• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    Autistic brains are seen to have higher neuron counts, without synaptic pruning seen in normal brain development. So add more neurons?

    Does RFK even know what a stem cell is?

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      And is there any evidence that stem cells cross the blood brain barrier? I’m guessing (IANAD) they don’t and the “doctors” are actually counting on it protecting kids, because if they inject a kid and they shortly after have an aneurism or clot or whatever then the grift is over.

      Doing a brief search, this paper suggests the cells don’t pass the BBB or at least it can be hard to get the stem cells not to latch on to the wrong thing: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9976985/

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        Even if they did, under what principle would they turn into neurons, organize and form connections?

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          And who’s to say (again, not an expert on autism) that additional connections would override existing bad connections or not make more bad connections? My son has congenital heart disease and I’m under no delusion that pumping him with stem cells would suddenly correct an organ that wasn’t properly formed at birth.

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    We’ve now entered the federal government issued unethican and nonsensical Nazi human experimentation phase of fascism.

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    Oh fuck me it’s a former MMA fighter turned podcaster that founded the clinic? It’s fucking Joe Rogan light injecting kids with things based on vibes?

    Get me off this ride.

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    Kennedy has said that he does not want to see a “wild west” of alternative therapies developing in the US. Yet in the same breath, he conceded that opening up the country to such providers will lead to “charlatans and people who have bad results, but ultimately you can’t prevent that”. The Guardian has contacted the US health department and the FDA but did not receive a reply.

    It is literally his job to prevent that.

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    Those children may have been autistic, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is fucking retarded.

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    This is fucking madness.

    “Don’t give your kids safe and effective vaccines. Give them untested umbilical cord juice! Making America Healthier one kid at a time!”

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    Meanwhile these assholes will claim HRT is “experimental” when it’s been in use longer than heart transplants.

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    Is this better or worse than inflicting bleach enemas on these poor kids? Honestly can’t tell.

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    What can it hurt? They’ve been used for many years for many treatments, Europe is way ahead of USA. I know multiple people being treated with stem cells, they are not approved by FDA but look to Europe.

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Risks of stem cell treatment for autism include site infection, meningitis, tumors in brain or at injection site, fever, seizure, anaphylaxis, and death

      Documented harms (all of those side effects are documented in this context) and so far at best inconclusive evidence based on small studies of questionable quality

      Obviously there is a need to explore novel treatments in some areas but don’t endorse using autistic children to play pincushion because you’re not aware of the very real, documented, and potentially dire risks

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      You mean other than how RFK Jr is a crackpot and autism isn’t something that needs to be treated?

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        autism isn’t something that needs to be treated?

        Tell that to parents with severely impacted non-verbal children that will need expensive full-time care for an entire human lifespan.