Comments on: Journal of Biosocial Science Ignores Contributors

By: Damn Straight » Blog Archive » Anthropology News helps researchers hold JBS accountable

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:43:07 +0000

[...] Enter Professors Raymond Hames and Edward H. Hagen. They maintain that their reputations and the research they published in JBS in 2001 is in jeopardy by being associated with a journal that legitimizes the work of Cameron. They wrote the journal about their concerns, but like me, they received no response. [...]

By: MOMIITAGO

MOMIITAGO — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:56:16 +0000

You don’t really need or want that lifestyle, it might hurt y’all slowly more…….Just tell him you don’t wanna repeat something your not too proud of.

By: Box Turtle Bulletin » Blog Archive » Paul Cameron on The Daily Show

Box Turtle Bulletin » Blog Archive » Paul Cameron on The Daily Show — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:06:48 +0000

[...] I just can’t understand how anybody can take Paul Cameron seriously. I’m talking to you, JBS! Where is that retraction? [...]

By: Drive by Truth

Drive by Truth — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:22:58 +0000

Judge Buchmeyer lied and distorted, not Cameron. That quote from the opinion was an absolute fabrication from Cameron’s affidavit. Cameron was actually attacking a pro-gay expert for relying on the Kinsey studies — not relying upon the report himself.

Buchmeyer is a notorious leftist judicial activist that should have been impeached for what he did in Wade. As it was, the opinion was overturned by the Fifth Circuit on appeal. Guess Cameron got the last laugh on that one.

http://www.familyresearchinst.org/FRR_04_09.html

By: SteveS

SteveS — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:00:50 +0000

I’m so grateful to you, Abigail, for not letting this go.

Paul Cameron is an abuser of science, and he does so with the knowledge that families and children are harmed by his lies. If he can be discredited (even more) with this article, then he can continue to be discredited elsewhere. We can expose the harmful lies. Thank you so much for not letting this go.

By: Jim Burroway

Jim Burroway — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:09:36 +0000

This is wonderful news. I hope it eboldens other social scientists to speak out when science is abused in the service of bigotry.

By: Tobi

Tobi — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:42:43 +0000

Great letter. It’s exciting to see movement like this going on.

There is one thing, however, that concerns me. I was taken aback by the AAP study cited, in the discussion of queerspawn gender identity, I was expecting the usual “No different distribution than those with straight parents” or the “no more likely to be trans than those with straight parents,” which is exactly how they mention sexual orientation in the same paragraph.

I find it rather disturbing that were unable to find any gender-non-normative behavior in a sample of over 500 and leads me to wonder if they knew what to look like. It’s even more unsettling that the fact that there were no trans or gender variant people in their sample is being presented as evidence for why LGBT folk make just as good parents as straight folk.

The language quoted also mimicks the pathologizing language used in the DSM-IV. It’s presented as a concern of children who are confused about their gender, and not an issue of trans or gender variant behavior and identification. I know a few other trans and gender variant queerspawn. And it’s disconcerting at the least to see this population represented in this manner, along with the implication that we do not exist. It’s a very different way than how sexual orientation is handled.