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Possible Federal Chelation Study
By Richard | July 8, 2008
Fringe autism treatment could get federal study
Carla K. Johnson | Washington Post | Associated Press
CHICAGO — Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.
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.
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. MORE