It is amazing that the AP can run a story like this:

ATLANTA - About one in 150 American children has autism, an urgent public health concern, said U.S. health officials Thursday who reported on the largest study done so far on the troubling disorder.

The new numbers, based on 2002 data from 14 states, are higher than previously reported.

and say this:

Also, the study does not answer whether autism is increasing — a controversial topic, driven in part by the contention by some parents and advocates that autism is linked to a vaccine preservative. The best scientific studies have not borne out that claim.

"We can't make conclusions about trends yet," because the study's database is too new, said Catherine Rice, a CDC behavioral scientist who was the study's lead author.

Bullshit. It's the mercury in the vaccines. The parents know it. They have a normal child, and after the third round of shots, autism appears.

How can they say "we don't know if autism is increasing"?? The numbers don't lie.
That's eleven years. Autism used to be much more rare in this country.

Clocker Bob, could you please point me to the information linking mercury in vaccines to autism? It seems to be missing from your post.

WWPTABvHD? (What Would Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim Do?)

ipitcher wrote:Clocker Bob, could you please point me to the information linking mercury in vaccines to autism? It seems to be missing from your post.

WWPTABvHD? (What Would Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim Do?)

Bob is being proven correct regarding your modus operandi by your useless, stupid post in this thread. If you have no interest in autism, just stay away and start your own useless, stupid thread.

I have some interest in both mercury and autism.

ipitcher wrote:I have some interest in both mercury and autism.

VESTED interest, might I add. iPitcher owns significant stock in mercury mining operations AND autism treatment facilities.

My employer has a boy with mild autism. This would be interesting to him. Just yesterday we were talking about a mercury spill at an area school.

I related how when I was about 9 years old, my uncle showed me how you can turn copper pennies "silver". All you needed to do was break open an old thermostat and remove the mercury from the glass vial. You then put it into a small bowl and rub the mercury into the penny. It turns the penny "silver", and your fingers "black". I did this to a lot of pennies. The bowl of mercury sat on my desk for months, probably.

So, I think I probably absorbed a nice amount of this quicksilver. I wonder what it did to my brain?

zom-zom wrote:My employer has a boy with mild autism. This would be interesting to him. Just yesterday we were talking about a mercury spill at an area school.

I related how when I was about 9 years old, my uncle showed me how you can turn copper pennies "silver". All you needed to do was break open an old thermostat and remove the mercury from the glass vial. You then put it into a small bowl and rub the mercury into the penny. It turns the penny "silver", and your fingers "black". I did this to a lot of pennies. The bowl of mercury sat on my desk for months, probably.

So, I think I probably absorbed a nice amount of this quicksilver. I wonder what it did to my brain?

Jesus man that's scary. The resorvoir near me provides millions of gallons of water to NYC. There's also gallons and gallons of mercury at the bottom. You xcan scuba dive with a bucket and scoop that shit up. It's not considered a health risk though, I guess because its heavy and hangs at the bottom. I still don't drink NYC water anyway.

zom-zom wrote:My employer has a boy with mild autism. This would be interesting to him. Just yesterday we were talking about a mercury spill at an area school.

I related how when I was about 9 years old, my uncle showed me how you can turn copper pennies "silver". All you needed to do was break open an old thermostat and remove the mercury from the glass vial. You then put it into a small bowl and rub the mercury into the penny. It turns the penny "silver", and your fingers "black". I did this to a lot of pennies. The bowl of mercury sat on my desk for months, probably.

So, I think I probably absorbed a nice amount of this quicksilver. I wonder what it did to my brain?

according to frank zappa's autobiography his dad used to bring home vials of mercury for young frank to play.

frank's hobby was hitting puddles of the shit with a hammer.

Perhaps the number of reported cases of autism is increasing because doctors are more aware of autism now and are more likely to diagnose it. There is nothing in Bob's post to suggest a link between mercury (or anything else) in vaccines and autism, other than his explicit statement that mercury in the vaccines is causing autism.

One of the current theories doing the rounds in the UK, albeit one without any real evidence to support it, is that the attenuated measles virus in the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) vaccine can somehow cause autism.

I am not denying that there is a link between mercury exposure and neurotoxicity, but as far as I'm aware it is normally chronic exposure that causes problems. I will see what else I can find out....

My mother works with lots of autistic children and is a proponent of this theory.

RFK Jr. chimes in.