STUDENT “SCIENTIFICALLY PROVES” GAY MARRIAGE WRONG
On track for the Nobel Science Prize: Chibuihem Amalaha (Pic: This Day)
Nigeria’s This Day has published an absurd article about a graduate university student who claims he’s “used science to prove that gay marriage is improper”.
The newspaper reports that University of Lagos post graduate student Chibuihem Amalaha has made “many discoveries and inventions” in science and technology. Now, he’s turning his efforts to the issue of gay marriage.
“In recent time I found that gay marriage, which is homosexuality and lesbianism, is eating deep into the fabric of our human nature all over the world and this was why nations of Sodom and Gomora were destroyed by God because they were into gay practice. That is, a man marrying another man and a woman marrying another woman,” says Amalaha.
He explains that “God gave me the wisdom to use science as a scientist to prove gay marriage wrong”.
Amalaha says that his ‘groundbreaking’ experiments have shown that the north and south poles of two magnets are attracted to each other while same poles repel each other.
He concludes that this “means that man cannot attract another man because they are the same, and a woman should not attract a woman because they are the same. That is how I used physics to prove gay marriage wrong”.
His other high-school standard experiments include showing that negative ions are attracted to positive ones in the process of electrolysis. “That is what electrolysis is showing us, that gay marriage is wrong in the area of chemistry,” he states.
Despite massive evidence that homosexuality is all too common in nature, Amalaha further insists that biology also indicates that same-sex attraction is unnatural.
“We have seen that the female of a fowl is called hen and the male of a fowl is called a cock. We have never seen where a cock is having sex with a cock and we have never seen where a hen is having sex with another,” the learned man states.
Amalaha claims that he’s the first person in the world to scientifically show that same-sex marriage is wrong, adding “In general, same sex marriage is evil. It should be stopped by those practicing it”.
Disturbingly, his “discoveries” have been backed by Dr. Henry Boyo at the Department of Physics at the University of Lagos. He said: “You can quote me anywhere, the guy’s concept is germane and it has been scientifically proven to be true.”
It’s debatable as to whether the embarrassing article is more damning of the standard of education at the University of Lagos or of the standard of journalism at This Day.
The uncritical and uninformed article is likely to add to the ignorance and prejudice surrounding homosexuality in Nigeria. Current legislation punishes homosexual acts with up to 14 years’ imprisonment, or death by stoning in northern regions of the country.
President Goodluck Jonathan has yet to sign a law passed in parliament in May that will jail anyone involved in same-sex marriage ceremonies (including the guests), anyone showing same-sex affection and anyone who does not turn in gay people to the authorities.
Amalaha plans to have his “work” published in international journals and is intent on winning the Nobel Prize in science. We wish him the best of luck.
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give a dumbwit a white coat and he thinks he’s a scientist, what utter bull..
University of Lagos …. ranked among to 500, no … top 700 still no …. anywhere on QS ranking … another no … with stellar research such as this? Must be some sort of conspiracy …. hell no! Let’s consider the impact of pure stupidity instead.
Scientific proof? What a laugh. Reads more like a grade 2 composition.
AND we continue to appoint Nigerian graduates…….
what a tosser…. yeah, i would say it has something to do WITH THE LACK OF EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS AT THAT UNIVERSITY!!!
http://www.newsacross.com/unilag-don-unmasks-student-presented-as-notable-scientist-by-thisday-newspaper/
Isnt it amazing how gay he looks??
YES HE LOOKS VERY GAY ,MAYBE HE IS IN DENIAL
DISGUSTING LOOKING I’D SAY
You criticise the standard of journalism, “more damming of the standard of education at the University of Lagos or of the standard of journalism at This Day,” while writing “negative irons.” At least you tried.
I’m pretty sure male chickens attempt to mate with other male chickens quite frequently. Happens all over the animal kingdom, even. By his logic, then, I’ve proven that gay marriage is endorsed by biology! I’ll take my honorary degree now, U of L.
Wrong. You forgot in fact how nature discriminates gays. Think about natural selection. They ensure a 100% success rate that gays or lesbians are not allowed to proliferate, thereby eliminating both of their genes from the face of the earth. Others who have come to endorse this same act of homosexuality will also suffer the same fate. Nature may not be able to stop homosexuals ‘at the point in time’, but within decades you will be able to see nature come into effect.
If nature weeds out homosexuality, then how come it still exists?
Oh @Maximillian,
You do understand that homosexuality is understood as a product of evolution, right? Haven’t you actually taken any evolutionary biology?
If homosexual behaviour has a tendency to “breed out”, then why has it been with humans for our entire history? Look at our closest primate relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos: both have societies that engage in homosexual behaviour during *recreational* sex. This is also true of other higher-functioning animals that have recreational sex – namely other species of primates and dolphins.
I would suggest you look at how evolutionary biologists answer the question of homosexuality, and why it’s so persistently widespread in the animal kingdom. Your “deduction” is comedic, at best, and betrays nothing other than pseudo-intellectual motivated reasoning.
