Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 06:33:04 UT From: "Special Guests" <gerald at riverview.net> To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: NEW STUDY SHOWS GAYS DIE 20 YEARS EARLY/Interview Opportunity
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NEW STUDY SHOWS GAYS DIE 20 YEARS EARLY
COLORADO SPRINGS - Family Research Institute President Dr. Paul Cameron announced today that a new study shows that the life span of homosexuals is 20 years shorter than the norm. The study will appear in a 2005 issue of the refereed scientific journal Psychological Reports (Volume 96: pp. 693-697).
Speaking on behalf of his Colorado Springs think tank, Dr. Cameron said, "Indeed, gay obituaries suggest that engaging in homosexuality costs participants between 15 to 25 years of life, suggesting that homosexuality is more dangerous than smoking or obesity and that homosexuals generally do not reach old age."
"10,000 gay obituaries have been collected from homosexual publications. Are the obituaries listed in the gay press representative of gay deaths in general?" Cameron asks.
A new study that compared them with Centers for Disease Control data indicates they are.
The Washington Blade, a homosexual newspaper, has been the major gay paper used to track gay obituaries. So its obituaries for death due to AIDS were compared to AIDS deaths among males who had sex with males from the CDC for 1994 through 2000. Surprisingly, there was almost perfect correspondence. The effects of the new drug cocktails for AIDS were evident in both datasets. In 1994 the CDC put the average age of death by AIDS for gays at 39, the Blade at 40. By 2000, the CDC reported the median age of death at 43 and the Blade at 42. Similar correspondences were noted for the 25th and 75th percentiles of deaths.
The CDC reported that 9% of heterosexuals who died of AIDS were at least 65 years of age. But less than 4% of homosexuals and IV drug abusers who died of AIDS reached 65.
"These findings add substantial support to our previous findings," said Cameron, who headed the study. "While no one has all the facts on this issue, the CDC data is about as good as it gets. These data indicate that considerable progress in medically combating HIV is being made - it's even affecting deaths from other medical causes. Right now, the median age of death for gays in the obituaries is running near 60 - about tied with the median age of death for lesbians. Of course, the median age of death for adults is about 80 - so the 20 year hit for engaging in homosexuality that we reported 15 years ago continues to hold."
The new study "Gay obituaries closely track officially reported deaths from AIDS" can be read in the scientific journal, Psychological Reports (2005;96:693-697).
DR. PAUL CAMERON BIOGRAPHY:
Researcher/Clinician: Interests center in sexual social policy. Major concerns: 1) social and personal effects of various habit-systems (e.g., drug abuse, smoking, homosexuality) and 2) philosophic, economic, and sexual factors as they bear upon personal & collective health and cultural viability.
Education: BA 1961 Los Angeles Pacific College (social science); MA 1962 California State Univ. at Los Angeles (psychology/sociology); Ph.D. 1966 Univ. Colorado (social personality psychology).
Courses taught: Developmental, gerontology, marriage & family, human sexuality, counseling, personality, social, motivation, organizational, adolescence, philosophy of science.
Experience: 14 years of full-time teaching and administration in higher education (1966-1980). Posts included associate professorships at Wayne State Univ. (1967-8), Univ. Louisville (1970-73); Fuller Graduate School Psychology (1976-79); Univ. Nebraska (1979-80). Three years of full-time clinical work in NE (licensed 1981-1995, No. 10034; currently inactive status). 1982- chairman, Family Research Institute, Inc., POB 62640, Colorado Springs, CO 80962. Employed as expert by city of Houston, states of TX, LA, MT, UT, & CO; and federal governments of Canada (1990, 2004) and US. (1993). Have given expert testimony regarding homosexual custody in 11 states: MI, OH, WA, CO, TX, NY, VA, FL, GA, NC, & MO.
Pioneer Investigator: 1) effects of secondhand tobacco smoke upon health of resident children and spouse (1967-70); 2) social-psychology of secondhand tobacco smoke and 'quarantining' smokers (1968-72); 3) social-psychological correlates of obtaining abortions, taking human life, and pet ownership (1967-78); 4) demonstrated misuse of statistical analysis by Centers for Disease Control (1987); 5) demonstrated misrepresentation by the Amer Psychol. Assn to US Supreme Court (1988); 6) published first random sample comparison of heterosexuals and homosexuals (1985-99); 7) demonstrated that AIDS 'education' does not work well and that an effective AIDS policy produces an effect in about 3 years (1990); 8) discovered and documented the abbreviated lifespan of homosexuals (1991-2003); 9) demonstrated misrepresentation by the Amer Psychol Assn and Natl Ass Soc Workers to various courts on behalf of homosexual parenting (1997); 10) demonstrated misrepresentation by Amer Psychiatric &
Natl Educ Assns to US Supreme Court on behalf of homosexuality (1996); 12) discovered and exploited a 'natural experiment' in the court system that showed homosexual parenting deficient (1998-2003); 13) demonstrated scientific misconduct by Richard Green, MS, JD (1998) and Martha Kirkpatrick, M.D. (2005); 14) exploited newspaper stories as an index of sexual/social phenomena (1998); 15) demonstrated more frequent sexual molestation of charges by homosexual foster parents (2003, 2005).
Substantial contributor: 1) secondhand tobacco smoke; 2) life satisfaction; 3) social-psychological correlates of sexual preferences (one of 7 authors cited by the Congressional Research Service in its report on sexual orientation discrimination [10/13/87]); 4) AIDS policy; 5) homosexual parenting/marriage; 6) scientific publications on homosexuality (among 10 most prolific scientists on topic of homosexuality listed in PubMed); 7) homosexual parenting.
Reviewer for: American Psychologist (1978), Gerontologist, Journal of Gerontology, Psychological Reports, British Medical Journal (2004).
Offices held: faculty senate (St. Mary's); chair ethics committee (Fuller); sec Pasadena Psych Assn (1978)
Memberships: Eastern Psychological Association.