Phonic wrote:
can-t-tell-if-serious-or-trolling
The article in the Examiner is serious. It continues a pet theme of the author that lack of love and nurture is the cause of virtually every ailment you could name - asthma and appendicitis to name two previous articles of his. However, unlike most psychobabble that newspapers print in their opinion sections, this article is in the health supplement and the author is labelled as "Ireland's leading psychologist" with the titles "Dr" and "consulting clinical psychologist". He also teaches parent-mentoring skills at university.
The Examiner had an editorial defending their freedom to publish and an "explanation" from Tony Humphreys on yesterday, with many letters. Only one letter supported him - "Augmenting his valuable commentary, he quotes rigorous research conclusions from seminal 2011 book by child psychiatrist Sami Timimi (et al), The Myth of Autism, which promotes that “there is no such thing as autism and the label should be abolished”.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/news/well- ... 82901.html (There is another and quite different book called "The Myth of Autism" by Michael Goldberg claiming that autism is caused by viral inflammation).
There was enough outrage that it was featured on daytime radio yesterday (RTE1 Liveline).