Comments on: Pre-determining sexual orientation in the womb http://squarefaced.com/2007/01/06/pre-determining-sexual-orientation-in-the-womb/ - shanghaiing - Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:22:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Squareface @ 31°North » “Setting straight some ideas on gays” http://squarefaced.com/2007/01/06/pre-determining-sexual-orientation-in-the-womb/#comment-29 Squareface @ 31°North » “Setting straight some ideas on gays” Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:48:14 +0000 http://squarefaced.com/95/pre-determining-sexual-orientation-in-the-womb/#comment-29 [...] If you recall my last post on this whole gay sheep controversy, I wasn’t too pleased about it. And I’m peeved again after I spotted a Review article in today’s Straits Times. [...] [...] If you recall my last post on this whole gay sheep controversy, I wasn’t too pleased about it. And I’m peeved again after I spotted a Review article in today’s Straits Times. [...]

]]> By: udo schuklenk http://squarefaced.com/2007/01/06/pre-determining-sexual-orientation-in-the-womb/#comment-8 udo schuklenk Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:14:50 +0000 http://squarefaced.com/95/pre-determining-sexual-orientation-in-the-womb/#comment-8 'emptypockets', whoever you might be, busily defending this research again (any chance you might be involved in it yourself?). In any case, taking your points 2 and 3, it seems clear that this is research trying to understand the (if any?) biological basis of sexual preference (3), and it is trying to change it (2). QED ‘emptypockets’, whoever you might be, busily defending this research again (any chance you might be involved in it yourself?). In any case, taking your points 2 and 3, it seems clear that this is research trying to understand the (if any?) biological basis of sexual preference (3), and it is trying to change it (2). QED

]]> By: emptypockets http://squarefaced.com/2007/01/06/pre-determining-sexual-orientation-in-the-womb/#comment-7 emptypockets Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:40:11 +0000 http://squarefaced.com/95/pre-determining-sexual-orientation-in-the-womb/#comment-7 If it sounds too insane to be true... maybe it is. I looked into this story <a href="http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/01/a_wolf_in_gay_s.html" rel="nofollow">in detail</a>. Basically, (1) the scientists aren't trying to cure gayness, (2) they haven't been able to change sexual preference in sheep, (3) this is part of a large field of research trying to understand the biological basis of behavior that the article ignores, (4) this research is months to years old, and (5) the article also got the details of the experiments wrong (they didn't inject hormones into brains or use electronic sensors). I interviewed the researchers themselves and read their papers. What's weird is that the Times <b>knew</b> all this was false when they printed it. If it sounds too insane to be true… maybe it is.

I looked into this story in detail. Basically, (1) the scientists aren’t trying to cure gayness, (2) they haven’t been able to change sexual preference in sheep, (3) this is part of a large field of research trying to understand the biological basis of behavior that the article ignores, (4) this research is months to years old, and (5) the article also got the details of the experiments wrong (they didn’t inject hormones into brains or use electronic sensors). I interviewed the researchers themselves and read their papers.

What’s weird is that the Times knew all this was false when they printed it.

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