Animals can behave in homosexual behavior but that doesn’t make them homosexuals. Homosexuals only have sex with the same sex, making them homosexual. Thus homosexuality is eliminated. What you are referring to is bisexuality…homosexuality is a choice and subsequent choices that, like Maxmillian states, nature discriminates against.
How is being attracted to both a penis and a vagina not a crime (in your books) but being attracted to just a penis (gay) or a vagina (lesbian) one?
if homosexuality is a choice when did you choose to be straight if u are
And pls, no one is going to trust your ‘pretty sure’ beliefs.
You matey, are what open minded people call an ignorant twat
Wow so many racists in comments, just because he’s black doesn’t mean his discoveries are wrong. You all should check your priviledge!
His skin colour has nothing to do with how wrong he is. The so-called “science” he presents, however, has everything to do with it.
Most are not saying he’s wrong because he’s black. Most are saying he’s wrong because, well, it’s absurd.
He’s not wrong because he’s black. He’s wrong because he’s wrong. And the fact that his argument is so baseless despite the fact that he is a university graduate and still so incredibly wrong is worrying for human rights in Nigeria and for the quality of education there. I am aware that this is not necessarily his fault since if we are taught things that are wrong it is very difficult to learn what is right and that I am privileged to have a solid education, but that doesn’t mean that people should accept his psuedo-science.
If he was a white englishman we would be laughing at his teories equaly because his theories are laughable and his methods childlish. In fact, I consider it pretty racist for you to try to use the race card to justify his absurdities. Maybe you are implying that african people should be held to a lower standard?
No, the science is absurd, not his skin color. I wouldn’t have put the skin color into account as when I first read this on social media I realized it was absurd before I even knew which CONTINENT this occurred on.
Oh do get over yourself !
Did anyone mention or even imply this fool’s race or are you just another sorry ass racist contaminating and attempting to hijack yet another discussion and critique of facts (or lack thereof in this case) ?
Please tell me this is a joke? Last time I checked magnets were incapable of possessing emotions, and so to compare the complex human psyche to that of a polarized hunk of metal is absolutely ridiculous. Oh! and you mean to tell me that you’ve never seen a roster attempt to mate with another roster, or a hen mate with another hen? My what shocking news! The fact that other species do exhibit same-sex mating will just be ignored, because like all good scientists of the world, if a specific variable is not to your liking you can just toss it aside and avoid it. The fact the title of the article is saying that this is a scientifically proven argument is absolutely absurd.
He probably just used the rooster example simply so that he could say “we’ve never seen a cock having sex with a cock”. Given how utterly idiotic and juvenile the rest of his arguments are, I wouldn’t put it past him.
“experiments have shown that the north and south poles of two magnets are attracted to each other “…I have many gay male friends and they’ll tell you their north poles are attracted to their mates south so maybe this guy is onto something. Seriously what utter idiocy. Maybe he should use this to tell us that same color marriage is wrong or same religion marriage is wrong. As a “scientist” did he actually try and say that there is no evidence of homosexuality in the animal kingdom or that he regularly watches chickens have sex and he has never seen two males go at it? Maybe he just needs a new hobby.
Air
Fire
Water
Dirt
Magnets how the fuck do they work?
clearly they work by showing us gays are wrong?
How observant. I wonder when he will notice that people are not chickens or magnets….
Apparently this is what passes for science in Africa. I guess that’s why so much technological and scientific innovation comes from that continent. Maybe its also why the continent that’s the richest in natural resources world-wide is also the poorest in the world. Is there any way this can be blamed on white people? Oh yeah… there is: Christian missionaries and evangelical lobbyists have been blamed for this, despite the fact that they’ve had far less success in more developed, less black countries. So yet again, its the white devil’s fault.
‘Wow’ : you’re an idiot. I’m a white African and I’ve seen firsthand what generations of oppression and abuse by white colonialists has done to our continent. Sure, maybe we’re not competitive with America etc just yet, but think about how long you’ve had democracy and equality for and then compare it to most African states. Give us a couple decades more and then we’ll see.
Trent Darson: you make an excellent point. I think this student is the personification of Nigeria’s general homophobia. How about less hating on him, and more concern for a country that persecutes homosexuals? Let’s hope that they don’t pass the law that makes giving your mate a hug illegal!
A couple decades more? Now, forgive me if I’m wrong, but isn’t human life purported to have begun in Africa? Being as that is, it should be the world’s number one superpower, should it not? Strange how human life and civilization started there, and yet it has been left behind by every single developed nation the world over. How much time do you dead weights need exactly. You are like the parent who raises children just so you can mooch off of them once they mature and become independent.
Wow, other than WhiteAfrican, you other two clowns need to check your ignorance and privileges at the door. For starters, Africa has been a long-time victim of colonialism which has naturally inhibited its ability to advance technologically, or fight-off the stealing of their natural resources, including the people themselves (i.e. slavery). The only reason developed nations are ‘superpowers’ is because we ‘mooch’ off the natural resources around the rest of the world, like Africa, through force and other barbaric means.
