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To be clear, Blaxill and Olmsted state upfront that they support vaccination. What they do not support is mainstream science’s explanation of the cause and history of autism. Carefully laying groundwork for their hypothesis, they trace the origins of other illnesses that, if not directly caused by human hands, were worsened by them. One case in point: syphilis was once treated with mercury, which resulted in a type of madness thought to be another symptom of the disease, but instead was found to be mercury poisoning. Additionally they trace mercury poisoning as the basis of other illnesses before concluding that mercury plays a part in what may likely be multiple causes of autism. In this they relate a history of the discovery of autism and tie the disorder’s recent ascendancy to increased environmental toxins, most specifically mercury. These two iconoclasts, one the father of a child with autism, lay out credible investigative evidence in support of their theory even if it does fly in the face of what they feel is the medical industry’s current cant. --Donna Chavez --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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“A devastating account... autistic children are the canaries in the coal mine.” —Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
"Anyone concerned with environmental health owes it to themselves to read this book."
--David Kirby, author of Evidence of Harm
"Make sure your doctor sees a copy of this timely book."--Dierdre Imus
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- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1 edition (September 13, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312547099
- ASIN: B00BFQCBOQ
- Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
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The Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-Made Epidemic – Bargain Price, September 13, 2011 PDF
The content of this book is a bit different than what this reviewer had expected. Much of the material presented here can actually be read apart from what the authors discuss about autism, even though autism is one of the core elements in some areas of the text, comprising perhaps about one-third of the book. In reading some of the reviews here, as well as the great amount of comments that have been submitted in response to these reviews, it is rather apparent that some have not actually read this book (the reader of this review can rest assured that this reviewer has read the entire content before submitting this review), so this review was submitted with the goal of addressing these, even though it is difficult to review a book of this nature in just a couple paragraphs.
As the authors discuss in their introduction, the intention was to investigate the natural history of the autism disorder, beginning with the original landmark 1943 report by Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Leo Kanner on 11 children born in the 1930s. While traditional researchers often state that autism rates consist of only a handful per 10 thousand individuals, and that this rate has existed for quite some time and is common, the authors state that autism was newly discovered in the 1930s because it was new and did not exist in previous generations. In reading the account of Kanner, the presentation that the authors provide is compelling. If individuals have had this disorder at a natural rate for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, why would its existence not have been documented?
In the opinion of this reviewer, one of the best aspects of this book is the fact that the authors research each of the 11 individual cases reported by Kanner.
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