L
Lloyd Parker
Guest
In article <[email protected]>, Bill Putney <[email protected]> wrote:
>Marc wrote:
>>
>> Bill Putney <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >Marc wrote:
>>
>> >Well, you may want to take a look at this:
>>
>http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug99/as4.html?CFID=2115329&CFTOKEN=75269690.
>> >
>> >Funny how that is buried pretty deep in their web site - punching in key
>> >words turns up absolutely nothing related to the orignal article or
>> >above policy letter.
>> >
>> >Here's my take on it: The APA realized that the public isn't yet ready
>> >for the next step in the gay agenda, and because Congress and other
>> >notables were raising such a stink, future gov't funding for studies by
>> >those publishing in the APA journal were at risk. So they are now
>> >saying that they don't buy into the "science" that proves that sexual
>> >child abuse does no harm. Hmmm - quite a dilemma for them: Admit that
>> >what they publish isn't always true science, or prove themselves guilty
>> >of Marc's accusation of rejecting scientific proof of something when you
>> >disagree with the results. The APA has obviously in this case chosen
>> >the latter. I would say that their credibility has suffered a bit over
>> >this.
>
>> You sure are a bitter person.
>
>Not sure why you say that, other than as a diversion.
>
>> They didn't hide the study.
>
>Pretend you don't know where that letter is, and try to find it on their
>web site. Go ahead - punch in some key words and see if it comes up.
>Try to find that study using key words. You can't. But they make their
>gay legislative activism pages really easy to find.
>
>> They let
>> everyone see it.
>
>Go ahead - try to find it drilling down from their home page. Key words
>in their site's search engine won't turn it up. I wonder why?
>
>> The APA doesn't rule on what is published.
>
>Supposedly what they publish is peer-reviewed science, and therefore,
>according to Lloyd, as science, is indisputable.
>
>I am simply countering Lloyd's continuing assertion that anything that
>the APA publishes is based on science, and since, in his mind, once
>something that is declared as "science" (as long as the "science" agrees
>with liberal causes) can't be disputed, that I can't question what comes
>out of the APA
If you think I claimed that, then you are dumber than I thought.
>(APA publishes it; it is scientific; therefore it is
>indisputable; therefore I must be wrong to question it). This study was
>published by the APA. It was peer-reviewed and published as
>scientifically based. Then you indicate that it would be wrong to
>disagree with a "scientific" study just because the results disagree
>with the results one would like to have obtained. Yet, when you read
>the retraction letter of the APA, it is very clear that they are
>denouncing the study with absolutely no scientific basis for denouncing
>it - only that they can't support its conclusions, and they took legal
>measures to ensure that that study can never be used in court to cause a
>ruling in favor of an adult having sex with a minor.
>
>My main point is that just because something is labelled science does
>not make it correct or indisputable (and of course everyone - including
>me, including you - says they agree with that. But Lloyd likes to put
>the "science" label on everything that he agrees with so that he can
>claim that it is therefore indisputable.
Looking at all the studies, all the data, the APA has officially made a
determination about homosexuality, as the AMA might about SARS. Sorry if this
interferes with your campaign to gas homosexuals.
>
>> They don't
>> even have to believe it. You seem to think that their credibility is
>> linked to the results of studies. I guess if Car and Driver finds that a
>> Viper is slower than a Corvette in a fair and valid comparison, they
>> shouldn't publish it because it is contrary to what people expect? If they
>> do publish it, would they loose credibility if it was later discovered that
>> there was an undetectable problem with the Viper?
>
>If the "problem" was that the Viper was not actually faster, then yes -
>how would they explain that they "proved" it was faster on the track
>when it wasn't without losing credibility? I think you're proving my
>point with the example.
>
>The study in question used bad science (the way they grouped the
>subjects). So maybe there was some attempted sleight-of-hand - yet it
>was peer reviewed, so why wasn't it caught (maybe because the reviewers
>were willing to fudge on the science if the results were as desired?).
>
>> I guess you'd prefer they do the former and hide anything they don't like.
>
>By the former - meaning state that what they publish isn't true
>science? (as far as hiding anything they don't like - I don't konw -
>maybe they do that, but I didn't list that as an option) Hey - it's not
>my dilemma to resolve - I didn't create it. You were the one that said
>that it would be wrong to discard "science" if the science disagreeed
>with your desired results - yet that's what they did. I'm just the
>messenger - you make the call - you tell me which way you want it -
>doesn't matter to me.
>
>> Is that the Conservative way?
>>
>> >Perhaps they will test the waters again in 5 or 10 years on the subject
>> >to see if the American public is ready for the "next step". I'm sure
>> >their colleagues at the NAMBLA (North American Man-Boy Love Association
>> >- I didn't make that up - there is such an organization) will send them
>> >the right signals when they think they've adequately paved the way for
>> >their advocacy "science" and legislative pushes.
>> >
>> >Oh - and Lloyd - the "research" and published article were done by
>> >people in the Psych department of Temple U.
