Association Of Alberta Sexual Assault Services According to 2003 data from the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, a significant number of Canadian sexual assault survivors (as reported to 154 police agencies) are male: Gay or disabled men can become targets for sexual assault. Research into the sexual assault of adult men is limited. However, one American study (Isley & Gehrenbeck-Shim, 1997) makes these observations: Like women, male child abuse survivors pay a heavy price. Men commit most sexual assaults against other men. Berrill, K.T. (1990). Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics. (2003). Holmes, W. and Slap, G. (1998). Isley P. and Gehrenbeck-Shim, D. (1997). McClennen, J., Summers, A. and Vaughan, C. (2002). Sobsey, D. (1994).
Non-possession: seeking intense simplicity and the good life Fact-Checking the Bill Nye-Marsha Blackburn Climate Change 'Debate' If you are not the sort of person who watches Meet the Press (because you are not an old person), you may have missed Sunday's "debate" between Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn and Mr. William Nye, Science Guy. Allow me to summarize: There is no actual debate over climate change. I pulled out the assertions presented by the participants in the discussion and evaluated them for truth. Here's an example of how this will work. Al Roker: Is it a natural cycle? Rating: False What Roker's doing here is what you might call skepticism-once-removed. It is humanity's fault, at least according to the same scientists that say it is happening, which is nearly every climate scientist with only a few isolated exceptions. That was an error before the discussion even began, compiled when host David Gregory showed a snippet of a climate change denier from the Cato Institute, which was completely wrong. So what did the guests have to say? Blackburn: But that's intentionally misleading. Nye: David Gregory: