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Another inflammatory headline about gays from a right-winger.
Did you read the article at all? They're not studying sex. This is directly from the story:
Doctors and specialists from the New York Psychiatric Institute are using the generous grant from NIH's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to help tailor HIV prevention programs to work at bars and clubs.
$400,000 is not a lot of money to spend on HIV prevention.
Didn't Bush send a billion dollars to Africa for that?
In the interest of full disclosure, it's probably useful to know that this particular study has been underway since September 2008 and was funded under the previous administration.
For anyone interested, there is a legitimate scientific reason to conduct the research in the "lab" of Argentina's gay bars, rather than in the U.S., where learning about venue-based interventions would be more difficult because these types of interventions are more common here. The researchers needed a place where it is less common and somewhat "new" to see better what actually works to change behaviors.
BTW, research abstracts can be very interesting/enlightening to those who take the trouble to read them...
CRISP - Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects, Abstract Display (http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/crisp/CRISP_LIB.getdoc?textkey=7620532&p_grant_num=1R21A A018075-01&p_query=(argentina+%26+HIV)&ticket=93861567&p_a udit_session_id=463866777&p_audit_score=56&p_audit _numfound=3&p_keywords=argentina+HIV - broken link)
Last edited by zentropa; 05-08-2009 at 01:14 PM..
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Since it's been taken off the DSM IV they can't really do this kind of research here because it's not seen as a mental illness anymore. Which is probably why they're doing the study in a foreign country. Can you imagine the backlash in the USA if the Feds started studying homosexual activity?
Too bad we can't use that money to fund a psychological study right here in the USA.
Since it's been taken off the DSM IV they can't really do this kind of research here because it's not seen as a mental illness anymore. Which is probably why they're doing the study in a foreign country. Can you imagine the backlash in the USA if the Feds started studying homosexual activity?
Too bad we can't use that money to fund a psychological study right here in the USA.
You could not be more wrong. This is public health research in disease prevention, and has nothing to do with the DSM-IV. Such research is carried out all the time by NIAID and the CDC
Also, the money is being spent here. It's going to the research program at Columbia that is carrying out the investigation.
Since it's been taken off the DSM IV they can't really do this kind of research here because it's not seen as a mental illness anymore. Which is probably why they're doing the study in a foreign country. Can you imagine the backlash in the USA if the Feds started studying homosexual activity?
Too bad we can't use that money to fund a psychological study right here in the USA.
This makes no sense. The study isn't about whether or not homosexuality is a mental illness. That ship sailed almost 40 years ago!
There have probably been hundreds - if not thousands - of federally funded studies that deal with homosexuals in this country.
So I guess that means there is already a "study" on heterosexual bar scene promiscuity since the focus of this one is on homosexuals. Where i'm confused is that homosexuals say they are no different than anyone else. So why can't we save the $400,000 and use the results of heterosexual one-night-stand study? Sounds to me like someone thinks that gays are far more promiscuous.
So I guess that means there is already a "study" on heterosexual bar scene promiscuity since the focus of this one is on homosexuals. Where i'm confused is that homosexuals say they are no different than anyone else. So why can't we save the $400,000 and use the results of heterosexual one-night-stander's?
I know you're not that dense.
Next time I see a study on how to cut down on unwanted pregnancies, I'll say the same thing that you've said.
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