ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the verdict that on the basis of all the evidence, deductions, and arguments put forward the author believe that justice requires. The work of Miss Molteno on which Gillie rested his account of Sir Cyril Burt's "mechanism of fraud" was in fact not what Burt had claimed at all. Only in the postwar controversies surrounding the subjects of educational opportunity, social class, and social mobility, did the study of twins come specifically to the fore, and even then it was still rooted in, and derived from, the data of the surveys. The charges of racism, class discrimination, right-wing elitism, underrating the influence of social and environmental factors, shoddy work, and scientific misconduct in the carrying out of his surveys—all these were disproved. The disgraceful nature of at least a great deal of the testimony was therefore all the more marked.
