I saw a news report on the BBC.
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I saw a news report on the BBC. "Scientists create mice with autism to understand the disease." And I say mmm
I'm somewhat, or rather very, suspicious of that research. What they're after is creating drugs to "treat" autism. My question is, why didn't they do it decades ago? Simple: now there's a boom in diagnoses in children and adults, and the pharmaceutical companies see a hugely lucrative business opportunity. They have no intention of understanding autism in order to develop better therapies, adaptations, and solutions. What conventional medicine always seeks is to make money, and with the same old garbage: drugs...
#actuallyautistic #autism #science #labrats #drugs #laboratories #business
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I saw a news report on the BBC. "Scientists create mice with autism to understand the disease." And I say mmm
I'm somewhat, or rather very, suspicious of that research. What they're after is creating drugs to "treat" autism. My question is, why didn't they do it decades ago? Simple: now there's a boom in diagnoses in children and adults, and the pharmaceutical companies see a hugely lucrative business opportunity. They have no intention of understanding autism in order to develop better therapies, adaptations, and solutions. What conventional medicine always seeks is to make money, and with the same old garbage: drugs...
#actuallyautistic #autism #science #labrats #drugs #laboratories #business
@cesarpose
How do they even "create" mice with autism if they don't know exactly what causes it? All I can see is that they are mimicking the genetic aspects they have identified and hoping.
