When Channel 4 announced that it would air a documentary titled The Great ADHD Myth?, an outpouring(（感情）迸发，倾泻) of fury followed. Despite this, I set out to approach it as a scientist – not just as a scientist whose own work has dealt with developmental disorders, but as someone who has enormous respect for the scientific process and for the importance of evidence-led debate.(尽管如此，我仍决定以科学家身份审视它——不仅是研究过发育障碍的科学家，更是尊重科学过程的人。)
当第四频道宣布将播出名为《伟大的ADHD神话？》的纪录片时，随之而来的是如潮的愤怒。尽管如此，我仍决定以科学家的身份去审视它——不仅是作为一名研究过发育障碍的科学家，更是作为一个对科学过程及以证据为主导的辩论的重要性怀有极大敬意的人。
Channel 4’s press release claimed the documentary sought to determine whether attention deficit hyperactivity disorder was a “genuine neurodevelopmental(神经发育的) disorder, or a social construct(（社会）建构，概念)”. At one level this is a brave enterprise. ADHD is recognised worldwide as a disorder, by the World Health Organization and our own NHS among others. Estimates suggest ADHD affects roughly 8% of children and adolescents and about 3% of adults worldwide. To overturn this consensus would require robust, reproducible findings capable of explaining away decades of genetic, developmental and clinical research.(要推翻这一共识，需要有力且可复现的发现，能解释掉数十年的研究。) The press release described the documentary as “science-led”, which hinted at just such an enterprise. Was it really science-led?
第四频道的新闻稿声称，该纪录片旨在确定注意力缺陷多动障碍究竟是一种“真正的神经发育障碍，还是一种社会建构”。从某种层面看，这是一项大胆的尝试。ADHD作为一种障碍，在世界范围内得到公认，世界卫生组织和我们英国的国民健康服务体系等机构均予以承认。据估计，ADHD影响着全球约8%的儿童和青少年以及约3%的成年人。要推翻这一共识，需要有力且可重复的研究发现，能够解释掉数十年的遗传学、发展学和临床研究成果。新闻稿将该纪录片描述为“以科学为主导”，这暗示了它正是这样一项事业。它真的以科学为主导吗？
The answer is a resounding(响亮的，彻底的) “no”. It bore little relation to(与…几乎没有关系) a genuine scientific debate; in fact, there was no evidence of a debate at all.
答案是响亮的“不”。它与真正的科学辩论几乎毫无关系；事实上，根本没有任何辩论的迹象。