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To: maceng2 who wrote (31981)4/20/2003 10:46:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
<"Call us and we will drain you of all your 'toxic wealth'" -ggg- >
Yes, it's a bit like lead. The effects at low levels are subclinical but significant. Mercury has been around a long time and there's been plenty of poisoning, so it's nothing new and puzzling.

So we know that we are below a certain level of damage, but I suspect we are in the 5 IQ point damage range due to heavy loads of amalgam in teeth [baby boomers with mouths full of the stuff]. Until recent years, it was hard to measure low levels of toxins and the small effects of those low concentration toxins.

Thanks for the links.

I notice the amalgam pushers don't cite any IQ studies vs mercury levels in children.

Their review reads much like Associated Octel's defence of lead in petrol. Plausible sounding, but detailed reading shows they have NOT shown safety and have not measured the harm.

If they did studies on what was happening 40 years ago, it would show mayhem! I remember little balls of mercury running around the place in the dental nurse's room. She'd hand mix the stuff until it looked more or less okay, but now I realize it was as rough as can be.

Now, dentists handle mercury a lot better, so there probably really is vastly lower harm than was done back then. But they still haven't shown safety. Not with regard to IQ anyway.

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