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To: Rudder
Overall, this article is a load of crap. The author's interpretation of basic endocrinological data is simply wrong.

I always continue to wonder which is worse: to be wrong due to ignorance or to lie by ommision.
Aside from the medical jargon and the weapon of big words, I was struck by your clumsy attempt at derailing the main subject through sophistry.

In your various comments, you studiously avoided the critical period between a month after birth through adolescence.

49 posted on 12/13/2006 12:08:39 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Publius6961
Actually the critical period is the perinatal period, masculinization must occur then and, if not, the window is closed. And if masculization does occur perinatally, as it does in normal males, then it is irreversible later on. (Beach, Noble and Orndoff, 1969, Jour. comp. physiol. psych.)

Not sophistry, but hard data.

68 posted on 12/13/2006 1:13:56 PM PST by Rudder
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