Exposing Junk Science About Same-Sex Behavior

Anti-Gay “Expert” Would Consider Banning Adoptions By Native Americans

Junk Science Investigator — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:08:08 +0000

From Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters via Box Turtle Bulletin: Two anti-gay activists closely associated with Paul Cameron have inserted themselves into the center of Florida’s gay adoption controversy. Florida is the only state in the nation which explicitly bans adoption by gay parents. That law is now being challenged. The Miami Herald has obtained a transcript [...]

Professor Says “Ex-Gay” Therapy Group Deliberately Misrepresented Her Research

Junk Science Investigator — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:49:35 +0000

From Truth Wins Out: Truth Wins Out released an exclusive video interview today with University of Utah professor, Dr. Lisa Diamond, who said that the National Association of Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) grossly and deliberately distorted her research on sexual orientation. Dr. Diamond’s assertion comes one week before NARTH’s annual conference in Denver, which [...]

Update: Noted Geneticist Confirms XGW Correction of Greg Quinlan, NARTH

Junk Science Investigator — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:59:16 +0000

From Ex-Gay Watch: Working with the New Jersey Family Policy Counsel and speaking to the American Family Association’s (AFA) One News Now, ex-gay Greg Quinlan made statements on behalf of noted geneticist Francis S. Collins that were untrue — specifically that his work on the human genome project had led to the “fact” that homosexuality was [...]

Ex-Gay Quinlan Severely Distorts Researcher’s Comments

Junk Science Investigator — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:59:17 +0000

From Ex-Gay Watch: Greg Quinlan was once a prominent ex-gay activist. He founded the Pro-Family Network in Dayton, Ohio in 1998, and appeared in I Do Exist, the ex-gay video by Warren Throckmorton, in 2004. It appears he left Ohio in the last year or so and now works with the New Jersey Family Policy [...]

Insure.com Pulls Cameron Quotes

Junk Science Investigator — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:02:05 +0000

From Box Turtle Bulletin: In June we noticed that Insure.com, an online insurance broker, was making false and defamatory statements about gay men in two of his articles. Specifically, the articles — which were written by Insure.com staff — relied on a non-representative AIDS study from the early 90’s and fraudulent “researcher” Paul Cameron to claim [...]

New Development In Insure.com Anti-Gay Propaganda Story

Junk Science Investigator — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:09:18 +0000

From Ex-Gay Watch: As our readers may be aware, it was recently reported that the popular online insurance portal Insure.com has posted disturbing and completely inaccurate information about the lifespan of gay people. Worse, the source for their claims is the discredited and largely avoided Dr. Paul Cameron and his Family Research Institute. Insure.com CEO Robert [...]

Insurance Service Quotes Anti-Gay Crackpot As Authority

Junk Science Investigator — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:57:05 +0000

From the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate Watch: “It’s a loaded subject, but let’s get right down to it: gay men, on average, die significantly younger than the rest of the population.” So begins “Gay Men Die 20 Years Younger,” an article posted on insure.com, a publicly traded online insurance brokerage. The source for the article, written [...]

Insure.com CEO Defends Paul Cameron

Junk Science Investigator — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:20:30 +0000

From Box Turtle Bulletin: Last Friday, Timothy Kincaid revealed for the first time that a popular insurance portal, Insure.com, is hosting false and defamatory anti-gay claims. This follows nearly six weeks of private communications with Insure.com CEO Robert Bland, in which we tried to work with them in resolving the situation. Soon after Kincaid’s exposé appeared, Mr. [...]

Insure.com’s Anti-Gay Propaganda Relies On Cameron “Research”

Junk Science Investigator — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:02:19 +0000

From Box Turtle Bulletin: The trend in business relations has been towards an acceptance and welcoming of gay and lesbian clients and appreciation of them as customers. This may be because of the perception that product loyalty is particularly strong in gay consumers or because businesses generally believe that moralistic rants drive away not only gay [...]

From Russia With Hate: Paul Cameron @ Moscow State U. Sociology Dept.

Junk Science Investigator — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:31:41 +0000

From Beyond Homophobia: Take one US antigay activist who happens to have earned a Ph.D. in psychology and has been denounced by major professional associations of psychologists and sociologists in his home country and Canada. Add one Russian university department where the training is substandard, the faculty don’t publish in their field’s academic journals, the [...]