Dubious autism article retracted.

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Consumer Health Digest #07-04

January 23, 2007

Dubious autism article retracted.

The journal Autoimmunity Reviews has retracted a poorly reasoned article

which claimed that mercury toxicity can cause autism and that the

prescription drug Lupron may be useful in treating autistic children and

adolescents. The article was written by Mark R. Geier, M.D., and his son

A. Geier, B.A., who have two patent applications pending for an autism

treatment using Lupron. The retraction occurred after a blogger complained

that the research described in the article violates internationally-accepted

standards for the protection of human research subjects and that the authors

had (a) insufficiently disclosed their conflicts of interest, ( relied on

suspect sources, © misrepresented the work of other authors, and (d)

provided inadequate case documentation [seidel K.

Significant misrepresentations: Mark Geier, Geier & the evolution of

the Lupron Protocol (Part Thirteen). Neurodiversity Weblog, Jan 23, 2007]

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