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There are other very suspect statistics in this piece: for example, the claim that the average homosexual man dies at 42 years. This is flat out wrong; this claim was originally made by the discredited researcher Paul Cameron, who based his results on obituaries printed in gay publications with a young readership, a research method with an obvious flaw. The truth is represented by a study that was done in Ontario recently: the average homosexual has between 7 and 20 years cut off their life expentancy (so they will probably live until their late 50s on average). This compares, by the way, with the statistics for heavy smokers, who also lose 20 years of life expectancy.

Meg - for some reason I just can't accept your word as absolute proof that Paul Cameron is "discredited", especially as I've read many threads in which Scripter has defeated such accusations, in detail. Is this a new discreditation?

Please cite references and explain your accusation. Your opinion just isn't enough to convince me.

Thanks for the heads up, lj, I missed this one.

There are other very suspect statistics in this piece: for example, the claim that the average homosexual man dies at 42 years.

I believe you are referring to Cameron's 1994 study, which was supported by the International Journal of Epidemiology here: Modelling the impact of HIV disease on mortality in gay and bisexual men

Cameron's 2005 study: Gay obituaries closely track officially reported deaths from AIDS can be read in the scientific journal, Psychological Reports (2005;96:693-697).

From here:

The Washington Blade, a homosexual newspaper, has been the major gay paper used to track gay 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 gays 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.

Informed folks know that the homosexual lifestyle is anything but healthy. Checkout my profile for pointers to years of articles on the health hazards of the homosexual lifestyle.