Give me a link to scientists discrediting this research, not anonymous people of dubious intelligence on a message board.
Posted on 06/06/2005 10:50:27 PM PDT by scripter
Dr. Paul Cameron, President of Family Research Institute, a Colorado-based think tank, announced today that a new study on the life span of homosexuals will appear in a 2005 issue of the refereed scientific journal Psychological Reports (Volume 96: pp. 693-697).
This study provides additional evidence that the practice of homosexuality, with its attendant lifestyle, shortens the life of practitioners by about 20 years.
"Obituaries have indicated that gays seldom reach old age," Cameron said. "Indeed, gay obituaries suggest that engaging in homosexuality costs participants between 15 to 25 years of life, suggesting that homosexuality is more dangerous than smoking or being fat.
"Over 10,000 gay obituaries have been collected from homosexual publications. Are the obituaries listed in the gay press representative of gay deaths in general?" Cameron asks.
A new study that compared them with Centers for Disease Control data indicates they are.
The Washington Blade, a homosexual newspaper, has been the major homosexual paper used to track homosexual obituaries. So its obituaries for death due to AIDS were compared to AIDS deaths among males who had sex with males from the CDC for 1994 through 2000. Surprisingly, there was almost perfect correspondence. The effects of the new drug cocktails for AIDS were evident in both datasets. In 1994 the CDC put the average age of death by AIDS for homosexuals at 39, the Blade at 40. By 2000, the CDC reported the median age of death at 43 and the Blade at 42. Similar correspondences were noted for the 25th and 75th centiles of deaths.
The CDC reported that 9% of heterosexuals who died of AIDS were at least 65 years of age. But less than 4% of homosexuals and IV drug abusers who died of AIDS reached 65.
"These findings add substantial support to our previous findings," said Cameron, who headed the study. "While no one has all the facts on this issue, the CDC data is about as good as it gets. These data indicate that considerable progress in medically combating HIV is being made – its even affecting deaths from other medical causes. Right now, the median age of death for gays in the obituaries is running near 60 – about tied with the median age of death for lesbians. Of course, the median age of death for adults is about 80 – so the 20 year hit for engaging in homosexuality that we reported 15 years ago continues to hold."
The new study "Gay obituaries closely track officially reported deaths from AIDS" can be read in the scientific journal, Psychological Reports (2005;96:693-697).
There have been a few studies that seem to indicate that since lesbians as a group are less likely to have children, they are more likely to contract breast cancer than the general population of Heteros that do give birth. This may also account for the rise in breast cancer among all women since many put off pregnancy till they're in their mid-late 30's.
Whoops. When I saw the "1994" you posted I read it as 2004.
The link I posted is brand new and explored a completely different tact.
buh bye
The study of identical twins makes a great case against a genetic basis for homosexuality. The last study I read on the subject showed that in only about 13% of cases when one twins is homosexual is the other twin found to be involved in the lifestyle.
Another option for those who feel their orientation runs too deep to change is simply to be sexually inactive. Our culture bombards us with the message that celibacy is freakish and nearly impossible, but that's not true. I have a homosexual uncle who took that route, and he's exceptionally healthy at age 85.
Give me a link to scientists discrediting this research, not anonymous people of dubious intelligence on a message board.
New is better eh? Let me hold your hand here, if science is valid, now say it with me, it's R-E-P-L-I-C-A-B-L-E.
If your "new" research is valid it would replicate the dozen or so fruit fly studies that came before it.
See how science works girlfriend?
I prefer to look at all the evidence on the subject and not a single study.
Thanks - That is indeed another option.
I stand corrected the studies linked here seem to put it at closer to 38%. But the fact still remains that 38% is not 100% as would be expected in genetically identical twins.
I've read the same thing. For various reasons, I don't really follow the subject of lesbianism as much as male homosexuality.
You beat me to it. Hey - it's always best to correct things yourself anyway. :-)
Because I think there might be an inborn component among some homosexuals, I'm inclined to think they lived shorter lives, not only because of their lifestyles, but because of their inherently weaker immune system. If their brains are slightly defective, it would make sense that so would be their immune system.
A gay writer had suggested this once at an AIDS symposium -- that gays have naturally inferior immune systems -- and he was booed off the stage.
Interestingly, if insurance companies could do this with great precision, society would be just as well of with no insurance companies.
The value of insurance is that it allows people to pool their risk factors. If you also had to pay for each risk factor the value of insurance would be decreased to maybe the same as just taking the risk that you won't get sick.
You see the words fruit fly and seem to infer that all studies are repeats of previous ones.
LOL
Please take some courses on DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
"All animals exhibit innate behaviors that are specified during their development.
Drosophila melanogaster males (but not females) perform an elaborate and innate courtship ritual directed toward females (but not males).
Male courtship requires products of the fruitless (fru) gene, which is spliced differently in males and females. We have generated alleles of fru that are constitutively spliced in either the male or the female mode.
We show that male splicing is essential for male courtship behavior and sexual orientation. More importantly, male splicing is also sufficient to generate male behavior in otherwise normal females.
These females direct their courtship toward other females (or males engineered to produce female pheromones).
The splicing of a single neuronal gene thus specifies essentially all aspects of a complex innate behavior"
Evidence and errata aren't the same thing.
I think it's getting closer to that point. Insurance companies are getting more and more strict and finding new wasy to raise premiums to keep their profits up.
I worked on a unit with about 50% Lesbian staff. In the five years I was there everyone of them had a cancer of some type although none died from it. They were all in their 30-40's. Also, lots of genital Herpes in this population.
I would disagree with the gay writer myself... There just isn't any evidence to support that theory. When you look at the bigger picture (i.e. all the evidence) we see that sexuality is fluid, that people can enter the homosexual life or leave it. Depending on many factors, homosexuals could live a shorter life.
Nobody said it was. What I said was that I prefer to look at all the evidence and not a single study to form an opinion.
Are you basing your opinion here on that one study?
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