Have the Russians cured Homosexuality?

Did Russian Scientists Discover a ‘Cure’ for Homosexuality?
Online posts claim that researchers at the Russian Institute for Medical Science discovered a new vaccine that may “prevent” or “cure” homosexuality in humans.

Nevermind that it is the opinion of the medical community at large that homosexuality is not a disease nor a mental disorder. On 6 August 2017, the web site Loyalys posted an article in which it was reported that Russian scientists have discovered a “cure to homosexuality” the article claims that a Dr. Dimitri Yusrokov Slamini of the Russian Institute for Medical Science in Novosibirsk and his team of researchers discovered what they claim to be a new vaccine which could prevent early symptoms and even cure humans from homosexuality, if treated at a young age.
Supposedly Russian scientists developed the cure based on a 1959 scientific research published under the title “Organizing action of prenatally administered testosterone propionate on the tissues mediating mating behavior in the female guinea pig” by Charles H. Phoenix, an American researcher. The study concluded that “INAH [a part of the hypothalamus] is dimorphic with sexual orientation, at least in men, and suggests that sexual orientation has a biological element”.
This sounds very technical and authentic to laypersons like us, but we found that Loyalys.com was less than two weeks old when the article was published (the domain name was registered on 25 July 2017 by the Albanian owner of another fake news site, OnlineNativeNews.com), yet the text of the article dates back to May 2014, when it appeared on the web site World News Daily Report, a satire website in operation since 2013. We also found that there is no such organization as the Russian Institute for Medical Science in Novosibirsk, Siberia (though there is a Russian Academy of Sciences located there), also we were unable to find evidence of the existence of the two Russian scientists named as participants in the research, Dr. Dimitri Yusrokov Slamini and Dr. Yuri Krutchev.
As always don’t just take our word for it! The original satirical article can be found on World News Daily Report, and do notice the sites disclaimer: World News Daily Report assumes all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website – even those based on real people – are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any person, living, dead or undead, is purely a miracle.


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