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Comment author: alienist 07 February 2015 06:50:23AM 6 points [-]

Or rather anyone who claims it does is branded an "evil homophobe" thus no one would dare publish a stady claiming it does.

Comment author: gjm 07 February 2015 01:32:08PM 4 points [-]

People have been trying to "cure" homosexuality since times when attitudes to homosexuality were very different from what they are now. If it's curable then there should (at least) be credible studies from earlier years saying so. Are there?

(Robert Spitzer published a study as recently as 2001 claiming to find evidence that some homosexual people can become heterosexual, so evidently it was possible to dare to do that then. He has since publicly changed his mind, which of course can be interpreted in different ways.)