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| Written by James Randi |
| Monday, 23 November 2009 20:42 |
| I'm enraged. Several perceptive persons have sent me to msnbc.com - where we can see Dr. Nancy Snyderman relating a story. It's a heartrender, described thus by Dr. Snyderman: A mother [in Belgium] says her son has emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state to say he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed. No, that is not what the man said, Dr. Snyderman. That's what an incompetent layperson typed for him! I ask you to first go to http://tinyurl.com/y8lku48, and note the section of the video from 12 to 35 seconds, then come back here. This is yet another obvious example of abysmal, practiced, purposeful ignorance by medical personnel - including Dr. Snyderman and her staff who prepared this piece. I cannot understand how anyone, professional medical person or layman, can continue to believe that the farce known as "Facilitated Communication" [FC] represents anything other than a fantasy that was begun back in 1977, when an Australian woman named Rosemary Crossley came up with the idea that autistic persons could express their thoughts via a keyboard when their hand was "supported" by what she called a "facilitator." In 1989, Douglas Biklen, a sociologist and professor of special education at Syracuse University, eagerly took up her cause, and as a result vast sums were donated to SU by friends and family members of autism victims - money that was simply wasted in futile "research." I personally investigated this matter. In March of 1992 I was contacted by Dr. Anne M. Donnellan, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who asked if I would be willing to participate in an investigation of FC as used with autistic children. I was already familiar with FC, and suggested to her that I felt the researchers were perhaps under the influence of the Clever Hans Effect [CHE], also known as the "ideomotor effect," in which the trainer - the facilitator in this case - was unconsciously transmitting the information to the autistic child. This possibility was emphatically denied by Dr. Donnellan, and I was assured that every care had been taken to ensure that the CHE was not in operation. The Clever Hans Effect is notorious in psychology. Early in the last century, a horse named Clever Hans - in German, der Kluge Hans - was claimed to have been able to perform arithmetic and other simple intellectual tasks. In 1907, psychologist Oskar Pfungst showed conclusively that the horse was not actually performing these mental tasks, but was reacting to cues provided by his trainer. My tests of autistic children at the University of Wisconsin-Madison clearly showed that FC was simply a tragic farce. My findings were totally ignored. The full account of this matter will be discussed in detail in my next book, A Magician in the Laboratory. The "facilitated communication" process consists of the "facilitator" actually holding the hand of the subject over the keyboard, moving the hand to the key, then drawing the hand back from the keyboard! This very intimate participatory action lends itself very easily to transferring the intended information to the computer screen. In the video you have just viewed, it is very evident that (a) the "facilitator" is looking directly at the keyboard and the screen, and (b) is moving the subject's hand. The video editing is also biased, giving angles that line up the head of the subject with the screen, as if the subject were watching the screen. This man in the msnbc.com piece is not seeing the screen. He is not aware of what is going on. He is an unknowing victim of these charlatans. A simple test - such as that done on October 19th, 1993, in a Frontline (PBS) documentary highlighting these concerns, "Prisoners of Silence," would prove that FC is a total fraud. This powerful and comprehensive program proved that FC was a delusion. Dr. Snyderman, how did this get by you? The evidence is right there on the screen! Others have solved this fraud. The Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI), the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the American Association on Mental Retardation, have no doubts about this. ABAI calls FC a "discredited technique" and warns that "its use is unwarranted and unethical." The Association for Science in Autism Treatment reviewed the research and position statements and concluded that the messages typed were controlled by the facilitator, not by the individual with autism, and that FC did not improve language skills. We critics of FC question why people can apparently give speeches in public - via a keyboard and a "facilitator" - and go to college - similarly "assisted" - yet they cannot answer a series of simple questions under controlled conditions! Psychologist Daniel Wegner, professor of psychology at Harvard University and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has stated that facilitated communication is a striking example of the ideomotor effect, and tests of FC show that it is a complete fraud, farce, and delusion! Please, Dr. Snyderman, may we hear from you, in light of what appears here? |
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Per-Anders Pettersson såg en kvinna bli överfallen av en man.Han tog sin domkraft och slog till gärningsmannen. En gång. Två gånger.Det förändrade hans liv för alltid.– Hade jag vetat vad det skulle kosta mig hade jag nog inte gripit in, säger han.
Förjävligt, eller hur, att döma en hjälte till fängelse sådär? Om vi citerar Damon Rasti och läser på lite noggrannare vad som hände FÖRUTOM det som skrivs i tidningarna så blir bilden lite annorlunda:
Det som inte riktigt framkommer i tidningsartiklar är följande: Per-Anders var ingen tillfällig hjälte som dök upp. Han hade haft dispyter med den berusade gärningsmannen (GM) sen tidigare. Han fick också höra att han betedde sig illa i byn och tog med sig en domkraft hemifrån.
Efter att ha kommit fram till brottsplatsen skriker han åt GM och frågar vad han håller på med. Då avbryter GM sitt strypgrepp och vänder sig om, medan han fortfarande sitter i bilen. Per-Anders slår då det första slaget mot GM:s axel. Ett slag som tingsrätten bedömde som nödvärn. GM kommer då ut ur bilen, och det finns tydligen inget som säger att han ska attackera Per-Anders. Övergreppet var tillfälligt avvärjt. Och hade Per-Anders nöjt sig här hade han gått fri.
Men Per-Anders tar domkraften och slår ett hårt slag i huvudet på GM - som är obeväpnad - och spräcker skallen på honom. Det är där tingsrätten anser att Per-Anders går för långt, över nödvärnet, och jag är benägen att hålla med. Det är ett slag som i värsta fall hade kunnat döda GM. Och då hade Per-Anders kunnat få bra mycket mer än ett år.
Om man går in på http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_Service och letar efter mail så får man leta länge.
Hmm. Det där låter skumt. Det måste vara nåt han har planerat sen sin anarkistiska ungdom. Det är så länge sen så ASCHBERG hade hår!
Det började med att Schönstedt pajas-saboterade själva kungörandeögonblicket mer än någonsin Gert Fylking. Precis när Peter Englund hade utropat Herta Müllers namn vecklade Schönstedt ut en löpsedel (ur en hel hög med alternativa namn) och ropade »Först med nyheten!«, varpå en vakt bestämt tvingade honom att vika ner den. Vilket fick till följd att medan Englund läste upp den välavvägda motiveringen hörde vi tevetittare ingenting annat än prasslandet med löpsedeln i Schönstedts mikrofon."
Okejdå, en riktig nyhet, och en sportnyhet. Inte vad jag kallar nyhetsledande iaf...
Ja, om någon pratade med honom då, så kan man nog utgå ifrån att han var i livet då.
Chefredaktörer bloggar om hur det känns att bli blåst på ickenyheter.
Om sonen Jolyon uppges heta Jolyon kan vi nog utgå från att han heter Jolyon. Tack för förtydligandet. :)
