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- Title
THE TWO VIEWS OF MEYER-BAHLBURG: A REJOINDER.
- Authors
De Cecco, John P.
- Abstract
The article presents a reply to an article on homosexuality written by H.F.L. Mayer-Bahlburg. After the author read Meyer-Bahlburg's claims of misinterpretation, the author perused his article again with the assistance of his seminar students and two biologists who are more knowledgeable about the endocrine research than the author. The author discovered that there are apparently two Meyer-Bhalburg's. Although the author may have overstated his case against Meyer-Bahlburg, the author's case against Meyer-Bahlburg is only strengthened by his reply. Meyer-Bahlburg is the properly skeptical, cooly objective empiricist who points out the methodological flaws and the general inconclusiveness and inapplicability to human beings of most endocrine research on sexual orientation. In telling contrast Meyer-Bahlburg II is the undaunted optimist, who, for over a decade has predicted a bright future for endocrine research and has been it's leading advocate. The author believes that Meyer-Bahlburg would argue that such recurrent inconsistencies in his and his collaborators' research reports invite speculation about possible underlying beliefs that seem tenaciously to resist scientific fact and critical challenge.
- Subjects
SEXUAL orientation; HOMOSEXUALITY; ENDOCRINE glands; GLANDS; HUMAN anatomy; MAYER-Bahlburg, H. F. L.
- Publication
Journal of Sex Research, 1987, Vol 23, Issue 1, p123
- ISSN
0022-4499
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1080/00224498709551349