Ha ha ha, thanks for regurgitating every prevailing assumption of your time as though you’re saying something original and profound.
Tell me, if your simple hypothesis is correct, namely that colonialism and slavery have “held Africa back”, then what accounted for Southern Africa’s lack of development for the 180 000 years before colonialism happened?
Likewise, why didn’t the Barbery coast (present day Algeria and Morrocco) turn into a super power after they enslaved over 1 million Southern Europeans? Likewise, why did that slavery not stop Southern Europe from developing, much as you suppose that later slavery in Africa stopped Africa from developing?
Agreed – these things have an overinflated opinion of themselves
It will forever be the dark continent – nothing has changed since the beginning of time
WTF? Wake up please!
Obviously, he exemplifies the very best of learning and scholarship from a school that would not pass a basic high school grading system in the West…But we have a real genius here folks. Don’t get too close, what he has might influence us in the negative.
I was raised around a homosexual man, to say that there is scientific proof that he “cannot” attract another man is like saying humans an breathe underwater. What “science” is there if two magnets, NOT HUMANS, can attract or repel each other. Last time I checked, I was NOT a magnet. If you are against gay marriage, fine your against it, but don’t go publishing some BS about magnets and say that is how people are supposed to react. Personally, when I watched my gay friend, there was nothing he could do to change it and honestly, I wish him all the happiness in the world with his partner.
I’m sure your friend can actually change their liking towards males, just like many other ex-homosexuals around the world. Maybe you’re just not yet exposed to ex-homosexuals around you and have never heard their story. Also, I wish your friend the best of luck with his partner. Not here to condemn your partner, just to express my views against homosexuals who believe that they are ‘born this way’.
It’s not about whether or not they are ‘born that way’. No one has proved genetic inheritance of homosexuality just as no one as disproved it – this is about human rights and a person’s RIGHT to expect respect for themselves. You’re against gay people, great…that’s perfectly fine. We have racists and sexists and we have homophobes – it’s all just part of ‘society’. However, as despicable as these people may be in your eyes, they deserve to be treated like any other human beings. What you are suggesting is sexual discrimination and that has always proven to be very dangerous territory – back in the day black people couldn’t have sex with white people because it was ‘unnatural’…The morality of homosexuality is a personal thing that is between you and Jesus (or your god[s]) but using ‘high-school’ science to create greater discord in a community that is already on the verge of destroying any rights that homosexual people may have is not just stupid, it’s simply disgusting.
So Maximillian, at what age did you decide to be heterosexual?
Maybe Macmillan should read the latest studies on homophobia…
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Erm…Maximilian, what are you doing on a gay website? What is your interest in all this gayness? is it possible you are an “ex” homosexual yourself- or perhaps a wannabe-homosexual? Why are you so attached to this debate?
Mammals all I’ve the world are attracted to the same sex! If this bull is scientifically proven then how come you can bind atoms of the same origins? I’m 15 years old and know that this is bull crap! And I’m not even the sharpest tool in the shed. Thank you but this is not scientifically proven, just scientifically ignorant! 🙂
His theories are utter bullshit and in my opinion theyre actually proving that gay marraige is okay. If 2 of the “same ions” are attracted to eachother, thats a hell of a lot more significant than 2 “magnets” of opposite poles sticking to any other damn magnet.
Also, if we’re comparing humans to other things in nature, why dont we say that black people are “wilted plants” or that retarded people are “weeds?” Or that old people don’t deserve the right to live because of how short a fly’s lifespan is? We dont say those things, because those things have all had rights movements. Why doesn’t gay marraige have one?
It’s time for people like this asshole to leave the mainstream. I know hes from a different counrltry but even america is homophobic. Weve come a long way against racism/sexism/ageism which is awesome ^_^ but I’m not gonna stop caring until bitches stop hating.
end rant (:
This clown never lived on a farm. Rosters having sex with another roster is very common.
Just because animals do it that’s why we can? Just because lions practice cannibalism that’s why we can? We should not judge what animals do in nature and deem what is right and wrong. Furthermore, by understanding a bit more about the concept of natural selection, which is perfectly under the umbrella of biology, we know how they are ‘indirectly’ discriminated by nature by having their genes completely wiped off from the face of the earth within a few years, and not allowed to have offspring. In this case, I’m referring to the two roosters.
We should not judge what animals do in nature and deem what is right and wrong
Yeah, that’s his whole point. The nigerian guy is trying to use what animals do in nature to decide what’s right and wrong.
Still, trying to prove it using magnets shows he has his branches of science EXTREMELY confused and his homophobia made him “forget” diatomic compounds.
Where is the scientific proof than man and woman are magnets? If a magnet is made with the positive and negative sides the wrong way round (unequal ions in Wrong places , or chromosomes in wrong places in a human for the case in point) it isn’t the expected outcome, doesn’t mean it’s not possible. In scienctific terms, if an error in the ‘magnet making process’ (baby creation proccess) occurs, the outcome of am experiment that requires a baby to be born straight is deemed null due to the variable being extraneous. If a Chemical or chromosome imbalance occurs then the outcome differs to if they are correctly organised. It’s a bit like saying, if you add salt to your dinner it tastes nice and if you add the wrong amount of salt (because your salt dispenser is broken), that you haven’t added the wrong amount of salt because the salt dispenser only gives you what you need, it’s completely ignorant of an error in the salt adding process.
