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To: combjelly who wrote (884623)	9/2/2015 9:43:21 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578267

EVEN if you could say none of the straight population had the condition it would NOT form a basis I for concluding the condition causes homosexuality. But the didn't. They had 818 people who had this characteristic and said, "The only shared genetic characteritistic was they were gay." Really? How could you possibly conclude that? How could anyone say that about anyone? You couldn't. Importantly, there was no reference in the posted article to any scientific control group. Thus, there was no comparison to ant norm. And the researchers as much as admitted it: "Still, the researchers stress that regardless of genetic preference, genes are but a factor in the greater picture, taking into account that social and cultural pressures can still effect an individual's sexual lifestyle, no matter how they were born." This blog, livescience, was working overtime, and of course the article was picked up by other liberal pseudo science sites. But the is no proof, and little evidence, however remote, to suggest any such link. You comment, in particular, lacks any fundamental understanding of statistical methods and what can and can't be done. I almost felt as though I were reading a post by Michael Mann.