Pollack had to leave Airwaves

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TV Star of Wellesley College Feminists Was Encouraged to Leave the Airwaves Back in 2000

Editor's Note: We could write many "interesting" books about the disgraceful conduct of Wellesley College. We have over 100,000 more readers now than in 2000 when Atty. Pawlick was starting MassNews. But we already have written many articles on this and those are found in our archives. If a reader wants to get the true flavor of Wellesley College, they should read the article that Rolling Stone wrote about the school in 2001 when the magazine editors were shocked at the rampant lesbian parties there.

            The television star of the radical Wellesley feminists was Dr. William Pollack.
He was a psychologist from Harvard Medical School, who stepped forward with feminist theory to explain the Columbine massacre when it jolted everyone on April 20, 1999.
            He’d just written a book which said: “Boys today are in serious trouble, including many who seem ‘normal’ and to be doing just fine.”
            That was an indictment of every boy in America. The title of the book was: “Real Boys, Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood.”

Newsweek magazine was still prominently displaying that feminine message from Wellesley College on its cover earlier this year with a picture of a group of “regular” boys who were all said to be in trouble. Its issue of Feb. 13, 2006 on the learning problems of boys “drew more than 200 letters from parents, educators, young people,“according to Newsweek.
Back in 1999, Dr. Pollack was the respected expert “from Harvard” that every television show wanted. He frightened and calmed the country at the same time (while also making lots of money).He was a national phenomenon, running from the “Today” show to “Oprah” to lectures around the country where he was treated like a hero, while he autographed many thousand more copies of his best-selling book.

NewsWeek Magazine is Still Attempting to Tell the Wellesley College Lies in 2006 that Boys are "In Crisis"

          At his peak in the fall of 2000, Dr. Pollack had his lawyer flamboyantly threaten our founder, Atty. J. Edward Pawlick, with a lawsuit because of a story about Dr. Pollack in MassNews. But Pawlick immediately welcomed the suit because it would allow him to question Dr. Pollack. The many unanswered questions about Pollack's research would be answered. As Pawlick expected, the lawyer never responded.
            But, by the following July, Atty. Pawlick had discovered the answers he had been seeking, without any help from Dr. Pollack.
            In his book, Dr. Pollack gave great credit to the radical feminists at the Stone Center at Wellesley College. He agreed with the Wellesley feminists that their joint goal must be to start with boys who are still malleable and make them act more like girls.

