{"id":88740,"date":"2019-03-17T21:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T04:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/amazon-removes-books-that-promoted-an-autism-cure"},"modified":"2019-03-17T21:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T04:42:43","slug":"amazon-removes-books-that-promoted-an-autism-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/amazon-removes-books-that-promoted-an-autism-cure","title":{"rendered":"Amazon removes books that promoted an autism \u2018cure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-removes-books-that-promoted-an-autism-cure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Amazon has removed books from its website that promoted \u201ccures\u201d for autism, the latest major company to try to limit the amount of misinformation related to autism and the bogus notion that it\u2019s caused by vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says there is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncbddd\/autism\/treatment.html\">no cure<\/a> for autism spectrum disorder, only medications that can help some function better. It also says there is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccinesafety\/concerns\/autism.html\">no link<\/a> between vaccines and autism.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a> Inc. spokeswoman confirmed the books were no longer available, but did not answer any additional questions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/146c60b8281745a5be3de926cd698711\">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/146c60b8281745a5be3de926cd698711<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Amazon has removed books from its website that promoted \u201ccures\u201d for autism, the latest major company to try to limit the amount of misinformation related to autism and the bogus notion that it\u2019s caused by vaccines. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says there is no cure for autism spectrum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}