A few days ago I covered a study showing that autistic children develop larger heads. My take on the story was that as there this may be evidence against the autism / mercury link because growth happened after birth but before vaccinations began. In response to this, Dr King contacted me with a copy of a letter he had sent to the Archives of General Psychiatry.
The full text of the letter is below but in summary experiments where certain strains of mice are exposed to thimerosal resulted in larger brains and autistic like problems. Suggesting that the development of larger heads in autistic children could be a symptom of mercury poisoning.

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Brain Size & Mercury Poisoning
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Please review Mady Hornig, David Chian, and W. Ian Lipkin, IMMEDIATE COMMUNICATION, “Neurotoxic effects of postnatal thimerosal are mouse strain dependent,” Molecular Psychiatry, pages 1-13, (Jun 8, 2004). [ PDF ]

Here the innoculation of one strain of mice with Thimerosal at development times and amounts comparable to the childhood vacination schedule for humans resulted in “autism”-like mice and “larger” brains — attributed to mercury’s immunigenic/autoimmunigenic-triggering effects.

Thus, this article’s findings are “expected” and point to the fact that low-level in-utero poisoning is a fact of life (e.g., though only about 15% of population, Rh-negative mothers are the mothers of about 50% of diagnosed “autism” cases => source of Hg poisoning => Rho Gam preserved with Thimerosal available (and in date into at least 2002), and, in the U.S., “Reduced Thimerosal” Rho Gam, which continues to be available and is the product most used in Rh incompatability cases).

If the authors want to truly break new ground, then let them develop an MRI imaging procedure to non-invasively measure the mercury level and mercury distribution in children with DSM “autism” and those without — and if you want to be complete repeated monitoring of children diagnosed with “mercury toxicity” and “heavy metal toxicity” pre-chelation and then during & after a set of chelation cycles with DMSA or DMPS to see how the mercury distribution and levels change during this therapy — which has been demonstrated to result in measureable improvement in most of the children so treated PROVIDED their other health problems have been appropriately addressed and appropriate supportive mineral supplementation furnished to maintain the proper levels of the beneficial metal ions that chelation also removes.

Respectfully,

Dr. King
http://www.dr-king.com