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To: wagglebee
Nicholas A. Cummings, former American Psychological Association president, praised the research.

"This study has broken new ground in its adherence to objectivity and a scientific precision that can be replicated and expanded, and it opens new horizons for investigation," he said.

That is very encouraging news.

3 posted on 09/16/2007 10:16:26 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
"This study has broken new ground in its adherence to objectivity and a scientific precision that can be replicated and expanded, and it opens new horizons for investigation," he said.

I did not see anything in the article that suggests "objectivity" or "scientific precision," which are problematic in the social sciences to begin with. And then there is this buried deep within the article:

"We found that 15 percent of our sample of about 100 claimed to actually have changed from homosexuality to heterosexuality," he said. "These people experienced significant enough change that they really felt like they had left one sexual orientation to shift into another."

He acknowledged "life is still complicated for these people, and some still have some residuals of their homosexual attractions."

I don't see how any objective person (go back to my first point), can claim that queers can change sexual orientation based upon this study when 85% of the homos did not switch teams, and of the 15% that allegedly turned straight, some of the those people are still sexually attracted to people from the same sex, which means -- HELLO -- that they are still queer.

86 posted on 09/17/2007 9:13:32 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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