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Questions regarding environmental mercury release, special education rates, and autism disorder: an ecological study of Texas by Palmer et al.

Lewandowski TA

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Palmer et al. present an analysis in which they look for an association between Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) reporting data for mercury and rates of autism and special education enrollment in Texas. In their analysis, the link between TRI release data and actual mercury exposure is not clear at all, and thus the conclusions drawn from the analysis are questionable.

Published 3 July 2006 in Health Place, 12(4): 749-50; discussion 751-2.
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