No, Disapproval Does Not Make Homosexuals Die Young or suicide
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 The paper, cited by more than 100 other scholarly papers, has been withdrawn from Social Science and Medicine because its results could not be replicated.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 ...