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“field trips” to Chicago
:
Lynn Conway, “An Investigative Report into the Publication of J. Michael Bailey’s Book on Transsexualism by the National Academies,” http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/LynnsReviewOfBaileysBook2.html (accessed July 27, 2014); discussed in Dreger, “Controversy,” 389.

“interviewing Bailey’s research subjects”
:
Lynn Conway, “Timeline of the Unfolding Events in the Bailey Investigation,” Jan. 6, 2010, http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Bailey/Timeline/Timeline%20spreadsheet.htm (accessed July 27, 2014); version of Dec. 31, 2006, retrieved Jan. 22, 2007, discussed in Dreger, “Controversy,” 389.

Jim Marks
:
Jim Marks to Alice Dreger, e-mail interview, July 22, 2006, as quoted in Dreger, “Controversy, 396.

McCloskey told Marks
:
Deirdre McCloskey to Jim Marks, personal communication, Feb. 3, 2004; reproduced at Lynn Conway, “The Gay and Lesbian ‘Lambda Literary Foundation’ Disses All Transsexual Women by Nominating Bailey’s Book for a GLB‘T’ Literary Award!” http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Bailey/Lambda%20Literary%20Foundation.html (accessed July 27, 2014), as quoted in Dreger, “Controversy,” 411.

Marks wasn’t sure what to make of all this
:
Marks to Dreger, July 22, 2006; quoted in Dreger, “Controversy,” 396.

Marks found
:
Marks to Dreger, July 22, 2006; quoted in Dreger, “Controversy,” 396–97.

“future publication on this site”
:
Conway, “Gay and Lesbian ‘Lambda Literary Foundation’”; quoted in Dreger, “Controversy,” 397.

According to Marks
:
Marks to Dreger, July 22, 2006; quoted in Dreger, “Controversy,” 397.

Marks insisted was not true
:
Ibid.

that Bailey was autogynephilic
:
Dreger, “Controversy,” 398.

Lawrence had been fully cleared
:
Interview with Anne A. Lawrence, Aug. 8, 2006, revised transcript received Aug. 17, 2006; discussed in Dreger, “Controversy,” 395.

“makes a real human connection”
:
Andrea James to the faculty of the Northwestern University Psychology Department, Sept. 15, 2003; quoted in Dreger, “Controversy,” 398.

“consider moving”
:
Joan Linsenmeier to Alice Dreger, Aug. 17, 2006; quoted in Dreger, “Controversy,” 397–98.

lawyer told him to shut up
:
See Dreger, “Controversy,” 393, 404.

Wilson had personally witnessed
:
See Wilson, “‘Dr. Sex.’”

three terribly sober dispatches
:
See Robin Wilson, “Transsexual ‘Subjects’ Complain About Professors’ Research Methods,”
Chronicle of Higher Education,
July 25, 2003, 10; Robin Wilson, “Northwestern U. Psychologist Accused of Having Sex with Research Subject,”
Chronicle of Higher Education,
Dec. 19, 2003, 17; and Robin Wilson, “Northwestern U. Will Not Reveal Results of Investigation into Sex Researcher,”
Chronicle of Higher Education,
Dec. 10, 2004, 10.

Wilson’s editor sent me back boilerplate
:
Bill Horne to Alice Dreger, Aug. 15, 2006; quoted in Dreger, “Controversy,” 394.

Conway refused, as did Juanita
:
My attempts to get Conway and Juanita to speak on the record are documented in Dreger, “Controversy.”

