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Old 01-09-2010, 04:04 PM   #5
Undertoad
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble View Post
According to you, at least 7.8 µg, and maybe as high as 30-40 µg, is "normal" for mercury. He didn't pee that. Why not?
Either you didn't read or you didn't understand the original quote. You also have repeatedly failed to distinguish between the term normal and the term average.

Again, 7.8 micrograms per gram of creatinine was the average post-chelation amount measured on a 24-hour basis in adult factory workers repeatedly exposed to mercury.

Why didn't your son pee that? We don't have enough information, but perhaps a good start is that he isn't an adult factory worker repeatedly exposed to mercury.

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Sorry, I thought it was wiki but it was from somewhere else. Here's a study indicating that normal urinary lead levels for Japanese adults are between 1 and 4 µg for a 24-hour collection.
OK, you've gotten your units confused again. This study finds a statistical measurement of micrograms of lead, not micrograms of lead per gram of creatinine, as is expressed in the other study.

Also, again, the Japanese study does not determine what is normal, only what is statistically significant.

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You jump on the pseudoscience bandwagon here because my son's autistic, and everyone knows there's just no cause for that, none at all.
Oh goodness no! I call it pseudoscience because that's what it totally fucking is. I'm not jumping on the bandwagon in this case, I'm driving it.

Don't use my lack of participation in a thread as evidence of anything. Perhaps I did not care about that user as much.

Meanwhile, if you don't want my considered opinion, you should post it in "your" thread, where I have noted I will not seriously post. It might even be more appropriate, since there is no lead in any vaccines I know of.
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