“Win a nobel prize”What? With an analogy that doesn’t even make much sense and 8th grade chemistry?
I would know because I’m on 9th grade and I remember fairly well that everything he said as ions and magnet’s polos I learned at 8th grade.Does he expect to win a nobel prize with this?
And a university backs him up?I’m guessing that the are is,overall,extremly homophobic & religious.
The conclusions reached are about as “scientific” as: ‘what goes up, must come down’.
That’s a dangerous route to take because when he gets to A-Level physics and comes across the strong nuclear force then the only conclusion is if we get close enough we should all be gay!!!
” this was why nations of Sodom and Gomora were destroyed by God because they were into gay practice.”
He’s just another religious idiot who uses fairy tales to justify hate. His scientific opinion is about as valid as a creationist’s… ie: totally baseless, nonsensical, ignorant rubbish. Case closed.
The only thing this guy has accomplished is to give the world such a low view of the standard of education at the University of Lagos so as to jeopardise the prospects of Nigerian college grads the world over. I hope you’re proud of yourself.
Incidentally, please submit the resuls to Materials Science and Enginnering B – I would love to be the guy to review the manuscript, we get so few good laughs at work 😛
Wait until the Tea Party hears about this! Ten buck says that they’ll use this- ahem- research, to justify the next piece of anti-gay legislation.
Magnets prove homosexuals shouldn’t get together? Allow me to offer JUST AS SCIENTIFIC a counterpoint: https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1184952_518242861595883_1896540267_n.jpg
“God gave me the wisdom to use science as a scientist to prove gay marriage wrong”
HAHAH! What a joke!
Wahs. Wrong wif ever1 here just bcos he’s a nigerian dosnt mean yall should insult him gay marriage is wrong go read bible pls
Magnets attract LOTS of stuff SO CROSS SPECIES “mariage”.. :~
ORDER OF THE D A Y…. of course. … My God of Love ….. Who made me & gave me hurdles AND Bridges …. ALL, grounded in Love. The pretense of science as Your Veil of ignorant UNinformed JUDGEMENTS. .. Is against your own religion\ “science”…. and that continually proves itself WRONG.
Nigeria is such a genuine place… Big genuine banks whom are generous etc and now this… Their brains trust is a vacuous edifice on the soul of Africa…
Although the analogy of like poles or charges don’t attract each other can’t be used to prove same sex attractions are wrong, I disapprove of same sex relationships for two practical reasons of my own:
1. When two gay men engage in a sexual act, one has to put his penis in the butt hole of the other thereby touching with his penis feces in the anus and rectum of his partner, which definitely contains some disease causing germs, besides the stink and getting dirty. I believe that to be a constant threat to ones health (like HIV/AIDS) besides being disgusting and degrading IMAO.
2. The fact that gay couples can’t bear children of their own because their natural reproductive system evolved for a completely different type of reproductive intercourse; i.e. a male with a female and not for male with male or female with a female. May be in the future, after millions of years of evolutionary processes, gay male wives may develop a mechanism of bearing an egg through their butt holes and will be able to bear children, and female husbands may develop ways of producing sperm.
Other than these two practical problems, I have no problem with same sex couples.
Putting a penis where Urine comes out is just so much cleaner, and straight people never ever get’s an STD!
1. A lot of gay couples don’t have anal intercourse for that very reason. Gay sex isn’t only about anal. There’s several other ways they can be intimate. To group everyone into that one category is insulting.
2.What about infertile straight men and women? Should they not have sex either because they are incapable of conceiving?
Those aren’t practical problems. That’s just looking at things from one narrow angle.
Your first argument makes me question your sense of hygiene. Unless you are one of those who don’t know how to clean up after deficating then your ass is smelly and dangerous. Both heterosexuals and homosexuals practice anal sex. The process is that the anal is cleaned before insertive sex. Lube is applied and condom is used. Aside, Not all gay sex requires anal sex. Insertive sex is heterosexual oriented. Watching anal sex porn will help you. Let us focus on the sexually transmitted infections/diseases. Both homosexuals and heterosexuals are at risk. Abstainensd
It’s so cute when ignorant bigots try to use science. It’s like watching a dog who looks behind the tv trying to catch the car he just saw speeding by. Man is alpha predator. It has no natural predators. You know what happens in nature when you put an animal in an environment with no predators? It dies off. Put a population of shrews on an island with no predators and in six months the islands will be picked clean of food. In nine months, the shrews will all be dead after they’ve resorted to cannibalism and eaten each other. Nature only has two ways to curb the popular of an alpha predator, disease and homosexuality. If you haven’t noticed, our planet is rapidly running out of resources. Would you prefer a worldwide pandemic to kill off half the population or a few more homosexuals to curb population growth? Which seems like the better alternative. And if you think since gay people can’t procreate so therefore the gay gene can’t be passed on, you need to go back to high school and learn about basic genetics (as explored by a Gregor Mendel- a monk). Both my parents have black hair so that must mean I have black hair, right. Wrong. Me and my sister both have blonde hair and my brother has black hair. Learn about recessive genes before you make yourself look like a bigger idiot and try to wield science again.
