This paper merely highlights what has been, (migration and pre-state violence for two examples) and continues to be, a serious and structural problem facing the social sciences: conformative ideologically based socio-political pressures contorting research. This has become a catch-22 scenario for researchers in the face of evidence ideologues don't want to hear, as the authors state: "This lay concept of social and behavioral science leaves researchers between a rock and a hard place when met with potentially uncongenial evidence: Should you look the other way and indirectly sustain ignorance and misinformation, or disseminate the evidence at a foreseeable risk to your reputation and persona?"