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I found this interesting website of a very opinionated Andrew Levin on chelation. Andrew maintains that DMPS and DMSA are not chelators and they do more damage by moving mercury around the brain. His only safe chelator is Selenium.

He apparently gets a lot of his opinion and information from web discussion groups. He seems fairly well educated on nutritional supplements also.

A little more info on Mr. Levin. (His page does have lots of excerpts from message boards. I don't think you can discount those unless he's edited them or made them up)

Andy Cutlers comment on Andrew Levin:

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Dear list owner and moderator,


As you can see I've been asked to comment on past trolling by Andrew Levin. He won the dubious distinction of being one of only about 3 people ever thrown off the autism-mercury list (on yahoo groups), which is an unmoderated list and if you look it over you will find many VERY heated and prolonged exchanges. People don't get moderated, and don't get thrown off except for very exceptional problems.


You will also find a 'troll alert' document in the files section of that list presenting much history of his being a troll on many other lists.


Mr. Levin devotes his considerable talents to convincing parents to hurt their children through inappropriate interventions, as well as to deny them potentially curative interventions. I don't know why he does this, but he is very persuasive, knows no ethical bounds on the form of argument he uses, and proved unbelievably disruptive on the autism mercury list.


He speaks as if he knows what he is talking about but he is in fact clueless, has no relevant background or understanding, and can provide no technical support or back-up information. You may find a search of the autism mercury list archives (most easily done using the onibasu.com search engine) illuminating.


I would strongly encourage you to throw him off your list in the interests of protecting the children it is supposed to be helping. In the midst of the necessarily high level of controversy and uncertainty that prevails at this point in time someone who is purposely sophistic and whose actions appear bent on obscuring the truth can cause a tremendous amount of harm.


If you would like to discuss this further please do not hesitate to contact me.


Sincerely yours,


Andrew Hall Cutler, PhD, PE