The most amazing part of the secretin story was what happened next. When parents were told that responses to secretin and salt water were indistinguishable, 69 percent still wanted to use the drug—still wanted to pay thousands of dollars and travel hundreds of miles to get something they now knew didn’t work. That’s how desperate they were. Because mainstream medicine didn’t have anything better to offer—didn’t have medicines that could make autism melt away—parents mortgaged houses and cashed in retirement accounts to find anyone who could promise hope, even if it was false hope. And even
...more
Cashing in on desperate parents. The snake oil salesmen
