Autism's False Prophets Free

Author: Paul A. Offit
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0231146361
Category: Medical

Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure

A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Download Autism's False Prophets medical books for free.
Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a mercury-containing preservative in several vaccines was responsible for the disease. If mercury caused autism, they reasoned, eliminating it from a child's system should treat the disorder. Consequently, a number of untested alternative therapies arose, and, most tragically, in one such treatment, a doctor injected a five-year-old autistic boy with a chemical in an effort to cleanse him of mercury, which stopped his heart instead. Children with autism have been placed on stringent diets, subjected to high-temperature saunas, bathed in magnetic Get Autism's False Prophets our bestseller medical books.

Autism's False Prophets Free

Children with autism have been placed on stringent diets, subjected to high-temperature saunas, bathed in magnetic

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