Mercury, mercurial lies, and the liars that tell them by Kenneth Stoller, MD
Man-made sources in the U.S. pump more than 150 tons of mercury pollution into the air each year. Worldwide sources add hundreds of tons more. The wind spreads this mercury across the globe. Much of it returns to earth to contaminate our lakes and streams as methylmercury, a persistent bioaccumulative neurotoxin that poisons a wide variety of wildlife species. Humans are exposed to methylmercury by eating contaminated fish, and many states have been forced to warn their citizens against eating the fish they catch. Several commercially available seafood species also have high methylmercury levels. The FDA has warned women to limit their fish consumption, and they have set an "action level" to limit methylmercury in seafood, but this level is not enforced. The EPA and the NRC have recommended a much lower level, primarily to protect unborn children, who are the most vulnerable to methylmercury. Lower IQ levels linked to mercury exposure in the womb cost the USA $8.7 billion a year in lost-earnings potential according to a study done by the Mount Sinai Center for Children’s Health and the Environment. If it were publicly acknowledged that mercury pollution was the trigger for the autism epidemic this number would be in the trillions of dollars. One in six children are born to mothers with dangerous levels of mercury in their blood – perhaps the same one in six that the CDC admits have a neurobehavioral disorder.

The Olmstead report on the Amish and Homeschool populations (that do not vaccinate) implicates Thimerosal (50% ethylmercury) in the autism epidemic given that neither population have children with autism (why else does the CDC refuse to fund an adequate study of non-vaccinated populations?) The children who developed autism because of mercury exposure in vaccine gave us all a heads-up warning that the global background level of mercury was so high that just the little more mercury from vaccine was enough to cause severe neurological damage in a sensitive subset of the population. Instead of heading this warning, the very governmental agency that should have spearheaded the call to eliminate all sources of mercury and facilitated the detoxification of affected children did less than nothing. Compromised by the control of vaccine manufactures, revolving-door career pathways with Big Pharma, the CDC advocated for the continued use of Thimerosal in certain vaccine and continues to remain silent about the true cost of the heavy metal pollution from industry sources and the arcane practice of using mercury as a dental filing material. In the USA, dentists are the third largest users of mercury and largest contributor to wastewater mercury pollution.