• Health Canada says it has already rejected one licence application to produce FMT at Klop’s Chilliwack facility, citing a long list of quality control and sanitation problems.

    What? A quack who wants to sell shit pills has issues with quality control and sanitation? I DON’T BELIEVE IT.

      • Autism isn’t something that needs to be cured

        My cousin suffers autism. He is in his forties and is entirely nonverbal. He depends on his aging parents to survive: he can’t go grocery shopping, he can’t bathe himself, he has never had a romantic partner, and I don’t have to explain that he can’t get a job either.

        His mother abandoned her career decades ago to become his full-time caretaker. She hasn’t had a real vacation ever since because my cousin only feels comfortable around his parents.

        Autism isn’t something that needs to be cured

        I sincerely hope life doesn’t force you to become the caretaker of an autistic child.

        • Autism isn’t curable because it’s not a disease. It’s a difference in brain development. You can no more cure it than you can cure ADHD or being transgender.

          What you can do is provide a child support. Autism is a spectrum, and some children will need more support than others. Early-childhood behavioural and communication therapies can make a massive difference in the long-term prognosis for a child with autism. Different educational approaches can also help quite a bit. This isn’t going to solve the problem for every single child, but the outlook for people with autism is significantly better than it was in the 80s.

          I sincerely hope life doesn’t force you to become the caretaker of an autistic child.

          I absolutely refuse to put another human being on a dying planet, so no need to worry about that. Regardless, if I do somehow end up with a child, I’m fully on-board to support them no matter how they turn out.