Fox News’ Dr. Keith Ablow Touts Widely Debunked Anti-Gay Parenting Study in New Column | Media Matters for America

Fox News’ resident anti-LGBT pop-psychologist Dr. Keith Ablow published a column on Tuesday defending a flawed new study that found that children raised by married, heterosexual parents are better off than children raised by a variety of families that include a gay parent. Praising the study for its objectivity and scientific rigor, Ablow wrote:

The “no differences” theory that children of gay parents — married or not — do not substantially differ from the children of married, heterosexual parents has now been called into question. 

In reality, the study — authored by associate sociology professor Mark Regnerus — has already come under widespread criticism for its misleading comparisons, arbitrary population samples, and generally abysmal methodology. Regnerus himself has spent a good chunk of this week attempting to explain away his study’s glaring shortcomings. And he even admitted that none of his data can actually be used to make a judgment about whether same-sex parents are better or worse than heterosexual parents.