[email protected] wrote: > > http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/blogs/paging.dr.gupta/2007/10/giving-autism- > voice.html > [In this blog, Gupta _reports_ on FC, but I see little indication that > he's promoting it. He notes that it is controversial and explains why, > and even says after apparently being taken in by some, "In some cases, I > was a bit more skeptical."
Only immediately after saying "I saw many people using facilitated communication, or FC, effectively in various ways." And immediately before saying "For sure, it is amazing to hear the thoughts of people..." Doesn't sound very skeptical to me. Instead, it sounds very much like the fake debate junk that we get from the media about creationism, climate change (and everything else that will make more money pitched as a "controversy" than as a long-since settled scientific matter). > but as advocacy goes, this is pretty mild stuff.] > So "mild" advocacy of facilitated communication is okay from the Surgeon General? If it was information he wanted to provide rather than "excitment," he could have gone with the APA's line"facilitated communication is a controversial and unproved communicative procedure with no scientifically demonstrated support for its efficacy" (which is quoted in the second article (for which he does not have a by-line) but then is not-so-subtly undermined throughout the rest of the article. He's not hoping to be simply the happy face of a cable channel's medical features anymore. Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
