This Week in Pseudoscience

There is so much to get to here in the world of pseudoscience, let's get started:

Gayness
According to World Nut Net Daily columnist Jim Rutz, soy makes men gay. It does this by jacking up estrogen levels in their systems (this also shrinks their, uh, man parts). Never mind that gay men have been found to have similar amounts of testosterone, because that would let facts spoil a good mediocre argument.

Gayness II
James Dobson has come out (no pun intended) against Mary Cheney's baby. He suggests that without a male parent, that child (assuming it's even a boy) will turn out to be, well, a bit of a sissy. Again, this time via DailyKos, we find that those darned ol' facts are ruining an argument. Of course Dr. Dobson has his own suggestions to ward off gayness:

"[T]he boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger."

I don't want to comment on whether this will increase or decrease any homosexuality in the boy. Truth be known, I don't think it will make a difference. It may lead to some more psychotherapy sessions for the lad, regardless of orientation, but that's about it.

Stockwell's Global Warming Evidence
I'll just let this one speak for itself:

"Hey who knows, maybe Al Gore is right. Maybe all my constituents living high up on the West Bench, or Lakeview Heights , or the hills of Logan Lake will soon be sitting on lakeside property as one of the many benefits of global warming. All I know is last weekend when I got home from Ottawa there was more snow in my driveway than we usually get in a year. And I was begging for Big Al's Glacial Melt when the mercury hit -24°."

If you want to demonstrate naked ignorance of global warming, well, this is how you do it. Never mind that climate is a complicated system Stock, and that any serious scientist will tell you that the effects of global warming will take time and may make some places cooler. I can't believe that this guy once thought he'd be Prime Minister.
Tags: World Nut Daily, homosexuality, James Dobson, DailyKos, Stockwell Day, Global Warming.