I have just a couple followup thoughts here: one is that while we often talk about the anti-vaccine crowd and their ill effects, we rarely talk about the actual dubious products and services being peddled to the families of kids with an autism diagnosis.
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Looking at some of this stuff, it was very, very easy for me to see how a family in crisis wouldn't know who to trust or what constituted sound medical advice.
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The other thing I keep thinking about, for this and so many other stories, is how thoroughly we inhabit an era of Zombie Facts: no matter how bad or discredited something is, it always seems to loom back up to be energetically peddled by someone.
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Thank you for writing this. It is a brilliant, well-researched expose. Generation Rescue does a great disservice to the autism community. Thank you for exposing them for what they are. Charlatans profiting off exploiting others.
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So not surprised.
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It would be surprising if they WEREN'T profiting.
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I never understood why anyone takes medical/health advice from celebrities (jenny mccarthy, suzanne somers, gwyneth paltrow, oprah winfrey etc etc). Following that logic if I start giving stupid acting advice I should have millions of followers and money to burn
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Well in the case of McCarthy....boobs.
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You’re gross. Go away.
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