Any idea in which trimester the pathogen would be most likely to have an impact on fetal brain development? I did some browsing over at the GSS and found that gay men were particularly likely to have been born in the month of June, which would put them in the first trimester of fetal development at the height of flu season.

http://congenialtimes.blogspot.com/2009/02/tentative-support-for-gay-germ-theory.html

Infectious Causation of Disease: An Evolutionary Perspective

GM Cochran, PW Ewald, KD Cochran – PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 2000

Here we talk about it a bit, as one example of a common, unexplained fitness-reducing syndrome.

Peer-reviewed. Like that means a lot. I’ve had reviewers argue history from what they saw in a movie (Fiddler on the Roof as a guide to Jewish occupations in the Middle Ages). I’ve also had reviewers who don’t believe that there _is_ such a thing as positive selection.

Over and over, people keep assuming that this hypothetical pathogen must act before birth. It might, but there is no reason that it would have to, and I’d say that the odds were against it: we’re subject to a lot more infectious diseases after birth than before birth.

We know of examples in which post-birth infections ruin a particular subpopulation of neurons (Von Economo’s encephalitis and dopaminergic neurons, also possibly narcolepsy) and that is all that would be required.

Origins of male homosexuality – The Vitamin D theory
people with MS are more likely to be born in May
Studies of infectious disease have been unable to find a bacterium or virus that might cause MS, and diet has been ruled out as a factor in the disease. But a study of 40,000 MS patients from Canada, Great Britain, Denmark and Sweden have shown that people with MS are more likely to be born in May. Babies born at this time have gone through a period of rapid growth in the womb at the end of winter when the mother’s vitamin D levels are at their lowest. On the other hand there are fewest births of people with MS in November when sunny summer holidays ensure that rapid growth in the womb is supported by plenty of vitamin D.[…]investigations by the Oxford team in collaboration with Canadian scientists have shown that MS is inherited preferentially through the female line as an “imprinted” gene. This explains why MS affects three or four women to every man.[…]It now seems likely that insufficient vitamin D is the crucial environmental factor that modifies the DRB1 gene into the imprinted form that causes MS and transmits it from one generation to the next. DRB1 is one of a family of HLA genes that code for structures on the surface of human white blood cells. And it is white blood cells that are involved in the “autoimmune” reaction that destroys the nervous system of MS sufferers.

The Oxford team believe that people with MS have white cells that are incorrectly programmed early in life. There are millions of different T-cells, a particular type of white cell produced in the thymus gland, each programmed to recognise and attack different types of invading bacteria and viruses. Ordinarily the T cells that might attack the body itself are deleted early in life in a stock-taking process. But this process can go wrong when certain genes that are normally masked by the imprinting process are mistakenly unmasked.

When a certain stage of pregnancy occurs during the winter a lack of available Vitamin D may “ruin a particular subpopulation of neurons” and produce homosexuality.

Evolution has stored vitamin D for getting through winter in the bodyfat, the breakdown and metabolism of adipose tissue in results in the stored vitamin D being released to supply the bodies requirements.

In the modern world there is no winter period of food scarcity and hence adipose tissue fails to release its stores of vitamin D.

A calorific deficit in the winter to induce the metabolism of fat stores is lacking for the first time.

Prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency in obese children and adolescents.
“Tayside, where just over 20% of primary one pupils (5 year olds) are overweight”

On Tayside one in 300 people suffer from MS.

The idea that genetic disease affect only 1 in 10,000 does not make sense considering that the birth defect rate is around 3% of births. The 2-3% homosexual rate is similar to the 3% birth defect rate, which suggests that homosexuality could be genetic in origin.

I agree that this pathogen could act after birth, but some male homosexuality must be due to pre-natal events. How else would you explain the correlation between male homosexuality and digit ratio (a marker of prenatal androgenization)?

It is possible that the stronger immune system of men with a high digit ratio is more likely to destroy their sexual ‘search image’ in over-reacting to an infection which leaves them with the ‘default setting’.
(Vitamin D is a potent inhibitor of the proinflammatory response)
Shape regression on 2D : 4D ratio

Greg cites Henry Harpending as saying Bushmen aren’t homosexual. I wonder about how honest Bushmen are about something like that. Especially as “daily life is pervaded with put-downs” in that society according to Cultural Diversity

Bushmen and Amerindians may have some reported cases of homosexuality, but am I wrong by thinking that it is not of the same magnitude that in the occidental societies? Everybody, scientist or not, seem to agree that true cases of genetic transgender are extremely rare, and that most of the homosexuality we see today is environmental and cultural in origin, even if this is denied.
Cultural, which goes with political correctness, TV, education and sedentary lifestyle and environnmental, which goes with pesticides, antibiotics and hormones introduced in the food chain.

RG

The authors noted one inconsistent result, with respect to non-twin brothers (not part of the data reported above). The rate of homosexuality was on 9.2% (13/142), significantly lower than the expected rate. (In the absence of environmental factors, the rate for non-twin brothers should be the same as for dizygotic twins.)

Comparisons between MZ and DZ are ignoring this anomaly.

Schizophrenia in DZ twins?
Greater occurrence of schizophrenia in dizygotic but not monozygotic twins. Register-based study

A possible association between the genetic predisposition for dizygotic twinning and schizophrenia
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This is an silly argument, based on a total unwillingness to look at how culture shapes behavior. Romantic attraction is highly complex and culturally specific. There are numerous reasons having to do with the complexity of romantic attraction that characteristics conducive to homosexuality could be selected for. (It's actually pretty amazing that none of the solemn pseudo-scientists discussing these questions notice how attracted women tend to be to homosexual men). Depending on the cultural setting, those characteristics will be more or less expressed in actual homosexuality.

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"If Greg Cochran is right, a gay man is a vehicle that a pathogen has constructed for its own survival and reproduction" – not necessarily true. If the pathogen is (for example) chickenpox, then the gay man does not have lifelong infectivity. The neurological damage is merely a permanent byproduct of a temporary infection. Likewise, narcoleptics are not a reservoir of the pathogen that destroyed a small part of their hypothalamus.

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Given that we are sure that same sex preference is not genetic (ie no gene) and no one is 100% sure what environ octal factor or factors cause same sex preference. This is as good a guess as any and every good theory starts with a good guess that can be tested scientifically.

The hereditability of homosexuality is only about .20 to .25 (based on analysis of all identical twin studies).

I made a video on this theory a couple years ago. It took me some time. I did a lot of research. My hypothesis was that the causal agent was the parasite Toxoplasma gondi. I’m not a scientist but I read a lot by scientists and I thought this possibility deserved to be studied. As it happens this idea is very easy to falsify. I asked some one with resources and credentials to simple test the mothers of male homosexuals for the presence of the parasite. Easy to do and if I’m wrong some mothers will be free of the parasite. About half 0f all Americans have it. It causes all sorts of strange effects including schizophrenia, bad driving, and perhaps homosexuality. I thought it should be tested. I have been in the arts and I lived contiguous to the Upper market Street area in San Francisco. I lived through the AIDs epidemic there. I knew about gays. To be gay isn’t to be happy. I wanted to find a cure.

My Youtube video last month was banned as hate speech. Apparently some gay activist somewhere doesn’t like to think of his condition as a disease. The real victim isn’t me, it’s his mother. Sorry lady, no grandkids for you.