GSK is one of the largest pharma companies in the world, created the malaria vaccine, the first HIV antiretroviral, amoxicillin, valacyclovir, and like a zillion other important drugs.
It's also not even an American company, despite your insinuation: it's British. This isn't some fly-by-night operation created by Trump or whatever.
How well will this pill work? I don't know. There is reasonably good research [1], (carried out during the Biden administration btw!) that a large percentage of autism is linked to folate deficiency due to autoantibodies that wreck your folate pathways, and that d,l-leucoverin bypasses those and restores folate to developing brains.
Complaining that it's "a simple pill" to me feels pretty anti-intellectual. So were antibiotics, so were antivirals, so were many other treatments for horrible diseases that just... are solved now. The fact that it's pill-shaped tells you nothing about the research it took to develop.
It's also not even an American company, despite your insinuation: it's British. This isn't some fly-by-night operation created by Trump or whatever.
How well will this pill work? I don't know. There is reasonably good research [1], (carried out during the Biden administration btw!) that a large percentage of autism is linked to folate deficiency due to autoantibodies that wreck your folate pathways, and that d,l-leucoverin bypasses those and restores folate to developing brains.
Complaining that it's "a simple pill" to me feels pretty anti-intellectual. So were antibiotics, so were antivirals, so were many other treatments for horrible diseases that just... are solved now. The fact that it's pill-shaped tells you nothing about the research it took to develop.
1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34834493/