Facilitated Communication is Not Science
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Parents, educators, researchers, and others concerned about the promotion of Facilitated Communication, a thoroughly discredited but persistent technique.
Joined May 2021
RT @SusanGerbic: Terrific job by Janyce Boynton and the @NZSkeptics Who were very prepared to talk #faciliatedcommunication and #thetelepha….
podcast.skeptics.nz
In this episode of the Yeah… Nah! podcast there’s just one topic on all of our minds – The Telepathy Tapes. Bronwyn, Mark and Katrina talk to Janyce Boynton from the US about the world of Facilitated...
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RT @AltB56073878: Once again, experts aren’t consulted and logic isn’t applied, cuz nothing should get in the way of yet another feel-good….
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Viraj Dhanda's norm-shattering acceptance was made all the more poignant because he was considered intellectually challenged for the first 14 years of his life.
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Joe Rogan's interview with Telepathy Tapes Host Ky Dickens: the stuff of conspiracy theories, fantasy, and urban legends (Part 3).
facilitatedcommunication.org
Today’s blog post is the third installment of my review of Joe Rogan’s interview with Telepathy Tapes host Ky Dickens. I’d intended for this to be the last blog post in the series but based on the...
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RT @AltB56073878: “'She’s never picked up a book… that I’m aware of,' her mother notes. “One of many red flags that raises serious qs abt….
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Disability Scoop on "Communication Method Finally Gives Nonverbal Woman a Voice".
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In the next few posts, I’ll be looking at some of the news items from our recent news roundup in greater depth. Proceeding in chronological order, I’ll begin with the January 10th article in Disabi...
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RT @AltB56073878: “Proponents claim the sole reason FC got a bad name was bc of a handful of “poorly trained” facilitators who misused FC &….
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RT @DrJerroldCoe: @thaxter @geofflawrence77 @FCisnotScience THEN she talks about the controversy, but only minimally and in a way that make….
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RT @DrJerroldCoe: @thaxter @geofflawrence77 @FCisnotScience Part of it is also just down to how the podcast minimizes the presence of facil….
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RT @DrJerroldCoe: @thaxter @geofflawrence77 @FCisnotScience I think that's on purpose, to set up that exact dichotomy of pretending FC crit….
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RT @DrJerroldCoe: @thaxter @geofflawrence77 @FCisnotScience There's a difference between FC and actual forms of AAC which give people a voi….
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Review of Joe Rogan's interviews with Telepathy Tapes host, Ky Dickens: The stuff of conspiracy theories, fantasies, and urban legends (part 2).
facilitatedcommunication.org
Today’s blog post is a continuation of my review of a February 2025 interview Joe Rogan did with Telepathy Tapes host Ky Dickens. The Telepathy Tapes is a popular podcast series trying to bypass the...
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RT @AltB56073878: “Dickens “blinded” the wrong ppl. Instead of preventing the facilitators from [knowing the answers], Dickens gave [them]….
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Review of Joe Rogan's interview with Telepathy Tapes host Ky Dickens: The Stuff of Conspiracy Theories, Fantasy, and Urban Legends (Part 1).
facilitatedcommunication.org
A couple months ago, a commenter on my YouTube channel “dared” me to listen to Joe Rogan’s interview with Ky Dickens . Dickens is the credulous documentarian responsible for the Telepathy Tapes...
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RT @DrJerroldCoe: @jimtemu @FCisnotScience Even if the telepathy idea wasn't an obvious post hoc excuse, even if there was any real meat to….
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RT @DrJerroldCoe: @jimtemu @FCisnotScience That is what especially sickened me about the Telepathy Tapes' ringer "skeptic" episode, where B….
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RT @jimtemu: @DrJerroldCoe @FCisnotScience One of the most tragic aspects of this remains how our we have normalized using disabled childre….
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I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during the discussions about settling the case, but still, we can learn a lot about the "experts'" testimonies.
“Standing outside in the snow in the middle of the neighborhood cemetery, I asked myself the same question I’d asked myself in Courtroom 15B on December 2nd after A.L. typed out his first response about was happening in a picture. Why didn’t I see this coming?”.
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Yes, we'll probably never know the reasons behind the settlement, but we can still learn a lot when S2C "experts" are asked to explain their actions in a court of law. None of them had any reliably controlled evidence to explain their belief in S2C.
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RT @DrJerroldCoe: The difference between being presented via (dishonest) audio in the Telepathy Tapes and through slickly edited promotiona….
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