Flaws in Abstinence-Only Education Research 


Having just congratulated one author for responsible science reporting, I have to turn around and do something nearly opposite. The British Medical Journal had reported that abstinence-only education is of no value in preventing STDs. Scott Gilbreath steers us toward information revealing flaws in that research, serious enough that they ought to invalidate it--or at least to call it into serious question. The fault this time doesn't seem to be with any science reporter, but with the BMJ itself. 

The errors described there are so palpable, one can only ask, "Why?" Why publish it that way? What agenda drives it? Responsible science? Not this time. 

Posted: Tue - August 28, 2007 at 09:07 AM           |

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