//that's all it is, a theory, not scientific fact.//

Just a theory, eh? You mean like thermodynamics?

I really wish more people knew what the word theory actually means.

From wikipedia:

A scientific theory is an explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can be repeatedly tested, in accordance with the scientific method, by using a predefined protocol of observations and experiments. Established scientific theories have withstood rigorous scrutiny and are a comprehensive form of scientific knowledge.

It is important to note that the definition of a "scientific theory" (often contracted to "theory" for the sake of brevity, including in this page) as used in the disciplines of science is significantly different from the common vernacular usage of the word "theory".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory

Big Nana:

As someone claiming a medical background and an allegedly unbiased disposition? I find it passing strange that you of all people, still cling to the mindless myth that choice plays a part in homosexual behaviour?

True, some psychologically sick folk will have sex with almost anything! But arguably only around 10% of that deviation has its roots in homosexuality?

Moreover, not curable by aversion or thoroughly disgraced electric shock therapy. Sorry about the obvious sexual connotation pun.

As for the rest, their sexual urges are controlled solely by nature and their genes. Is often stronger than the survival instinct and may still be affecting/motivating the individual up until the day before she/he dies!

Yes there is a gay gene, not just one, but several down near the bottom of the double helix, DNA spiral.

And therefore surprising that someone purporting to be a trained medical professional? Wouldn't know that!?

But keeps on doggedly repeating, the gay bashing, risible rubbish in verbal vogue, when she was a med student?

I used to believe as you seem to? The difference?

My mind remains open and non atrophied! And accept countervailing, credible, scientific evidence!

You remind me of a senior, highly placed flat earther, from the flat earth society, taken for a guest space flight by Virgin boss, Richard Brampton, who obliged his guest to look out a portal when at the very top of the flight trajectory.

Then when the aircraft landed, Sir Richard asked this highly placed, flat earth society individual, to recant his "primitive" understanding in light of irrefutable evidence of his own eyes. To which the flat earther replied, the graphics were nearly as good as the moon landing hoax and the special effects were quite remarkable!

You'll have a nice day now y'hear.
Alan B.

Aidan
In fact, the antivaxing movement provides a handy illustration of the main argument against global warming. The medical technique of vaccination has a solid established record of achievement. Before disease control children used to die like flies. Deaths from infectious disease generally have plummeted. Global warming can point to no such record. All forecasting with climate models have proved to be of very limited use to date. Before you deny this take a look at this paper in Nature Geoscience https://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v10/n7/full/ngeo2973.html
note the authors, including Michael Mann. They certainly aren't abandoning global warming, but the climate establishment is admitting the models have not been successful to date. The OLO article is, as we can all agree, of no value and should be ignored. Leave it with you.

Excellent article. I'd recommend "Why we believe in gods", it provides a logical explanation for superstition and all its dysfunctions that have plagued humanity.

The problem is of course, that science is difficult and religion is easy.

//The problem is of course, that science is difficult and religion is easy.//

I disagree. Science isn't nearly as hard as it is to swallow the crap some religious people would have you believe.

The fact of the matter is that the doctrine /ideology of scientism and the world-wide culture that extends from it is principally responsible for suppressing the evolutionary potential of humankind.
These paragraphs from the previously mentioned author.

"In this dark epoch , the human world is ruled by the point of view of scientific materialism.
Scientific materialism has deprived humankind of all profundity of view - relative to the nature and significance of the conditional universe, and relative to the Reality of the Divine.
Scientific materialism is a global cultural program, which has so effectively supported the ego's motive to achieve a perfectly independent state of "self-sufficiency" that, as a result, the human collective has brought itself to the point of global destruction and universal despair."

Unfortunately conventional exoteric religion which is based on the left-brained spirit-killing word reinforces this now world dominant paradigm.

As another alternative why not check out the title Kundalini The Evolutionary Energy In Man by. Gopi Krishna.

On the seeming conundrum on re the anti-vaccination why not check out this reference http://vaccines.mercola.com Which is to say that the usual arguments in support of mass vaccinations and their presumed effectiveness (including herd immunity), the intrinsically toxic nature of some of the contents of the various vaccines,the way they are given and the time sequences in which they are given are somewhat suspect.
This author and his website was of course criticized in a recent Online Opinion essay.