And here, your assumption (also your biggest flaw) is that you have rightfully assumed that there is such thing as a gay gene, ignoring how the other possibility, which is how the nature of homosexuality can be developed by environmental factors, still remains logically sound. Let’s face it. There are many ex-homosexuals around the world. If you attribute their original homosexual nature to gay genes, how can you explain then that they are now straight and married with the opposite sex, even having children. At this juncture, if you try arguing that there is no such people that exists that the debate stops here, just because you’ve not done your research.
And here’s the next biggest flaw. I happen to take biology and I have already learnt about recessive genes. Your argument is that recessive genes can be passed on. Thus, you think the gay genes can never be eliminated. If your grandparents are gay, even if your parents are not gay, you still can be gay. Or at least to me that’s how it sounded like.
The argument that follows here (my argument) in rebuttal in fact has nothing much to do with biology. Use logical sense. Genes are only inherited, we know through dominant or recessive genes. By your argument, you are postulating that gay genes can be a type of recessive genes. Tell me, even if they are indeed recessive genes, what does it take for it to be inherited to the offspring? Males mating with males? Female mating with females? Or males mating with females? That’s right. You got it. In the end, gay people still can never pass down their genes.
The example that you gave was perfectly correct, but not suitable to represent homosexuality. Why? You and your sister have blonde hair while your parents have black hair. How so? Because of your grandparents. Why? Because your grandfather and your grandmother went through intercourse, which is a perfectly natural thing to do. If you do not wish to ‘look like a bigger idiot’ and want to instead ‘wield science’ again, then I wish you consider this. The very first step in your example to kickstart the whole process is for a man and woman to have sex and have offspring, which is, we all know, perfectly impossible in the scenario involving two males or two females respectively.
Thinking that genetics comes down to dominant and recessive genes only and not factoring anything else is a mistake almost as big as the Nigerian “scientist”. There is way more to genetics than simple mendelian dominance, the existance of apistatic genes, for example, proves it can’t be done. Also, recessive alleles are maintained in populations and don’t necessarily disappear, otherwise you wouldn’t have, for instance, sickle-cell anaemia, and there are tons of other examples. According to your logic, a heterosexual male could have a recessive gene and so could his wife, and they could have homosexual (recessive homozygotic) children as well as heterozygtic ones. Through these heterozygous the genotypes could be maintained in the population. (Check the Hardy-Weinberg principle and note that heterozygous individuals would have the same fitness a dominant homozygous one would).
Regardless of this student’s ‘discoveries’, the purpose of a reporter is not to sully an article with his worthless opinion – that is the 1st rule of journalism isn’t it? I believe that Luiz DeBarros is about as far out of line as he states that Nigeria’s ‘This Day’ is or the University of Lagos.
Mr DeBarros, just do your job & present the news without bias – you have no license to express what you feel or think…
Oh my fucking God. Or rather his fucking God. Let’s stop humanitarian aid towards Nigeria. For fuck sake what a nitwit.
Seems legit. And his Saturday Night Fever lab coat gives him an air of authority.
In the introduction of the original article, does this guy really say he was the first to prove pi to be an irrational number, or I misread it? Does someone with a little knowledge in math think pi to be equal to 22/7? Maybe the Nigerian equivalent to April foll’s day is in September an this guy is playing some kind of stupid joke.
Yet, in the US this “study” will likely be picked up and used in the ongoing war on their own people 🙂
Reading the comments here have validated my long held view that white gay people are the most prejudice and racist of white folk. During colonisation majority of the colonial workers were gay folks that found life hard in the UK. Nigerians are still traumatised by the wanton male rape that took place in Nigeria by colonial office workers from the 30s to the 50s. No wonder why they have sought to legislate against gay sex. Read the account of Harold Smith a British colonial attachee that spent time in Nigeria in the 1950s and 60s. Have you racists ever thought that in the same way that you want everyone to agree with your sick and immoral lifestyle that I have a right to disagree? The same way I detest heterosexual folks who choose to live a lifestyle of promiscuity? Have you ever thought that I could think of your lifestyle as sick and immoral yet not love you as a person? I have a right to disagree. Same way you have a right to want me to agree. If this dude was white, the comments here would be totally different. For those who claim to know it all, I guess your European/White genius did not save you from the economic meltdown did it? Would you be where you are without the theft of all of Africa’s resources (both human and material )over hundreds of years? Most Western countries are copying the regulatory methods implemented by countries like ….surprise! Nigeria that avoided the meltdown. Despite Boko Haram and kidnappings record numbers of Westerners still flock to her shores. Why? because your greedy asses know that the opportunities are no longer in the West! Your McKinsey, KPMG and Ernst and Young predicted that by 2020 Nigeria will surpass South Africa as the largest economy on the continent. So continue to wallow in your fu%%ing ignorance and racism while the world moves on. Bloody racist fuckwits!
