Thread by @ekverstania

I don't want the research you people do saying "ABA works" implemented.

You set the goals, you create the hypothesis, you design the study, you interpret the results and you conclude that "ABA works".

My community won't help you implement your research.

#BoycottAutismResearch

https://twitter.com/SueReviews/status/1389607257843847172

Do you know what that phrase "evidence-based" has come to stand for among autistic people?

The ABSENCE of evidence of respect for human rights.

#BoycottAutismResearch

Renounce ABA, #INSAR2021. I dare you cowards.

Help us get nonconsensual ABA banned.

#ListenToNonspeakers. Stop silencing them. You're ACTIVELY doing right now.

If you don't start respecting #HumanRights in research, we will up the campaign to #BoycottAutismResearch.

Hey, Prof. de Vries, you still get funding for your research from that great ABA-spreading donor Ernie Els?

You want "the community" to support you in spreading the results of the "evidence-based" therapies based on torture and human rights violations?

#BoycottAutismResearch

You want to "make a positive difference"?

Then DON'T implement "evidence-based" human rights violations masquerading as therapy. #SayNoToABA #ABAisAbuse
#BoycottAutismResearch

https://twitter.com/SueReviews/status/1389607257843847172?s=19

Your funders pay for research which #ActuallyAutistic people didn't ask for, while the things we WANT researched don't get researched, and now you want "the community" to help you implement what we didn't ask for.

Oh wait. Different "community", right? Not #ActuallyAutistic ppl.

Let's NOT implement your human rights violating "evidence-based" poppycock. Let's #BoycottAutismResearch and #BanABA.

https://twitter.com/jornbettin/status/1389742091287236609?s=19

Well, whaddyaknow? #BanABA was already on my to-do list. autisticstrategies.net/2021-autistic-…

See, your "evidence" and my "evidence" looks a bit different.

I look at "evidence" from the perspective of a criminal prosecutor. And I see evidence of you aiding and abetting human rights violations.

That's why, morally, I will #BoycottAutismResearch where you are involved.

Scientists at #INSAR2021 have a good opportunity now to publicly take a stand.

Are you going to help us #BanABA? Say so CLEARLY. Use your words.

Are you going to #ListenToNonspeakers? Then share their words. Right now.

We know that Autism Speaks sees partnering with ABA providers as a win-win. They've said so explicitly.

ABA is a multibillion dollar industry.

And Autism Speaks funds autism research.

So what would happen if researchers called to #BanABA? Lose funding?

https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1170237694380781568?s=19

Because we know there's big money to be made from violating human rights based on your so-called "evidence-based" therapies.

#BoycottAutismResearch
#BanABA

thenation.com/article/societ…

Oh, I know #NotAllResearchers at #INSAR2021 are pro-ABA. But the noobs can't exactly walk up to the Old Guard and say, "You're a collaborator in crimes against humanity and you have to stop RIGHT NOW and renounce your past work and endorsements publicly" because politics.

So you're ALL part of the problem.

To remain a Respected Autism Scientist, you have to stay calm and write in nice academic language in peer-reviewed journals, because you are not allowed to write in blood-red dripping graffiti, "STOP TORTURING CHILDREN".

My community does not want to partner with your community to implement your human rights violations.

#BoycottAutismResearch

https://twitter.com/journalautism/status/1389602969927118849?s=19

Waiting for someone to point out that "some research should be implemented because it helps people and doesn't violate human rights".

Great, so you're going to create another ethics team consisting of non-autistic people (plus a few token autistics, deffffinitely no nonspeakers) to adjudicate this? The same way your ethics committees wherever you work usually approve human rights violations?

#INSAR2021 can't afford to support a #BanABA campaign or to #ListenToNonspeakers, because the autism industry is so heavily invested in selling ABA and in silencing nonspeakers that it could put reputations, relationships and funding in jeopardy.

What's a likely thing they'll do at #INSAR2021? Magnanimously announce that from next year they are standardising on saying 'autistic' (to fool autistic people into thinking there's progress).

Please #BoycottAutismResearch that violates human rights.

Prof. Petrus de Vries is a contributor to the violation of human rights. So are many of his esteemed associates.

https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1276435898884919296?s=19

They want "the community" to help them implement the research. 🙄

#BoycottAutismResearch

https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1317359434423783424?s=19