: ::: I would have thought the nacent industry of junk science publications beneath you Farinata, but if they serve your purposes, good for you! I'll just get back to my burger now.: : Junk science publication!
: : *cackle*
: : It's the most popular science magazine in the UK and has been for many years; the American equivalent would be "Scientific American", if that makes any more sense to you. Are you really suggesting that respected mainstream science periodicals are "junk"...?
: : Heck, why not just condemn all science out of hand and brand the scientists as Godless heretics; you know you want to...
: Go to the home page and look under the banner.
I can do better than that; I've got the hardcopy right here.
: Out of the six links to feature stories, half of them are about sex.
So, having failed to rebut the validity of the points made in the actual article itself, you're now trying to shift the ground of the argument to something you feel more comfortable in condemning.
Unsubtle, Stuart; you haven't issued any convincing rebuttal of the actual point under debate; viz homosexuality is widespread in nature.
Did you actually read those articles, Stuart; one was about medical biology, one was about the effects of pollution (specifically, polychlorinated biphenyls a.k.a. PCBs) on human biology. The final one was the one I cited.
Sex is a scientific matter, Stuart. Admittedly, there happened to be a large number of biological stories this week; last week there were more maths-related ones.
: Is this the state of affairs in the scientific world of Britian?
Are you suggesting that scientists should be monks; pure creatures totally devoted to their calling? It doesn't work that way. Every human being alive has sex on the brain, Stuart; or it wouldn't sell to people.
If you represent a typical view, it's no wonder that a recent survey found 1/3rd of adult Americans had no sex life worth speaking of...ye're all screwed up bunnies...
Anyway, enough diversions; do you have with which to rebut the point (which is that homosexuality is widespread in nature); the study in question has been published as a book ("Biological Exuberance" by Bruce Bagemihl; published this year by St. Martin's Press in N.Y. - see here.
If you have rebuttals based on , produce them. If the best you can do is try to cast mud on the name of the journal that wrote an article about the book, don't bother...
Farinata.
