Published on 12, July, 2020
Books that promise cures for autism through potentially dangerous therapies have been quietly removed from Amazon over the last week.
Amazon is selling books that teach parents how to subject their autistic children to harmful “treatment” regimes that include drinking, bathing in and making enemas out of a toxic, bleach-like substance. Other pseudoscientific books available on the website instruct parents to force their children to undergo chelation – a treatment intended for arsenic and lead poisoning that caused the death of an autistic boy in 2005.
A search for “autism cure” on Amazon brings up dozens of books positing pseudoscientific solutions for autism spectrum disorder – a complex and lifelong developmental disability that has no known cure. But Amazon’s virtual bookshelves are stacked high with titles that recommend a long list of unproven and dangerous autism cures, including sex, yoga, camel milk, electroconvulsive therapy and veganism.
www.wired.co.uk/.../amazon-autism-fake-cure-books
www.theguardian.com/.../amazon-pulls-books-offering-dangerous-cures-for-autism
Wow. I knew Bezos was a bit of a sociopath. I thought that they'd have cleaned up their act after the two occasions thay were forced to pull books on paedophilia.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pedophilia-book/amazon-pulls-book-on-pedophilia-after-complaints-idUSTRE6AB3K520101112
They still have lots of books on bestiality though. I won't include links. It's the "right to free speech" apparently. Consent isn't a right they extend their freedoms to however.
Seems like the helpless, voiceless, and vulnerable, are good for business.
I really thought they'd cleaned up their act.
Bezos a psychopath? Him and Zuckerberg both.
Bezos wants to build a rocket so he can get to Mars, so paying people a decent wagecwould surely get on the way of that.
We were trying to advertise our life drawing exhibition on Facebook, but the ad was banned because you can see drawings of naked bodies. But life drawing is as far from porn as you can imagine.
But when I complained to FB after seeing a video of a kitten being set alight, among other choice things, I was told that they did not contravene FB rules. Skewed values or what?
I try not to use Amazon though, I use FB as there is nothing else to compare with what it can do for you, but with both, it is still a question of mine own traitor