Comments on: Rom Houben Case on NPR

By: mattdick

mattdick — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:50:34 +0000

The Guardian has picked it up–it’s so nice to see it making the rounds:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/19/miracle-patient-facilitated-communication

By: Militant_Agnostic

Militant_Agnostic — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:37:42 +0000

Steve, If you are are so eager to mention your media. why are you so coy about being appearing in the National Enquirer (Dr. Oz is a Fake – page 43 or a bit further in)

Inquiring minds want to know!

The other people in the checkout line must have wondered why I was grinning so widely.

Actually, I think appearing in media like that is much more effective than “preaching to the choir”. It was good to see 4 skeptics and token woo quoted instead of the other way around as it usually is.

By: borealys

borealys — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:48:54 +0000

Huh. I didn’t realize his original facilitator was refusing to cooperate with the testing. Of course, she’ll probably claim that this other facilitator just wasn’t as skilled as she was, or wasn’t trying hard enough, and that was why the test failed.

Did Dr. Laureys really not smell a rat when the answers to the test questions were always things like “why don’t you trust me”???

Thanks go to Steve for staying on this one. This case literally had me in tears of rage.

Now to wait for the local news outlets that reported this story so credulously to report on these new developments … riiiiight.

By: Draal

Draal — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:20:43 +0000

Here’s a direct link to the NPR story:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123813455

By: LeeB

LeeB — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:05:58 +0000

Way to go Steve. Your commentary was short, but sweet. It is nice to know that you are on at least one mainstream media outlet’s “experts-to-call-on” list. Here’s hoping that they do so more often (and more quickly) in the future!

By: tmac57

tmac57 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:54:32 +0000

Well, good for you and NPR Dr. , but too bad that the whole back story behind the case and the fiasco of Facilitated Communication was not able to be presented as a much longer piece. NPR is very good at airing longer and much more nuanced news pieces than the average news outlet. But I guess a little victory for science is better than nothing. At least they didn’t try to bring in the phony ‘balance’ talking head to muddy the waters.
Congratulations on being recognized as a ‘go to’ authority on this case. I hope to see more items like this in the future. Baby steps…baby steps.

By: Michael Newman

Michael Newman — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:37:13 +0000

The interview is available at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123813455

By: Michael Newman

Michael Newman — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:26:49 +0000

Just heard the interview on WNPR. Its nice to hear the process of retesting explained.

On another note, have you linked anywhere to your recent interview regarding autism on Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour? http://twit.tv/kiki33