Brain wiring link to paedophilia

Getting what you deserve.

Years ago I predicted that once we got on the slippery slope of making excuses for people's bad behavior re: unfitness, by conjuring up the bogeymen of genetics, infections, etc., it was only a matter of time before we would start to use them for criminal behaviors.

Here goes:

"Researchers used sophisticated MRI scans to compare the brains of paedophiles and non-sexual criminals.

Paedophiles had significantly less of a substance called 'white matter', responsible for wiring the different parts of the brain together.

The study, by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, appears in the Journal of Psychiatry Research."

And look who is implicated in this.

"The study follows work by Yale University which uncovered differences in the thought patterns of paedophiles."

Yale. The same people who bring you David Katz and Kelly Brownell and who refused to act promptly when Jorge Cruise and David Katz, perhaps dishonestly (you decide), appropriated its name for a faux endorsement. (see here and here.)

"However, Dr Cantor stressed the latest study did not suggest that paedophiles could not be held criminally responsible for their actions.

He said: 'Not being able to choose your sexual interests doesn't mean you can't choose what you do.'"

Wanna bet?

Just ask a criminal defense attorney.

Enjoy your slope.

Don't say I didn't warn you.