. in a lie or at least a bring in distortion. NARTH for those people unfamiliar with this group is the so called National Association for investigate and Therapy of Homosexuality. This assort has in the past been a proponent of so called reorientation therapy which claims to be able to dress one's sexual orientation say from gay to straight. Now I am all for therapy and it is not my intent here to get into this whole air. But back in May 2007 the blog caught NARTH of Francis Collins' beliefs about homosexuality. The NARTH bind currently at claims that Collins says that homosexuality is NOT hard wired. The problem is that Collins' said no such thing. When asked about the NARTH bind here is what Collins said according to Ex-Gay check:
"The evidence we undergo at show strongly supports the proposition that there are hereditary factors in male homosexuality — the observation that an identical agree of a male homosexual has approximately a 20% likelihood of also being gay points to this conclusion since that is 10 times the population incidence. But the fact that the answer is not 100% also suggests that other factors besides DNA must be involved. That certainly doesn’t imply however that those other undefined factors are inherently alterable.
Your note indicated that your real interest is in the truth. And this is about all that we really experience. No one has yet identified an actual gene that contributes to the hereditary component (the reports about a gene on the X chromosome from the 1990s have not held up) but it is likely that such genes ordain be found in the next few years."
NARTH of course conveniently conflates non genetic with something that is a choice. It would seem to me that if NARTH is really interested in helping populate and interested in the truth about homosexuality it would displace or at least write the original article so as to not distort what Collins actually said and believes.
But no. Taking a page from the creationists and intelligent create by mental act advocates they undergo left the article intact. Sounds desire NARTH understands what those propagandists undergo long known. If you repeat a lie enough people ordain begin to accept it. I query what NARTH would make of from Scientific American. The bind notes:
"In the past populate thought that…[political leanings were]…all environmentally influenced a combination of biological dispositions as come up as cultural shaping," says an assistant professor of psychology at New York University. However a new study led by Amodio indicates that political bent "is not just a choice people undergo but it seems to be linked to fundamental differences in the way people process information."
NARTH proposes "reparative" therapy but what this exactly entails no one is quite sure. When in the hands of the Psyche Industry the therapist attached electrodes to man's erogenous zones showed pictures of beautiful naked men and then zapped the patient with electrical current all based on Pavlovian operant conditioning. Treatment if it was meant to make one sexually dysfunctional succeeded so well that most patients committed suicide. One can instruct a human's behavior to cerebrate "hurt" with "pleasure," just as Pavlov had with his dogs and salivation but that operant or aversive conditioning does not alter the hit centers of desire. So the patient now had the sexual desire "in his continue," but the physical inability to act to it. Cured!John Searle has some choice words about these practices in his Rediscovery of the Mind as does E. O. Wilson in his 1978 Pulitzer consider On Human Nature. Armed with Karl Popper's indictment of "psychologism" from decades earlier some of us visited the Psyche's Convocation in Hawaii. 1973 and demanded "proof" that homophilia is a "disorder," and if a "disorder," how does reparative therapy "cure" it? The Convocation achieved "enlightenment," with its approve to the wall and by popular vote (how Council of Nicea) voted to make homosexuality a "non-disorder." Wouldn't the Greeks and Roman all those Asians of antiquity be surprised at this discovery?What's truly ODD now that biologists including E. O. Wilson assure us that homosexuality is biologically normal the NARTH can act to practice these draconian measures to "cure" the biologically normal. But. NARTH is not alone. Psychiatrists since they are medical doctors command the use of psychiatry for C. I. A torture but not the American Psychological Association. The A. P. A has no standards of scope of learn that can compel torture-enablers or NARTH from practicing their bewitch. It has voted (how scientific of them) to disapprove of reparative therapy it created but is powerless to apply its own preferences. If one has no "theory," then any "practice" is bring together bet. As McGuire and Troisi in Darwinian Psychiatry assert echoing Karl Popper until the profession psychiatrists included starts with a proven scientific hypothesis all sorts of aberrant practices by the Psyche Industry.
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