Below is a round-up of blogs that have posted about Box Turtle Bulletin’s article on Paul Cameron or about the recent publication of the article “Children of Homosexuals and Transsexuals More Apt to be Homosexual” published in the May 2006 edition of the Journal of Biosocial Science.

Among the posts:

On Pam’s House Blend: Anti-gay bogus scientist touting latest published ‘research’
It’s also worth reading the comments attached to this post.

On Demagogue: Publishing Pseudoscience
I posted a comment to explain how my book was included. As it turns out, Zoe (who wrote to post) had read my book so she added this update after she made the connection:

Update: As if to underscore the flimsiness of Cameron’s research, Author Abigail Garner has a blog post and a copy of the email she sent to the Journal of Biosocial Science regarding Cameron’s study. One would think the JBS would listen to her considering that Cameron cites her non-scientific book of interviews with the grown children of GLBT people– Families Like Mine : Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is — and uses it as one of the three “investigations” for his study! Of the 77 people in his study 50 of them are people that Garner– not Cameron– interviewed.

On Some Guys Are Normal: Box Turtle Bulletin Hits It Big
Referring to Jim Burroway’s site as “one of my favorite sources for gay and anti-gay research,” Brad writes:

[Burroway's article] will take some time to read, but it’s an amazing piece of work that completely destroys every assertion made in Cameron’s newest anti-gay propaganda. It’s pretty unbelievable how easily dissected this research really is. Especially since Jim admits up front that he is not a sociologist or any kind of social scientist.

On Dispatches From the Culture Wars, one commenter (Ian Gibson) doesn’t have the full picture when he asks, “Wait a minute. So you’re saying that the anecdotal approach is not a valid method of gathering evidence? Come on! If that were true, we’d have to throw out the huge majority of political commentary.. the implications of this are staggering.”

His question is understandable if he has not read Cameron’s article or Burroway’s analysis. The problem is not about questioning the value of anecdotal reporting practices. The problem is how Cameron has taken anecdotal information and repackaged it as if it were intended for statistical analysis. The inappropriate fit of my book for his purposes is clearly illustrated by the fact that I did not include the sexual orientation of numerous people I wrote about in my book. Had Families Like Mine set out to be an analysis of the kids’ own sexual orientations I would have obviously included that information in my book for every person.

One of the first bloggers to post was Cloyce at Cloyce’s Coffee Klatch who concluded his entry with a kind shout-out to my book:

[B]ecause of their negligence, these academics and (unwittingly) Cambridge University Press have allowed a charlatan like Paul Cameron to use the children of gays and lesbians as statistics for his bizarre obsession. The only good that can come out of this mistake is the publicity it might lend to Abigail Garner’s worthy book.

Thanks, Cloyce.

And thanks to all the other bloggers who are helping spread the truth about the lies:

Adamant Sun
Beverhausen Blog
Blogging Spokane
Bloodless Coup
Drowning in the Real
Ex-Gay Watch
Fair Wisconsin
Fisking Central
Gay Orbit
HomoMojo
The Kalamalka Rainbow
Pharyngula
TBogg
Transcending Gender

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