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The article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLP_and_science NLP and science] was begun by the Wikipedia administrator [[FT2]] in June 2006, and was largely complete by the version of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NLP_and_science&oldid=58477903 13 June 2006].   

The article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLP_and_science NLP and science] was begun by the Wikipedia administrator [[FT2]] in June 2006, and was largely complete by the version of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NLP_and_science&oldid=58477903 13 June 2006].   

It begins:

The introduction reads:

:Due to its inherent preference for pragmatism over theory, its lack of formal and theoretical structure, and its lack of controls over usage, NLP doesn't always lend itself well to the scientific method. Equally (as scientific researchers have pointed out), attempts have also been greatly obfusticated by other factors, not least of which are poor scientific appreciation of the subject being researched, failure to fully consider, control and understand all key variables, unrealistic claims by some practitioners, and often, lack of high quality experimental design.

:Due to its inherent preference for pragmatism over theory, its lack of formal and theoretical structure, and its lack of controls over usage, NLP doesn't always lend itself well to the scientific method. Equally (as scientific researchers have pointed out), attempts have also been greatly obfusticated by other factors, not least of which are poor scientific appreciation of the subject being researched, failure to fully consider, control and understand all key variables, unrealistic claims by some practitioners, and often, lack of high quality experimental design.

: This finding was supported when, in 1988, both Heap and Druckman independently concluded that most studies to that date were "heavily flawed"[1] and that the "effectiveness of NLP therapy undertaken in authentic clinical contexts of trained practitioners has not yet been properly investigated. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NLP_and_science&oldid=58477903]

: This finding was supported when, in 1988, both Heap and Druckman independently concluded that most studies to that date were "heavily flawed"[1] and that the "effectiveness of NLP therapy undertaken in authentic clinical contexts of trained practitioners has not yet been properly investigated. <ref>From [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NLP_and_science&oldid=58477903 this] version of the article.  FT2 first makes the claim that NLP does not lend itself to the scientific method [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NLP_and_science&diff=57297568&oldid=57297295 here], then wrongly attributes this to Heap [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NLP_and_science&diff=58474416&oldid=58456398 here]</ref>.

This is grossly misleading, in suggesting that 'this finding' (namely that NLP does not always lend itself well to the scientific method, and that experimental design has been poor, that scientific appreciation of the subject is poor &c) was supported by the work of [[Michael Heap]].  The reverse is true.  Heap's 1988 literature review (see below) was expressly conceived in order to take three specific hypothesis made by proponents of NLP, and review these assertions against the experimental literature.  He concludes "that the assertions of NLP writers concerning representational systems have been objectively and fairly investigated and found to be lacking."

It is grossly misleading to suggest that 'this finding' (namely that NLP does not always lend itself well to the scientific method, and that experimental design has been poor, that scientific appreciation of the subject is poor &c) was supported by the work of [[Michael Heap]].  The reverse is true.  Heap's 1988 literature review (see below) was expressly conceived in order to take three specific hypothesis made by proponents of NLP, and review these assertions against the experimental literature.  He says that, in fact, many of [NLP's] assumptions and predications are easily testable by objective procedures and several such studies have now appeared in the literature.  After reviewing these, he concludes "that the assertions of NLP writers concerning representational systems have been objectively and fairly investigated and found to be lacking."

Conclusion: "It ought to be the case that writers refrain from, and editors of books and journals disallow, the presentation of such allegations as though they were well-established scientific facts rather than a series of unsubstantiated speculations about how the human mind operates. These conclusions, and the failure of investigators to convincingly demonstrate the alleged benefits of predicate matching seriously question the role of such a procedure in counselling."

Conclusion: "It ought to be the case that writers refrain from, and editors of books and journals disallow, the presentation of such allegations as though they were well-established scientific facts rather than a series of unsubstantiated speculations about how the human mind operates. These conclusions, and the failure of investigators to convincingly demonstrate the alleged benefits of predicate matching seriously question the role of such a procedure in counselling."

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