THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED, UNTIL IT WASN’T: Study claiming hate cuts 12 years off gay lives retracted. “After years of back and forth, a highly cited paper that appeared to show that gay people who live in areas where people were highly prejudiced against them had a significantly shorter life expectancy has been retracted. . . . Although the retraction notice lacks a date — like many published by Elsevier in the past year or so — we understand that it went online on February 7 of this year. Neither of the journal’s editors in chief responded to a request for comment. [See update at end of post.] More than three dozen of the citations to the paper came after its December 2017 correction.”