[lbo-talk] Diet Pills = Gay Babies

Eugene Vilensky evilensky at gmail.com
Fri Dec 10 15:27:01 PST 2004


Makes me think of Wal Mart and pop tarts. Clearly Walmart causes hurricanes.

http://www.google.com/search?q=walmart%20pop%20tarts&sourceid=mozilla2&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8


> This is wild extrapolation from correlational data! Just as a correlation
> between ice cream consumption and violent crime on a given day is
> ludricious evidence that ice cream causes violent crime, a correlation
> between drug use during pregnancy and sexual orientation of offspring
> is ludricious evidence for the claim that "sexuality is determined in
> the womb".
>
> The question the researchers here are dodging: what other social,
> psychological, and cultural factors distinguish the drug moms
> from the nondrug moms? Any of hundreds of confounds could be
> the true cause of the observed correlations here. Sloppy, sloppy--
>
> Miles
>
>
>
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-- Eugene Vilensky evilensky at gmail.com



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