Amazon has root for two book monger pseudoscientific “ autism curative ” that promote giving child potentially toxic chemical baths and medication for mercury poisoning .
Healing the Symptoms Known as Autism and Fight Autism and Win , the books in question , were amongst those highlighted in a recentreport from Wiredabout Amazon carrying multiple Book huckster dubious , potentially life - threaten “ treatments . ” Healing the Symptoms have it away as Autism comprise instructions for making Cl dioxide , a gist standardized to bleach that ’s often look up to as a “ miracle mineral answer . ”As NBC note , the Food and Drug Administrationwarned in 2010that chlorine dioxide produced in this way of life creates “ an industrial bleach ” that could induce “ severe sickness , disgorgement , and life - threatening miserable blood pressure level from dehydration . ”
Meanwhile , Fight Autism and Win advocated chelation treatments , which involves giving children drugs meant to cure mercury poisoning . The logical system — if you’re able to call it that — stem from thedebunked theorythat vaccine containing hint amounts of Hg are the cause of autism . TheMayo Cliniccites that chelation therapy is not an effective autism discussion , and in 2005 , a5 - year - old boy diedafter the intervention sent him into cardiac arrest .
One of the two books Amazon pulled from sale.Screenshot: Victoria Song (Archive Today)
It ’s indecipherable as to whether Amazon pulling the book is in response to increasing atmospheric pressure or a full effort to remove medical misinformation . originally this month , Amazon also appear toremove anti - vaccination documentariesfrom Prime Video cyclosis . This is also not the first clock time Amazon has hit a controversial Holy Scripture from sale . Back in 2010 , itpulled a ego - published book on pedophiliaafter it trigger protests online . Gizmodo reached out to Amazon for further clearing on its policy , and we ’ll update if we hear back .
In the lag , while these two account book were removed , many other dubious books remain for sale in Amazon ’s marketplace . Asearch for “ autism cures”still render over 400 book , with many advocating alternate medicinal drug . A peek into thearchived ware pagefor heal the symptom Known as Autism shows many parent praising atomic number 17 dioxide while denouncing traditional music . “ My boy [ ’s ] aggression , pungent , anxiety , bad temper stopped just after 3 day in the protocol … Don’t listen to big pharma pay supporters ( belike all the risky review you read here ) they look so obvious , ” reads one brushup . Another read , “ This Christian Bible is amazing ! The entropy helped me in healing my girl spectrum issues . The communications protocol works citizenry … ”
Whether Amazon think it has a obligation to well supervise the type of books it sells on its political platform , increase scrutiny has lead tech giants to crack down on wellness misinformation . Last month , Facebook sound out it was mulling ways toprevent the spread of anti - vaccination content , and last week say it woulddownrank anti - vax pages and group from searchesand the News Feed , as well as refuse ads . YouTube also recentlyremoved anti - vaxxer adsfrom its videos .
In the interim , it manifestly take saying but vaccinate your tyke , and do n’t bung them whitener .
[ NBC News ]
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