Be very careful listening to anecdotes. Autism is a delay, so you could do something useless like crystal therapy and have the child get better afterwards, and

Be very careful listening to anecdotes. Autism is a delay, so you could do something useless like crystal therapy and have the child get better afterwards, and -- based on standard human biases we all have -- think that the crystal therapy cured him. If you want to see what happens with an actual double-blind experiment, check out http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20804367 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20804367