False hope for autism in the stem-cell underground

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firemonkey
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27 Mar 2019, 10:11 am

Parents of autistic children are paying tens of thousands of dollars for stem cell therapies that often use medical waste. Despite the dangers, regulators have been slow to act.




https://www.spectrumnews.org/features/d ... derground/


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27 Mar 2019, 10:15 am

If it looks like a quack, swims like a quack, and quacks like a quack, then it probably is a quack.



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27 Mar 2019, 11:35 am

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The consensus among parents is that it’s scarier not to do anything,” says its founder, Susan, who compiled a secret list of 15 U.S. doctors who offer stem cell infusions to autistic children like her son.

This mentality is the whole problem in a nutshell.


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