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Nicko wrote:

Thomas Eshuis wrote:Took him long enough

Mistakes can be hard to recognise, let alone admit publicly. Some people never do it.

He could have stuck to his guns and enjoyed a privileged position in the religious right until he died. Apparently he cares about the truth. Well done.

Dr. Spitzer's research was particularly harmful because he was the only non-socially conservative scientist to produce a study claiming some people could "pray away the gay."

Spitzer's 2001 study was a surprise and created a media firestorm because he had previously led the charge in 1972-73 to remove homosexuality from the list of mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association.


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