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Fringe Autism Treatment Could Get Federal Study, National Institute of Mental Health Support

July 9, 2008 | 
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AP -- Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.

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