### [2012-05-19](/feed/2012/05/19/index.md)

##### Robert Spitzer
# Retired American psychiatrist Robert Spitzer apologises for his "fatally flawed" study, published in 2001, which falsely lent credence to the myth that gay people could be "cured". 




### Sources:

1. [The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/19/psychiatrist-admits-gay-cure-study-flawed)