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"The entire process, from the first confrontation organized by gay demonstrators to the referendum demanded by the orthodox psychiatrists, seemed to violate the most basic expectations about how questions of science should be resolved.
Instead of being engaged in sober discussion of data, psychiatrists were swept up in a political controversy. The result was not a conclusion based on an approximation of the scientific truth as dictated by reason, but was instead an action demanded by the ideological temper of the times."
Dr. Ronald Bayer, author of the book Homosexuality and American Psychiatry
Wasn't the incoming President of the APA in 1973 a Closeted Homosexual?...
peace...
Instead of being engaged in sober discussion of data, psychiatrists were swept up in a political controversy. The result was not a conclusion based on an approximation of the scientific truth as dictated by reason, but was instead an action demanded by the ideological temper of the times."
Dr. Ronald Bayer, author of the book Homosexuality and American Psychiatry
Wasn't the incoming President of the APA in 1973 a Closeted Homosexual?...
peace...