1/ I'm outraged. Fourteen years ago @jengonnerman published this sickening expose on the torture "treatment" being used on autistic and disabled kids at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center motherjones.com/politics/2007/…
2/ Jen's investigation wasn't the last. All of them have found that this methodology of shocking kids who aren't behaving or are self-injurious is based on extremely dubious science. Myriad aluma of the school recount torture, essentially.
3/ There had even been an entire Law & Order episode clearly based on the "school" where, as in real life, desperate parents swore this was the only solution available to them, but which was exposed as a fraud and the "doctor" plead guilty: imdb.com/title/tt062922…
4/ Sidebar: yes these parents and kids need more treatment and residential options. HUMANE ones.
5/ The FDA had finally cracked down on this school, banning the use of shocks. And now a federal appeals court, in a decision written by the same judge who overturned the convictions of Oliver North and John Poindexter, has overturned the ban: reuters.com/legal/litigati… 
7/ Pretty much sums it up:
8/ I don't know that all the comments on this piece are still there (14 years, and several CMSs and comments systems ago). But about 1,000 still are. Many from kids who'd been subjected to this horror show, or their parents. Like this one.
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