I'm surprised that a publication as well known as The Times could be so reckless and irresponsible
Thanks to Jim Newman for the heads-up and the links to the truth behind the gay sheep story.
From Empty Pockets at Daily Kos, who breaks it all down:
A wolf in gay sheep's clothing: Corruption at the London Times
This week the Sunday Times of London published a pack of lies so transparent, so thoroughly discredited, that its appearance can't be chalked up to mere journalistic sloppiness.
Rather, the timing of the piece, its willful disregard of the truth, and the behavior of the journalists themselves indicate a deliberate political hit job purposefully dressed up in the garb of one of the most internationally respected newspapers.
The Times repeats and amplifies lies made by PETA in August claiming that Dr. Charles Roselli is experimenting on gay sheep to try to cure homosexuality -- total nonsense, but PETA saw that by targeting Roselli's work they could exploit the gay rights community and promote their anti-research agenda.
At the time, I spoke out against PETA and talked with many bloggers who had been duped to set the record straight -- the story then died down, until it re-emerged, almost unchanged, in the Sunday Times last weekend. The question is, who's pulling the gay sheep fleece this time? And why?
Everybody is up in arms about the dishonesty of it all, but not one word on how ridiculous it was to be hoodwinked about a report involving homosexual animals in the first place.
Last time I'm going to say it(and then I am SO done with this story):
An animal cannot be homo (human) sexual. It can't even be gay. So stop it!
Read on
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I figured when I heard it on the Rush Limbaugh show after I saw it on your blog that there had to be something wrong with it. Since it struck me right off, how did they know that the sheep were gay and how did they know what would "cure" them of it? It does sound like something that PETA would try, but I'm still not sure what they wanted to gain by it. Maybe they had to get their Daily dose of attention I suppose.
I also heard about the breast cancer study on Rush's show, and no where in it did it mention the rates of smoking among the women, either while they did the house work or did the leisure activities. The rates in Europe especially Germany and France are much higher and you would think that they wouldn't have as much time to smoke while doing house work than when they were relaxing eh? I wonder how much that figured into the equation that they left out?
Oh, but the story was so funny (and since I joked about it in my blog, I'll now have to publish an apology).
lol sorry 'bout that Sage. It was a lot funnier when I thought it was true.
Apparently PETA did it to bring attention to animal research. I guess negative attention is better than no attention at all.
OSU and OHSU’s Big Embarrassment
Thank you for covering this important issue. Jim Newman―the PR rep for Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU)―disregards criticism of the unscientific and unethical gay sheep experiments because of nothing more substantial than the fact that it was PETA who brought it to light. PETA sent a detailed seven-page letter to OHSU’s counterpart, Oregon State University, with critiques authored by scientific experts and a prominent sexuality research society. Both universities have failed to address the key points that were raised in the letter.
OSU and OHSU certainly wish that PETA had never spoken out so that the experimenters could quietly continue their “research,” which embodies the needless slaughter of animals, an affront to human dignity, and a colossal waste of precious taxpayer funds.
To read PETA’s letter to OSU in its entirety, you can visit:
http://www.stopanimaltests.com/pdfs/LetterToOregonStateUniversitySeptember202006.pdf.
Also, the experiments have stated that this experiment is being done primarily for economic reasons (e.g., gay sheep don’t breed which leads to decreased profits for sheep farmers; so, if the experimenters can make the sheep heterosexual, then the animals will breed and theoretically generate more profits for the farmers).
However, not even sheep farmers are buying this logic. Andrew Fox (a major sheep farmer who is on the board of Meat & Wool New Zealand) and Dr. Graham Barrell BSc DipSc PhD, (an Associate Professor in Animal Physiology at New Zealand’s Lincoln University) were quoted in the article below:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/3919632a10.html
Gay rams get ewe turn on hormones
By IAN STEWARD - The Press | Saturday, 6 January 2007
An international outcry has greeted the news that an American university is trying to “cure” gay sheep of their homosexuality.
Researchers at Ohio State University found that 8 per cent of rams are gay and another 8 per cent are sexually ambivalent – showing no interest in ewes or rams. After hormone treatment, some of the gay sheep began showing interest in ewes, The Sunday Times newspaper in Britain reported.
The research has angered gay-rights activists around the world, with lesbian tennis star Martina Navratilova calling for the “homophobic and cruel” study to be abandoned.
The researchers found that gay sheep had a smaller bundle of neurons in an area of their hypothalamus, a part of the brain known to control sexuality, than heterosexual sheep.
The discovery was evidence towards homosexuality having a biological basis, said the research group’s leader, Charles Roselli.
New Zealand gay rights activist Bill Logan said the study was “a false problem. It’s not about feeding starving millions. It’s about making an ideological point.”
Scargill sheep farmer Andy Fox said the study probably was not for sheep industry benefit. “You’ve got to be a bit suspicious of why they’re doing this. They’ve got a very small sheep industry – about five million sheep for the whole country. I judge rams on their performance. What they do recreation-wise in their own time is up to them.”
Dr Graham Barrell, from Lincoln University, said gay rams were “not perceived as a serious problem”.
I love the last two statements:
What rams do on their own time is their own business, and gay rams were “not perceived as a serious problem”.
What a hoot!
I guess it's a farm version of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy...
Markos Moulitsas (DailyKos) Opposed Gays in the Military
In the run-up to the YearlyKos annual gathering at which the Democratic candidates will be speaking, they're having a furious debate at DailyKos over a 1993 essay in which Markos Moulitsas said, "the demands and pressures of military life are incompatible with allowing integration with homosexuals."
I wonder how "progressive" Markos Moulitsas is going to explain this 1993 essay?
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