No. Dakota study: Diet pills lead to lesbian daughters

[quaoar]

This is pretty bizarre.I expect the Bush Administration to ban diet pills any day now.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1389841,00.html

Slimming pills increase chance of lesbian child
Katie Samuel

TAKING pills for slimming and thyroid problems during pregnancy may increase the possibility of bearing lesbian daughters, a study has revealed.

Researchers studied thousands of pregnant women to study the effect of prescription drugs on their babies and discovered that the drug thyroxine, used to treat thyroid deficiency, and amphetamine-based slimming pills appear to influence homosexuality among female children.

The results show sexual orientation is affected by prenatal rather than social factors, with mothers of homosexual girls proving eight times more likely to have taken those pills — most noticeably with daughters whose mothers took them during their first three months of pregnancy.

Professor Lee Ellis and his team at Minot State University, North Dakota, compiled the study using the mothers of more than 5,000 students. They discovered thyroid pills were taken by 5.2% of the mothers of lesbians but by only 1% of mothers of female heterosexuals. Slimming pills were taken by 2% of mothers of lesbians but only 0.2% of mothers of heterosexual children. The findings will appear in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, next month.

[soothsayer]

1. I'm surprised the kind of vain mothers who would take those pills

would produce nice lesbian grrrls like me. But maybe it's a backlash against their shallowness.

[mmonk]

2. My wife took diet pills

and had two sons.

[bleedingheart]

7. are they lesbians...?

hahahahaha

[GRLMGC]

3. Ok

that seriously sounds like someone pulled those results out his ass.

[tanyev]

4. Well, well, well.

What was Lynne Cheney taking when she was pregnant with Mary?

(Actually, this really sounds like BS.)

[LTR]

5. Will half the dose make them bisexual?

(ducks thrown objects)

[mike_c]

6. hmmm..., the interesting thing about this study is that...

...if it stands up to scrutiny, which might be sketchy, it will put a nail most firmly in the coffin of homosexuality as a "lifestyle choice." Imagine the fundy heads exploding: drugs that induce lesbianism prenatally, before the poor fetus ever had a chance to become a confused youth and make the "wrong" choice!

[Runcible Spoon]

10. perhaps..but I am also scared at the way this study could be used..

say we find very compelling data that homoseuxality is genetic, or that certain chemical agents cause homosexuality...would certainly open the doors for genetic manipulation and "designer babies". If it is a social conditioning issue, then at least we can address this by way of advocacy campaigns and education. If it's proven definitively to be genetic, I fear eugenics...I guess gays will be marginalized either way...also, what does this say about bisexualism? that they are in denial about their true sexuality??

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Oh fer chrissakes

Since no one seems to be giving them away, is there any place where I can buy an actual FUCKING BREAK???????????

[donheld]

9. My mom must have screwed up

she took diet pills but my sister is straight. :shrug: wonder what went wrong?