Bush administration officials cautioned against drawing sweeping conclusions from the study.
Officials said one lesson they learned from the study is that the abstinence message should be reinforced in subsequent years to truly affect behavior.
“This report confirms that these interventions are not like vaccines. You can’t expect one dose in middle school, or a small dose, to be protective all throughout the youth’s high school career,” said Harry Wilson, the commissioner of the Family and Youth Services Bureau at the Administration for Children and Families.
This just in: rational thought about scientific experimentation turns out to be a useful tool when it furthers policy. 'The reason this faith-based effort showed zero beneficial results is due to the fact that we have to do more of it. Hang in there.'