am black and your comments just reeks of pure stupidity
“Amalaha claims that he’s the first person in the world to scientifically show that same-sex marriage is wrong”. Wrong, The Chinese proved a long time ago with Yin & Yang, Egyptians long before that with Ma’at etc. But he has a very valid point, I just wished it was more holistic with more references. 😉
As much fun as it is for people to laugh at him – I still have major beef with the repeated notion that ‘homosexuality is prevalent in nature’. First off ‘homosexuality’ refers specifically to humans (you know that ‘homo’ part?) so that’s impossible. So then that was replacing ‘same gender sex is prevalent in the animal kingdom’. So then, does that mean that these are consenting animals who know they are both male and looking for lifelong marraige, or is it more along the idea of dominating and humiliating another male animal to show who’s in charge – or is it simply odors and reactions? Lastly, when’s the last time a group of dogs built a skyscraper or ran the numbers over at the accounting department. Oh.. right.. there’s like a huge light year of difference between humans and the other animals…
The “homo” part means “same” as in “homogenous” and is the opposite to “hetero” wich means “different”. Hence the antonyms “homosexual” and “heterosexual”. It has nothing to do with humans or animals. A male dog who tries to have sex with another male dog is still engaging in homosexual behavior.
And now (finally) an intelligent lifeforms appears!!! *slow clap*
Um, I’ve definitely tied two backwards magnets together. Even as a kid, just to see what would happen. They stayed together and the world didn’t explode.
If humans are animals, is there anything unnatural about holding two magnets together?
Brah! Do you even science?
His research should be impounded, as it contains weapons-grade Stupid.
It is absolutely not a scientific fact but a terrible analogy to use simply because magnets are only capable of attracting and repelling while humans are capable of so much more. For instance, same poles repel each other in terms of magnets, Same sex people who are gay attract each other! The main rule of disapproval of such union comes from religion and not magnets.
He is correct.
lmaaaaaaaaoooooo..did u just say he is correct?
Bwaaaahahaha MWAAAAHAHAHA Hahahahaha Hahahahaha Hahahahaha.
Hehehe
Calvin, are you serious??
MWAAAAHAHAHA Hahahahaha
“We have never seen where a cock is having sex with a cock and we have never seen where a hen is having sex with another”. The same way, I have never seen a hen painting like Picasso or a cock making music like Mozart. There’s no way to compare animals vs humans. They act by instinct, human behaviour is a lot more complex. And human society/relationships is not a fact of physics/chemistry, but a cultural construction – you cannot measure it on terms of ions or magnets . All his conclusions are laughable.
Are you kidding??? Pat Robertson will be reporting this as ground shattering research! But how sad for all of the gay magnets and ions.
well,to answer a few insinuations here,the total lack of knowledge on show by the so-called science graduate is not a reflection of how bad Nigerian schools are.you just have to get on any Nigerian forum and see how ashamed Nigerians and students of that school feel due to the utter rubbish in his report
Let me just clarify that you just proved that both MEN and WOMEN are then BIPOLAR….! Duh! Didn’t take a genius to figure that out… You can thank me later for helping you with your homework. 😉
I think he’s managed to create the first study too stupid to qualify for an IgNobel prize. Seriously though, it makes me hope that there are no graduates of UoL working at the local hospital.
Guys, it seems you don’t know what this guy is doing. He’s just trying to test his popularity and we all are giving it to him. He’s supposed. Facts are true but they prove nothing to me. Its just he needed traffic on his publication and he is getting it. This is moreso when I see the number of comments on this post. I. Just dey laff oo. Naija too much
This guy makes me ashamed of my country and makes me want to never go back. What an I D I O T !
Don’t be ashamed, man. There’s idiots in every country. We Europeans have our share too.
The fact that the guy is silly does not make homosexuality right. Homosexuality is wrong. All you gays out here should get a grip. You will never be accepted as normal except by hypocrites who never wish your disorder on their own children.
According to the mainstream religions, homosexuality is a sin, is it not? Is it not also a sin to have lustful thoughts, or engage in premarital sex, or to envy, lie, indulge in gluttony or similar? The real anomaly I see in the entire “homosexuality is wrong, Christianity is right” argument is that by your scriptures, sin is sin and will be punished equally, yet you preach that God will be forgiving…. except to homosexuals. Please do explain how homosexuality is worse than the any of the seven deadly sins. Last I checked, it wasn’t even listed there. I’m genuinely curious to hear a well-formulated response to that. Hasn’t happened yet.
