Thread by @ekverstania

@CadaJennifer The 'science' underlying ABA is flawed, unethical and riddled with conflicts of interest.

https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1457968123324293121?t=jGm6oDgti1DU5bxLUlg4uw&s=19

@CadaJennifer ABA is not a science.

#ABAisPseudoscience

https://twitter.com/CadaJennifer/status/1460019637199024133?t=jGm6oDgti1DU5bxLUlg4uw&s=19

@CadaJennifer ABA apologists always tell us that when the therapist was abusive, it was just one bad apple. And yet, some people have MANY therapists over many years at many institutions, and they're ALL abusive. Wonder why that happens? Maybe because the entire profession is abusive?

@CadaJennifer ABA doesn't have a mechanism for preventing this level of harm. The industry is designed to produce these outcomes. neurodiversitynews.net/interview-jayj…

@CadaJennifer The ABA industry does not have the kind of governance that is needed to prevent even the most heinous human rights abuses. Many professionals are shocked (figuratively) when they learn that shock (literally) is used by people higher up in the ABA credential hierarchy.

@CadaJennifer Fighting these systemic abuses is hardly on the mind of the starry-eyed behaviour therapist who thinks that as long as her conscience is clear, ABA is a noble science-based profession. neuroclastic.com/900-aba-profes…

@CadaJennifer Lovaas is part of the "evidence" base, not so? The ABAI still supports this evil stuff. Or are you going to tell me that it's just the guys at the top who are evil, while the regular ABA footsoldiers are innocent? (Other than the ones at the JRC, that is?)