Yesterday we reported the news of the recent ATIXA Position Statement that debunks many aspects of trauma-informed theory. Today's article by Ashe Schow, "The Junk Science Behind ‘Trauma-Informed’ Investigations," takes the analysis to the next level:

Once an investigator believes someone is traumatized, all evidence is twisted to fit that assumption.

This type of investigation is only being taught for cases involving alleged sexual abuse. Its main proponents are the "believe all women" crowd. As a specific example, police that implement "trauma-informed" investigations claim that women who lie about details of their alleged sexual assaults, or who continue to send loving messages to their alleged attacker, are only doing so because they are traumatized. In other words, evidence of lying is evidence of telling the truth. Commonsense is turned on its head.

And numerous self-styled "experts" push this way of thinking, even though it is not so different than the child psychologists who pushed children in the 1980s and early 90s to claim the people who watched them at daycare sexually abused them and worshipped Satan. The psychologists began with the premise that the children were traumatized – because that's who they normally worked with — and worked backwards to find the root of the alleged trauma.

On Thursday, the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) — not usually a friend of due process — released a position statement on so-called trauma-informed investigations and the neurobiological claims of trauma. The group, which helps train Title IX administrators across the country to investigate alleged sexual assault on college campuses, cautioned colleges and universities in its press release"to avoid the use of information on the neurobiology of trauma to substitute for evidence."

More reason why trauma-informed concepts represent more of a secular religion than a science.