frank language notes that we may have been mislead in our earlier post about a scientist trying to “cure” gay sheep. Apparently the researchers are claiming that many of the Sunday Times’ initial accusations about their work, including the one about implanting devices into the sheep’s brains, aren’t true. Curse you, secondary sources! So, in an effort to find out what Charles Roselli and co. were actually up to, I took a look at a few of his papers. According to the sheep paper, they spent a year or two figuring out which sheep exhibited homosexual behaviour, and then they removed the heads of all the sheep to figure out how they worked, so no implants, and probably nothing more invasive than blood tests during the study, but the last day, well, it’s a killer. Of course, there’s always his study with rats, where I learned a new clinical term – apparently it’s easier to write “gdx” instead of “gonadectomized,” and the rats did get some kind of implant, because hey, we must understand the gay! Link to article about errors, link to sheep paper, link to rat paper.
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