“her outlandish claims of “curing” her her son’s autism”
why listen to her, our medical establishment has a stellar record of curing autism, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, lupus, crohns etc etc etc etc.
I will stipulate that this McCarthy woman is a bimbo, and that food allergies are grossly exaggerated today.
This does not negate that some food allergies are real, and that some real parents of really troubled autistic kids have effected real improvement of the kids’ condition by eliminating some things from the kids’ diet. Gluten is one of those things.
The medical establishment has done wonders for people with those diseases. A hundred years ago, no one ever survived cancer, and most of those other diseases you mentioned were death sentences. These days, a diabetic cannot be cured, but he can expect to live nearly as long as if he had never developed the disease. The same can be said of many diseases.
Kook quackery, on the other hand, never accomplished anything besides lining some con man's pockets.