Gym Accident Turns Rugby Player Gay

[submaniac]

Under the category "News of the World"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/08/stroke-turned-gay-welsh-jock-_n_1082398.html?&ncid=webmail6

[Orac]

Clearly a split personality as he is described a 'welsh jock'. At least he isn't bothering the sheep.

[isanbirder]

Let's hope the poor guy doesn't have another stroke, and switch back again.

[endure]

Let's hope the poor guy doesn't have another stroke, and switch back again.

[cdnvic]

Well, The Huffington Post was never known for scientific or medical accuracy.

The Huffington Post​ is arguably one of the heaviest trafficked news, opinion, and information sources on the Internet. Its many editors and 9,000 contributors produce content that runs the gamut and is generally decent, with one exception: medicine. HuffPo aggressively promotes worthless alternative medicine such as homeopathy, detoxification, and the thoroughly debunked vaccine-autism link. In 2009, Salon.com published a lengthy critique of HuffPo's unscientific (and often exactly wrong) health advice, subtitled Why bogus treatments and crackpot medical theories dominate "The Internet Newspaper". HuffPo's tradition is neither new nor just a once-in-a-while thing.

Science journalists have repeatedly taken HuffPo to task for this, and repeatedly been rebuffed or not allowed to submit fact-based rebuttals. HuffPo's anti-science stance on health and medicine appears to be deliberately systematic and is unquestionably pervasive.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4283

[endure]

They actually stole the story from the Daily Mail another paragon of factual reporting.

[submaniac]

I think the moral of the story is this: STAY AWAY FROM THE GYM. If yer straight you might end up gay, and if your gay you may go straight. It is better to be fat and a slob because at least you get to keep yer sexuality.

[tombkk]

Isn't this a story from a rather recent Hollywood movie? Except that in the movie "Phillip Morries", it was a car accident that made Jim Carey's character gay.

I think the person who said (towards the end of the article) that the rugby player was really gay to begin with but only realised it after the accident, or admitted it to himself and/or to his environment after the accident, hit the nail on the spot. Having almost died makes you re-think about what is important in your life.

Not knowing the protagonist, this is a mere speculation though.

[Chopperboy]

Well, The Huffington Post was never known for scientific or medical accuracy.

The Huffington Post​ is arguably one of the heaviest trafficked news, opinion, and information sources on the Internet. Its many editors and 9,000 contributors produce content that runs the gamut and is generally decent, with one exception: medicine. HuffPo aggressively promotes worthless alternative medicine such as homeopathy, detoxification, and the thoroughly debunked vaccine-autism link.

Just because the mechanism for homeopathy is not known doesn't mean to say it doesn't work. I take Homeopathic Growth Hormone for several years it made a dramatic difference to my eyesight, skin & hair colour. Night vision and especially red stop/ traffic lights became bright again, after taking it for the first 4 months and have remained that way since.