@autistics Very interesting article I just read, that turns the tables on ableist #autism researchers who claim that anti-ableist moral standards interfere with rigorous scientific research on autism. This article's historical survey suggests that the exact opposite is true. Autism research has a long and disgraceful history of confidently presented but poorly evidenced claims, verging on outright pseudoscience, motivated by ableist prejudice. Anti-ableism may be not just compatible with, but absolutely necessary for, reliable scientific research into autism.
Morton Ann #Gernsbacher is one of the six authors. The article is freely downloadable, in final published form (not just a manuscript), through a link to the publisher's website in its PubMed page: