Fabricating Science to Stigmatize Dissent

A 2015 Daily Beast article claimed homophobia correlates with nine dysfunctions, but five of those variables weren’t in the study and two reported links ran the opposite way. The author says he warned the outlet and the reporter; a decade later the story remains uncorrected while using a 'Diseased' label to dehumanize targets. He also flags an impossible mean on the scale the paper used, suggesting basic data errors. — If prestige media will invent findings and ignore corrections to pathologize opponents, trust in science reporting and policy built on it is compromised and demands formal correction standards.