Posts

Showing posts with the label LGBT suicide

No, Disapproval Does Not Make Homosexuals Die Young or suicide

Image
Fake science is more dangerous than fake news because it takes more than a 24-hour news cycle to debunk fake science. Fake science can take years to dislodge. Even then, it remains part of “common knowledge.” For one paper on homosexuality , it has taken five years for it to be retracted . The paper, cited by more than 100 other scholarly papers, has been withdrawn from Social Science and Medicine because its results could not be replicated. What’s more, they found a serious error in the coding of the data rendering the initial finding unproven. The Fishy ‘Social Stress’ Published in 2014 by researchers connected to Columbia University, “Structural stigma and all-cause mortality in minority populations” claimed to demonstrate that homosexuals die on average up 12 years earlier. Why? Because of their neighbor’s disapproval of their sexual habits and lifestyle. If a homosexual lived in a state that protected man-woman marriage, for instance, the typical homosexual could come down with