Joan Roughgarden has responded to my comment about her recent KQED radio appearance. Her response includes this: Today, in 2007 only a few, like Roberts, still take Bailey’s work seriously. In 2006, Bailey’s work was featured on 60 Minutes in a piece titled “The Science of Sexual Orientation.” After the piece aired, a blogger criticized Bailey. Shari Finkelstein,the producer, responded:

Joan Roughgarden has responded to my comment about her recent KQED radio appearance. Her response includes this:

Today, in 2007 only a few, like Roberts, still take Bailey’s work seriously.

In 2006, Bailey’s work was featured on 60 Minutes in a piece titled “The Science of Sexual Orientation.” After the piece aired, a blogger criticized Bailey. Shari Finkelstein,the producer, responded:

His work is highly regarded by all of the researchers in the field who we spoke with.

What a difference a year makes, if Roughgarden is correct.

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Seth Roberts

I am a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and author of The Shangri-La Diet. My expertise is in self-experimentation; one of my papers about that is Self-experimentation as a source of new ideas:Ten examples about sleep, mood, health, and weight. I also have a personal blog here . Seth Roberts Read more
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