Health, yes I see that article, but I still don’t see your point. The article gives the history of homosexuality and its classification. It was removed from the DSM when a majority of members of the APA voted to remove it. Wonderful. So what? There’s nothing in there about “PC” anything…
Ben Levi:
1) Yes, but even once it was peer reviewed, a large majority of the reviews were critical of the study and its methods…
2) Even so, the scattershot nature of the so-called “therapies” made the whole thing rather dubious, and Spitzer’s own conclusion at the time was that while therapies might sometimes work, they would not work in the vast majority of cases.
3) I didn’t say anything about unlicensed therapists. Only that while some participants were getting actual therapy from licensed therapists, many others were off on their own doing who knows what and calling it “therapy”. And it wasn’t just the therapists who had a political agenda, it was many of the participants themselves. And I’m sure you know very well the meaning of “anti-gay bias”.
4) Yes, I know who he is, but it doesn’t change the fact that this particular study was seriously flawed.
5) Google “how to ex an ex-gay study, Psychology Today” to see what Zucker really said and why.
6) You can nitpick all you want, but the bottom line is that conversion therapy has been completely discredited in the scientific research. All you have to argue against that is ONE single study with a checkered history– and that’s putting it kindly.