From: Gary Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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disease was unknown until 1943, when it was identified and diagnosed
among 11 children born in the months after thimerosal was first added
to baby vaccines in 1931.
No, it wasn't, looking back. The pianist/composer Blind Tom clearly had it,
among other noted "idiot savants". In one of Heinlein's novelettes, Lost
Legacy, a character names several such as examples of what the human minds
is capable of, if only we could harness it. All of them predate the
vaccines.
And there was a great child prodigy of my childhood, Boris-something, who
after great promise dwindled into the world's greatest expert on streetcar
transfers. The psychology of the day blamed his terribly pushy father, which
he certainly had, but - streetcar transfers? That man apparently had some
mighty strange hardwiring.
Not to say the problems with mercury might not be there! The condition has
certainly increased far beyond what population increase and better diagnosis
could account for. Though I do like the explanation offered by Wired
Magazine for Silicon Valley's huge increase, "We're breeding geeks there."
Pat
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