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
Veganism certainly doesn't work, anyway, otherwise I'd have been 'cured' long ago!
Amazon/Bezos is a monster bent on world domination. I haven't used it for a while now.
Unfortunately, it seems to be the default 'go to' for online shopping... and almost everything else.