Skeptical about hyperbaric chambers for autism? You and Do’C

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Healthy Skeptic reporter Chris Woolston noted recently that hyperbaric chambers are becoming, if not the must-have accoutrement for the wealthy health-seeker, at least something of a fad in such circles.

The prospect of slowing or reversing aging is one big draw. Others hope the little extra air pressure and oxygen a chamber provides can cure their cancer or some other chronic disease. In recent years, a growing number of parents have sought hyperbaric therapy to treat their children’s autism or cerebral palsy.

Here’s Woolston’s story: Portable hyperbaric chambers: An expensive folly?

Now Autism Street blogger Dad Of Cameron (a.k.a. Do’C) weighs in with his own reporting:

I’m a science blogging skeptic myself and have written about this so-called ‘treatment’ in considerable detail.... I’ve provided a roundup of some good skepticism on the subject.

Here’s his post: Mild HBOT for autism - a brief skeptical guide.

Skeptics always welcome. (Note: Those who contend that the Earth is flat or the moon landing was staged fall under a different category.)

-- Tami Dennis