Dr. Mark Geier is well known in the world of alternative medicine and autism. He, together with his son David, work a medical practice and publish papers. They are long-standing proponents of the vaccine-causation hypothesis, presenting pseudo-epidemiological studies as support. Dr. Geier has worked as a witness in the vaccine court, has has a long [...]
Archive for the ‘Chelation’ Category
Maryland Board of Phyicians: Mark Geier “endangers autistic children and exploits their parents”
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011Chelation: oral not very effective, IV causes brain fog
Thursday, February 10th, 2011One very common therapy in the Complementary and Altenative Medicine (CAM) world is chelation. It has been very popular amongst DAN doctors and other CAM practitioners in the autism community, largely based on the mistaken ideas that (a) autism symptoms are similar to mercury poisoning and (b) autism is caused by mercury (from vaccines and [...]
Safeminds defends treatments the FDA deemed “dangerously misleading”
Monday, October 18th, 2010The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that they had sent warning letters to eight groups who were promoting chelation products without prescriptions and with unproven claims of efficacy. Chelation is a mainstay of many alternative medical practitions, especially in autism. There is a hypothesis that autism is caused by mercury poisoning. [...]
FDA: Chelation not proven safe or effective in treating autism
Thursday, October 14th, 2010Chelation is a process whereby metals are removed from the body using a drug, a chemical which binds to the metals and allows them to be excreted. Because of the incorrect notion that autism is caused by mercury or is a “novel” form of mercury poisoning, chelation is one of the more common alternative medical [...]
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