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To: E who wrote (89803)	11/28/2004 3:09:42 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Respond to of 108807

I'd like to comment on the "Munson Study" that purports to have demonstrated the high degree of loyalty of JA citizens. Not as a boast but simply as a fact--I have refereed hundreds of social science research papers submitted to journals for publication. That was just what my job entailed. If I was asked to referee a manuscript with a title similar to the above (e.g., "A Demonstration of the Loyalty of 100,000 JA Citizens in 1942")I would have a hard time beginning to read it with a straight face. It is simply a preposterous notion. You suggest the methodology might have been "spying on them." Consider that alone. How on earth could that be done from a practical standpoint? It would require an army and even then would be subject to impossibly different, inconsistent, and subjective standards on the part of the observers. In the old days I enjoyed a radio show called "The Shadow." The Shadow was a spectral figure who would introduce the half-hour mystery by intoning, "...Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows." Well, he is the only one of us who does or can know. For all the rest of us it will always remain a riddle wrapped in mystery within an enigma. The ultimate fallacy is that even the subject does not know for certain where their loyalty lies until a moment of truth arrives. You don't need to investigate the methodology of this study. Trust your common sense--it is prima facie an impossible proposition.