Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
I should be able to make a couple of assumption here … Unfortunately I can’t. That because of the thing that really is abnormal – the superstitious religious belief that anybody who does not conform to their very narrow definitions of “normal” is somehow broken and needs to be fixed. I’m also deeply tired of … Read more
About one year ago a study that clamined conversion therapy worked was published. The journal has now retracted it because it was fraudlent.
The TL;DR: summary is no, the supposed Gay Conversion Therapy is all BS. Why am I writing about this now? Basically this has just happened … A prominent “conversion therapy” advocate, David Matheson, has come out as gay after spending what he said were decades of his life entrenched in homophobia. Matheson was a practitioner … Read more
The UK government announced yesterday on 3rd July the intent to ban Gay conversion therapy. Along with that announcement, which is part of their LGBT road map, they also published the results of a comprehensive survey that has enabled them to make informed decisions. The Survey Itself You can find the full survey results here. … Read more
When several well-known individuals were asked to comment on specific issues today (on other topics I’ll not get into now), a response I heard several times was, “Well, I’m feeling very pessimistic about the current outlook for that” (or similar). Upon hearing that, and the associated justification for the opinion, I did think to myself, “actually, … Read more