ethics

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What Happened to Ethics, in Research About Autistic People?

May 22, 2021 • By Ann Memmott

Autistic people generally have different social skills, not broken ones. Yet we see paper after paper saying our social skills are broken, and the research teams don’t even bother to mention all the new research showing it’s not true.

John Robison at IMFAR: On Autism Rights, Ethics, & Priorities

May 23, 2014 • By Shannon Des Roches Rosa

John Elder Robison was a discussant for the Autism Social, Legal, and Ethical Research Special Interest Group at the 2014 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR). He ended up taking the group to task, stating that the autism science community is headed for disaster if it does not change course on several factors – and