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Dr. Robert Indech   (30 March 2008)

Invalidating Assumption 30 March 2008
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Dr. Robert Indech,
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IPD Associates

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Re: Invalidating Assumption

rindech{at}hotmail.com Dr. Robert Indech

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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