The Ties that Blind

As much as scientists (doctors generally consider themselves part of this community) like to espouse their objectivity in looking at the scientific data and their skepticism with respect to any and all "ideologies," the truth is that they are every much as subject to “groupthink” as anyone else. The biological evolution debate comes to mind here, where such ideologues as Richard Dawkins and the late Stephen Jay Gould refuse to admit the shortcomings of the current evolutionary theories because they are frightened that the only alternative explanation seems to them to be some sort of theism. Well, move over Richard, Stephen, you have company coming to join you. Zenit ran an interview in today’s edition with Dr. Rick Fitzgibbons of the Catholic Medical Association. In previous posts, I have referred to a white paper, to which he was a major contributor, "Homosexuality and Hope.” In the interview, Fitzgibbons, a psychiatrist, details how the American Psychiatric Association has wedded itself to anti-Christian, and especially anti-Catholic ideologies. Fitzgibbons says that these ties blind it to the medical evidence that homosexual attraction and behavior bring with it serious psychiatric and medical illnesses. The best part of this interview is the links to summaries of studies which detail these findings. In a culture where the gods are scientific knowledge and technology, and the high priests are the scientists and engineers (I had to throw engineers in . . .) the lay faithful are apt to bow down to whatever the high priests tell us. Hopefully we will mature in time to keep from following these “scientists,” like lemmings, over a sociological cliff.