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Instead, today the villain is...dental fillings.
by lidHanteyk 7y ago
Instead, today the villain is...dental fillings.
- Bnshsysjab 7y agoI detect sarcasm in your response and trust the legitimacy of random white papers about as much as I trust buzzfeed. That being said mercury correlation sounds semi plausible but I had an underwhelming Chem/bio education. Can you explain the sarcasm in more detail?
- perl4ever 7y agoIt sounds semi-plausible until you skim the paper and notice that they seem to be conceding that if the linkage exists, it's happening prenatally because of the mother's fillings. That seems like it would greatly attenuate the effect suggested, and also makes it reminiscent of the vaccine claims. Also, much of the writing tone and rhetoric is floridly crank-style.
- dreamcompiler 7y agoIt can't be because of the child's fillings. Most autistic children are diagnosed well before age 6, which is about when baby teeth start to fall out. How many kids get cavities filled in baby teeth? Some probably, but I expect most diagnosed children have never had a cavity filled.
- perl4ever 7y agoI mean, the claim that something changed about dental fillings in 1970 sounds at least worth looking into...except then I read that the theory here is that mercury in fillings causes autism through prenatal influence. And then there is a chart going back to the 1800s comparing mental illness with amalgam usage. Is this a post 1970 issue or not? I wonder if the theory could be ruled out with data about people who consume a lot of mercury containing seafood.