This message was self-deleted by its author

[meadowlander]

47. You don't get to cherry pick what your thread is "about" and shut down any other discussion.

When the title of the thread is "Scientists 'switch off' autism symptoms using $3 epilepsy drug" any reasonable person would expect exactly the discussion you are getting here. And I think you'll note that the majority of responses are not on your selected topic but on the obvious issues raised by the article you posted and your headline.

The question you should be asking yourself is why you are so invested in confining the discussion to ignore any of the ethical implications of the treatment or any of the specifics of what that treatment entails. Nobody is attacking you specifically. They are asking reasonable questions about the topic of the article you posted and the rigor of the science and accuracy of the journalism sitting behind it. If you don't want to discuss those things, don't discuss them but you don't need to act put out by very reasonable questions and clarifications on a topic you raised for discussion on a discussion board.