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Flea is instructed by Autism Speaks

By oracknows on March 7, 2007.

Flea has a rather amusing response to a letter about GI symptoms in autistic children that left him scratching his head...

Don't feel insulted, Flea; occasionally, we get mass mailings from cancer advocacy groups or--much more annoying to me and unfortunately much more frequent--pharmaceutical companies that sound as though they're telling us how to treat various cancers.

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8756 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 38 / Tuesday, February 27, 2007 / Notices
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Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug
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ACTION: Notice.
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