Shades of Nazi 'eugenics' - Paul Cameron is at it again

[kweerwolf]

I'm not much for promoting my own blog, but I got an e-mail about how notoriously homophobic "scientist" Paul Cameron is about to publish yes another gay "study."

So, in the hope that this will provide some "talking points" for his inevitable media blitz, here's the following from my blog:

I need look no farther than two blocks west to get a glimpse of how the radical religious 'reich' views science. In Kansas the fun-D'uh-Mental-ists are going after the theory of evolution with all the zeal of William Jennings Bryan questioning substitute science teacher John Scopes in that hot Tennessee courtroom 80 years ago.

Let's face it. Science is not the friend of dogmatic, unquestioning religious literalism. All those carbon-dated dinosaur bones are sooooo inconvenient when religious "scholars" claim the world began in 4004 B.C.

But every once in a while religious zealots find a scientist they can embrace whole-heartedly. Such a man is Paul Cameron, head of the ultra right-wing Family Research Institute, a Colorado Springs-based organization that bills itself as "a non-profit educational and and scientific organization. The website features links to Cameron's articles about homosexuality, sodomy and child molestation that are almost, well ... obsessive.

Two decades ago Cameron was kicked out of the American Psychological Association (and the American Sociological Association followed suit two years later) for shoddy research, misrepresentations and ethical violations. You'd think such censure would cause a bona fide research to slink off in disgrace, but not Cameron. He formed his own "institute" and the religious right loves him for telling them what they want to hear about those pesky homo-sec-shuls. Now Cameron is back trying to grab the spotlight with a "new" study purporting to show that homosexuals die earlier than heterosexuals ... "proof" that being gay is hazardous to one's health.

http://kweerwolf.blogspot.com/2005/05/shades-of-nazi-eugenics-paul-cameron.html

[Technowitch]

1. Very interesting and well-researched entry there, Kweerwolf

I very much enjoyed your essay. Well done!

best,
-Technowitch

[complain jane]

2. And his crap can be shot down

using the Intelligent Design "theories". :rofl:

I hadn't heard anything from these screwballs for a year or two, I see they're still up to the same garbage.

Thanks for this.

[davidinalameda]

3. the study that gays die earlier than straights

I thought this was already presented and debunked.

He or someone else went through the obits in the fag rags and used that as his data to show that gays die earlier.

[kweerwolf]

4. You're correct. This is basically the same study ...

... but with stats from the CDC tossed in to make it seem more legitimate (and so Cameron can claim it's a "new" study).

[davidinalameda]

5. amazing

these people are freaking idiots