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Smoking while pregnant can make your kids gay...

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  • #2
    Nemeses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    My mother smoked whilst she was pregnant with me..

    I ain't gay.. However the latter....

    hmmm.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    Stupid babies need the most attention.


  • #4
    davo2001
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    According to an article on the Sunday World's............................. stopped reading after this :roll:


  • #5
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Dr Dick Swaab.

    Really?

    :P


  • #6
    frag420
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    as in Fags?


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  • #7
    Ravenid
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    Hi Dr. Dick !


  • #8
    biko
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    http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/graphics/pregnant.jpg


  • #9
    gobnaitolunacy
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    davo2001 wrote: »
    According to an article on the Sunday World's............................. stop reading after this :roll:

    The nations fave culring book.:P


  • #10
    tin79
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    Shane-KornSpace wrote: »
    claims that smoking and drinking during pregnancy can make your infant gay and stupid.


    Charming way to put it. Very scientific.


  • #11
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Can someone tell me which part of this to be morally outraged about so I can get on board early please?


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  • #12
    Shane-KornSpace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    tin79 wrote: »
    Charming way to put it. Very scientific.

    My thoughts exactly! Sunday world sales must be dire!


  • #13
    tin79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭tin79


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Can someone tell me which part of this to be morally outraged about so I can get on board early please?



    The part where the publishing doctor is named after something you use to wipe your penis with.


  • #14
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    tin79 wrote: »
    The part where the publishing doctor is named after something you use to wipe your penis with.

    It's an absolute disgrace Joe, I'm mortified!


  • #15
    old hippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Can someone tell me which part of this to be morally outraged about so I can get on board early please?

    Certainly.

    Professor of neurobiology at Amsterdam University Dr Dick Swaab’s new book “We Are Our Brains” claims that smoking and drinking during pregnancy can make your infant gay and stupid.

    The idea that being gay is a negative thing or equates with stupidity.


  • #16
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    old hippy wrote: »
    Certainly.

    Professor of neurobiology at Amsterdam University Dr Dick Swaab’s new book “We Are Our Brains” claims that smoking and drinking during pregnancy can make your infant gay and stupid.

    The idea that being gay is a negative thing or equates with stupidity.

    That's an idea you're fabricating yourself though - they haven't equated them.

    It would read something along the lines of "Study suggests smoking during pregnancy may lead to increased chance of homosexuality in offspring, also carries risks of decreased intelligence". The Sunday World have just dumbed that sentence down to the level of their target audience.

    That's literally all that has happened here.


  • #17
    kneemos
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    Drugs can alter the genetics of a foetus.Sounds plausible.


  • #18
    8k2q1gfcz9s5d4
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    Shane-KornSpace wrote: »
    According to an article on the Sunday World's website from today!

    I stopped reading after that


  • #19
    wp_rathead
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    Sounds legit..


  • #20
    old hippy
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    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    That's an idea you're fabricating yourself though - they haven't equated them.

    It would read something along the lines of "Study suggests smoking during pregnancy may lead to increased chance of homosexuality in offspring, also carries risks of decreased intelligence". The Sunday World have just dumbed that sentence down to the level of their target audience.

    That's literally all that has happened here.

    No, that's not all that's happened here. Read between the lines.


  • #21
    seamus
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    old hippy wrote: »
    No, that's not all that's happened here. Read between the lines.
    Indeed. The article states...
    Homosexuality is not the only subject of Professor Swaab’s wide-ranging book
    ...but still the article basically dedicates most of its content to the subject of homosexuality.

    There is no other way to read it really than, "Doing bad things while pregnant will make your baby bad. Like possibly even as bad as being gay".

    Dr. Swaab is a highly respected and decorated neurobiologist, so I doubt he has made any claims without at least providing something to back it up. Of course, a watered-down article from the Sunday World just picks out a few things, sensationalises them and basically turns the claims into something completely different from what Dr. Swaab has claimed.


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  • #22
    mikom
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    Smoking weed during pregnancy ensures your child will emerge looking like the incredible hulk.........


  • #23
    kneemos
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    old hippy wrote: »
    No, that's not all that's happened here. Read between the lines.

    Scientists report facts.Is there another way to day it?


  • #24
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    mikom wrote: »
    Smoking weed during pregnancy ensures your child will emerge looking like the incredible hulk.........

    Or Louis Walsh.


  • #25
    bodice ripper
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    Hilariously named Dutch person in "says something tactless" shocker.


  • #26
    old hippy
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Scientists report facts.Is there another way to day it?

    Not the Sunday World way, that's for sure.


  • #27
    poundapunnet
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    I read a review of that book in a real newspaper and it looked pretty interesting, apparently it has a few chapters just ranting against religion but apart from that seemed like it was good.

    Other things I remember from it! The more older brothers a man has the more likely he is to be gay. Anorexics and some other people have a high incidence of having had complicated births, but it's not clear which way if any the causal link is running.

    Mostly remember his funny name though.


  • #28
    suicide_circus
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    old hippy wrote: »
    No, that's not all that's happened here. Read between the lines.

    sometimes it's important to read the lines themselves before reading between them


  • #29
    cletus van damme
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    Emmitt Strong Shorts wrote: »
    I stopped reading after that

    aren't you wonderful :rolleyes:

    incidentally it was reported in various media but I'm not sure which one is suitable for your fantastically smug mind.


  • #30
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    So will volume of cigarettes smoked and potency of tobacco relate to the gay-issity of offspring ??

    Also, If cigarette sales are high now can we correlate with Louis Vuitton sales in say 20 years.


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  • #31
    old hippy
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    sometimes it's important to read the lines themselves before reading between them

    Maybe the Sunday World should have done that before sensationalising it, so.


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