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<blockquote data-quote="Quid est Veritas?" data-source="post: 72087769" data-attributes="member: 385144"><p>Firstly, no connection has been established really between the antibody in question and homosexuality. Only that it is found in increasing numbers in younger sons and that gay men have more older brothers on average. So it doesn't really say much. </p><p>For again, what of gay men without older brothers whose mothers therefore could never have developed this antibody in the first place? This is why they say "one of the mechanisms" as it cannot explain all gay men.</p><p>This therefore has a very low specificity and is thus a fairly useless finding, which would remain very conjectural without massive studies to get sufficient data for anything statistically significant to be found.</p><p></p><p>However, this is a poisoned chalice for those that support people being born gay. For it says the mother develops an auto-immune response against her foetus, resulting in an antibody that alters the foetus' brain. So in short, it says Homosexuality is a congenital disease on account of the teratogenic effects of an auto-immune response in the mother. Heterosexuality is thus the baseline in the brain that is altered by a pathological process. I doubt many would be happy with that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quid est Veritas?, post: 72087769, member: 385144"] Firstly, no connection has been established really between the antibody in question and homosexuality. Only that it is found in increasing numbers in younger sons and that gay men have more older brothers on average. So it doesn't really say much. For again, what of gay men without older brothers whose mothers therefore could never have developed this antibody in the first place? This is why they say "one of the mechanisms" as it cannot explain all gay men. This therefore has a very low specificity and is thus a fairly useless finding, which would remain very conjectural without massive studies to get sufficient data for anything statistically significant to be found. However, this is a poisoned chalice for those that support people being born gay. For it says the mother develops an auto-immune response against her foetus, resulting in an antibody that alters the foetus' brain. So in short, it says Homosexuality is a congenital disease on account of the teratogenic effects of an auto-immune response in the mother. Heterosexuality is thus the baseline in the brain that is altered by a pathological process. I doubt many would be happy with that. [/QUOTE]
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