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AutismNewsBeat | 7:52 a.m. Oct. 20, 2007

There is no proof that HBOT treats autism, and no reason to believe it can. Autism is a developmental disorder, not arrested development, so children with autism continue to develop on their own, albeit in a different way. It's unethical for any researcher to point to development gains as proof that HBOT works, when those gains could just as well have occurred without oxygen therapy.

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