Edited sentence: A book that was pulled from an incredibly limited sampling of transsexuals (6), all from the same "cruising bar " , with no data base, notes  or any real research beyond Baileys memories.Academic freedom  is balanced by  responsibility to produce verifiable , reproducible facts.Critics of both Dreger and Bailey counter that Bailey's misrepresentation of his book as any kind of science was the cause of the outrage as well as  the cause of his own academic fall.That Dreger is defending the right to publish  assumption as fact