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...given the subjects thimerserol, neural and fetal cells.
I suspect I am entirely accurate.
Thimerserol is much more commonly used in Africa and other hot climate third world locations than in the West. There is no comensurate increase in ASDs in these nations. IF anything the prevalence is somewhat lower than in developed nations, though this is dificult to tell because diagnostic testing is less available.
Several nations have entirely phased out the use of Thimerserol in vaccines. There is no comensurate reduction in the prevalence of ASDs there.
Given these simple observations, then for Thimerserol to be the culprit, it must almost certainly be ingested Thimerserol from non-vaccine sources, such as those pointed out by an earlier poster. Ingested, and thus subjected to digestive proccesses which might (I say might, because I have no knowledge one way or the other) convert the compound Thimerserol to a more biologically active (and thus more harmful) mercuric compound. All a great deal of speculation, but because it hasn't been investigated anywhere near as rigorously as the thimerserol present in vaccines, it may be possible that the jury is still out as to whether or not a mother's vanity is implicated in her child's affliction.
I'll add this, at least some forms of autism appear to be the result of a brainstem defect which develops in utero two years or more before symtoms manifest, and long before it is even possible to administer the vaccines that far too many would like to implicate.
If other ASDs are the result of environmental factors, and their heightened prevalence in devoloped nations at least weakly suggests this posibility, then perhaps we should consider those factors which are common in these locales. And further, carefully consider differences in environmental pollutants (and their sources) between different "styles" of developed nations. As far as I'm aware China and before it, Soviet block countries in Eastern Europe, have not experienced the same increase in ASD diagnoses as the West, despite their highly polluting power generation industry (an industry that is notorious for releasing mercury into the environment). Yet one more negative correlation between mercury and ASDs.
What one thing makes the West stand out in comparison to these countries? I would say the motor car and the infernal combustion engine which powers it. Pure speculation on my part, but still a positive correlation.
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