A Silent Spring for our mental health: exposing how mankind has unwittingly poisoned itself for half a millennium, and how autism is just the latest case in which mercury had
instigated a disease of epidemic proportions
Much of the public discussion about autism has missed the point about the possible causes. To solve this question, two writers began digging into the history of other degenerative
neurological disorders. Their research led them to discover incredible and previously unacknowledged links between a strain of syphilis which left sufferers raving mad, the spike of
schizophrenia during the Industrial Revolution, and the hidden commonalities between the parents of the first children diagnosed with autism in the 1930s. Behind each of these disordersas
well as many otherswas exposure to mercury, the most toxic non-radioactive substance known to man.
The Age of Autism connects these dots to form a startling new theory that has particular relevance today. One recent study detected mercury in the blood of thirty percent of U.S.
women, a figure 1,500 times higher than what was reported ten years ago, when only 2% of women had mercury in their blood. Wholly original and deeply disturbing, The Age of Autism is
an important and fascinating investigation.
