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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Newbie: Is Asperger's a Racket? |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2009, 11:49 am
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| Really, this is descending into a mass of confusions and conflations. One cannot prove a negative, so I shall not attempt to argue that Asperger's is not 'real', as you put it. The question is over the term 'real', because you are confusing an empirical concept of 'real' (as used in the phrase 'the ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Newbie: Is Asperger's a Racket? |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2009, 8:48 pm
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| Labels: Asperger's con, asperger's scam, Asperger's syndrome, autism, medical scandals, rackets in academia, syndromes Your source isn't asking the question in the title; it's a piece of biased journalism at best, without medical value. The terms you quote are just labels, obviously put their to at... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Newbie: Is Asperger's a Racket? |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2009, 7:02 pm
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| Ah, but you are the initiator - you have proposed something counter to that which has been evidenced through study. I can see this descending into a futile game of ping pong, as It is *your* claim that there is, here, something which has been 'evidenced through study'. *Your* claim, you must defend... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Newbie: Is Asperger's a Racket? |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2009, 5:22 pm
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| The onus is not on *me* to prove anything. As a taxpayer, I might even be justified in being a bit peeved when a new societal ideology, brought about by the notion that we've all got to recognize a whole new set of syndromes and disorders, complete with a new breed of 'top experts in the field', is... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Newbie: Is Asperger's a Racket? |
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Posted: 01 Dec 2009, 11:40 am
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| You have had ample opportunity to present some basis for your opinions about Baron-Cohen. So far despite making more than one rather insulting comment about Baron-Cohen, you've failed to produce a single premise or fact that supports such an opinion or gives any indication that the opinion is well ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Newbie: Is Asperger's a Racket? |
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Posted: 01 Dec 2009, 10:59 am
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| Even if you don't fake AS well enough to get an outright diagnosis, you can these days surely manage a 'borderline' case. People have got off the hook on the basis of that - it's been on the news. The whole notion of the borderline diagnosis is perplexing to me, and makes me really wonder about the ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Newbie: Is Asperger's a Racket? |
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Posted: 30 Nov 2009, 10:47 pm
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| Well, I didn't realize I'd cause such a stir, and I got the link from the one of the comments under an article on the McKinnon case. All I can say is, Baron-Cohen seems to me to be someone who will keenly advance his professional profile by diagnosing anyone who will hit the headlines. McKinnon seem... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Newbie: Is Asperger's a Racket? |
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Posted: 30 Nov 2009, 8:25 pm
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| Think of McKinnon as more of a bad seed who happens to have Asperger's. And, as expected, he is now coming to visit us here Stateside, AS or no. Which is how it should be. For me, AS has some "sucky points" and some "pretty cool points" too, but it doesn't keep me from traveling to Japan, Australia... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Newbie: Is Asperger's a Racket? |
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Posted: 30 Nov 2009, 6:49 pm
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| Hi, I was awakened to the whole Asperger's thing by the Gary McKinnon affair. The fact is that, having listened to one or two fairly lengthy radio interviews with him, to me, Gary McKinnon seems affable, normal, easy-going etc.. MAybe he is just *using *the medical profession to help his case. I don... |
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