Posted on 05/26/2006 12:40:46 PM PDT by DBeers
It's also responsible for lisps, zig zag finger snaps and head bobs.
And thumping cigarette ashes with
the fore finger instead of the thumb.
"Sanders says the biggest challenge with this kind of research is finding the one thousand pairs of gay brothers. He and his colleagues have been searching for participants for several years"
Seems like he has an operating hypothesis, a support group, staff, funding and just about anything a researcher could ask for except subjects.
Maybe we can help him out.
What's ironic is that whether they do or not, *you* already have...
It would not be at all difficult to poison pill this "research" by infiltrating sleeper heterosexuals if one had a mind to do so...
Just acknowledging the fact that it would be possible to do so says much about the supposedly implied objective and sound scientific premise of this and other "scientific research" into innate "homosexual orientation"...
Homosexuality is not a condition, it is a means of expression; it's fun, exciting, dangerous and gets you noticed, what's not to like?
Actually, the irony is in even suggesting that "research" such as this, being severely flawed from the outset, could possibly yield any of the results it aspires to "determine" (fabricate)...
A thousand words. I would venture to guess he is probably more interested in maintaining funding -discovering anything would be incidental...
"Double your pleasure, double your fun"
That is so sicko........... ;^)
The gay men I know all have hetero brothers. And that's down to a person. And I've known at least a couple dozen gay guys over the years. Job-sharing with one at my part-time job right now in fact.
My nephew and niece, brother & sister, are both gay and they have two brothers who are straight
Same molester?
Say what? If you're implying that there is no known genetic component of alcoholism, or that such a component has been ruled out, you're mistaken.
See for example:
Genomewide linkage study in the Irish affected sib pair study of alcohol dependence: evidence for a susceptibility region for symptoms of alcohol dependence on chromosome 4New findings on the genetic influences on alcohol use and dependence
Confirmation of association of the GABRA2 gene with alcohol dependence by subtype-specific analysis
Strike two...
My brother will be on Bravo at 9PM tonight for a TV special. Go figure/. .
How exactly is the methodology "severely flawed" (be specific -- why do you find pedegree and linkange analysis to be unreliable, and in what manner?) and what specific evidence do you have that these particular researchers will "fabricate" results? That's a serious charge, you should substantiate it if you're going to make it, lest you baselessly slander people who do not deserve it. Remember that part about "bearing false witness"?
You sound as if you're expressing your own bigotries, and not basing your attacks on any actual knowledge of the methodology or the integrity of the researchers. Please explain.
...only if one were willing to be grossly dishonest with the goal of obscuring the truth and producing bogus results that dishonestly "supports" one's agenda-driven preferred outcome.
Is that what you're advocating? That's what it sounds like. If so, it's ironic that you would accuse the researchers of doing what you yourself are advocating.
Wouldn't you actually prefer to let the research produce valid results instead? Or like the line in the movie, can you "not handle the truth", whatever it may be?
Yes, I read that, since it was the line I was responding to. Unlike you, however, I am capable of realizing that the sentence was ambiguously framed, thus my question about what exactly the poster meant when he wrote it. Why don't you let him answer for himself instead of butting in with your misguided "help" which misses the point entirely?
Strike two...
That's okay, you still have one to go before you're out. I can't say that I'm optimistic about your chances, though -- you seem to have a tendency to reflexively post before having through things through sufficiently.
Monozygotic twin studies can lead to only one conclusion, that being that genes are not determinative in sexuality. Contributory maybe but certainly not determinant.
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