The Importance of Skepticism in Evaluating Claims, Selecting Treatments, and Enhancing Science-Based Treatment for Autism

• By: Thomas L. Zane, PhD, BCBA-D Endicott College
• July 1st, 2011
• autism treatment, critical thinking, decision making, evidence-based practice, pseudoscience, scientific evidence, scientific method, skepticism
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The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) was last known to exist in 1944. Unexpectedly, in 2004, it was purportedly seen near Brinkley, Arkansas. This claim resulted in a scientific expedition that produced an inconclusive video that was used to confirm the bird’s reemergence from...