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Ad watchdog orders homeopaths to stop claiming autism cure
Cease therapy can be harmful, and campaigners say autism is not a condition to be curedClea Skopeliti
Fri 22 Mar 2019 17.08 GMT
Last modified on Fri 22 Mar 2019 17.16 GMT
Cease treatment includes giving autistic children 200 times more vitamin C than is recommended. Photograph: Michael Rosenfeld/Getty Images
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered 150 UK homeopaths to stop claiming they can cure autism.
Five homeopaths are facing prosecution for advertising Cease “therapy”, which is not supported by scientific evidence and can be harmful to children.The National Autistic Society praised the advertising watchdog’s decision, saying autism was not a disease to be cured but a lifelong part of many people’s identity.
Cease, or Complete Elimination of Autistic Spectrum Expression, is supposedly a method of ...
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