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**ashleyjoseph** · 05-14-2009, 11:52 PM

Ok, so you agree that it is part of the increase that your earlier statistics showed. But you can't scientifically quantify the amount of the increase, it's just your opinion. Actually, the burden is on you to show that there is an effect. I believe there is a small one, but that has not been proven by anyone here in this thread.

If that is the case, you can't use those statistics to show anything since you can't analyze them properly.

So I'm still waiting for health argument that can be scientifally supported instead of just biased opinions. It is scientifically proven that gays and lesbians abuse substances at about 3x the rate. Without statistics to show otherwise, we have evidence that gays and lesbians who are abused show greater rates of abusing substances then they would otherwise. Therefore we can conclude that a significant proportion of substance abuse among homosexuals is a factor of their abusive relationships.

None of that is an opinion.

It is your opinion that society as a whole plays a factor, but we have absolutely no statistics to show that this is anything other then a trope. Until evidence is supplied, we have to conclude that it can show no appreciable influence.

05-14-2009, 11:52 PM	#9
ashleyjoseph Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 433 Senior Member	Ok, so you agree that it is part of the increase that your earlier statistics showed. But you can't scientifically quantify the amount of the increase, it's just your opinion. Actually, the burden is on you to show that there is an effect. I believe there is a small one, but that has not been proven by anyone here in this thread. If that is the case, you can't use those statistics to show anything since you can't analyze them properly. So I'm still waiting for health argument that can be scientifally supported instead of just biased opinions. It is scientifically proven that gays and lesbians abuse substances at about 3x the rate. Without statistics to show otherwise, we have evidence that gays and lesbians who are abused show greater rates of abusing substances then they would otherwise. Therefore we can conclude that a significant proportion of substance abuse among homosexuals is a factor of their abusive relationships. None of that is an opinion. It is your opinion that society as a whole plays a factor, but we have absolutely no statistics to show that this is anything other then a trope. Until evidence is supplied, we have to conclude that it can show no appreciable influence.
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