In 1992, when FC was fairly new to the United States, Douglas Biklen was quoted in "The Washington Post" as saying he "welcomed scientific studies", but the article went on to say: he doesn't want to do them. He's an educator, not a psychiatrist, and like other educators who have written about facilitated communication, he is comfortable with the fact that there is often a lag time between the application of a new method and its scientific validation. Although proponents say that FC is difficult or impossible to objectively test, psychologist James T. Todd wrote: the determination of authorship in FC involves a straightforward application of basic experimental methods described comprehensively by Mill (1843) more than a century and half ago, but understood for millennia. We are not speaking of obscure or controversial techniques. We are speaking of authorship validation by selectively presenting different information to two people then observing what is produced.