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Dr. Keith Ablow: Misinformer Of The Year On LGBT Issues

Started by Shana A, December 20, 2011, 09:11:19 AM

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Shana A

Dr. Keith Ablow: Misinformer Of The Year On LGBT Issues
December 19, 2011 10:00 am ET

http://mediamatters.org/research/201112190003

In 2011 Fox News' Dr. Keith Ablow brought a toxic mix of homophobia and pseudoscientific anti-LGBT talking points to new lows. The "Fox News Medical A-Team" member has been a prolific source of anti-LGBT misinformation, disguising his animosity toward gay, lesbian and transgender people as expert commentary on human sexuality. His bigoted rants against J. Crew, Dancing with the Stars, and the Girl Scouts have earned widespread criticism and mockery, eventually causing him to resign from the American Psychiatric Association. For his consistent promotion of known falsehoods and shirking of established medical opinions on LGBT issues, Ablow has earned the title of LGBT Misinformer of the Year.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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spacial

So, he's had to resign from the American Psychiatric Association. In other words, as good as struck off.

Quite right of course. This man set himself up of publicly issue diagnoses of people he had never met, based upon reports fuelled by his ow preconceptions.

This is not the behaviour of a professional. It is the behaviour of a commercially minded bigot.

Any profession with, apparently, the qualifications that Ablow has claimed will have had to work quite hard to reach those. The only realistic motive is that he knew his practice was in the toilet, so resorted to these stunts in the hope of cashing on on the shrinking market for attacking minorities.

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SandraJane

ADVOCATE.com


Ablow Named Misinformer of the Year on LGBT Issues

Posted on Advocate.com December 20, 2011 05:25:40 PM ET


http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/12/20/Ablow_Named_Misinformer_of_the_Year_on_LGBT_Issues/



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By Trudy RingFor saying a young boy would be psychologically damaged by toenail-painting, that Chaz Bono has a "psychotic delusion," that being transgender is like thinking you're a zebra, and more, commentator Keith Ablow has won the title Misinformer of the Year on LGBT Issues from Media Matters.

"Ablow brought a toxic mix of homophobia and pseudoscientific anti-LGBT talking points to new lows" this year, the liberal media watchdog group says of the psychiatrist and member of the so-called Medical A-Team on Fox News.
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