@ Nobody of Consequence: Very truly, almost all of the above mentioned are sins and all attract equal punishment, anyone who claims there is more punishment for a homosexual against a fornicator is wrong. a true Christian abstains from all these. However, lustfully looking or thoughts being mentioned in the Bible is explained as a consequential act if not controlled. Every man admires a woman BEFORE he marries her, but where it becomes wrong is when a married or single man makes it a habit to lust at women generally, like some guys who strip a lady naked with just their eyes or guys who habitually fantasize sex with ladies. The fact remains that both HOMOSEXUALITY AND FORNICATION ARE SERIOUS SINS against GOD.
Some persons have abnormal cravings, like those who pull and eat their hair, eat rocks and stuff. The practice of these abnormalities should not make them legal as the eventual consequences are disastrous, like the lady who underwent surgery to remove a massive ball of hair – an accumulation of years of hair pulling and eating. In the same vein, homosexuality is an abnormal craving. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NATURAL about it. It is strongly condemned in the Bible – a fact no homosexual has been able to refute – which is why most homosexuals have resorted to atheism so as not to be responsible towards the Bible’s viewpoint. I would appreciate someone expounding on the point being made in Romans 1:24 – 27. Also, how natural is an act that makes a human wear pads just to cope with a leaking backside as a result of gay sex? And please, if it is God-oriented, why was there no natural provision for conception by both sexes? I don’t want insults from myopic-reasoning individuals, let those who truly believe in their homosexual course JUSTIFY their belief by REASONABLY answering these questions. Thanks.
Clearly this is laughable drivel. However Mr Amalaha is a dangerous idiot and the sooner he’s silenced the better.
Leaving his homosexuality “work” aside for a moment, has anyone read his full interview on ThisDay detailing his other research! At one point he claims to have proved that pi does not equal 22/7. What genius! I wonder how he managed this? Did he, perhaps, read a maths textbook?
Yeah. Have you noticed how he tries to discredit Nigerian science authorities and then proceeds to lament that he lacks the funding to publish in international journals. (as if Science or Nature are going to even look at this rubish) I suspect this guy is trying to use religous and anti-intellectual sentiments to take money from ignorant Nigerian people.
Without any prejudice to this article but a total commitment to the spirit of excellence in knowledge, character and service to humanity; I hereby wish to express my profound regret over the unfortunate and misleading impressions created by the out-of-context claims relating to the “Science of Gay Marriage” by a Nigerian, Mr. Stanley Chibuihem Amalaha. It is with every sense of responsibility that I wish to dissociate the University of Lagos and the person of Dr. Henry Boyo from the frivolous and unfounded correlations intended to be established in the embarrassing media show. I want to assure you all that Mr. Stanley Chibuihem Amalaha lacks the background in any research work certified by the University of Lagos, to reach such conclusion. I believe that his claims are rather his personal views which the media chose to give publicity. I had my first and second degrees, in Biochemistry and Public & International Affairs, respectively, both from the University of Lagos. I understand unequivocally, the philosophy, science and politics associated with gay discourse; which may be spatial, but linked to genetics, values and interests. I work with the University as a Coordinator and I am also very aware of the standard of education. I implore you, all, to disregard the claims as very naive. Please, feel free to visit our website: http://www.unilag.edu.ng and see a disclaimer published by the authority on the matter. Best regards.
allAfrica.com atributes the quaote “I have known him (Stanley) for the past five years. He is a very sound guy. He is genuine in terms of his scientific discoveries” to Dr. Boyo. If the quote is true, then Boyo is a crank and you can’t dissociate him from the absurdities of Amalaha, if its false then the dishonesty of allAfrica is overhelming. But would’t be the first time the media is overhelmingly dishonest even at the cost of a scientist good name.
It looks that I missatributed the blame. The original article is from Thisday, allAfrica is only the news aggregator where I read it. My apologies to allAfrica.
woooow guys take it easy. it seems he dont know what he is doing. : blicklion42gh@yahoo.co.uk
Someone needs to give this guy some dick, like proper
Best to ignore these imbeciles – so much more to life
jeez guys stop bring this colour issues into sexuallity jeez well I can tell you now becouse he is doingt sicnce doesnt mean he can come and play God coz let me tell you now he is playing with fire so I dont give a rates ass what he says about gay marriege in fact he can go fuck him self and get a fucking life
Learn to spell and write proper English sentences as a start !
so please stop with this racism ok its disgusting how people can treat one other .
I for one I love men regardless of what race they are they are so sexy and so unique in ther own way and i Find black men so sexy hot so I dont care what this shit head says I am not gonna let any one tell me how to live my life this is my life so I can live my life like I want too and dont come into Johannesburg with that ante gay shit coz you will see your ass right out of this country so back off with your homophic attacks on us gays coz we will show you who we really are try us i promise you will so regreet brining your anti gay stuff here
Good for you ! Wonder who actually cares ?
Oh my gosh – these things do get dumber by the minute don’t they ?
I will make damn sure I will not stand too close too him for I am extremely in the negative regarding his statement and he obviously feeling very positive about himself…………we might just fall INLOVE…..through his “scientific fact”.
One has to despair for the future of science in Nigeria if this is the best they have.
