The cultural news has previously reported that online retailer Amazon has taken several books claiming to "cure" the neuropsychiatric disability autism.

Among other things, the book Healing the symptoms known as autism, which instructs parents on how to make chlorine dioxide, a substance similar to bleach, and feed their children.

Follows Amazon's example

Now, the Swedish bookseller Adlibris chooses to temporarily remove the titles from the range on its website, which DN was the first to report. The online bookstore Bokus has also chosen to temporarily remove the books.

- We have temporarily chosen not to offer these three titles while we investigate them according to our assortment policy, says Patrik Övreby, purchasing and assortment manager for Bokus and Akademibohandeln.

Sampling of purchased books

Both Adlibris and Bokus / Akademibokhandeln have over 10 million titles in their assortment and have their own policy for which books they want to sell. But they do not have any manual monitoring of which books fall into the assortment.

- We take samples of the books that come in and act when we are drawn to different titles by, for example, customers, media or writers, says Patrik Övreby.

Patrik Övreby adds that the goal is to provide as wide and deep a range as possible, but that there are still limitations in which books you want to sell.

- We don't sell books that violate the law. Then there are those who, in strict legal interpretation, are legal, but who are nevertheless in a moral and ethical gray zone, which, for example, adhere to, for example, incitement against popular groups or extreme manifestos. Or as in this case, uplift.