Another very good web site on Vaccines. May good links.
"Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't.
It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some 'alternative' sense."
Prof. Richard Dawkins, Oxford, April 2001
from the foreword to 'SNAKE OIL' by John Diamond
The site is found here: Evidence Based Medicine First.
My recent return to this topic stems from several experiences with parents in the lower mainland who have used all their autism funding for alternative treatments that have no scientific evidence to back them, and have been left with no support for teaching communication, reciprocity, behaviour management for the parents. It's a shame that the medical and psychology colleges of BC, as well as UBC, SFU and other providers don't take a stand against treatments that are ineffective and experimental at best. There are treatments out there that help, no miracles, but there is hope.
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