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Enemas, Bleach and Sex whilst swimming in camels milk ain't going to shift it! - Amazon is gradually removing book titles touting cures for Autism

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over 5 years ago

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

Parents
  • over 5 years ago

    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.

  • over 5 years ago in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    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

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  • over 5 years ago in reply to Cloudy Mountains

    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

Children
  • over 2 years ago in reply to nexus9

    Every second person pretends to be a therapist or psychologist. It's good that Amazon filters what products reach them. I also read various nonsense about treating autism. I can't believe people are so uninformed. A year ago, I found out that I have a child with autism. I'm still looking for answers, which I find in books. I recently ordered some books "Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism", "Connecting With The Autism Spectrum: How To Talk, How To Listen, And Why You Shouldn't Call It High-Functioning" which I took with discount coupons on https://www.dontpayfull.com I would come back with reviews if you need.

  • over 5 years ago in reply to nexus9

    I've never used FaceBook but I've heard of stories such as yours.

    I've stopped even trying to figure out their agenda, there is one obviously, but the inconsistencies from country to country, differ vastly. It seems like where they have "certain interests" in a country, their moral, political, and regulation goes with certain investment trends. They tend to exploit the grey areas for private interests. The Cambridge Analytica scandal was one of many data "leaks", connected to worldwide elections. FaceBook allowed the Obama administration to scrape profiles for data prior to the 2012 election.

    https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-scanadal-trump-obama-campaign-election-meddling/

    This has happened in a number of elections worldwide, so I don't think that it even matters which side of the political aisle they back, just as long as they get something from it.

    Elon Musk wants to go to Mars on his own expedition. Bezos wants people to live in suspended podlike cites, like captives of their own making. I trust Musk a lot more!