Dr. Robert Spitzer Apologizes to Gay Community for Infamous ‘Ex-Gay’ Study [View all]

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http://www.truthwinsout.org/news/2012/04/24542/

Today, in a letter to Dr. Ken Zucker obtained exclusively by Truth Wins Out, Dr. Robert Spitzer made an unprecedented apology to the gay community — and victims of reparative therapy in particular — for his infamous, now-repudiated 2001 study that claimed some “highly motivated” homosexuals could go from gay to straight:

... I believe I owe the gay community an apology for my study making unproven claims of the efficacy of reparative therapy. I also apologize to any gay person who wasted time and energy undergoing some form of reparative therapy because they believed that I had proven that reparative therapy works with some “highly motivated” individuals..

Robert Spitzer. M.D.
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry,
Columbia University