Bailey as a fall guy
:
See Dreger, “Controversy,” 386.

putting a human face on autogynephilia
:
I explain this conclusion further in Dreger, “Controversy,” part 5, “The Merit of the Charges.”

by three trans women
:
Lynn Conway, ed., “A Second Woman Files Research Misconduct Complaints Against Bailey,” July 14, 2003, http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Bailey/SecondComplaint.html (accessed July 27, 2014); Lynn Conway, ed., “A Third Woman Files Research Misconduct Complaints against Bailey,” July 23, 2003, http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Bailey/ThirdComplaint.html (accessed July 27, 2014); Lynn Conway, ed., “A Fourth Trans Woman Files a Formal Complaint with the Vice-President of Research of Northwestern University Regarding the Research Conduct of J. Michael Bailey,” July 30, 2003, http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Bailey/FourthWomansComplaint.html (accessed July 27, 2014).

not even in the book
:
See Dreger, “Controversy,” 407.

given him permission to do so
:
Interview with Charlotte Anjelica Kieltyka, Sept. 19, 2006, revised transcript received Sept. 22, 2006; Lynn Conway, ed., “Documentation of a Formal Complaint About J. Michael Bailey’s Sexual Exploitation of a Research Subject, and of Northwestern University’s Apparent Decision to Not Investigate Such Egregious Misconduct,” http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Bailey/KeyDocuments/Misconduct-12-11-03.html. See also Dreger, “Controversy,” 407.

“most hurtful book of his”
:
Conway, “Documentation of a Formal Complaint,” quoted in Dreger, “Controversy,” 403.

subsequent divorce
:
See Dreger, “Controversy,” 403.

Illinois Department of Professional Regulation
:
Lynn Conway, ed., “Evidence and Complaints Filed Against J. Michael Bailey for Practicing as a Clinical Psychologist Without a License, and Then Subsequently Publishing Confidential Clinical Case-History Information Without Permissions,” Apr. 6, 2004, http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Bailey/Clinical/ClinicalComplaint.html (accessed July 27, 2014). See also Dreger, “Controversy,” 392.

driven home the point
:
Interview with J. Michael Bailey, Aug. 8, 2006, revised transcript received Aug. 8, 2006; Bailey to Dreger, Oct. 2 and 3, 2006. See also Dreger, “Controversy,” 371–72, 410.

relevant Illinois regulations
:
Illinois Compiled Statutes,
225 ILCS 15/1, chap. 111, para. 5351. For further analysis and documentation, see Dreger, “Controversy,” 411.

broadcast the claim
:
Charlotte Anjelica Kieltyka to C. Bradley Moore, July 3, 2003, “Anjelica Kieltyka Files a Formal Complaint . . .” (texts of three formal complaints to Northwestern University), http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Anjelica/Complaint.html (accessed July 27, 2014). See also Conway, “A Second Woman Files”; Conway, “A Third Woman Files”; and Conway, “A fourth Trans Woman Files.” See also Dreger, “Controversy,” 400–402.

IRB regulations
:
On the history of IRBs, see Laura Stark,
Behind Closed Doors; IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011) and see Zachary M. Schrag,
Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965–2009
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).

formalized scientific studies
:
See Dreger, “Controversy,” 377, 402.

notarized affidavit
:
Conway, “Documentation of a Formal Complaint”; also quoted in Dreger, “Controversy,” 402–3.

erotic semi-nude photo
:
See Dreger, “Controversy,” 371.

rare public statement
:
J. Michael Bailey, “Academic McCarthyism,”
Northwestern Chronicle,
Oct. 9, 2005, http://archive.today/shRzY (accessed August 29, 2014); discussed in Dreger, “Controversy,” 404.

documentary evidence
:
Provided by J. Michael Bailey to Alice Dreger, July 20, 2006 and discussed in Dreger, “Controversy,” 404–5.

Deb Bailey
:
Interview with Deb Bailey, Aug. 9, 2006, no revisions to transcript; and Deb Bailey to Alice Dreger, e-mail interview, Jan. 7, 2007; also documented in Dreger, “Controversy,” 404–5.

“accountable for his actions”
:
See Conway, “Documentation of a Formal Complaint,” quoted in Dreger, “Controversy,” 403–4.

He was adamant
:
J. Michael Bailey to Alice Dreger, e-mail interview, July 19, 2006; see also Dreger, “Controversy,” 404.

Juanita wasn’t interested in talking to me
:
I document my attempts to speak to Juanita in Dreger, “Controversy,” 371.

“he couldn’t get it up”
:
Interview with Kieltyka, Sept. 21, 2006, revised transcript received Sept. 27, 2006, quoted in Dreger, “Controversy,” 405.

