Critiques of Facilitated Communication
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): facilitatedcommunication.com
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025
”Stuart Vyse, an expert on superstition, pseudoscience, and critical thinking, discusses the resurgence of discredited autism communication techniques like Facilitated Communication (FC) and Spelling to Communicate (S2C). Despite being scientifically debunked, these methods persist due to parental desperation and social media amplification. The podcast The Telepathy Tapes promotes pseudoscienfic claims of telepathic abilities in non-speaking autistic individuals, further fueling misinformation. Vyse emphasizes the responsibility of scientists to counteract such claims and highlights cognitive biases that sustain them. He warns of dangerous, unproven autism treatments and stresses the need for evidence-based perspectives to challenge pseudoscience effectively.”
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