IM11 Supporters Cite Sloppy "Scientist" as Defense Against APA Report

Anna at DakotaWomen points me toward more rapid-response baloney from the supporters of IM11. Pastor Hickey reprints a LifeNews.com article in which pot calls kettle black — I mean, in which Priscilla K. Coleman says the APA report on abortion and mental health is poltically biased.

Politically biased. This from Priscilla K. Coleman, Ph.D.... but don't let those letters after her name get you too excited. Priscilla K. Coleman is an assistant professor in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at Bowling Green State University. As Anna notes, Coleman is one of several researchers identified in a summer 2006 PublicEye.org article as sources of blatantly biased illegitimate research created solely to give the right-wing anti-abortion movement rhetorical ammunition. Coleman has collaborated with the infamous David Reardon, who has admitted to pumping out bad science just to plant the seeds of doubt.

Most damningly, Coleman herself is cited several times in the APA's TFMHA report [PDF alert!] for methodological errors. See pp. 26, 27, 29, 30, 35, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48... good grief! How many times do we have to cite a researcher for bad methodology before we acknowledge that she's a bad researcher? If that's the best the abortion backers can find, their cause is doomed... and deserves to be.

The moral of this story: IM11's supporters can't find good science to back up their arguments... so they just make up the science they want.

But I guess we shouldn't expect much from people who think God will give us oil if we just ban abortion.