ABSTRACT
The key questions in Chapters 9 and 10 are about the intentions of authors and whether they provide enough information about what was done and why to allow the reader to review. If the work is under the title of social science or research, authors have an obligation to provide sufficient information to enable that review to take place. If the inten tion is to raise consciousness the reader should still be able to review and hence there should still be sufficient information to allow this to happen. That accounts for the questions in the Introduction to this book. It is legitimate to reject the relevance of validity and reliability, but the reasons for this should be made clear for the reader, particularly if the intention is to raise awareness of the distortions in existing beliefs and practices. Any enquiry may lead to important knowledge. But the assess ment that determines credibility depends on the provision of informa tion. Withholding it places the work among the arcana, the secretive, that have so often been the basis for the very authority that is being attacked.
