-control letter to the Chronicle, writing, ?The difficulty in detecting and investigating sexual assault cases, particularly acquaintance rapes, which are often committed by undetected rapists who use manipulation and coercion, has been shown by the research of David Lisak, a University of Massachusetts at Boston clinical psychologist, and others...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).