Clarification thanks to Joe Brummer

Yesterday, I mentioned that I did not know that much about the American College of Pediatricians (the group that wrote a junk science study trashing gay parenting. See yesterday's blog entry.) Thanks to my friend Joe Brummer, I know a little about this group:

The American Collage of Pediatricians are a small group of conservative, religious pediatricians whose research is not rigorously tested and reviewed by peers.

The Boston Globe writes:

“Created as counterpoints to large, well-established medical organizations whose work is subject to rigorous review and who assert no political agenda, the tiny think tanks with names often mimicking those of established medical authorities have sought to dispute the notion of a medical consensus on social issues such as gay rights, the right to die, abortion, and birth control.”

“The tiny American College of Pediatricians has a single employee, yet it has been quoted as a counterpoint to the 60,000-member American Academy of Pediatrics."

This goes beyond anti-gay distortions. We are dealing with organizations who, when they don't like the conclusions of certain studies, create their own scientific bodies with political agendas.

I am curious as to just how many people of faith have been fooled by this chicanery. It's very scary when propaganda machines are masquerading as credible and objective scientific bodies.


Maybe a solution to this problem

Wayne Besen has done it again and I have to give him his props:

Truth Wins Out unveiled a new campaign today encouraging scientists to report right wing distortions of their research on the website www.RespectMyResearch.org.

Truth Wins Out will also join the gay right's group SoulForce today in a media conference call featuring a panel of experts who will discuss how groups, such as Focus on the Family, manipulate social science to help justify discrimination.

"This website is a powerful response to the brazen and outrageous manner in which the far right has hijacked science to support their discriminatory aims," said Truth Wins Out's Executive Director Wayne Besen. "Our goal is to make it easier for legitimate researchers to fight back and demand their work be respected and not co-opted for an extreme political agenda."

This is something that should have been done a long time ago. I personally think that all major gay rights groups should make exposing anti-gay industry distortions a goal in the future. We can't win hearts and minds when we are being blocked by lies.

So I am a 'sodomy advocate" now? Unbelievable nonsense

Apparently I am getting a little infamous. A blogger wrote an entry about me.

It began when I posted a comment to his blog in response to his entry about the David Parker situation.

This is what he said:

Recently a sodomite advocate with a screen name of Black Tsunami (AKA A. McEwen) sent a comment to the latest entry on this blog.I went to his blog, called "Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters" and saw that he has lost all contact with reality.

Look at what his description says:

For two years, I have studied "so-called" pro family "research" regarding the gay community and have found a disturbing pattern of deception. In 2007, my book, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters will be published, detailing all of my findings. The purpose of this blog is to give updates of my work and to show some of my findings.McEwen wants to see deception to document in his book? Here's some for him!

So what was the deception he had for me? Why nothing. He then goes on a tangent about the same-sex marriage situation in Wisconsin.

Which confuses me because my post was about the David Parker case.

I would like to think that he looked at my blog and couldn't refute anything on it.

When some people go on a tangent, it's always better to sit back and let them go. On some occasions, it can be funny.