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| Of 3648 children selected for recruitment, 1107 (30.3%) were tested. Among children who were not tested, 512 did not meet one or more of the eligibility criteria, 1026 could not be located, and 44 had scheduling difficulties; in addition, the mothers of 959 children declined to participate. Most of the mothers (68%) who declined to participate in the study and provided reasons for nonparticipation cited a lack of time; 13% reported distrust of or ambivalence toward research. Of the 1107 children who were tested, 60 were excluded from the final analysis for the following reasons: missing vaccination records, 1 child; missing prenatal records, 5; missing data regarding weight, 7; and discovery of an exclusionary medical condition during record abstraction, 47. Thus, 1047 children were included in the final analyses. The exposure distribution of the final sample was similar to the exposure distribution of the initial 3648 children selected for recruitment in the study. |
That's a whole lot of children that were conveniently excluded.
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| (We did not assess autism-spectrum disorders.) |
Correct me if I am wrong, but there is no specific dx criteria for autism. And a lot of autism spectrum disorders are neurological damage indeed.
I never understood this debate - every scientist and anyone who works with chemicals, metals, etc. KNOWS that mercury is a highly toxic element. That's a fact, does not need proof or "disproof". Ask your DH if he would break an old mercury thermometer and eat the mercury in it. No one would do that, because it is common knowledge that mercury is highly toxic.
