Storm over gay 'cure'
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The publication of research conducted by Robert Spitzer, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in the US, which claims that psychiatric therapy can turn gay people heterosexual has sparked uproar in academic circles. The research, published in the "Archives of Sexual Behaviour", contradicts the commonly held belief that sexual orientation cannot be changed. Critics of the research have highlighted flaws in the methodology, claimed that it ignores ethical concerns and argued that it could stoke anti-gay sentiments.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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Academic blacklisted over threat of invasion
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Mark Sagoff, a philosopher and senior research scholar at the University of Maryland, has accused ecologists of allowing aesthetics and emotions to colour warnings about the threat posed by the entry of non-native species into an environment. Sagoff claims that he has been prevented from publishing his thesis on the lack of an economic or ecological basis for the distinction between native and non-native species as a group by scientists who disagreed with his arguments.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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The last stand of Boudicca and the Celtic good guys
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A team of archaeologists led by David Thorpe and Neil Faulkner are excavating a site in East Anglia that they hope will shed new light on the resistance of England's Celtic tribes to the Roman invasion. The excavation may provide new evidence regarding the end of the Iceni tribe, the last queen of which was Boudicca.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2005
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