Young Women In Love 06 October 2005 Zain Shauk: Are teenage girls who have sex 12 times more likely to kill themselves, and do CAT scans of their brains, when they're in love, really resemble those of drug users, brimming with addictive stimulation? Maybe, maybe not. But there's no finding out from Capital reporter Pete Holley's glowing, and skepticism-free, article on Pure Freedom: a Maryland-based, Christian abstinence program that spreads its word with Bible text, zany audience participation, modesty fashion shows, and plenty of claims regarding "social science" statistics like those above. Fair enough, but while Holley includes the claims of the abstinence advocates, he fails to qualify, or contextualize the information by including comments from a neurologist or unaffiliated social scientist: an ommission that could lead readers to take Pure Freedom's claims as fact, instead of interpretation, or propaganda.
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