mercury

I’ve been looking at mercury in the environment recently, and have hit a brick wall on how it accumulates. Does anyone know what mechanisms are required for mercury accumulation in a water system. I am talking about bacterial level, so not fish, or other higher life forms. Sediments, organic...

I put this in Social rather than Medicine because it's the social aspect which interests me. I was at a family party last month, when the topic turned to a 15 minute discussion about how evil mercury in vaccines was. With the exception of me and three old women, who had no clue, but agreed...

Gold obtained by mining has copper and silver impurities. Gold of higher purity can be made through the photoneutron process:[citation needed] Mercury 198 + 6.8MeV gamma ray --> 1 neutron + Mercury 197 (half-life 2.7 days --> Gold 197 + 1 positron) Sorry I can’t post the link, I’m new...

I've stumbled upon a number of powerful anti-vaccine personalities over the years on TV, radio and Youtube, but this fiery performance by alternative medicine "crusader" Gary Null tops them all. His extreme anger, loudness and body language are nearly Hitlerian. Naturally, his rant is almost...

http://www.thecitizen.com/archive/main/archive-050302/pt-05_mercury.html It appears that someone has made a comparison of the mercury levels between a can of tuna and flu vaccines: It appears that there's 20 times the amount of mercury in a can of light tuna versus a flu shot...strange. You...

"Low levels of mercury in the diet of male white ibises cause the birds to mate with each other rather than with females. As a result many of the females can't breed, and fewer chicks are produced." http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19784-mercury-poisoning-makes-male-birds-homosexual.html...

2.) Dr. Moulden, we understand that you have made a revolutionary discovery. Can you tell us about it?* I would be happy to. Through my extensive research and my work throughout the years, I have discovered that vaccinations are causing impaired blood flow (ischemia) to brain and body from...

Good for the FDA! I can't wait to see the backlash from the alt-med woosters on this one... Mercury in dental fillings not risky, officials say Waiting for the alt-med "government, Big Pharma conspiracy machine" to start up in... 3... 2... 1... Whoops, too late :rolleyes:

What happens to your body if you touch mercury?

Or not. Missing mercury, supposed mercury contaminated high fructose corn syrup/sugars, etc. It's all there. http://civileats.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/421_2_105026.pdf Reactions (to do with autism of course)...

So in today's news, i saw where traces of mercury are reportedly being found in some high fructose corn syrup and their products. http://www.usnews.com/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/01/28/mercury-found-in-high-fructose-corn-syrup.html I've only found a couple references to it so far today, but they...

From Varitey: I think this is Colker's Web site. I've only skimmed it, but it doesn't seem to be terribly woo-drenched, although he does mention interest in a "holistic" approach to wellness. I don't know much about mercury in seafood, but that's a potentially genuine concern, right?

I regularly swim in a bay that's too polluted with mercury to eat it's shellfish according to a sign. However there's no sign saying you can't swim and the water is clear. I know a few other people swim in it sometimes so I did. I searched the net a lot and found nothing on it. The problem is...

A mercury nut is visiting my college David Kirby is visiting my college. Arggggg...

So my parents sent me a hard copy of this gem: http://www.naturalchoice.net/articles/mercurymind.htm From the article My parents don't really buy it, but they are more along the lines of "Hey, what about this article? Debunk this..." So, I'm going to sit down and Fisk this article, but in the...

How sweet is this? It's wild to take in, especially considering we've assembled complete surface maps of so many other, more distant bodies in the solar system (even Jovian and Saturnian moons come to mind) before being in position to have a more complete view of Mercury. After all this time...

These issues keep coming up, in all kinds of threads. Mercury was blamed for causing autism, but that doesn't seem to be a direct cause, because even with mercury banned from being injected into kids, (except Flu vaccines), autism is still rising in industrialized nations. Then too, there is...

A few days ago, one of my relatives warned me that I could be poisoning myself because I eat a high-seafood diet (i.e. seafood once, sometimes twice a day). So I check online, and sure enough, I apparently consume around 15 times the EPA's reference dose of mercury each week. Even so, the...

Very interesting : http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070503_mercury_core.html It turns out that our current theory of planet formation may need to be rewritten yet again.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-05-03-schirra-obit_N.htm Another member of the Mercury Seven has passed. Actually flew the first Apollo mission after friends and colleagues had perished in the Apollo 1 fire. He truly had the "Right Stuff." I'll always remember the cold medicine...

I'm about to retire for the evening, so if anyone is in the mood for debating the mercury-causes-autism argument, have at it. Thanks, Jim

I read about this in todays USA newspaper edition. The author claimed that all this mercury fear is unfounded because of this. It was also stated that amalgram mercury fillings were okay because you only get about 1/5th of your daily intake through the fillings as you do through normal ingestion...

I've read and heard a lot about Mercury fillings being bad for you. I am aware that Mercury itself is carcenogenic but what about when it's used in fillings by your dentist? A lots of woos I know of bang on about it and use it as a motive against western medicine. Someone posted in another...

I've put this on the politics thread too....but here I want to know if red mercury exists - and if not, who started the hoax? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5176382.stm

This is a new one on me. I'd heard of people deciding their amalgam fillings were toxic and having them removed, plus even getting chelation for that, but someone I know got an email from a pet-vaccine mailing list claiming that you can be exposed to dangerous amounts of mercury vapor from the...

On Scarborough Country, MSNBC a short while ago today, a guy named David Kirby was pushing his book, “Evidence of Harm”. The most interesting thing about this short informercial, was that nothing concrete was presented linking mercury to autism. Scarborough and Kirby both stated there was a...

I am having some limited success in discussing the skeptical perspective of the Mercury-Autism debate in a large (100 members) support group here in Phoenix. As a father with an autistic son, the subject interests me, but I'm stuck on something.There is a planned chelation study in our area (I...

Strap on your flak suits and lock 'n load your debating weapons. The thimerosal/autism/ADD story still has legs thanks to plaintiff attorney R.F.Kennedy Jr. :o let the spamming begin.:( Just today on the news: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/14/eveningnews/main709269.shtml...

While glancing around my dentist's exam room today, I noticed a gizmo labelled "Mercury Vapor Ionizer". I assumed that this device was designed to remove mercury vapor from the air when the dentist mixes mercury-silver amalgam fillings. But anything with the word "ionizer" in the name makes me...

Link. After that the writer address mercury in fillings, episotemties, bird flu, and a few other things. But I thought I'd pass on a bit of positivity.