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Article: Prevention programs and scientific nonsense.(drug abuse and violence prevention program evaluation)
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- Policy Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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IN NOVEMBER 2001, a bizarre incident occurred at a conference sponsored by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) in Washington, D.C. As reported by Stanley Kurtz on National Review Online (December 5 and 11, 2001) and Sally Satel on Tech Central Station (December 7, 2001), Christina Hoff Sommers of the American Enterprise Institute was invited to address an assembled audience of CSAP staff, grantees, and consultants concerning the agency's intentions to fund "Boy Talk," a prevention program for young men designed to influence such behaviors as drug use and violence. Sommers is a critic of this type of gender-specific exercise in health education, and suggested ...