Thursday, November 19, 2009

CDC Task Force Says Sex Ed Better Than Abstinence Ed But Won’t Release Full Data to Public

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An independent task force assembled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue recommendations on the best way to teach teens how to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases has reported that “comprehensive risk reduction” programs are more effective than abstinence programs, even though the CDC will not release the data the task force used to reach its conclusion...


“This prevents the public from scrutinizing the body of evidence underlying the CDC Task Force Recommendations in the same time frame in which the CDC recommendations will influence the decisions of policymakers and public health professionals,”

But Ericksen further said the study suffered from a fundamental research error by combining widely divergent types of sex ed programs into one single analysis and drawing “across the board” conclusions.

[Doesn't matter; it will now be used to promote policy. We need universal school vouchers.]

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