A report from the Centers for Disease Control seems to indicate that condom-based sex-education is effective, while claiming the jury is still out on abstinence-education.
A team of independent experts released the report, but the findings were not endorsed by every member of the panel.
Irene Ericksen, a researcher and project manager at the Institute for Research and Evaluation, was part of a minority report that found comprehensive sex-education in school classrooms did not significantly increase teen condom use or reduce teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections.
"They have not communicated important findings in the data," she said.
Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, said the panel was stacked with comprehensive sex-education proponents.
"Members of the panel that conducted the meta-analysis were not necessarily neutral," she said. "It's hard to imagine that that lack of neutrality did not, at least in part, influence the summary recommendations from that panel."
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