new pill to "treat" autism

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Watching Dr Phill today, there was a commercial recruting for autistic children to join a study to take a pill and treat their autism. Anyone else heard of this? I can't imagine how it whould theoretically work.

They can go suck rabid monkeys and fall down a drain. And it won't work, especially if it's still in the testing lets-use-children-as-guinea-pigs stage.

A drug company probably realized there's money to be made off parents who want a cure at any cost. I'm surprised it took them so long.

The commercial was weird and creepy. I kept showing smiling happy kids, playing on the parents desperation. Hopefully it won't cause any permanent dammage. I would never submit my child to weird experiment pills for a non life threatening condition/difference .

Oh I'm sure it has terrible, longlasting side effects like most of the drugs they push on children these days. But who cares about the side effects when it makes the parent's lives easier?

Its probably that oxtocin study we've been hearing of.

it's a lot easier to cure dr phil,just press the off button.

Bad, awful...why would I want to cure being talented and wonderful and having a fantastic wry sense of humour? Why would I want to cure my incredible son who is the best thing that ever happened to the universe?

These people should be put to death. Preying on poor desperate parents who don't have any energy to combat their stupidity.

Dr. Phil is the Anti Christ. He's a creepy weird version of Springer.

/hates morons

Didn't Dr. Phil loose his doctoring liceance many years ago?

Well I know he did, but I wanted to raise the point.

I kinda like Dr Phil sometimes. Not always though. But the comercial did have nothing to do with him. Just a random commercial. Maybe its a local ad for Washington autistic kids.

Sometimes I think we behave as if we represent the whole autistic community. What about the autistics that have it more severe and spend their whole lives in the care of others? Is it wrong to want to cure them?

deleted...I am anti-pills for kids.

I'm against giving pills to people who aren't suffering and asking for it. In most cases, anyway.

Great. If it is then the children may be so oblivious and navie that they could get in the car with a stranger and then we'll have a really bad scenerio then.

Why don't these jerks quit using children as lab rats?

If it works and helps hey great but I get the feeling that they really can't make mice have autism (how in the hell would they know) so they are really just using children to test various drugs like risperdal.

Some people are too into the idea that if you pay money for something it must work. Consumerist brainwashing for all. So I guess if you ever really want to help someone and you have something that does help, they won't listen unless it's $19.95

But shouldn't it be $20.08 now?

How do yall know that it doesn't work though? That's just yall opinion. Kids take vacines for different illness and diseases to protect them. If there's something wrong with you wouldn't you try to fix it?