Posted on 08/08/2005 7:26:26 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Paul Cameron, founder of the Family Research Institute, calls gays and lesbians "death marketers."
"I am not sure how long they will take to destroy the US from within, but sufficiently weakened, the US will probably fall to another state before that occurs," he recently told the Boston Globe.
In 1983, Cameron cofounded the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality, where he published reports claiming that homosexuals were more likely than heterosexuals to molest children and commit other crimes. Shortly thereafter, the American Psychological Association barred Cameron from its membership. The American Sociological Association said that "Cameron has consistently misinterpreted and misrepresented sociological research on sexuality, homosexuality, and lesbianism."
But Cameron resurfaced with the Family Research Institute, publishing studies titled "Gay Parents More Apt to Molest." In recent years, his pseudoscience has been cited by dissenters in the Massachusetts ruling legalizing gay marriage, in a Florida Supreme Court decision upholding a ban on adoption by same-sex couples and on behalf of a Virginia proposal requiring that adoptive parents reveal their sexual identities to social workers. The media frequently credits the Institute as an alternative to the 150,000-member American Psychological Association.
Cameron's Institute, along with the American College of Pediatrics -- a right-wing splinter of the 60,000-member American Academy of Pediatrics -- seek to blur the distinction of what is and isn't accepted science, the Boston Globe reports. And these fraud think tanks are multiplying. "Created as counterpoints to large, well-established medical organizations whose work is subject to rigorous review and who assert no political agenda," the Globe writes, "the tiny think tanks with names often mimicking those of established medical authorities have sought to dispute the notion of a medical consensus on social issues such as gay rights, the right to die, abortion, and birth control."
Cameron's "studies" are distributed through the Christian Communications Network, run by anti-choice advocate Gary McCullough, the press agent for Operation Rescue and the parents of Terri Schiavo. Press releases in the past few weeks included: "Gays Twice as Apt to Drive Under the Influence, says Family Research Institute," "Gays 6X More Expensive Than Smokers, says Family Research Institute," and, "Weird Behavior Among Gays Due to Mental Illness? Asks Family Research Institute." Until the Globe article, the 43,000-church Traditional Values Coalition listed Cameron's work on its website. He's briefed White House aides on his adoption theories.
Articles published in Psychological Reports, an obscure Montana journal described as "a scientific manifestation of free speech," lends Cameron's junk agitprop academic cover. "I'm amazed that he is able to continue to be published," says Dr. Ellen Perrin, professor of pediatrics at the Tufts-New England Medical Center. Perrin and other established scientific experts have found no important difference between children raised by same-sex and heterosexual couples, nor a higher tendency toward "antisocial" behavior among gays and lesbians. "Cameron's work is methodologically weak and in many cases the conclusions he draws from his data are not valid," adds Dr. Gregory Harek, professor of psychology at the University of California-Davis.
It's as if the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth discovered science.
Bwahahahahahahahhahahahhahha!
If the issue were socialized medicine we'd be hearing about the profit motive of these same "well-established medical organizations".
Why do so many today have trouble with TRUTH?
Because TRUTH is a relative, subjective thing. < tongue planted firmly in cheek>
They probably only interviewed the subjects and used their opinions.
Science by consensus is always political. Anyone who dares dissent gets casted out and mocked. Unfortunately, that is the state of science today. No one dares dissent at the consensus or they are branded a kook. This probably holds by real scientific advancement more than anything else.
YES! The author writes this like it's a bad thing. Personally, I would consider it a great compliment to be equated with another brave group that insisted on telling the truth despite the legacy media unleashing every weapon in its arsenal against them.
Well if even the Floozies agree, this Berman is really on the losing side.
I have not seen the study material on the claims here, but as far as suicide, drug use, smoking and premature death, "gay" men have far higher rates than the otherwise same demographics in the general population. I’ve seen the summaries with back up numbers to these.
I t is NOT a psychological problem and they are NOT born that way; it was, is and remains a moral problem and carries baggage with it.
Why do so many today have trouble with TRUTH?<<<<<<<<<<<
Because most value their own comfort far more than TRUTH! I, myself am plagued with an inability to convince myself that all the things I would prefer to believe are true, I look at myself and realize that while I am a productive person and not a drain on society there are many areas in which I have fallen far short of being the person I used to imagine myself to be. I suspect that my own inability to fail to see the truth is shared by only a minority of my fellow citizens. Those who endorse socialism and all its variants have totally renounced truth and made a decision to dwell in the land of make believe. They would of course deny the decision but they have made it nonetheless.
I wonder if the experts think methamphetamine abuse and
increasing rates of HIV infection and other VDs with those
users is not "antisocial" behaviour. I would think it is
antisocial because is makes the user dependant on "society" in general to help get over their self inflicted problems.
Not to mention "suicidal"
I wonder if the experts think methamphetamine abuse and
increasing rates of HIV infection and other VDs with those
users is not "antisocial" behaviour. I would think it is
antisocial because is makes the user dependant on "society" in general to help get over their self inflicted problems.
Not to mention "suicidal"
It's as if the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth discovered science.
"I suspect that my own inability to fail to see the truth is shared by only a minority of my fellow citizens."
I suppose that's why the road is narrow - and I also suspect those who renounce truth will end up living in a place that is not make believe.
Why do you bother to read this rag? Vanden Heuval is a raving idiot. She wouldn't know the truth if it was set on fire and shoved up her --s.
I guess you just enjoy heaping on the mockery of this bantam weight flat of toilet paper.
Damn! The lefties are still sore from the beatings they took in the election.
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