I have never seen a better illustration of the way leftist “intellectuals” now block research that might lead people to question their ideology than this piece.

Dr. Adam Perkins of King’s College in London has done research on the personalities of welfare recipients, which led him to conclude that “individuals with aggressive, rule-breaking and anti-social tendencies — what he calls the ‘employment-resistant personality profile’ — are over-represented among benefit recipients. He also found that their children are likely to share those traits, which explains why poverty has a tendency to be passed from one generation to the next.”

Wow — that’s a maxi-aggression! No one should be allowed to question the leftist belief that welfare merely helps those who can’t help themselves and has no undesirable consequences. Perkins has run into a buzzsaw in the UK. His research has been denounced as unethical. Especially delicious is the response from a sociology professor who says that “any book linking benefit dependency to personality must be nonsense because personality is a ‘capitalist construct.’”

Hat tip: Instapundit