"[The treatment removes heavy metals from the body and is based on the fringe theory that mercury in vaccines triggers autism — a theory never proved and rejected by mainstream science. Mercury hasn't been in childhood vaccines since 2001, except for certain flu shots.
But many parents of autistic children are believers, and the head of the National Institute of Mental Health supports testing it on children provided the tests are safe.]"
What would you respond to this statement? Do you think that mercury is the cause of autism in children? Is fringe experiment highly unethical???
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Those second and third links I think I'll be posting on my own page, very interesting indeed. I love science.
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"[The treatment removes heavy metals from the body and is based on the fringe theory that mercury in vaccines triggers autism — a theory never proved and rejected by mainstream science. Mercury hasn't been in childhood vaccines since 2001, except for certain flu shots.
But many parents of autistic children are believers, and the head of the National Institute of Mental Health supports testing it on children provided the tests are safe.]"
What would you respond to this statement? Do you think that mercury is the cause of autism in children? Is fringe experiment highly unethical???
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Those second and third links I think I'll be posting on my own page, very interesting indeed. I love science.