from Clinical/Therapeutic Issues
In response, the Chairman of the A.P.A. Ethics Committee, Dr. Richard Malone, wrote NARTH to explain that A.P.A. "certainly supports the concept of free and open debate on scientific matters within the A.P.A."
"I have asked the Scientific Program Committee to consider your concern," Dr. Malone said, "so that attention may be given to your request for an open scientific debate."