Vocativ appears to be another fake nerd website. According to their site:

Coupling the power of cutting-edge technology with a take-no-prisoners attitude toward newsgathering and storytelling, Vocativ is out to push the limits, cut through the spin and engage with the digital generation.

There is an untapped world of raw, vital information hidden in the digital space. Until now, no news organization has had the ability to reach it, let alone understand it. Vocativ’s proprietary technology navigates the deep web, homing in on the part of the Internet that search engines can’t reach, to discover the stories other news organizations cannot.

That means they are a bunch of liberal arts majors from second and third tier private schools. They have high average IQ, but are convinced they are Mensa members. The closest thing they have to a STEM guy on their staff is an economics major.

Anyway, this piece is something we can expect much more of now that resistance to the homosexialization of the culture has collapsed. Fanatics never pack up and go home once they won. Instead they find new ways to be an irritant. That means all of the homosexual marriage fanatics are foraging for a new way to bang the drum queerly.

‘‘I love a quick cuddle. Just so you remember your friends are around and are there for you.” This is John, a self-identified straight guy who took part in a study investigating attitudes toward same-sex cuddling at a university in the U.K. Researchers found that 97.5% of heterosexual, male college athletes have shared a bed with another guy and 93.5% have indulged in spooning. “We very often have hangover cuddles and naps together,” reported another participant named Max.

The findings were published in the latest issue of the journal Men and Masculinities. In it, researchers Eric Anderson and Mark McCormack describe how changing attitudes toward homosexuality have lessened stigma around nonsexual contact, and that the majority of young men now have no problem being affectionate with their friends—a particularly common trend among those on sports teams.

Like all pseudo-science, this nonsense relies on dimwitted reporters to get no further than the executive summary.

“As part of my ethnographic work on sports teams, as well as interview research on athletes and nonathletes, I find that cuddling in bed is a normal and acceptable part of heterosexual male youth culture in England,” Anderson tells Vocativ, adding that it’s becoming increasingly common across the pond. “Friends are tactile with each other in other locales as well,” he says. “I show that it occurs among high school runners in California.”

The sociologists deliberately focused on athletes to gauge the changing beliefs of a group traditionally thought to harbor negative opinions about same-sex contact. Conducting qualitative interviews with a small sample size of 40, Anderson says their responses were consistent with his earlier research. A total of 39 out of 40 said they have shared beds, usually after a night out, and 37 said they often fall asleep spooning.

There we go. Asking 40 British school boys if they shared a bed with another male is the basis of the “study.”

The reason for this, researchers believe, is that homophobia is on the decline, and intimate contact is no longer seen as a breach of masculinity. A recent national survey found that 29% of British adults think same-sex relationships are wrong, a sharp drop from 46% in 2000. It’s backed up by data from the Pew Research Center, which found that 74% of Americans born after 1980 believe that homosexuality should be accepted by society.

Now the picture is complete. The Cult wants to believe they have changed 50,000 of human evolution, which they reject out of hand. Anyone promising “proof” of the result can make some money. Social science is a lot like the low end of the drug market. When demand is high, guys selling home made meth and heroin cut with brick dust get top dollar. The Cult is buying anything that supports their claims about homosexuals so the market is strong for junk science like this.