>>
>> I read it. It seems that the focus was on the lasting effects. That is,
>> can people who have been molested recover to live normal lives. The answer
>> was yes (according to the study, which I haven't studied).
>
>So a "scientific" study shows that there's no real harm to those lives.
>Sorry - I disagree, and I don't need a study to tell me that. APA's
>peer-reviewed "scientific" studies have no credibility with me.
>"Science" can be faked - I've seen it done.
>
>> You take that
>> "yes" and use it as an excuse to claim that molestation isn't bad.
>
>And the APA seems to think they have to denounce it for that very
>reason. Are they saying that the study was not good science? If so,
>what does that say for their peer review process. It certainly proves
>the point that just because something is claimed to be scientific
>doesn't mean that it is. Again - that's where Lloyd's problem is: If
>you want to win an argument, then claim that science agrees with your
>position, so therefore you proved your position. Example: Every other
>year, a "scientific" medical study comes out "proving" that margerine is
>less harmful for you than butter. Then two years later one will come
>out saying butter is less harmful. Then another study in favor of
>margerine, and so on ad infinitum. If Lloyd is in favor of margerine
>(or butter, take your pick), he will reference all the scientific
>studies "proving" that margerine (or butter) is better, and that all the
>other studies were, by definition, invalid because we all know only
>right-wing conservative groups would come out with a study showing that
>butter (or margerine) is better.
>
>I don't reject science - I just don't accept something as true science
>because someone says it is science or that it has the seal of approval
>of the AMA or the APA or whatever on it.
>
>> That
>> isn't what was studied, according to the link you posted. That isn't what
>> was found, according to the link you posted.
>
>Again, why does the APA denounce the study after-the-fact couching their
>objections in terms of adult/child sex and its effects and acceptance?
>It doesn't fit with your assertion that we let the "science" speak for
>itself and can't push the science aside for what we know to be wrong.
>
>> It is really easy to debunk the stances you fabricate.
>
>Except that there are definite agendas for this stuff, and you can bet
>there are people in it who are intertwined with the APA and other
>"credible" groups just waiting for the time to be right for these next
>"logical" steps in our legal system - we just aren't quite there yet.
>Seems I've been hearing rumors of moves afoot to lower the age of
>consent to something like 11 years old or something?. Someone has to be
>"pushing" that kind of stuff for it even to be considered - it might be
>interesting to find out who.
>
>Bill Putney
>(to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
>address with "x")
>
>
>-----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =-----
>http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World!
>-----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =-----
>Marc wrote:
>>
>> Bill Putney <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >Marc wrote:
>>
>> >Well, you may want to take a look at this:
>>
>http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug99/as4.html?CFID=2115329&CFTOKEN=75269690.
>> >
>> >Funny how that is buried pretty deep in their web site - punching in key
>> >words turns up absolutely nothing related to the orignal article or
>> >above policy letter.
>> >
>> >Here's my take on it: The APA realized that the public isn't yet ready
>> >for the next step in the gay agenda, and because Congress and other
>> >notables were raising such a stink, future gov't funding for studies by
>> >those publishing in the APA journal were at risk. So they are now
>> >saying that they don't buy into the "science" that proves that sexual
>> >child abuse does no harm. Hmmm - quite a dilemma for them: Admit that
>> >what they publish isn't always true science, or prove themselves guilty
>> >of Marc's accusation of rejecting scientific proof of something when you
>> >disagree with the results. The APA has obviously in this case chosen
>> >the latter. I would say that their credibility has suffered a bit over
>> >this.
>
>> You sure are a bitter person.
>
>Not sure why you say that, other than as a diversion.
>
>> They didn't hide the study.
>
>Pretend you don't know where that letter is, and try to find it on their
>web site. Go ahead - punch in some key words and see if it comes up.
>Try to find that study using key words. You can't. But they make their
>gay legislative activism pages really easy to find.
>
>> They let
>> everyone see it.
>
>Go ahead - try to find it drilling down from their home page. Key words
>in their site's search engine won't turn it up. I wonder why?
>
>> The APA doesn't rule on what is published.
>
>Supposedly what they publish is peer-reviewed science, and therefore,
>according to Lloyd, as science, is indisputable.
>
>I am simply countering Lloyd's continuing assertion that anything that
>the APA publishes is based on science, and since, in his mind, once
>something that is declared as "science" (as long as the "science" agrees
>with liberal causes) can't be disputed, that I can't question what comes
>out of the APA
If you think I claimed that, then you are dumber than I thought.
>(APA publishes it; it is scientific; therefore it is
>indisputable; therefore I must be wrong to question it). This study was
>published by the APA. It was peer-reviewed and published as
>scientifically based. Then you indicate that it would be wrong to
>disagree with a "scientific" study just because the results disagree
>with the results one would like to have obtained. Yet, when you read
>the retraction letter of the APA, it is very clear that they are
>denouncing the study with absolutely no scientific basis for denouncing
>it - only that they can't support its conclusions, and they took legal
>measures to ensure that that study can never be used in court to cause a
>ruling in favor of an adult having sex with a minor.
