CURE Quote
He had never used the word “cure,” (for autism) nor would he; that term had no relevance in the ABA universe. But the media kept the talk of “cure” alive, their preferred translation for “recovered”—a word that Lovaas did use. As critics piled on, Lovaas stopped using even that term, substituting a more precise but less dramatic formulation: the kids had achieved “normal levels of intellectual and educational functioning.”
— John Donvan & Caren Zucker, In a Different Key: The Story of Autism, 2016Archives
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We Know how to Cure Cancer: Part 1
We know how to cure cancer. We’ve known for some time. Many cancers have been cured and people are curing cancer today. Who are ‘we‘ in the sentence ‘we know how to cure cancer‘? Everyone, and no-one. In theory, no-one knows how … Continue reading
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