[Insert pun with "Ewe" in it]

I always love it when people with no knowledge of science whatsoever start to protest something that isn't actually what it is. Like this. Apparently, testing to determine how hormones determine the sexual prefrences of rams is "frightening," and has no relevence to science at all, and especially to humans, so should be stopped.

Now, let's forget that;

1. The scientist in question actually says that this has little implication for humans, whose sexuality is "is much more complex than that of rams so we don't refer to the animals as gay."¹
   
2. The actual experiment doesn't alter "gay sheep". It alters sheep who prefer ewes to prefer rams, sexually. By their terminology, it alters straight sheep.
   
3. The experiment didn't work. At all.

Now, the thing is, PETA's attacking the researchers (both verbally and physically). I'm not entirely sure why, because the number of rams killed a year is 18, and they're killed far more humanely than kosher, halal or most other (ie unclean) methods, of which several million in the US are killed each year.

Of course, gay rights activists jumped on this. Especially the ones who are with PETA.

I do so love the misinterpretation of science.



¹Here you go.