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Monday May 15, 2006
AP Issues Incomplete Correction on Lesbian Study
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by Hilary White
GROVE CITY, May 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Associated Press has issued a correction to their earlier coverage of a Swedish study, which they claimed lent credence to the theory that homosexuality is strictly a physical phenomenon and not a learned behavior.
LifeSiteNews.com reported last week that Dr. Ivanka Savic of the Stockholm Brain Institute, the lead researcher in the study, wrote to Dr. Warren Throckmorton that AP had misrepresented her work and had indulged in a conclusion not supported by her paper.
AP wrote, “…the findings add weight to the idea that homosexuality has a physical basis and is not learned behavior.”
Now the news agency has said their coverage “should also have included the conclusion that indicated differences in individual perceptions were not statistically significant.
Dr. Throckmorton, a Pittsburgh psychologist and researcher who helps clients overcome their homosexual tendencies, contacted Associated Press and requested a review of the coverage and supplied all his correspondence with Dr. Savic. He wrote on his weblog that the correction, while it did not go far enough was important because many people, including those in the homosexual press were using the AP story to bolster their justification for the “gay lifestyle.”
Throckmorton writes, “The study authors, lead by Ivanka Savic, have been clear all along that they do not know what the brain differences mean. No one knows how these differences would directly relate, if at all, to chosen sexual behavior.”
Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Swedish Study Author Confirms - Associated Press Misrepresents Report on Homosexuality
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/may/06051006.html
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