Let's review a bit. The Geiers' rationale for using Lupron to treat autism in boys was twofold. First, they viewed autistic boys as having precocious puberty, even though that is a rare condition. 2/
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That's just bad science. Here's the pseudoscience. Their rationale was that "testosterone sheets" bind the mercury from vaccines that supposedly causes autism, preventing chelation therapy from working to remove the mercury from the brain. I kid you not.3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2006/04/10/the-geiers-try-to-patent-chemi/ …
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It didn't matter to them that there was no convincing scientific evidence that chelation therapy does anything to help the behavioral symptoms of autism or that mercury in vaccines causes autism. 4/
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Similarly, there was no physiological evidence that testosterone in any way binds mercury in the body, much less makes it inaccessible to chelation therapy. 5/
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In fact, the Geiers based their concept of “testosterone sheets” on a paper from 1968 looking at the crystal structure of testosterone and mercuric chloride derived from crystals made by boiling equimolar amounts of testosterone and mercuric chloride in hot benzene. 6/
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Let's just say that these conditions are far from physiologic. Even so, the Geiers speculated that testosterone binds mercury and that lowering testosterone would free up the mercury for chelation, even though there was no evidence for this concept. 7/ https://photoninthedarkness.blogspot.com/2006/03/miscellaneous-mercury-nonsense.html …
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THAT was the "scientific basis" for the Geiers' Lupron therapy for autism. It was pure pseudoscience. Can anyone say, "False equivalence"? Sure, I knew you could.

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