PART 3. THE MOJO OF HOMO NO MO'
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| 'Doctor Ex-Gay' Joe Nicolosi, NARTHoleptic |
You take it. Over my head.
Listeners were bombarded with pseudoscience mumbo jumbo about why people end up with same-sex attractions in the first place. They kept quoting a Dr. Joseph Nicolosi as "the world's leading authority on homosexuality" and his organization, NARTH, the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, as where to find the "science" that backs them up. One might imagine a better acronym for the alleged fount of all knowledge.
Yeah, NARTH conjures images of Death Star, Darth Vader and Dick Cheney.
I know junk science when I hear it. My fear is that vulnerable kids – and their parents – might not.
I did a search of all the journals indexed by the National Library of Medicine. As of November, 2010, a total of zero, zip, nada studies turned up in the mainstream peer-reviewed scientific literature for "Nicolosi AND homosexuality" or permutations of "NARTH." Only three studies and one review popped up under any combination of those terms. They were published in what most scientists would consider a vanity journal.
What's that?
A magazine that prints almost anything for a fee.
Since Kinsey, Pomeroy and Martin published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948, the National Library of Medicine has tracked 18,701 studies under its search term "homosexuality," 18,701 versus NARTH's max of four. I can't, however, vouch for each study.
But the diagnosis is clear: A tragic case of NARTHolepsy.
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