I think the only people who even bother looking into mercury are those who are so badly poisoned, and so miserable that everything else has failed to make life bearable. So they turn to something "fringe" like mercury poisoning out of desperation. Everyone else just accepts how they are cause they manage to get by alright and don't want the hassle of amalgam removal, chelation, etc. Well they probably aren't even thinking of those things, just the idea that there are toxins shooting out of their teeth is something they just don't want to wrap their heads around! So they write us off as "fringe" or "loonies" to make themselves feel better...

What's really strange I've noticed, is how people will accept the negative aspects of their personalities as "who they are", and stop seeing them as "bad". Thus they will be resistant to the idea they are mercury intoxicated. Could be one reason they get so defensive when people talk about amalgam illness. They see the idea as an attack on their personality! You see, we are supposed to feel crappy and miserable all the time, it's just who we are! Who are you to think that you should feel "good"? What, do you think you are better than everyone else?

It'd be almost comical if their wasn't so much real, pointless suffering induced from these additudes. Especially when people start projecting the politically correct axiom that we need to "accept and tolerate" everything about everyone, no matter how messed up. You see a lot of this in the autism community, but that's like viewing it under a microscope. It exists on a lesser scale throughout our entire society. It's pc'ism taken too far and it drives me insane.

I'm reminded of Russ's recent post about how he thinks mercury has infiltrated our culture on a very deep level. That struck a chord with me cause through the lens of mercury toxicity, the world makes a lot of sense, where as before it didn't. Kids 5 younger than me (I'm 24) seem really messed up compared to kids my age (shorter attention span, more violent, more apathetic, etc). Well that's right about the time we doubled the vaccination schedule. You think you can blame the rise in ADHD on "better diagnostics" and "faster media" alone? I don't.

And why are boys so much more worse off than girls in school that every six months a major news magazine posts a cover story on the "boy crisis"? Could it be that testosterone increases the neurotoxicity of mercury? This seems especially true with smaller exposure, which would explain why the 'lesser' potentially mercury induced disorders such as asperger's and adhd have a much higher male-female ratio than more serious cases like autism, minimata or pink's disease; though autism is still skewered towards boys, 4-1.

Other than vaccines, I think the introduction of the high copper amalgams in the 70's has had a big effect on children born in the 80's, as their parents were probably wearing them. Anyone whose read Huggins "It's All in Your Head" knows these new amalgams emit far more mercury than the old ones, and mercury via amalgams passes the placenta and hits the fetus at a very vulnerable time. I don't know how this compares to exposure via vaccinations but it seems to get much less attention, despite seeming like it could be as bad.