>
>My main point is that just because something is labelled science does
>not make it correct or indisputable (and of course everyone - including
>me, including you - says they agree with that. But Lloyd likes to put
>the "science" label on everything that he agrees with so that he can
>claim that it is therefore indisputable.
Looking at all the studies, all the data, the APA has officially made a
determination about homosexuality, as the AMA might about SARS. Sorry if this
interferes with your campaign to gas homosexuals.
>
>> They don't
>> even have to believe it. You seem to think that their credibility is
>> linked to the results of studies. I guess if Car and Driver finds that a
>> Viper is slower than a Corvette in a fair and valid comparison, they
>> shouldn't publish it because it is contrary to what people expect? If they
>> do publish it, would they loose credibility if it was later discovered that
>> there was an undetectable problem with the Viper?
>
>If the "problem" was that the Viper was not actually faster, then yes -
>how would they explain that they "proved" it was faster on the track
>when it wasn't without losing credibility? I think you're proving my
>point with the example.
>
>The study in question used bad science (the way they grouped the
>subjects). So maybe there was some attempted sleight-of-hand - yet it
>was peer reviewed, so why wasn't it caught (maybe because the reviewers
>were willing to fudge on the science if the results were as desired?).
>
>> I guess you'd prefer they do the former and hide anything they don't like.
>
>By the former - meaning state that what they publish isn't true
>science? (as far as hiding anything they don't like - I don't konw -
>maybe they do that, but I didn't list that as an option) Hey - it's not
>my dilemma to resolve - I didn't create it. You were the one that said
>that it would be wrong to discard "science" if the science disagreeed
>with your desired results - yet that's what they did. I'm just the
>messenger - you make the call - you tell me which way you want it -
>doesn't matter to me.
>
>> Is that the Conservative way?
>>
>> >Perhaps they will test the waters again in 5 or 10 years on the subject
>> >to see if the American public is ready for the "next step". I'm sure
>> >their colleagues at the NAMBLA (North American Man-Boy Love Association
>> >- I didn't make that up - there is such an organization) will send them
>> >the right signals when they think they've adequately paved the way for
>> >their advocacy "science" and legislative pushes.
>> >
>> >Oh - and Lloyd - the "research" and published article were done by
>> >people in the Psych department of Temple U.
>>
>> I read it. It seems that the focus was on the lasting effects. That is,
>> can people who have been molested recover to live normal lives. The answer
>> was yes (according to the study, which I haven't studied).
>
>So a "scientific" study shows that there's no real harm to those lives.
>Sorry - I disagree, and I don't need a study to tell me that. APA's
>peer-reviewed "scientific" studies have no credibility with me.
>"Science" can be faked - I've seen it done.
>
>> You take that
>> "yes" and use it as an excuse to claim that molestation isn't bad.
>
>And the APA seems to think they have to denounce it for that very
>reason. Are they saying that the study was not good science? If so,
>what does that say for their peer review process. It certainly proves
>the point that just because something is claimed to be scientific
>doesn't mean that it is. Again - that's where Lloyd's problem is: If
>you want to win an argument, then claim that science agrees with your
>position, so therefore you proved your position. Example: Every other
>year, a "scientific" medical study comes out "proving" that margerine is
>less harmful for you than butter. Then two years later one will come
>out saying butter is less harmful. Then another study in favor of
>margerine, and so on ad infinitum. If Lloyd is in favor of margerine
>(or butter, take your pick), he will reference all the scientific
>studies "proving" that margerine (or butter) is better, and that all the
>other studies were, by definition, invalid because we all know only
>right-wing conservative groups would come out with a study showing that
>butter (or margerine) is better.
>
>I don't reject science - I just don't accept something as true science
>because someone says it is science or that it has the seal of approval
>of the AMA or the APA or whatever on it.
>
>> That
>> isn't what was studied, according to the link you posted. That isn't what
>> was found, according to the link you posted.
>
>Again, why does the APA denounce the study after-the-fact couching their
>objections in terms of adult/child sex and its effects and acceptance?
>It doesn't fit with your assertion that we let the "science" speak for
>itself and can't push the science aside for what we know to be wrong.
>
>> It is really easy to debunk the stances you fabricate.
>
>Except that there are definite agendas for this stuff, and you can bet
>there are people in it who are intertwined with the APA and other
>"credible" groups just waiting for the time to be right for these next
>"logical" steps in our legal system - we just aren't quite there yet.
>Seems I've been hearing rumors of moves afoot to lower the age of
>consent to something like 11 years old or something?. Someone has to be
>"pushing" that kind of stuff for it even to be considered - it might be
>interesting to find out who.
>
>Bill Putney
>(to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
>address with "x")
>
>
>-----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =-----
>http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World!
>-----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =-----