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The social-science issue is separate, and it involves Dr. Both Emily Yoffe of Slate and a group of 19 HLS professors have argued that the film misrepresents the facts of that incident in important ways. One set of criticisms leveled against The Hunting Ground has to do with its portrayal of an alleged rape involving Harvard Law School students.

It’s probably important to get our controversies straight here. (Updated with a statement from Kirby Dick, the film’s director, at the bottom.) Unfortunately, it also presents some extremely questionable research about campus rape in far too credulous a light. The Hunting Ground, a documentary that aired on CNN Sunday night after garnering a great deal of publicity on the festival and campus circuits, tells some horrific stories about sexual assaults on college campuses, and in doing so it raises a number of important, damning questions about how campus administrators handle rape allegations. Update: A response from Kirby Dick, the writer and director of the film, has been appended to this article.