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Re: BBC News Article.... Womb environment 'makes men gay'
« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2006, 10:27:45 pm »

Wow!!

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Re: BBC News Article.... Womb environment 'makes men gay'
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2006, 10:35:35 pm »
You know, I was thinking tonight as I was taking the dog for a walk. Was Jack perhaps adopted? That would explain why "Ennis couldn't see much of Jack in either one of them," as it says in the story.  Also, it would explain (not excuse) why his father was so cruel. If Jack was adopted, maybe he did have an older brother somewhere.
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Re: BBC News Article.... Womb environment 'makes men gay'
« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2006, 09:30:10 am »
My only fear is that Scientist want to learn what makes a person Gay so they can prevent it from hapening in the future!

Imagine if there was a simple test to see how your child would be born?    Everything from physical Birth defects to things like mental disorders.    They could give the parents the option of not keeping the child.   "oh and we discovered your son is going to be a flaming queen of a hairdresser, would you like that Sir?"   

Can you imagine how BORING this planet would be without Gay men and women?

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Re: BBC News Article.... Womb environment 'makes men gay'
« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2006, 10:18:39 am »
Yep, Celeste really speaks to my initial reaction to the article.

Let me also point out that, any one studying Statisitcs 101 can tell you, correlation don't not mean proof. Just because their is more a correlation between homosexuality in biological brothers might rule out one social factor, it doesn't mean that it prooves the biological factor. There are too many exception. Gattaca himself is one, an older brother who gay. I've also met quite a few identical twins who are one gay one straight. If sexuality is biologically and genetically determined, that should be impossible. I take this article with a grain of salt, and wait to see how the study is reproduced and challenged.
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Re: BBC News Article.... Womb environment 'makes men gay'
« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2006, 05:17:22 pm »
Can you imagine how BORING this planet would be without Gay men and women Brokeback mountain?


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Re: BBC News Article.... Womb environment 'makes men gay'
« Reply #15 on: July 04, 2006, 05:41:40 pm »

Let me also point out that, any one studying Statisitcs 101 can tell you, correlation don't not mean proof.


Absolutely!  There is a huge difference between correlation and causation.  This sort of statistical compilation tells us nothing essentially.  Maybe all it tells us is that the more siblings/offspring exist in a family, the more likey it is that at least one will be gay.  And maybe that's just reflective of populatin statistics - that in any larger given group there will be more diversity.

It's not hard to make numbers mean anything, and even less difficult to simiply present them without understanding what they mean at all.  How many siblings do you have to have, and of what gender, to make you straight?
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Re: BBC News Article.... Womb environment 'makes men gay'
« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2007, 03:15:38 am »
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Re: BBC News Article.... Womb environment 'makes men gay'
« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2007, 08:14:05 am »
my goodness! I had foirgotten I had even posted this!! Somebody has been busy digging this morning Lynne!
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Re: BBC News Article.... Womb environment 'makes men gay'
« Reply #18 on: January 04, 2007, 10:26:26 am »
my goodness! I had foirgotten I had even posted this!! Somebody has been busy digging this morning Lynne!

Yes, I went searching for it specifically, Kelda, because one of our members had heard this/a similar theory and had some questions.  I'm hoping that some of our members who work in health care/bio-sciences will weigh in with their thoughts.
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Re: BBC News Article.... Womb environment 'makes men gay'
« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2007, 11:02:19 pm »
I wonder what the "womb environment" does to/about gay girls?  I love how that issue is completely ignored in the study (apparently).  I'd be curious as a gay girl myself.  I loathe and detest studies like this.  I wonder if they're planning on doing a study about what makes straight men straight (I'm sure they'd leave straight girls out of that one too)?
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