“I wasn’t enthusiastic”
:
Ibid.

“Followed by narcissistic rage”
:
For elaboration of Lawrence’s read on the matter, see Anne A. Lawrence, “Shame and Narcissistic Rage in Autogynephilic Transsexualism,”
Archives of Sexual Behavior
37, no. 3 (2008): 457–61.

publishing narratives from trans women
:
See Anne A. Lawrence,
Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism
(Doetinchem, Netherlands: Springer, 2013).

Kiira Triea
:
See Kiira Triea, “Power, Orgasm, and the Psychohormonal Research Unit,” in
Intersex in the Age of Ethics
, ed. Alice Dreger (Hagerstown, MD: University Publishing Group, 1999): 141–44.

Carey’s piece was published
:
Benedict Carey, “Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege,”
New York Times,
Aug. 21, 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/health/psychology/21gender.html (accessed July 27, 2014).

McCloskey wrote to the
New York Times
:
Deirdre McCloskey to
New York Times,
Aug. 24, 2007, www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/times.pdf (accessed July 27, 2014).

public radio in the Bay Area
:
“Forum,” KQED, Aug. 22, 2007; transcript at www.alicedreger.com/kqed_forum_transcript.html (accessed July 27, 2014). For a summary of incorrect statements by Roughgarden and my responses to them, see http://alicedreger.com/kqed_forum_corrections.html.

Robin Mathy was filing ethics charges
:
See footnote on p. 509 of Alice D. Dreger, “Response to the Commentaries on Dreger (2008),”
Archives of Sexual
Behavior 37 (2008): 503–10; see also Michael Gsovski, “Debate Resumes on Methods of Psych Professor’s Research,”
Daily Northwestern
, Mar. 18, 2008, http://dailynorthwestern.com/2008/03/18/archive-manual/debate-resumes-on-methods-of-psych-professors-research (accessed July 27, 2014).

CHAPTER 4: A SHOW-ME STATE OF MIND

chronic Lyme disease
:
See David Grann, “Stalking Dr. Steere over Lyme Disease,”
New York Times Magazine,
June 17, 2001, www.nytimes.com/2001/06/17/magazine/17LYMEDISEASE.html.

fibromyalgia
:
See Alex Berenson, “Drug Approved. Is Disease Real?”
New York Times,
Jan. 14, 2008, www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/health/14pain.html.

alleged childhood sexual abuse
:
This refers to the story of Elizabeth Loftus, whose history I recount in Chapter 9. On her story, see Carol Tavris, “The High Cost of Skepticism,”
Skeptical Inquirer
26, no. 4 (July–Aug. 2002): 41–44, http://williamcalvin.com/2002/TavrisArticle.htm.

alien abductions
:
The book was Susan A. Clancy,
Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005).

Ken Sher, my first interviewee
:
Interview with Ken Sher, Oct. 30, 2008; Sher approved the passages about him on Dec. 3, 2012 (personal e-mail communication).

exceedingly well documented
:
See, e.g., the special issue, dedicated to the controversy, of
American Psychologist
57, no. 3 (Mar. 2002), and Hollida Wakefield, “The Effects of Child Sexual Abuse: Truth Versus Political Correctness,”
IPT Journal
16 (2006), www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume16/j16_2.htm.

“the Rind paper”
:
Bruce Rind, Philip Tromovitch, and Robert Bauserman, “A Meta-Analysis Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples,”
Psychological Bulletin
124, no. 1 (July 1998): 22–53.

Sher and Eisenberg had decided
:
See Kenneth J. Sher and Nancy Eisenberg, “Publication of Rind et al. (1998): The Editors’ Perspective,”
American Psychologist
57, no. 3 (Mar. 2002): 206–10.

“or even altered”
:
Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman, “Meta-Analysis,” 47.

NAMbLA
:
See NAMbLA, North American Man/Boy Love Association, “The Good News About Man/Boy Love” (1999), archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20140728213555/https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Documentation/Documents/99-112_nambla_statement.htm.

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