Study on gay marriage views retracted after allegations of fake data

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(05-24-2015, 11:58 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: There was the implication that this was just because the gay community called for it when in reality there had been a push for several years to get away from labelling those that didn't necessarily fall within societal norms as having a mental disorder. This was seen to be highly controversial in the post- WWII era on because of what the world saw as the result of such thinking in the footage of the liberation of the concentration camps. The thinking that deviant behavior was a mental disorder was a huge component of the eugenics movement and led to the forced sterilization, lobotomization, or death of thousands upon thousands of people, including in this country.

So as the fields of psychology and psychiatry progressed there was a lot of pressure to move away from that thinking from a variety of places.

So is that a yes or a no? In that it is no longer classified as a mental disorder because the definition changed?