Michael Barnes descended on Austin in 1984. He has been exploring its multiple personalities ever since. For 15 years, he wrote about the arts for the American-Statesman. Now he's the Entertainment Editor, overseeing XL, Movies and Television. When not in the newsroom, he's sampling restaurants, clubs, bars, coffee houses, museums, movies, galleries, theaters, concerts, DVDs, CDs, parties, festivals, outdoor activities and sporting events. Michael lives with his partner, Kip, two dogs and two cats in South Austin.
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By Michael Barnes
| Thursday, January 25, 2007, 09:44 AM
The Gay Life: Did our favorite bisexual sheep herders know this: Eight percent of rams seek sex exclusively with other rams.
As reported in The New York Times, a scientist named Charles Roselli sought to find out why there are gay sheep.
His research was subsequently misinterpreted by the media and the blogosphere (was he trying to cure the sheep, the madman?!).
I have spent much of my professional life fighting the casual way that the media treats science and social science, almost always omitting the context and methods for the research. This horror story is instructive.
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