Colleagues urged publishing hate-propaganda findings as truth over caution

Evidence

No one said to suppress the evidence. Some said, do more studies before you conclude anything. But the basic consensus was, “If it is true, it should not be denied or hidden,” which I found very courageous. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4371

Categorization

• CANDY: A tidy, tweetable ethics-of-science vignette: researchers chose truth-telling over harm avoidance.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4371