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Forget The Research; Our Minds Are Made Up

Sword of Light Wrote: Jun 20, 2012 1:28 PM
This reminds me of a blurb that I happened to see in WebMD magazine a month or so ago. It said that working moms needn't worry about their children, because a study found that children of working moms actually fare better than children of moms who stay at home. The study was clearly garbage, yet WebMD took its results for granted. So I reserve the right to ignore studies that clearly contradict what common sense tells me. On the other hand, if a study tells me that harm will come to people if I do something, and then I still do it a la Obama, then there may be a problem with my belief system.
Dancing Bear Wrote: Jun 20, 2012 6:12 PM
P-L-E-A-S-E! I hold multiple doctorates and learned with each passing professor that most of the work spewing from the bowels of academia is worth perhaps as much as the paper it is printed on. Self important fools, often not especially bright, perpetuate their little kingdoms on the taxpayer's dime. So reserve that right to be skeptical for a long, long, time because while our current system of higher education ripoff artistry is in place you will need it.
Do kids raised by same-sex couples turn out as well as those raised by parents of the opposite sex? In recent years, the accepted answer among social scientists has been that there is no difference: Families headed by a mother and father are no better at child-rearing than those headed by two mothers or two fathers. "Not a single study," the American Psychological Association categorically declared in a 2005 brief, "has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents."

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