Today’s episode argues that Marge Blanc’s Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework constitutes legitimate published science despite being ignored by academia. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, defines a scientific workflow as a reliably repeatable pattern of documented activity, asserting that Blanc’s method meets this standard through its five pillars: reliability, repeatability, systematic organization, documentation, and learnability. Using the rigorous forensic evidentiary standards (like Rule 702 and Daubert) that prioritise transparency and reproducibility over institutional prestige, Dr. Hoerricks claims Blanc’s work stands as methodologically sound and globally replicated. The refusal of academic institutions to validate NLA is framed as a political act of gatekeeping that discounts “practitioner science” and a care-based counter-archive. Ultimately, she insists that validity is earned through function and widespread community replication, not conferred by academic journals.

Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/the-workflow-as-evidence-how-blanc

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