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Invalidating Assumption
- Dr. Robert Indech
(30 March 2008)
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Invalidating Assumption |
30 March 2008 |
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Dr. Robert Indech,
Researcher
IPD Associates
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Re: Invalidating Assumption
rindech{at}hotmail.com Dr. Robert Indech
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While the methodology for testing for the presence of ethyl and
methyl mercury in blood and urine is quite sophisticated, it admits the
underlying assumption that lowered levels of these chemicals results from
bodily elimination of them. Perhaps the more rapid decline in measurement
levels of ethylmercury is due to stronger (undetectable) binding to
tissues in the central nervous system. The pharmacokinetics of such a
process would be identical to that observed, yet such a process may give
rise to autistic symptoms, whereas total excretion from the body would
not.
In short, simply because the levels decline, you can't make the
asuumtion that the toxin has been eliminated from the body. The paper is
fundamentally flawed.
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