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Doing Harm
The Mercury Scare
Foreword
General Overview and Summary Conclusions
Introduction and Background
Why this response?
Contextual background on mercury toxicity and epidemiology: Japan and Iraq
Japanese fetal exposures
Iraq exposures
Exposure history
What constitutes real “development disability?
Section 1: The Phantom Menace
EPA’s Mercury Reference Dose
Definition and description
The Problematic Faroe Islands Study
Inappropriateness
Boston naming test problems
Summary of Faroe Islands study problems
Superior Seychelles Islands Studies
An appropriate study
Highlights of Seychelles children studies
The New Zealand Study
Iraqi Poisoned Grain-based RfD
Miscellaneous
Fish and Human Health
The heartbreak of pre-term delivery
Postpartum depression and low seafood consumption
Improved fetal and child development
Breast cancer
Kidney disorders
Stroke in men and women
Adult type 2 diabetes
Alzheimer Disease (AD) and adult cognitive abilities
Prostate cancer
Summary of health findings
Dietary benefits
Conclusion
Section 2: An Extraordinary Popular Delusion: Myth of the Mercurial Hundred Thousands
Statistical Manipulations
Revisit the RfD
Additional Considerations
No Bright Line of Harm
General Summary of mercury RfD talking points
Conclusion
Section 3: Misrepresenting the FDA
Conclusion
Section 4: How Safe is “Safe”?
Freshwater Sport Fish
Conclusion
Section 5: Mercury, Mercury Everywhere…Forever
Burying the lead
Mercury Deposition in Illinois
Accounting for Natural Sources
From Hg to MeHg
Section 6: Poisoning Sophie
The Sophie Chabon Case
Poisoned tuna?
The Waldman confessional
Conclusion
Section 7: The NRC and the Mercury RFD
Unscientific Policy Proposal
The NRC Panel
Conclusion
Section 8: Cardiac Arrest
Study Problem
Cardioprotective Benefits
Conclusion
Section 9: Understanding the Hightower Paper
Personal Opinions are not Science
“Treating” Sophie
Contradictions
Reinterpreting the RfD
Conclusion
Section 10: Through the Looking Glass
Political Wonderland
Bad Science
Section 11: The Selenium (Se) Factor
Swordfish Guidelines vs. Confiscation
The Canadian Approach
The Selenium Factor
Conclusion
Section 12: Fish Boom?
An Absence of Concern
Section 13: Attacking the FDA
More Confusion
A Letter from the Senate
Section 14: False Limits
More RfD Confusion
Eat More Fish!
Amazonia
Conclusion
Section 15: Sources of Ocean Fish Mercury
Canned Tuna
The Real Issue – Natural Sources of Mercury
Conclusion
Section 16: Meaningless Tests
Just the Facts
Meaningless Tests
Section 17: More Congressional Confusion
Section 18: Man-made vs. Natural Sources of Mercury
Section 19: The NESCAUM Report
Section 20: Where are all the Victims?
Where are the victims of fish poisoning?
Exhibits that argue for lack of victims
FDA Tuna Monitoring
Section 21: Hypothesis Rejected
Garbage in, Garbage out
A Vital Need for Essential Answers
Illinois Hot Spot?
Swamped in Florida
Conclusion
End Notes
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