Dr. Steven Novella

So a little bit of water must have been left in there, and it just cracked over the winter.

Well, what he said was you should disconnect the water intake before you leave.

So we'll add that to our list of things to do.

Yeah, right.

We were just turning the valve off, emptying all the water, and then pouring antifreeze down.

He said also disconnect it.

Whatever.

All right.

Kara, tell us about these autism clinics.

Can I say, though, Cara, that the evidence really is not strong.

Evidence-based is not what it used to be.

This is like the whole purpose of science-based medicine is saying that evidence-based medicine is not enough because things like this get termed evidence-based.

But when you look at the evidence, so it's poor blinding, high risk of bias.

Yeah, but I think that you're about to tell us why these stakes are pretty high here.

And the huge problem with this, I don't know if you came across this, but I've come across it in other contexts with treating kids, is that children improve as they age.

And so everyone's going to get better, you know, to some extent, whatever measure you use will

And so if you're not adequately controlling for that, it's very easy to create the illusion that any intervention is doing something.

Yeah, I'm getting serious predatory vibes off of this whole industry.

Me too.

And it's triggering a lot of, to me it feels very similar to the psychomotor patterning industry, which is, just very, very quickly, again, it's this very intensive treatment, hours a day, every day,