It's just pathetic, check this TPM Muckraker article on the GAO investigation into abstinence education programs funded by the Dept of Health and Human Services.

In a new report on publicly-funded abstinence programs, a government watchdog charged that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) allows programs to distribute inaccurate sex information to kids, and suggested the agency clean up its act.

But in its defense, HHS argued that it doesn't know how to tell whether something is "scientifically accurate."

According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), HHS last year spent $153 million on abstinence education programs -- including my favorite, "A.C. Green's Game Plan Abstinence Program," developed by the famously abstinent onetime NBA superstar (ironic nickname: "Ironman").

Set aside the issue of whether they do any good. GAO tried to see if they did any harm, and concluded they did: Some of the abstinence programs are telling kids stuff that just isn't true. The GAO cites one program which told kids that HIV can pass through latex condoms, because latex is porous. (That's false.)

The GAO gave the reasonable-sounding recommendation to HHS that it ensure that all information given to kids through these programs should be scientifically accurate.

If only the world were so simple! In response, the Department of Health and Human Services -- which has on staff more than a few scientists and other educated types -- said the GAO's suggestion was useless. "GAO never defines the term 'scientific accuracy' in its report," HHS complained. "As such, it is difficult to precisely determine the criteria employed by GAO in making the recommendations as to scientific accuracy."

Here's a hint. Total bald-faced lies are not scientifically accurate.

Dumbasses.

**Update** For even more abstinence-based baloney, check out PZ's post on the latest abstinence-based loony to be appointed by Bush to oversee Title X funding (also here and here).

Here's a piece of this Keroack guy's illogic:

Emotional pain causes our bodies to produce an elevated level of endorphins which in turn lowers the level of oxytocin. Therefore, relationship failure leads to pain which leads to elevated endorphins which leads to lower oxytocin the result of which is a lower ability to bond. Many in this increased state of emotional pain and lower oxytocin seek sex as a substitute for love which inevitably leads to another failed relationship, and so, the cycle continues.

Not only is this just silly, and unproven, but it's actually contradictory to existing science. One, you're not going to run out of oxytocin from sex unless someone cuts off your freaking pituitary gland after they have their way with you. Two, where is the paper showing "relationship failure" leads to elevated endorphins, or that endorphins have a negative relationship with oxytocin and emotional bonding? If anything the exact opposite is true, sex is well known to increase endorphin levels and oxytocin release. It also suggests married couples who have a lot of sex will start hating each other rather than the other way around.

This is what sucks about denialists, all the work you have to go into disproving BS that they can just make up on the spot. This guy is pulling stuff out of his ass that isn't even superficially believable.