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To: Ernie.cal
Not this again. The information you cite regarding Dr. Cameron has been discredited on FR many times, as well as the author who pushes it, Pietrzyk. FYI: Dr Cameron resigned from the APA in good standing.

A rebuttal to the accusation that Dr. Cameron was dropped from the American Psychological Association (APA).

464 posted on 12/23/2004 6:03:13 PM PST by scripter (Tens of thousands have left the homosexual lifestyle)
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To: scripter
Not this again. The information you cite regarding Dr. Cameron has been discredited on FR many times, as well as the author who pushes it, Pietrzyk. FYI: Dr Cameron resigned from the APA in good standing.

Genuine researchers do not use the type of inflammatory rhetoric that Cameron routinely uses when he discusses gays.

I cited several professional associations that denounced Cameron (not New Republic contributor Pietrzyk). Your response is to post a self-serving message by Cameron himself. Even if Cameron's claims about his APA standing are true, isn't it significant that the largest professional organization of psychologists in the United States (plus the other professional associations that I cited) went to such lengths to disassociate themselves from one individual?

There is also a court decision which rejected Cameron's data and conclusions as "mosrepresentations". See, Baker v. Wade, 106 Federal Rules Decisions 526 (N.D. Texas, 1985). The Court referred to Cameron's "misrepresentations", as follows:

(i) his sworn statement that "homosexuals are approximately 43 times more apt to commit crimes than is the general population" is a total distortion of the Kinsey data upon which he relies--which, as is obvious to anyone who reads the report, concerns data from a non-representative sample of delinquent homosexuals (and Dr. Cameron compares this group to college and non-college heterosexuals);

(ii) his sworn statement that "homosexuals abuse children at a proportionately greater incident than do heterosexuals" is based upon the same distorted data--and, the Court notes, is directly contrary to other evidence presented at trial besides the testimony of Dr. Simon and Dr. Marmour. (553 F. Supp. 1121 at 1130 n.18.) n30",

Cameron's "research" is rarely cited by any reputable researcher. One of his more celebrated articles about the average life expectancy of gay men is quite illustrative of the poor quality of his research. Even a respected Christian conservative like William Bennett dissociated himself from his previous use of Cameron's data after Bennett checked into Cameron's background.

471 posted on 12/23/2004 6:34:25 PM PST by Ernie.cal
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