I would love it if a couple of those f..-packers came to my door trying to convince me to support gay marriage. I know exactly what I would say.
Posted on 05/21/2015 10:43:27 AM PDT by wagglebee
May 21, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- A December 2014 study alleged that homosexual activists, in a twenty-minute conversation, can change the minds of those who oppose redefining marriage. Six months later, the data to support the study has been revealed as fraudulent, and the study itself has been retracted.
Titled "When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support for gay equality," the study claimed that homosexual activists canvassing door-to-door in favor of redefining marriage could convert the people they spoke with – and that the interlocutors' epiphanies would not only last for a year, but also inspire members of their households to favor redefining marriage as well.
The study, published in Science magazine, was conducted by Columbia University political science professor Donald Green and UCLA grad student Michael LaCour. Green initiated the retraction after discovering that LaCour's work comprised "an incredible mountain of fabrications with the most baroque and ornate ornamentation."
In an extensive report, Buzzfeed News detailed that three researchers were unable to reproduce LaCour's findings, instead discovering multiple "statistical irregularities" in the data. Additionally, LaCour's claims of having received funding for the study from three organizations – the Ford Foundation, the Williams Institute at UCLA, and the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund – have been denied by the organizations themselves.
Following Green's retraction, Science published an "editorial expression of concern" "to alert our readers to the fact that serious questions have been raised about the validity of findings in the LaCour and Green paper."
LaCour is standing by his findings. The graduate student tweeted on Wednesday that "I'm gathering evidence and relevant information so I can provide a single comprehensive response."
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) condemned the mainstream media for uncritically trumpeting the study and blasted the "questionable" methodology of studies purporting to show overwhelming public support for redefining marriage.
NOM referenced a report by Louisiana State University professor and family studies expert Loren Marks, who examined 59 American Psychological Association-supported studies claiming that children raised by same-sex parents do as well as or better than those raised by opposite-sex parents. Marks found serious problems in all of the studies: among other issues, some studies had "no heterosexual comparison groups," "single mothers were often used as the hetero comparison group," and "(d)efinitive claims were not substantiated by the 59 published studies."
Evidence opposing the redefinition of marriage has been loudly panned by mainstream media outlets, homosexual activist groups, and others. University of Texas professor Mark Regnerus's July 2012 study on same-sex and opposite-sex parenting households, which earned ire from Politifact, the New York Times, and others, is the most famous example. An anti-redefinition amici curiae brief filed by "Same-Sex Attracted Men and Their Wives" in the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges garnered the derision of Slate, while Utah Valley University president Matthew Holland enraged UVU faculty by adding his signature to a brief from "100 Scholars of Marriage."
The national campaign director for the homosexual activist group Freedom to Marry told Buzzfeed News that regardless of the dishonesty of the LaCour study, Freedom to Marry would continue its canvassing efforts. "The efficacy of it has been proven multiple times."
The National Organization for Marriage said the retraction highlights “how the underlying methodologies of many- if not most -studies supporting the same-sex ‘marriage’ movement are questionable – often using small convenience samples featuring people who have an interest in a study turning out a particular way.”
"People – including Supreme Court Justices – would do well to remember these fake and flawed studies when the media trots out the next claim purporting to show how beneficial it will be if we redefine the most important social institution civilization has ever known,” they added.
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Homosexuals are not born that way. Most just get sucked into it.
tisk, tisk tisk........they always have to cheat.
Aw, who knew?
“Research” masquerading as “scientific studies”, and calculations made on “statistical samples” has been demonstrated once again to be a hoax?
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
Yes, it is what they always do. On this subject in particular so much of it has been faked and staged. It is working, though. They have the momentum. Obviously dishonesty pays in politics as long as you are willing to sell your soul.
Why should gay marriage researchers be any different than any other Leftist researcher? They LIE about their research and FAKE DATA to support liberal policy positions, period. Whether its rape, gay marriage, Global Warming or whatever.
I would love it if a couple of those f..-packers came to my door trying to convince me to support gay marriage. I know exactly what I would say.
Normalphobia is quite wisespread these days..
some opt for being Queer..
Good sign!
Thanks, I made it up one night on the spot (took a few minutes) while on a LGBT related thread here, I believe it was over the bakery being sued.
I am not joining any of the above, staying with the Ten Commandments and the United States Constitution, a guarantee for normality.
All of the goons involved in fabricating this study should be arrested for fraud and treason against God and country, and should probably be executed. Of course, the liberal infestation within academia and government will probably mean that these researchers get Congressional Medals of Honor and get invited to the White House for a night of debauchery, instead.
I’m betting the faked data was part of the information presented to Scotus to justify the judges imposing homosexual marriage on the nation. Judge Kennedy would use such information to further justify his newly discovered “right to dignity”.
When 3% of the population controls 100% of the discourse, there has to be a lot of faked “facts”.
Who can remember when they claimed 10% of the American population was homo?!
I wonder about those polls that keep claiming Americans are starting to support gay “marriage” more and more. If that’s so, why is it outlaw judges are forcing it down our throats? Ireland is actually having a referendum on this.
Was this falsified data used in the arguments before SCOTUS?
Reason 116 why you should take your kids out of the government indoctrination centers and homeschool them or enter them in a quality private school.
Yes, the alternatives can be expensive. But we're taking about your kids here.
The one thing this retraction needs that it will never get: publicity.
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