Remember the autistic 5-year old who died of a heart attack?

[conuly]

Yeah, it's been confirmed as the chelation. Naturally. This isn't really news.

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Not that it matters in the final analysis, but so many of these parents, I believe, don't mean any harm... they've just been woefully misguided by the 'experts'. Not that that excuses anything; they can, presumably, do their own research, after all... but I think another tragedy here is that so many parents/members of the general public just are that uneducated, and that makes me sad.

To think that a parent would knowingly subject their child to a treatment that has a higher than average chance of killing him or her... that's pretty much unthinkable.

(I say "higher than average" because my parents signed off on a fair bit of surgery for me, and as they tell you, any surgical procedure *could* end in death... but it's pretty rare in the main, from what I can tell. At least for the surgeries I've had, most of which have not been particularly dangerous, as far as I know.)