OMG! A new cure for autism

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One of the best kept lies in academic research is how little of it is going on. Academics have been known to slice and dice thei research in order to keep the money rolling in.

I don't get it. My understanding of acedemics is not like that at all. There are corrupt ones that get paid to endorse certain things ie new drugs but most acedemics are upholding the ethics of the scientific method and being as objective as is humanly possible from a subjective human standpoint.

Might want to change that misleading topic title. It comes across as borderline trolling.

I am speaking as some who got as far as his Master's degree. It is more prevalent than you think. For example, clinical trials of new drugs are so biased that one can never find the truth, because Big Pharma has buried the actual data so deep in their vaults that it is next to impossible to find. If you thought the recent fines against GlaxoSmithKine were astronomical, guess again. Those fines are nothing but chump change. A good many researcher, who are supposed to be independent, are actually getting paid quite handsomely by Big Pharma. Does that sound like academic integrity? Not to me. The watchdog agencies, notably the FDA, are just as complicit. Do you know that Pharma only has to supply 2 positive trials to have a new drug approved? Not 2 cosecutive trials, just 2 positive trials.

Even in the arts and humanities, where little, if any, new research takes place, there is rampant corruption. There is so much slicing and dicing going on to extend the life of a project that it is criminal. Do we really need to know the chronological history of Hans Sachs, one of the greatest of all cobblers of the 16th century, who also was what I use as my nom de plume? For a music History major, yes, but I highly doubt the average person would care.

OMG! A new cure for autism




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Autism treatment is a rapidly growing medical branch. I'm not sure whether I want it to be "treated" though, beyond eliminating some of the anxiety and increasing empathy. Arbaclofen for the former and oxytocin for the latter are the most promising candidates so far, but arbaclofen has not been commercialized yet and oxytocin's duration is very short (it should be synthesized and modified somehow).

SSRI might help some but I refuse to touch them.

This thread is mis-leading and VERY lame IMO.

The point of this thread is...?

I dub this trollish...

While I agree that many researchers do dice their research... It is not something they do with any great frequency. (speaking from experience).

Since most autistic patients are treated for other mental issues as well, there is nothing to truly be gained by withholding a cure...

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Staying in my bedroom works...?

No there is no cure for autism.it's the evolution for future human behavior not disease

Autism supremacist

I'll take acceptance over treatment any day.

I agree wih Alvin33, autism means change, a part of human behavior is changing.

I do drugs for fun, not to change who I am but sometimes I consider it thinking they would make my life better.

This thread is a thread alright..