As autism has finally come to be pretty thoroughly understood and accepted, unlike in decades

and centuries past, movements have arisen to treat it in the hope of making everyone

on the spectrum as functional as they can be.

Unfortunately, many of these are unproven, and many more are downright dangerous.

Today, we're pointing our skeptical eye straight at one of the worst.

Autism and Keylation is up next on Skeptoid.

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Mercury, Autism, and Keylation, a recipe for risk.

Today, we're going to examine yet another case where people are willing to put their own

and their children's lives at risk in order to embrace popular pseudoscience.

It seems that more and more people are increasingly concerned with joining a politically correct fad

when it offers a simpler explanation than medical fact.

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