The FDA's proposed ban on aversive shock therapy.

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The link explains all:

http://autismwomensnetwork.org/statemen ... ment-67523

I wasn't even aware shock therapy was still a thing. O.o That's terrible.

Good news. I hope it goes through.

Me too. It's horrible that they can still do this.

I also was not aware it was still a thing! Holy Guano Batman! Why is it even needing debate? Delete it from any therapy suggestion anywhere! They storm and burn places that do that to monkeys <_<

ABA "therapists" continuously push and publicise the myth that "nothing like that happens any more". I have seen them do it on WP also. That claim is as spurious as their "evidence based" claims (which completely ignore the actual quality of their preferred kind of evidence) - its flaws, circularity, reductionist methodology - and they also turn a completely blind eye to the meta analyses that expose the so-called evidence based claims as misleading and self serving.

ABA "professionals" are sales people, and the "evidence-based" claim is one of their advertising slogans. Unfortunately, because they have had extensive political and financial back-up from Autism Speaks, these salespeople have spun their myths so relentlessly that the truth has been obscured by their touting, and a lot of people have been sucked in, including some USA politicians who have led the push for state legislation to suit the Autism Speaks/ABA agendas.

This backwards practice should be condemned to the trash heap of history