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Katharine P. Beals
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Jun 16, 2026
S5E31: Katharine Beals on Facilitated Communication and Educational Pseudoscience
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16:30Zach GroshellHOST
But then we just saw that today, that today video, which was like, just came out last year.

Katharine BealsGUEST
I think that basically FC is like a meme that kind of like a like a gene evolves over time to adapt.

Katharine BealsGUEST
So there was a great deal of scrutiny about FC back in the 90s after that, that documentary came out and sort of like, so then it evolves to look more convincing.

Katharine BealsGUEST
then and you're not touching the person, then the viewer's eyes are naturally attracted to the typer, not the facilitator.
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25:31Zach GroshellHOST
And so like you said, we can kind of round up or we can kind of just assume that the student is doing much better than they really are because that's what we want we want them to be learning and so we uh we round up in that sense what what are your what are your takes on both of those those things