Shannon Crowley is a doctoral candidate in the curriculum and instruction program at Boston College.
Shannon Crowley
Graduate student
Boston College
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Studies of autism treatments rarely report adverse events, and the scientists involved often fail to disclose their conflicts of interest.
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