Kevin Pho, MD 3/3/2026

Applied behavior analysis criticism: the closed feedback loop

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The article critiques Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) as a closed system that recycles its own failures. Using engineering feedback loop metaphors, it argues ABA defines compliance as success, ignores interdisciplinary critique, and fails to integrate evidence of harm from developmental pediatrics, psychology, and other fields. It references ABA's founder and historical practices to argue for systemic accountability.

Applied behavior analysis criticism: the closed feedback loop

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