Before You Buy: A Woo Primer For Parents

Monday, November 22, 2010 - 18:31 in Psychology & Sociology

It seems like many autism-related sites have ads on them for our kids, promising all sorts of results. How do we evaluate the claims of these products and prevent ourselves from (1) wasting precious financial resources, and (2) putting our precious children in harm's way? There are some key things that one can look for that indicate woo and pseudoscience. We don't have to be experts in a field; we just have to know how to evaluate claims and evidence. Look at this ad located at the Autism File: read more

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