consented to another interview and reiterated: “There is not a single all-powerful gay gene, and for the record, there is no gay gene” (Gallagher 1998:1). Often researchers, in qualifying their findings, will use scientific language that is unfamiliar to the non-scientific community. Although to their fellow scientists the researchers have been honest in acknowledging the limitations of their findings, the media does not always receive the same understandings. As a result, this evades general understanding