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LGBT News Smoking maybe cause gay babies, says neuroscientist

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by HermioneGaynger, Jan 20, 2014.

  1. Geek

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    Some of these claims people make are just ridiculous.. I'm starting my own theory on what causes people to be conservative.

    Crazy Right Wingers are abducted in the middle of the night when they are little kids. The kidnappers then put a little microchip in their brains that make them bigoted, uneducated, hypocrites for the rest of their lives.
     
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    Oh I'm glad that didn't happen to me. :confused:
     
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    So what? I don't see how it's that bad when someone brings up a possible cause for homosexuality.
     
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    It's bad because a) he has no proof, and b) as a result of that, it's nothing more than him projecting his existing social beliefs onto his scientific work, which c) invalidates it.

    Science is not an inherently ethical practice. It has been used to validate racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and all sorts of cultural beliefs. This is exactly how the hierarchy of race in the 19th century was created; by having an idea and creating "proof" based off the original cultural ideas that sparked the "research." This man has not analysed evidence and made a conclusion. He has made an assumption and will now proceed to fabricate evidence to agree with what he already believes.
     
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    Neither of my parents ever smoked in their lives, yet somehow I ended up inheriting the homosexuality birth defect. (And the implication Dr. Dick Swab (lol) seems to be making is that homosexuality is a birth defect).

    Also homosexuality rates should be much higher in Europe than in the United States if smoking leads to gay babies, since smoking rates are much higher there. Hell, Russia should be the gayest country on earth, never have I been to a place where smoking is such a universal practice as when I went to Russia. Russians act shocked when you tell them you don't smoke.
     
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    True story: Hitler's mother smoked when she was pregnant with him. He didn't turn out gay, just genocidal.
     
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    My mom did not smoke :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
     
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    Nothing will make all the redneck trailer trash pregnant women give up smoking faster than this!

    ---------- Post added 20th Jan 2014 at 07:26 PM ----------

    Yeah we've finally out a way to put the nefarious gay agenda into action. Force pregnant women to smoke 2 packs a day minimum.
     
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    I'm not talking about your typical right wing person. I'm talking about the Teabags and Ted Cruz's of the world.
     
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    No on smoked around me as a baby my dad wouldn't even let me go on an uncleaned floor and made people clean their floors . Then how am I a lesbian then ? because my mom said she and my dad would not let people smoke around me so how did this happen ?
     
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    My mom and dad have never smoked. Maybe if they did I would have been straight? :lol: :lol: :lol:
     
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    And we know THAT is exactly how the scientific method works. [/sarcasm]
     
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    Wtf?? :icon_eek:

    My mother have never smoked! Then how could I was born gynesexual and being a lover of hot chicks? (!!) :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
     
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    Even if it's somewhat possible that mothers who smoke more have more gay children, that proves nothing.

    Correlation is not the same as causation.

    Also, I think it's a load of bull.
     
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    My dad smokes, and my mom smoked up until a couple months before she got pregnant with me. Can it affect a fetus that hasn't been conceived yet?
     
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    Hmmm my mother never smoked, yet has two gay children :grin:
     
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    It's worth noting that the plural of anecdote is not data.

    Look, I agree with you all, it's bullshit. But the logic that I'm gay, my mother didn't smoke so hypothesis wrong is terrible logic.
     
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    There is one thing, and one thing only, that leads to gay babies: Sex. That is all...

    *drops mic*
     
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    Surprised nobody has pointed this out yet: Metro is a UK tabloid owned by the same company that owns The Daily Mail. From what I can read of the article Metro links (site requires subscription to read all of it), his study seemed to be mainly "The mother's lifestyle could affect her unborn child." Metro apparently saw him say one thing about nicotine and having a lesbian child and decided to spin it as "SMOKING CAUSES HOMOSEXUALITY!!". These tabloids do this all the time, so it's best to just ignore their articles.
     
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    I like it. The experiment is repeatable, unbiased, and has been producing relatively stable results since about the time of cave wall art.