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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 38309" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>There may be something in this HBOT or there may not. Certainly, work needs to be done. It sounds like it is going to happen - definitely watch this space. To 'sell' it before the jury is out, is cruel. Mind you, this article is not trying to sell it in any way - it is urging caution in just these circumstances.</p><p></p><p>It is sad when we get 'sold' such a range of 'information' which many of us simply are not equipped to evaluate impartially, especially since it's OUR kids this is going to relate to. Not only autism - work I've done with other disabilities has shown me how unscrupulous some researchers are; how genuine but how unscientific others can be; and how even the good researchers get it wrong more often than not. What I did learn - never believe anyone who PROMISES a cure, unless there is sufficient, independently-verified peer-reviewed scientific publication to back it up. A quote in the popular press does not qualify - in fact, it often disqualifies the work from ever being considered scientific. All genuine researchers know this and only publish in the popular media once peer-reviewed journals have done their professional job.</p><p></p><p>But too often, I've seen 'researchers' go to the popular media first, crying 'foul' that the mainstream scientific community is so jealous of their work that they have been frozen out of scientific publication. Never so. Science thrives on trying to prove other scientists wrong - publicly and scientifically. There are no ranks to close. Those with a chip on their shoulder that they cannot be published out of jealousy - I've seen many of these and it was incompetent work, not jealousy. But I've seen many members of the public sucked in by these people and ripped off emotionally and financially. Some of these 'scientists' really believe in what they are doing - they still do as much damage as the charlatans.</p><p></p><p>Be afraid. Be very afraid. And become a scientist, at least where your own child's welfare is at stake.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 38309, member: 1991"] There may be something in this HBOT or there may not. Certainly, work needs to be done. It sounds like it is going to happen - definitely watch this space. To 'sell' it before the jury is out, is cruel. Mind you, this article is not trying to sell it in any way - it is urging caution in just these circumstances. It is sad when we get 'sold' such a range of 'information' which many of us simply are not equipped to evaluate impartially, especially since it's OUR kids this is going to relate to. Not only autism - work I've done with other disabilities has shown me how unscrupulous some researchers are; how genuine but how unscientific others can be; and how even the good researchers get it wrong more often than not. What I did learn - never believe anyone who PROMISES a cure, unless there is sufficient, independently-verified peer-reviewed scientific publication to back it up. A quote in the popular press does not qualify - in fact, it often disqualifies the work from ever being considered scientific. All genuine researchers know this and only publish in the popular media once peer-reviewed journals have done their professional job. But too often, I've seen 'researchers' go to the popular media first, crying 'foul' that the mainstream scientific community is so jealous of their work that they have been frozen out of scientific publication. Never so. Science thrives on trying to prove other scientists wrong - publicly and scientifically. There are no ranks to close. Those with a chip on their shoulder that they cannot be published out of jealousy - I've seen many of these and it was incompetent work, not jealousy. But I've seen many members of the public sucked in by these people and ripped off emotionally and financially. Some of these 'scientists' really believe in what they are doing - they still do as much damage as the charlatans. Be afraid. Be very afraid. And become a scientist, at least where your own child's welfare is at stake. Marg [/QUOTE]
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