The Boston Globe has an excellent piece exposing Dr. Paul Cameron and his Family Research Council’s anti-gay quackery. If you ever hear this guy or his organization being quoted, you can guess it’s all bogus. Here’s his “peer-reviewed” journal for you:

Cameron said he has made a deliberate strategy of getting his research published in peer-reviewed academic journals, which he considers more effective than merely writing opinion articles. Cameron said the credibility that goes with being published in the journals enables him to be cited in court decisions and to promote his views in public appearances. Peer review ”is the standard in the academic world,” Cameron said. ”It means that other people have looked at what you’ve done and said, ‘It’s OK.’ ”

But Cameron’s adoption study, and at least 10 more of his works, appeared in Psychological Reports, a small journal based in Montana, which says its studies are peer-reviewed, although editor Doug Ammons said: ”No reviewer has a veto right.” The journal, which typically charges $27.50 per page to print an article, is portrayed by Ammons as a ”scientific manifestation of free speech.”

By contrast, the largest professional journals, which are often cited as sources of medical information — such as Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine — say they will reject an article if any peer reviewer raises serious objections about its methodology. Those journals do not charge for publication.

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