Description: Olmsted and Blaxill present 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.
Brief description: Dan Olmsted is Editor of the blog Age of Autism. He has been a journalist for 35 years and was an original staff member of USA Today and Senior Editor of USA WEEKEND and United Press International. He lives in Falls Church City, Virginia and is a member of the National Press Club.
Review Quotes:
"A devastating account... autistic children are the canaries in the coal mine." --Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
"Anyone concerned with environmental health owes it to themselves to read this book." --David Kirby, author of Evidence of Harm "Make sure your doctor sees a copy of this timely book" --Dierdre Imus