The Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine, and as Man-Made Epidemic (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
A groundbreaking book, The Age of Autism explores how mankind has unwittingly poisoned itself for half a millennium.
For centuries, medicine has made reckless use of one of earth's most toxic substances: mercury - and the consequences, often invisible or ignored, continue to be tragic. Today, background pollution levels, including global emissions of mercury as well as other toxicants, make us all more vulnerable to its effects. From the worst cases of syphilis to Sigmund Freud's first cases of hysteria, from baffling new disorders in 19th century Britain to the modern scourge of autism, The Age of Autism traces the long overlooked history of mercury poisoning.
Now, for the first time, authors Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill uncover that history. Within this context, they present startling findings: investigating the first cases of autism diagnosed in the 1940s revealed an unsuspected link to a new form of mercury in seed disinfectants, lumber fungicides and vaccines.
In the tradition of Silent Spring and An Inconvenient Truth, Olmsted and Blaxill demonstrate with clarity how chemical and environmental clues may have been missed as medical "experts," many of them blinded by decades of systemic bias, instead placed blamed on parental behavior or children's biology. By exposing the roots and rise of The Age of Autism, this book attempts to point the way out - to a safer future for our children and the planet.
Customer Reviews
Great book!
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So weirdly wrong.
With such a title you know where they are going but Hg has not been in vaccinations in the US since the late 1990s so if Hg was the cause of Autism then it should be dropping off, it has not. I could also note that the Hg used in vaccinations was ethyl Hg which has a half life of hours in the body. It could be mentioned that 100's of millions of people around the world are vaccinated so we can compare populations with low rate vs high rate of vaccinations and the autism rate are the same; however more vaccinations equals better heath, and vaccinations for one thing can help resistance to other illnesses also. Lets note with people in the US having kids later in life, which increases the risk of autism and the definition autism expanding the rates then rate have gone up. And lastly autism has a genetic signature, too many or too few of some kinds of genes, so it happens at conception. There is more of a connection between autism and how much Cannabis the parents smoked.