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Originally Posted by Kulturkampf
The way that the PC brigade attains power is by making opposing beliefs immoral, and thus not publishing studies done by scientists with results that do not match their own.
They have a monopoly on the truth after a while, because they are the only ones allowed to report it.
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Except for the part where the tragically unpublished studies aren't fit for fuckin mad magazine...
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In 1997, former Secretary of Education, Book of Virtues author and gambling enthusiast William Bennett cited Cameron's obituary study in a Weekly Standard column titled, "Clinton, Gays, and the Truth." Later that year on the ABC news program "This Week," Bennett said, "The best available research suggests that the average life span of male homosexuals is around 43 years of age. Forty three."
After Bennett took Cameron's life expectancy figure for gays to a mainstream audience, the online magazine Slate published a devastating critique of Cameron's work by Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute. The average age at death for AIDS victims, the magazine noted, was about 40. For Cameron's figure of 43 years old to be true, Slate pointed out, gay people who never contract AIDS could have a life expectancy of no more than 46 years -- a truly absurd proposition -- even assuming that half the gay population will eventually contract AIDS.
"Looked at another way," Slate reported, "if even half the gay male population stays HIV-negative and lives to an average age of 75, an average overall life span of 43 implies that gay males with AIDS die at an implausibly early age (11, actually)."
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...and the researcher's work shows up in the mouths of folks linked to the republican political machine and mainstream religious clergy you'd be totally right!
I haven't read a single thing that indicates that this guy is anything but a handsomely paid political truth-maker. Shit, he's so widely cited he doesn't even have to publish in respected journals for his shit to be heard by millions of Americans. Fuck no he's no underdog. In fact he's probably on par with the shittiest intolerant left wing academics. Why the fuck should I have to choose between supporting a braindead trustafarian with a che t shirt and a suit and tie paid liar?