Research of Famous Harvard Psychologist Seriously Flawed, Perhaps Fraudulent Students at Belmont Hill School Thought It Was a 'Farce' By Atty. J. Edward Pawlick July 2001 The research that made Harvard psychologist William Pollack a famous expert on American boys and frightened American parents and educators is seriously flawed, if not fraudulent, according to people familiar with the study.
Pollack Threatened to Sue MassNews	Pollack's anti-male conclusions were used by Harvard Medical School in 1998 to declare a "national emergency" that called for "major social reform" of boys. The boys at Belmont Hill School who were used by Dr. William Pollack to conduct the research for his best-selling book about American boys thought that the survey, which reportedly employed coercion, was a farce. "No one around me took the exam seriously with such one-sided and leading questions being asked," one former pupil says. "The test turned into a complete farce when kids began shouting out their answers to their classmates in an effort to make a joke."
One student still vividly remembers one question that they were required to answer. "I was asked to answer how often I thought about killing myself --- not if I did --- how much I did. I was given the choice between once a year, once a month, once a week, or once a day." One parent says the school refused to provide parents with copies of the "test" which was administered to their sons. "We were absolutely shocked when the teachers threateningly demanded that we sign our names. I feel I can honestly say that the common sentiment, as a direct result of those one-sided questions, throughout the entire class was to not take the test seriously," a student has told Massachusetts News. It is a violation of the Ethical Standards of the American Psychological Association, to force subjects to complete surveys and to sign their names. Against universally accepted scientific practice, Pollack has always refused to reveal where the research was conducted or to allow other academics to examine the data behind the sweeping and alarming conclusions he published in Real Boys. But concerned parents and former pupils have revealed that Pollack's research was done on May 19, 1997, at the prestigious Belmont Hill School just outside Boston. The boys continued to talk about it for days. "Over the course of the next few days," a boy says, "it became a badge of honor to admit that one had filled it out incorrectly simply to spite this test which, no matter how accurately answered, in no way reflected the student. As a result, the student body did not answer accurately and honestly. I am still outraged and frightened that the answers I wrote on that test are actually connected to me by name, or by any means." Because of fear of retaliation, until the students left Belmont Hill and had been accepted at colleges, the revelations have until now been kept from the public. In addition, the boys do not wish to damage the school in any way. In the meantime, Pollack a clinical psychologist at Harvard Medical School, became famous and rich because of his best-selling book, published in 1998. Harvard Called it a "National Emergency" Pollack's research came under attack last year in a book by Prof. Christina Hoff Sommers, of the American Enterprise Institute. In "The War Against Boys" she wrote that we are turning against boys as the result of research that is "riddled with errors." "On June 4, 1998," she wrote, "McLean Hospital, the psychiatric teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School, issued a two-page Press Release announcing the results of a new study of boys. The Release ... reported that researchers at McLean and Harvard Medical School found that 'psychologically "healthy" middle-class boys' are anxious, alienated, lonely and isolated - 'despite appearing outwardly content.'" Sommers noted that Harvard said that this was a "national emergency" that had been discovered by Dr. Pollack that called for "major social reform." She reported that Harvard said, "The time has come to change the way boys are raised - in our homes, in our schools and in society." It's unusual to find such sensational claims and recommendations issuing from a staid research institution such as McLean, which is routinely ranked among the top three psychiatric hospitals in the United States, Sommers reported. So Professor Sommers asked to see the research. "I requested a copy of the 'Listening to Boys' Voices' study from McLean. A few days later, a thirty-page typed manuscript arrived. It had not been published, nor was it marked as about to be published. It had none of the usual properties of a professional research paper. Unlike most scientific papers, which alert readers to their limits, Pollack's paper was unabashedly extravagant, declaring that 'these findings about boys are unprecedented in the literature of research psychology.'" The "national emergency," Sommers discovered, was based on a "battery of vaguely described tests administered to 150 boys" in grades 7-9. She says Pollack gave no explanation of how the boys had been selected or whether they constituted anything like a representative sample. "In sum," Sommers reported, "Pollack's paper does not present a single persuasive piece of evidence for a national boy crisis. I do not know whether 'Listening to Boys' Voices' has been submitted for publication in a professional journal. Its sparse data and its strident and implausible conclusions render it un-publishable as a scholarly article." When Pollack's former subjects now realize how their answers have been used by Dr. Pollack as a recipe for changing the boys all across America, they are astonished. "Our immature attempt at humor four years ago should not be the benchmark for the 21st century," one told the Massachusetts News. Pollack threatened to sue Massachusetts News (but never did) after it printed a story in the November 2000 issue. A subsequent story was published in January 2001 with the headline, "Harvard Professor Joins Feminist Plan to Alter the Nature of Males." The subhead was, "Dr. William Pollack Became Famous and Wealthy, Saying Single Mothers are Fine and Boys Are In Crisis, Just Like Their Fathers." Violated APA Ethical Standards Dr. Pollack will undoubtedly respond to these revelations by saying that he had permission from the parents to force the boys to complete the surveys and to sign their names. But this newspaper has learned that the only "permission" came as the result of a long, rambling letter about various topics from Headmaster Richard Melvoin the previous October. Melvoin wrote on page two of the letter, "Belmont Hill has been asked to participate in two surveys. One will survey student attitudes toward violence in the media. The second will study developmental issues in boys' attitudes and will be overseen by Dr. William Pollack, a Harvard Medical School faculty member who has written two books on issues of boys and men in society. Dr. Pollack has also spoken in front of the faculty and at the Boys' Schools Coalition Conference. If parents have any concerns about their sons participating in these surveys, please let our office know." Pollack's surveys were administered to all the pupils in grades 7-9 at the same time in two separate locations at the all-boy school. The head of the middle school, Deborah Callahan, was in charge and Pollack was present. Pollack appears to have violated the American Psychological Association's Ethical Standard 6.11, (c) through (e), which states, "When psychologists conduct research with individuals such as students or subordinates, psychologists take special care to protect the prospective participants from adverse consequences of declining or withdrawing from participation." The Ethical Standard also says that, "The psychologist must make an effort to protect such individuals from any adverse consequences of declining or withdrawing, such as a lowering of a grade or evaluation, loss of privileges, or any other negative consequence over which the researcher has some degree of control." It goes on to state, "Investigators must obtain participant's clear assent or agreement to participate." Parents Concerned Concern was expressed by parents about the methods used and the headmaster wrote a two-page letter to all parents about a week later. He said that he has seen Pollack as a "strong, articulate advocate for boys and boys' schools." And in the next sentence, the Headmaster gave as his basis for this opinion the following illogical statement: "Indeed, he is about to testify in California as an expert witness in an already celebrated case where a young girl seeks to join the Boy Scouts. Part of why we have allowed him to work at Belmont Hill is that he has been an outspoken advocate for the rights and needs of boys." Related Stories: Questions Used by Dr. Pollack to Disparage American Boys Background Articles from our January Edition Pollack became famous saying girls are better than boys Terrible advice about homosexuality Is Pollack behind homosexual speaker at Belmont Hill School? 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