This is so disturbing and I wish that people would just be more honest and open, and present actual facts and then leave people to make their own minds up.
When my son was younger there were a lot of 'autism' cures being touted, many of which I believe have now been proved to be, at best, ineffective and, at worst, very dangerous. But in amongst that were also some treatments and therapies that can be helpful for some people and I said at the time it would be so helpful to have a database that just presented stats - eg, 1,000 autistic children were tested for gluten and dairy allergies - 37 were found to have them, compared to 14 in the non-autistic population (I'm just making up numbers for the sake of example but the point I was trying to make was it would be helpful to see if certain things were worth investigating further, or if stats showed that there wasn't much difference either way). I'd love to see more evidence collated about 'complementary' therapies; 1,000 people with migraines tried osteopathy, 120 found it helped. It would just help you focus on what to look at, and the same would be so helpful with therapy - people using the services writing the reports, rather than the people administering them! Would be so useful to see, "1,000 with childhood trauma tried CBT, 329 found it helpful". It just gives you some context to work from.
Very frustrating for you, Dr G, trying to get your good work out there and having to deal with that sort of 'spin' being published! xx
