Seems I accidently included punctuation marks in some of the urls causing them to not function when clicked. I've double checked them via this forum's preview feature & they all work. Thanks for the tip off. Enjoy.
Url corrections:
The web site you mentioned, The Body, has, in its content, info from the Center for Disease Control at http://www.thebody.com/bp/mar00/news.html the following information regarding transmission of HIV via oral sex:
“...This study, one component of a primary and recent HIV infection study called the Options Project, is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the University of California, San Francisco. The purpose of this particular study was to ascertain the extent of HIV
transmitted by oral sex among men who have sex with men who were identified with HIV within 12 months of becoming infected...The Options Project found that 7.8% (8 of 102) of recently infected men who have sex with men in San Francisco were probably infected through oral
sex...”
Again, note my specific identification of the web site,
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/oralsexqa.htm from my previous post, reproduces vebatim the information cited above from The Body:
“...The Options Project found that 7.8% (8 of 102) of recently infected men who have sex with men in San Francisco were probably infected through oral sex...”
Now, if you have any info contradicting mine, post the exact web page location so it can be verified.
Ainea wrote: “...As to homosexuality being genetic, no ethical molecular geneticist has ever stated that homosexuality has a genetic cause...”
Response: I suggest you contact the scientists enumerated (1) - (3) below & ask them if they consider themselves ethical. Perhaps, you may want to research their credentials & standing in the scientific community which I doubt will be notoriously discredited as those of the darling of
the ex-gay ministry big business Paul Cameron a self-loathing, homophobic ex-gay who garlanded for himself the following “laurels” from the scientific & judicial communities & in whose footsteps you seem to be walking.
The link with all the professional scientific & judicial repudiations of self-loathing ex-gay homophobe Paul Cameron works fine as is. I suggest you read up on him & the homophobic organizations who funded him.
The correct url for data on the gay gene is http://members.aol.com/gaygene/pages/studies.htm
Contact: Dr. Michael Schroeder and Dr. Ariel Shidlo at 1.800.592.9815 or 212.886.3770. E-mail us at therastudy@aol.com. Unfortunately, the url, even linked at gaygene.pages doesn't work. But their email is fine as posted.
BTW, yes, I am familiar with the report by Dr. Spitz, however, are you aware of the following analysis of Dr. Spitz’ report? If not check out the following link.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_spit.htm
“...He (Dr. Spitzer) continued: "There is only anecdotal evidence, mostly from the therapists themselves, claiming that what they do (reparative therapy for homosexuality) works. That’s not very scientific. On the other hand, there’s no scientific evidence to show that this is impossible...It hasn’t been studied...
..."Spitzer admits that he had 'great difficulty' finding people who claimed to have changed their orientation from gay to straight. Ex-gay groups regularly claim to know of 'thousands' of people who have 'changed' or 'left homosexuality.' But after searching for nearly a year and a half,
Spitzer could only find 274 possibilities...
...Of the 200 subjects, 86 had been referred to Dr. Spitzer by conservative Christian groups specializing in converting homosexuals. NARTH referred 46 subjects. Some other sources provided 68. It is apparent that the individuals that Dr. Spitzer interviewed were hand-selected from a very large group of persons who had either a homosexual or a bisexual orientation. Those who had been unable to change their
sexual behavior would not have become subjects in the study.
There are more than 1,000 professional therapists who belong to NARTH. Assume that the average member has treated 50 clients a year for the past five years. That means that there are over 250,000 clients from which NARTH could select subjects for this study. Assuming that
reparative therapy had a "cure" rate of 0.02% then NARTH would have been able to provide the approximately 50 "successful" clients to this study. But a cure rate of 0.02% can be expressed as a failure rate of 99.98% -- not a promising form of therapy! If one considers the anecdotal
accounts of gays and lesbians who have committed suicide after failed reparative therapy, then it becomes even less attractive.
Family Research Council, a Fundamentalist Christian group, simply reported that: "Dr Robert Spitzer's study of 200 former homosexuals found that change is possible...
[He] found that 66 percent of the men and 44 percent of the women had achieved 'good heterosexual functioning.' The vast majority of the study participants reported that they were bothered only slightly, or not at all, by unwanted homosexual feelings." The implication is that the subjects were chosen at random from among homosexuals who had gone through therapy, and that most homosexuals can change their orientation. This is deceptive reporting..."
Goodness, what a shock! Not. 8)
Nothing more with the witness. You may step down.
Court adjourned until further notice. Good night.