A.Melon wrote:
Just because it is on the internet does not make it true. Simply copying
and pasting a political slam does not excuse you from being a spammer.
Salon.com is a far left organization that invents their own stories. Just
cause a rag smells like fish does not make it worthy of posting here.

Get a life.

You don't have to like Salon -- but what about these studies?

Browngoehl's remarks are backed by several alarming studies of mercury
in the past decade. One study, sponsored by the U.S. National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences, and Europe's Environment and Climate
Research Program, showed that children exposed to mercury in utero did
poorly on tests measuring their attention span, memory and speaking
abilities. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, both
the brains and nervous systems of children who have been exposed to
mercury can be damaged. Their language and visual spatial skills can
also suffer.

Karen Perry, deputy director of the environmental health department at
Physicians for Social Responsibility, has this advice: "For women who
are of child-bearing age, we would advise they learn more about which
fish are the cleanest and the safest and continue to eat fish in
moderation and choose the lowest-mercury fish. The sad part of all of
this is that fish is such a healthy food, we don't want to tell people
not to eat it. So you have to give them more information, so they can
make the best choices."

You would have seen them had you read the article

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, "Jim," wrote:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20...ury/print.html

Extract

Millions of fetuses whose mothers eat fish are being exposed to
brain-damaging mercury. But critics charge the Bush administration's
regulations are like bailing the ocean with a thimble.

"Children who suffer the consequences of methylmercury toxicity often
appear like other children who may have been affected for a genetic
reason," explains Leo Trasande, the assistant director of the Mount
Sinai School of Medicine's Center for Children's Health and the
Environment in New York. "A child with mental retardation may have had a
significant environmental exposure in the perinatal period. But there
are no hallmarks." One study found that an affected child could score
lower on IQ tests by as little as .20 of a point to as much as 24 points.

While the Bush administration cajoles women to follow its fish warnings,
it's proved unwilling to take on the root of the problem. Fish, after
all, are only the pathway of mercury to our bloodstreams. Coal-fired
power plants, in the United States and abroad, are the largest source of
man-made mercury pollution. But Bush and company stand in the way of
international efforts to prevent mercury pollution and are doing little
the stop it at home.