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If a method fails every controlled test, it’s not misunderstood. It’s wrong.
Facilitated Communication keeps coming back because people confuse belief with proof.
This piece walks through the history and the damage without sugarcoating it: https://ow.ly/XPBh50Y3Zsx
“Everyone is in favor of critical thinking. That’s evidence the term is in danger of becoming meaningless.”
A 2006 Skeptical Inquirer essay that aged better than most hot takes: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2006/03/critical-thinking-what-is-it-good-for-in-fact-what-is-it/
Wicked fans talk good vs bad. Skeptics know it’s belief vs evidence.
Malorie Mackey + Michael Maldonado talk about what happens when a believer and a skeptic share a life + why changing minds is slower than any song.
Dec 4 • 7pm ET
Free livestream: https://ow.ly/3TQQ50Xz9pK
. @kevinfolta.bsky.social: "Both men advanced to positions overseeing a vital national interest ... And by understanding the history of an unqualified person driving nonscientific decisions in scientific public policy, perhaps we can avoid another disaster."
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