In one of Mark Hyman's recent posts on Huffington Post (the "we don't check our sources source for news") he described how he believes mercury and heavy metals are the cause of autism..and once again (following the crazy that is the Anti-Vaccination movement) says that vaccines cause autism *facepalm*.
Every distinguished scientist in the world disagrees with this...all major studies into vaccines and autism have proven false. In three court cases this has been struck down due to overwhelming evidence against.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/science/13vaccine.html
He also states that mercury fillings cause autism...I've been wondering how anyone can come to this conclusion..as every study into mercury based fillings has shown that the mercury CANNOT leech out of the fillings. The mercury is chemically bound to the other metals in the filling..it's completely inert. The reason that mercury was removed from most fillings was due to public outcry over fears that it may before any studies had even been done.
In the same post Hyman talks about "detoxification of heavy metals" ...when will he (and others) understand that there is no such thing as "detoxing"..it's a buzz word made up to sell diet pills not a real scientific entity. Doing a search for "heavy metal detox" comes up with tons of quack websites and not a single scientific source...quack watch to the rescue with
a quick overview for the crazy behind these schemes.
It turns out that Mark Hyman is the founder of what he calls "functional medicine" which isn't approved by ANY major medical groups. He calls himself an Expert on functional medicine...which is easy when you are the ONLY practitioner of it.
Someone take this guy to court for malpractice PLEASE!
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