Retraction – An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy

Mark Yarhouse on the Spitzer Retraction

By Peter Ould Posted on April 14, 2012 Posted in PostGay, Statistics 10 Comments Tagged with American Psychiatric Association, Annual Meeting, Arana, Blogosphere, Blogs, Desire, Experience Change, Formal Sense, Gross Errors, Interesting People, Interesting Stuff, Legacy, Lost, Outset, Retraction, Robert Spitzer, Sexual Orientation, Warrants

Interesting Stuff. PeopleÂ are asking me about Robert Spitzerâ€™s reported desire to retract his study of 200 people who claimed to have experience change of their sexual orientation. It is unclear what people want me to say. When I first …

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Spitzer Retracts his 2001 Paper – Kind Of…

By Peter Ould Posted on April 11, 2012 Posted in ExGay Study, Statistics 16 Comments Tagged with Anecdotes, Archives Of Sexual Behavior, Conclusions, Decade, Dr Robert, Obligation, People, Reply, Retraction, Retrospect, Robert Spitzer, Second Thoughts, Study Participants, Survey, Warren Throckmorton, Zucker

As Warren Throckmorton (amongst others) reports, Dr Robert Spitzer has asked to retract a paper he authored in 2003 examining the anecdotal reporting of almost 200 people who had been through an “ex-gay” programme. Knowing this article was coming, I …

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Mark Yarhouse on the Spitzer Retraction

Spitzer Retracts his 2001 Paper – Kind Of…