Wow he look so gay himself and ugly. No guy will want to marry him, now he turn into science. Common even a grade 1 pupil knows about magnets. Use your mind for better cause you fool.
By his summation, I shouldn’t be gay. That begs the question why I AM gay. Luckily, intelligent people the world over will laugh this utter rubbish out of the public discourse without hesitation. And a Nobel Prize isn’t even a distinct possibility. Nigerian homophobia sinks deeper into the cesspool of its ignorance.
What absolute nonsense is this?! How can this even be published? And this in the name of science, primary school science that is. His facts sure are very far from correct. There are several animal species for which documented evidence of homosexual behavior of one or more of the following kinds: sex, courtship, affection, pair bonding, or parenting exists, as noted in researcher and author Bruce Bagemihl’s 1999 book Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. WIKIPEDIA ONLINE, accessed 2013. I wonder why animals would choose to be gay? Gay people please accept straight people for being straight, whether by choice or not, and straight people please accept gay people for being gay, whether by choice or not. Live together in peace and happiness.
So are white lions or tigers also not natural…but they are real so age gay people. I do respect heterosexual people and want the same from them
dumb ass. is thid what call a scientists. shameful.
I guess if I studied there I would probably have published out of my first year assignments for Psychology 1 and become Professor by 24 and dean by 25.
Someone left the farm gate open and the village idiot wondered out of the field and into the press….
Holly crap that siencist is talking absoluty fucking bull shit as far as I am concerned I mean who does he think he is gosh I think he must back the fuck off and leave us gays alone morther fucker
Oh dear Lord, first of all the dude’s an A-grade dumbf***. Second, homophobes why are you even reading and commenting on this article? Third, race has got NOTHING to do with the article so stop the hate for black people and blaming white people for what happened in the past. Really I could swear, not even a seven year old is as ignorant as this “scientist” and some of the commentators. In my opinion everybody should be an “ignophobe”, the fear of being near ignorant and stupid people! Topic dead and buried please!!
You haven’t seen the last of this: nigerians will continue to make a global spectacle of themselves in their bid to justify their barbarity.
No decent healthcare, very few schools with decent learning resources (blackboard & chalk in the 21st century?), poor public transport and transport infrastructure, poor public safety & security (living behind cages and maximum security fencing is not normal), disgraceful electricity and water supply (even in relatively affluent neighbourhoods in the commercial capital – Lagos)……una never know wetin dey pain una for body! As the great man Fela said, “….me I say na your fault be that..” WAKE UP!
This student is entitled to his opinion. I wonder why u gay guys are busy whinning about his discoveries instead of shattering ur assholes. We still want our generations to continue. If u people think what u r doing is right, why then do u adopt children? Why don’t u produce from your same sex marriages?
U ignoramus asshole many gay couples have adopted children abandoned and abused by straight bastards who just want the sex without the responsibility. So many of them. And the gay couples raise them in an unprjudiced way many grow up to be heterosexual its their right and choice no one can tell you what you must be in life. I was raised by a a heterosexual couple so why am I not straight. Do you think anyone in their right mind would choose to be ridiculed and teased if they had a choice. Watch a prayer for bobby a true story. One of many teenagers who chose to throw himself in front of a 10 ton truck rather than be himself in a selfish world of ignorant bigots like you. A perfectly normal gentle soul wasted because of assholes like you.
I can’t believe this discussion. Sexuality is extremely diverse and prevalent in all aspects of nature. Many species are both sexes and self reproductive. And here it comes a spanner in the works have we all forgotten hamaphrodites exist. Who died made us god. Why are people so obsessed with other private lives and choices and is there not serious problems to deal with other than who chooses to love who. Mmm if anything is disgusting its beastiality its just wrong in so many ways. And of course rape both straight and gay. And let’s not forget the world is overpopulated and inpoverished imagine gays were straight our problem would be so much worse. Sigh what a narrow minded lot of bigots. I think they do protest too much. Yes. I have seen many homosexuals in denial and they are the worst.
Let’s elaborate about hamaphrodites. These are people born with both a penis and a vagina. So where do they fit into your scientific theory. Mmm its a sick society we live in where some have decided that everything is just black and white and if someone dares to be different or original they treat them badly. And that’s exactly why we have so many disfunctional people because they are forced through an academic school for example despite the fact they have other natural abilities they are deemed worthless and stupid if they are not good at the 6 subjects offered. We are self destructive. Its time to develope the wonderful multi faceted diamonds that make up a thriving happy world stop forcing people and in fact God into a mould. We hate or look down on anyone who practices a different religion or culture. And even worse this racist shit. Man its time to live and let live focus on your life your skills and contribute to society in a humane manner. If someone has not offended you in a selfish and purposeful way leave them be. Spread the love stop the hate speech. If you don’t like a lifestyle or whatever no one is forcing it on you. How would you like to be forced to have gay sex if your straight. I don’t think so. So leave the homosexuals alone and stop forcing them to uprise . Some of the greatest warriors and armies leaders and Kings were Homosexual just look at History and science. No not the censored version offered in schools but the truth behind it.
i prefer eba lol