These are kids, not lab animals.

and have no shame in saying so

Is that why they think they have "permission" to screw them up?

and Bobby Brainworm and these companies are grifting off it.

...but this is just fine?

180 is not exactly a massive sample size.

So the study didn't find that stem cells were beneficial.

We have our own 21st-century version of Dr. Josef Mengele. Only he isn't a doctor. But he's definitely crazy and a nazi.

In the case I mention, a large rigid (standard) hyperbaric chamber with room for a health care worker to oversee the process was not in use, but rather a much less expensive semi-inflatable chamber and only room for the child to lie on a table within. Unfortunately the child began moving around as the pressurization commenced, triggering an spark and explosive fire that the mother, unfortunately was watching from outside the chamber. I think the imagination can take hold as to what would become of a child trapped in this "chamber" while it exploded in fire. Beyond horror and of course it was fatal.
https://abcnews.com/US/hyperbaric-chamber-explosion-death-murder-charges/story?id=119677003

Yet, I don't know if any regulation or changes in allowing these non-regulation chambers occurred. There was another incident of a wealthy and someone renowned physician using one in his own home for supposed life-extending benefits. Unfortunately he used it without anyone
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/horror-as-much-loved-doctor-burned-alive-in-hyperbaric-chamber-at-his-own-practice/ar-AA1IpqTU


What does unregulated and fatal events in hyperbaric chambers have to do with RFK Jr's pushing unregulated unproven stem cell treatments in autistic children while decrying scientifically proven vaccines? Well, both of the two former "treatments" describe the lengths to which his and other advocates will go to ignore actual scientifically proven treatments and avail themselves to the far riskier unproven rantings of nonmedical "influencers" and others online. And there is very little to stop it when the head of our HHS is among those proponents.

these “millions of stem cells”???

“The FDA warned in 2021 that it had received reports of complications following applications of umbilical cord stem cells and other related unapproved products leading to ‘blindness, tumor formation, infections and more.’”

Don’t these individuals have enough challenges already??? They are not guinea pigs or Sprague-Dawley rats…

But I have worked with autistic kids, from elementary through high school. First of all, again I feel like screaming this to those assholes...autism is NOT a disease! It does not need to be "cured". We need more research and obviously a better understanding of its effects (you know, like potential genius) but cured, NO!
What I really want to know is how do you diagnose an 18 month old child as autistic? But then again, we're dealing with people who think it's possible to see mitochondrial damage by looking at a child as you walk passed them on an airport.

This was the first thing that went through my mind. I don't know at what age autism can be reliably diagnosed, but 18 months? Also, jumping straight to such a risky, unproven, and expensive "treatment" at such a young age seems like a bit of an overreaction, to say the least

I am not suggesting by any means that children should be injected with stem cells, but signs could appear earlier than 18 months.
https://www.cdc.gov/autism/signs-symptoms/index.html

I did some googling and have found several reliable sources that say autism can be diagnosed that young but is more typically diagnosed when children get closer to school age.

It still blows my mind that a parent of such a young child would panic to the extent of being willing to pay BIG bucks for a completely unproven and likely risky treatment. Poor kid.

what I eventually learned was I had to stop getting frustrated because he couldn't adapt to MY world, and make an effort to enter HIS world.....yes indeed.

as far as how young to diagnose? I knew he was different from the day he was born - for example, he rarely cried.......also, when I held him I could NOT get him to look me in the eye - I remember bringing him nose to nose with me and he STILL would not look straight at me, his eyes looked up, down, left, right........when we got our passport pics done I had to work on him for some time to convince him he had to LOOK at the camera - yup

... with the common sense of a potted plant should ever believe a word that comes out of that evil turd's lying mouth. Kennedy is a psychopath on a scale that has the potential to rival Jim Jones, and he's already well on his way to that goal.

Even just back in the '90s, Republicans clutched their pearls so hard over stem cell research that the thought of this would've been inconceivable to them, and now they're willing to embrace it and do some crazy-ass unproven RFK Jr. bullshit? Out of fear of autism?

They have fully embraced pseudoscience and quackery. I really don't see how this country has a future in science anymore when so much of the country has succumbed to this shit.

On so many levels.

And utterly heartbreaking for any who experience side effects like fever, tumour growth, abnormal bone growth, seizures, infection, allergic reaction and immune system rejection.

In other countries, unproven stem cell therapies have been associated with serious complications and death.

Death is a pretty significant "side effect."

https://raisingchildren.net.au/autism/therapies-guide/stem-cell-therapy

Of course those "cures" didn't go for $20,000 a pop.

following applications of umbilical cord stem cells and other related unapproved products leading to “blindness, tumor formation, infections and more”.