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Researchers identified genes in vegetarians that may explain why they choose plant-based diets after screening 330,00 genomes. Vegetarianism has been practiced for millennia in different societies and cultures, but today only a small minority of people forgo eating meat. People turn to a meatless diet for ethical reasons, such as animal well-being or reducing carbon prints. But could it be hereditary? A team of researchers believes they have discovered evidence that opting for a plant-based diet could actually be influenced by our genetics. Being vegetarian as a woman might be bad for your health later in life, a new study...

Less than half of students at Cambridge University now identify as heterosexual, a survey has found. Around 600 undergraduates took part in the anonymous online poll for student newspaper Varsity last month. Of those, just 49.7 per cent said they were heterosexual... ...The findings of the Varsity poll also tally with a survey by Oxford University’s student paper Cherwell, which found 49 per cent of students identified as heterosexual ...

The skeletal remains of a man buried 1,400 years ago near a headless horse have been discovered at an ancient cemetery in the town of Knittlingen in southern Germany. He likely was the horse's owner/rider when he was alive. The man was buried at a time when the Merovingian dynasty (A.D. 476–750) flourished in the area, ruling a giant swath of territory in what is now France and Central Europe. During his lifetime, the man likely served the dynasty's kings. "He stood in a 'chain of command' with the Merovingian kings on its top, which meant he was obliged to...

Margo Kaplan is not very popular today. In the Monday edition of the New York Times, the Rutgers-Camden law professor, an NYU and Harvard graduate, takes to the op-ed pages to argue that we’ve got it all wrong when it comes to pedophilia. She writes that pedophiles don’t necessarily turn out to be child molesters and that pedophilia is not a choice, i.e. a pedophile might be born that way. We reached her in her office in Camden to discuss. pedophilia-not-a-crime-rutgers-margo-kaplanYou really lit up the comments section of the op-ed page today. Yes, but I have to be honest. I...

A new comprehensive scientific study of the biological roots of sexual orientation released Thursday proved that there no “gay gene” and that genetic factors are insignificant in determining sexual orientation.....

Scholars at Johns Hopkins University released a new report on Monday which argues that there is not sufficient evidence to suggest that lesbian, gay, or transgender people are born with this sexual orientation or gender identity. "The idea there that sexual orientation is fluid, that people change as people grow," Lawrence Mayer, a co-author of the report and a scholar-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University's psychiatry department, as well as a professor of statistics and biostatistics at Arizona State University, told The Christian Post. "There are probably some people that identify as hetrosexual [sic] that then later on identified as homosexual,...

The share of Americans who identify as bisexual has tripled in the past decade – and women are behind the increase, according to new data from the General Social Survey. Some 3.3 percent of Americans identified as bisexual in 2018 – up from 1.1 percent in 2008, according to the GSS, a comprehensive poll that has tracked American attitudes and beliefs since 1972. While the share of Americans identifying as gay has seen some variation over the past decade, cumulatively the change was minimal: 1.7 percent in 2018 compared to 1.6 percent in 2008. Notably, 5.6 percent of U.S. women...

“Born gay” is, in fact, a hoax of mammoth proportions that has been accepted by many institutions, organizations and individuals in our culture, even by those in the “Christian church” and even by many apparently “born-again Christians”

Eight major studies of identical twins in Australia, the U.S., and Scandinavia during the last two decades all arrive at the same conclusion: gays were not born that way. “At best genetics is a minor factor,” says Dr. Neil Whitehead, PhD. Whitehead worked for the New Zealand government as a scientific researcher for 24 years, then spent four years working for the United Nations and International Atomic Energy Agency. Most recently, he serves as a consultant to Japanese universities about the effects of radiation exposure. His PhD is in biochemistry and statistics. Identical twins have the same genes or DNA....

The Christian Underground http://www.christian-underground.com --- A Social experiment that could cause chaos Albert Mohler's article is a startling read, entering the thoughts shared by several lesbians dealing with the issue of raising sons. (Lesbians Raising Sons; got a problem with that? 12/30/04) First is a woman named Jess Wells, author of Lesbians Raising Sons, who insisted that she did all she could to avoid giving birth to a son. Mohler shares some of her story: As an ardent opponent of "male privilege, patriarchy, and male culture," Wells did not want anything to do with raising a boy. Eventually, she was...