Sebtopiaris wrote:Bachmann America wrote:I knew someone was going to say that. It's a non government study that just is hosted on a government database. Whereas the CDC's page is literally a bunch of government "studies".
Also this:
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Hmm, interesting. I didn't know mercury caused autism, now I do.
Still, the amount of mercury in vaccines is minute. getting autism from vaccine mercury is like drinking a tablespoon of piss and getting urea frost all over your body. Or not, actually, seeing as at most urine is 10% or so urea, which is a fuckton more than the amount of mercury in vaccines.
Still, holy fuck, we need to find a safer place to get rid of mercury, and probably for safety take the mercury out of vaccines as well (provided we can replace it with another less harmful chemical). It looks like mercury in the environment's the problem, not vaccines, so hopefully more people become aware of the chemical's effects on human development.
Is there something wrong with my eyes, or does it say right there on map that the Toxic Release Inventory is for ALL CHEMICALS, not just mercury?
A look at the epa site for 1998 and 1999 TRI shows only one company declaring any releases of mercury compounds (Oxy Vinyls in Deer Park) with BP and Shell filing reports of zero releases. Mercury itself, no entries at all.
So I think what's up is that whoever made the graphic tried to find mercury releases through the TRI, and despite using a wider range of dates than for the autism map couldn't find enough to demonstrate any kind of pattern. So they just went with all toxic releases of any kind.