Why Does Ammons Scientific's Psychological Reports Publish Literature From A Known Hate Group?

Update, June 20, 2005

After writing the original post I discovered that the Southern Voice, Houston Voice, and Washington Blade reported that the CDC has commented on Paul Cameron's research.

"But Cameron’s methodology is simply bad science, said Ronald Valdiserri, deputy director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention. [The CDC] does not collect statistics on the lifespan of gay men,” Valdiserri said. “While gay men continue to be severely impacted by HIV and AIDS, AIDS-related death data cannot be used to indicate that homosexual men live shorter lives than heterosexual men overall.”

http://www.washblade.com/2005/6-17/view/actionalert/weird.cfm

It has come to my attention that an article by Paul Cameron appears in Psychological Reports (2005;96:693-697).

Paul Cameron's organization, the Family Research Institute, has been designated as a hate goup by the Southern Poverty law center. Cameron has been producing virulent anti-gay hate literature for decades.

Cameron was dropped from membership in the American Psychological Association in 1984 for ethical violations concerning his biased research. That same year, the Psychological Association in his home state of Nebraska adopted a formal resolution disassociating itself from Cameron's work. Read the October 3, 1994 New Republic Article About Paul Cameron.

In 1985, a federal judge concluded that Cameron had engaged in "fraud" and "misrepresentation" when he testified in a gay-related case in Texas. (Baker v. Wade, 106 Federal Rules Decisions 526 [N.D. Texas, 1985]) Judge Buchmeyer of the U.S. District Court of Dallas referred to "Cameron's sworn statement that 'homosexuals abuse children at a proportionately greater incident than do heterosexuals,'" and concluded that "Dr. Paul Cameron...has himself made misrepresentations to this Court" and that "There has been no fraud or misrepresentations except by Dr. Cameron"

On page 536 of his opinion, Judge Buchmeyer noted the following examples of misrepresentations by Cameron to the Court:

"(i) his sworn statement that "homosexuals are approximately 43
times more apt to commit crimes than is the general population" is a total
distortion of the Kinsey data upon which he relies which, as is obvious to
anyone who reads the report, concerns data from a non-representative sample of
delinquent homosexuals (and Dr. Cameron compares this group to college and
non-college heterosexuals);
(ii) his sworn statement that "homosexuals abuse
children at a proportionately greater incident than do heterosexuals" is based
upon the same distorted data and, the Court notes, is directly contrary to
other evidence presented at trial besides the testimony of Dr. Simon and Dr.
Marmour. (553 F. Supp. 1121 at 1130 n.18.)"

Speaking at the 1985 Conservative Political Action Conference Cameron said, "'Unless we get medically lucky, in three or four years, one of the options discussed will be the extermination of homosexuals."

According to an interview with former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Cameron was recommending the extermination option as early as 1983." - Mark E. Pietrzyk, News-Telegraph, March 10, 1995.

Cameron told Rolling Stone magazine in a March 1999 interview that he feared gay sex would supplant heterosexual sex unless a vigilant society repressed it. "Marital sex tends toward the boring," he said. "Generally, it doesn't deliver the kind of sheer sexual pleasure that homosexual sex does." If all one seeks is an orgasm, he said, "the evidence is that men do a better job on men, and women on women. Homosexuality," he said, "seems too powerful to resist."

In 1987 the work of Paul Cameron was condemned by the UK Press Complaints Commission when it was presented as "fact" a newspaper article.

My question to you is, why would a publication purporting to be a scientific journal would publish literature from a known hate group.

Write to the associate editors of Psychological Reports. Ask them why they are willing to associate with a publication that publishes literature from a known hate group. (Ammons Scientific has a long list of associate editors. It is woefully out of date. This mail will not go to everyone on the list. For example, one of the listed associate editors, Frederick H. Kanfer, died during 2002.)


Copy your e-mail and paste it into Ammons Scientific's web form. Ask the same question of R. B. Ammons, C. H. Ammons, Bruce Ammons, Douglas Ammons, and S. A. Isbell.