Rachel Moseley, a Principal Academic in Psychology at Bournemouth University (BU), whose research centres on Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC), raises the alarm about linking autism to ‘radicalisation’. As part of an Open Innovation Team project, I was invited to join a panel debate about the link between ASC and radicalisation.As well as other experts on autism, there were representatives from the Home Office’s Prevent (anti-radicalisation) programme, social workers, clinicians and so on.The participants were keen to get to the bottom of what they perceived to be a link between autism and radicalisation – their idea being that people with autism are more likely to become involved in terrorist activities.However, there is no credible evidence to suggest that autistic people are more likely than non-autistic people to hold sympathetic views on violent protest or terrorism.There is even some evidence that terror networks are actually more reluctant to recruit people with any kind of […]