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Notice of Defamation

The highly-respected academic journal, Sage Publications, has published the following open letter by 6 American and British academics, which claims to be a "correction" to the attribution of the term "Neurodiversity" to me.

Click to follow link if you must but don't believe a word.
 Come back and read my debunking of this malicious beat-up. 

The letter is  authored by a collective of 6 northern hemisphere scholars who describe themselves "international scholars of neurodiversity", which is about the only true thing in it. The authors including the two most prominent academics in the Neurodiversity field,  Chapman and Walker, who have followed in my footsteps, almost 25 years after I first coined the term and described the concept in a 1998 honours thesis submitted the the University of Technology, Sydney. 

The claim is erroneous. Far from being a "correction" it is riddled with poor research -  confirmation-biased and avoiding contradictory references. 

It has taken me 7 months of exhaustive and exhausting work to refute their poorly researched, cherry-picked and, dare I say, vindictive allegations. These allegations are based heavily on the confirmation-biased "memories" and opinions of a (seemingly resentful) non-academic, Martijn Dekker, who clearly does not understand the discipline of sociology, its methods or the ethics review that all academic theses are subject to. I have completely refuted Dekker's memoir here