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Thread of the latest quotes by Simon Baron-Cohen about the #Spectrum10K study.
Autistic people, autistic researchers, and non-autistic researchers:
This consent form isn't very clear, and you have to say yes to giving your data to unknown future studies.
SBC: [image]
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Autistic people, autistic researchers, and non-autistic researchers:
This consent form isn't very clear, and you have to say yes to giving your data to unknown future studies.
SBC: [image]
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SBC: [image]
Notice the specific phrasing of "if that was the outcome Of Our Consultation..then we would" about not using DNA in the study.
Who's going to pick your consultants again? Is it you?
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Notice the specific phrasing of "if that was the outcome Of Our Consultation..then we would" about not using DNA in the study.
Who's going to pick your consultants again? Is it you?
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He says researchers should have a "wider debate in society" as if he's at all done this before?
I'm not sure if this is a new quote or old one, but he uses the term "autistic community" & in his last statement he included "autistic people and their families" in that term.
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I'm not sure if this is a new quote or old one, but he uses the term "autistic community" & in his last statement he included "autistic people and their families" in that term.
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I think non-autistic researchers who center the feelings of the researchers who are harming autistic people
don't realize that they are centering those feelings
over the feelings of autistic people and the huge potential harm that could be caused to all of us.
#Spectrum10K
don't realize that they are centering those feelings
over the feelings of autistic people and the huge potential harm that could be caused to all of us.
#Spectrum10K
I get that there are autistic people who are "directly attacking" the researchers.
I get that as a researcher, all you're thinking about might be "they could come for me next!"
But these researchers have a huge amount of power and have done an excessive amount of harm already.
I get that as a researcher, all you're thinking about might be "they could come for me next!"
But these researchers have a huge amount of power and have done an excessive amount of harm already.
I'm not going to police autistic people in terms of how they critique #Spectrum10K because that's not my place or my job.
And these are the researchers who will nearly always get the funding, who will nearly always have the power.
We're not talking about people who listen.
And these are the researchers who will nearly always get the funding, who will nearly always have the power.
We're not talking about people who listen.
[Trigger Warning for eugenics, pathologization, treatment, cancer comparison]
I'm going to post quotes from that lecture Daniel Geschwin did that was posted on JULY 2021.
#Spectrum10K
The link is here -
Let's start at the beginning.
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I'm going to post quotes from that lecture Daniel Geschwin did that was posted on JULY 2021.
#Spectrum10K
The link is here -
Let's start at the beginning.
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“My focus regarding autism is translating genetic findings in autism into therapy. And today I’m going to give you a summary of genetic findings, where I think this is going” – Dan Geschwind
What kind of "therapy"? Likely treatment for autism, based on the rest of the talk.
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What kind of "therapy"? Likely treatment for autism, based on the rest of the talk.
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"At a level of a disorder like autism and other neuropsychiatric disorders, Having a toe-hold that’s genetic and more precise can also understand what we call disease pathophysiology, that is how disease actually occurs, what is the biological basis of disease."
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