General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Twisted Anti-Vaxx History [View all]Sunlei
(22,651 posts)No one has researched the exact causes of autism and we may never know for hundreds of years. I think it's pretty much a given in an educated civilized society that these heavy metals shouldn't be around any developing brains, nervous systems.
Besides mercury use in human medicines is released into sewage systems and adds to the environmental contamination from mercury., 3% a year according to studies comes from "3.0% from waste disposal, including municipal and hazardous waste, crematoria, and sewage sludge incineration."
about 80% of mercury contamination comes from the coal burn for power- industry and gold mining. And volcanos!, interesting!
edit source- 'Mercury in Ice Core Upper Fremont Glacier' Public Domain
U.S. Geological Survey