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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhiteWalker" data-source="post: 21057743" data-attributes="member: 548558">If I can scientifically prove that gayness is a psychiatric disorder, will I be awarded the Nobel Prize?No. To start with, there is no Nobel Prize in psychology.More importantly, it isn't clear how you could possibly prove what you are suggesting. Psychiatric disorders are characterized by behavior that is: 1) unusual in the sociological climate of the sufferer, and 2) detrimental to the sufferer or society. (There are other conditions as well, but these are the really relevant ones for this discussion.)(1) is easy enough. But (2)? You would need to conclusively prove that being gay was somehow damaging.Now, I suppose it is possible that all people who are homosexual are secretly serial killers who are so incredibly good at it that they are never caught, and you some how figure that out. But short of some utterly implausible scenarios, I think it is fair to say that what you are proposing is just not going to happen.A slightly more realistic scenario is one in which you discover a way to change someone's sexual orientation. This would be a very impressive achievement, but if there are deaf people who choose to be deaf, you can be certain that there will be people who choose to remain gay (as, ignoring bigotry, being gay is much less of an inconvenience.)</blockquote>

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