I'm not sure that the compilers of this list are suggesting to us to not read them, but just to read them properly, not just as gospel. For example, Kinsey and Mead for taught in our undergraduate studies in human psychology, but the lecturers would not have a cent of challenge to the veracity of the data collection, interpretation and, of course, inference of their studies. One who claims to be a progressive would be happy to have her/his ideas challenged, otherwise the progressive becomes the conservative imposer of truth on our human experience.