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Battling Bias: Why Neutral Tongue Tie Research Faces Pushback in ASHA

1 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A short monologue by Robin describing challenges she faced submitting a neutral proposal on tongue-tie research. Robin reports being accused of bias despite efforts to ensure neutrality, receiving feedback that her literature review failed to specify types of evidence and that technical details (e.g., the 'diamond MYO' technique) were insufficiently described, and being told appeals are limited to technical errors.

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They kept telling me I was biased. So I brought in Danielle and Sharon to help me with the proposal to make sure that it was neutral and that I was showing that there is controversy in the literature. And let's break down the data. I was told that I was too neutral and that the literature review is weak because I didn't describe the type of evidence. It's like in four case studies studies, in a cohort study, in an rct, in a systematic review. So, you know, I'm appealing these things. And I'm told, well, sorry, Robin, you can't appeal that unless there's a technical error. I'm like, the reader is saying that there's something missing from my paper that's blatantly there, that's not technical. And my favorite of all of them was this proposal did not thoroughly describe what the diamond MYO technique is.