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Posted by: bugluver 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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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 theory that mercury in vaccines triggers autism