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Reading Age of Autism Part 5 – hodge podge of ideas

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Chapters 5 and 6 are quite difficult to blog about. On the surface they carry a surfeit of information but somehow all that useful information gets lost in the authors determination to make the facts fit their ideas. In Chapter 5 we’re introduced to the idea that ethylmercury in two forms was invented. Fungicide and [...]

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Reading Age of Autism Part 4 – Stretching the truth

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

Over the last few days, I’ve tried to show how the authors of Age of Autism have retro-fitted the symptoms of mercury poisoning to try and make them await a diagnosis of autism. They have suggested things like tremors, paralysis, reddening of extremities and various other things are very similar to symptoms of autism. Or [...]

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Reading Age of Autism Part 3 – Building the case

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

Chapter 3 of Age of Autism (Age of Acrodynia) concentrates on two things. Firstly the text discusses Pink Disease which is: ...a disease of infancy and early childhood marked by pain and swelling in, and pink coloration of, the fingers and toes and by listlessness, irritability, failure to thrive, profuse perspiration, and sometimes scarlet coloration [...]

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Reading Age of Autism Part 2 – Mercury still not good for you

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

OK, so you might’ve seen by my tweets that I struggled a bit with Chapter 2. I hope the narrative picks up in upcoming chapters. Anyway, the overall gist of Chapter 2 is that of Chapter 1 – mercury is bad for you, m’kay? To which the the retort is still – Holy Obvious Batman! [...]

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