This just in: Offensively anti-intellectual Heritage Foundation continues to support poor research

Surprise, surprise, without resorting to rigorous methodology, the Heritage Foundation has released a study stating that teens who take virginity pledge are less likely to engage in sexual behavior or have an STD.

Independent experts called the new findings provocative, but criticized the Heritage team's analysis as flawed and lacking the statistical evidence to back its conclusions. The new findings have not been submitted to a journal for publication, an author said. The independent experts who reviewed the study said the findings were unlikely to be published in their present form.

Perhaps because Heritage used a much less rigorous standard for their data? Well, they just want to "let the readers decide" about their misleading report.

Also the Heritage foundation, unlike the earlier study that it struggles to rebut, relies on self-reporting for its analysis. Oh, if I was a teenager, I would absolutely report that I had contracted chlamydia, if I was even aware of that fact.

Then, "In an unusual feature of a scientific report, the Heritage team said that Dr. Bearman's team "deliberately misled the press and the public" about some of its findings." Unusual feature of a scientific report? Isn't this the Heritage Foundation, making this, you know, a political report?