It's rather ironic that a movie titled "Mercury Rising" is about a boy with autism cracking a top secret government code. Mercury is a preservative added to many childhood vaccines and is believed to be a leading contributing factor to developing autism. I'm still waiting for a movie called "Mercury Falling" about the outlawing of this nasty practice and the dramatic decline in the number of children diagnosed with autism.
shareMercury was the Roman god of, among other things, thievery. That is why the movie has the name it does. The Mercury code prevents our enemies from stealing our communications. There is also the obvious metaphor of the thermometer rising as the tension mounts.
As far as the relation to autism...nope. I'm not buying that.
The hard work of one, does more than the prayers of millions.
Seems you hit a sore spot with some and some who don't know the meanying of Irony. As the Mother of an autistic son, yes I found it Ironic.
"You don't have to be kind. Just listen."
Mercury by any other name poisons our children just as sweet.
What light in the needle's gleam -
It is mercury !
And soft doth it steal into my babys' limb,
Leaving the babe defenceless against it's evil scour.
Hark at the wailing of our parents
At the helplessness they feel
And the lack of support they gain,
Indeed it is a very powerful poison upon our next generation.
Forsooth you shall hear the many grindings of teeth upon the alter of Mercury,
It doth not help our children,it doth not help our teachers,
Our children are but puppets for medicines,
And yay though you think ye untouchable,ye will have a child one day
And YE will be questioning that needle that doth go into YOUR childs arm.
And ye might be saying "there but for the grace of God go I"
Or will ye ?
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As often as people make the mistake, a relevant coincidence STILL doesn't qualify as "irony".
It has to at least be a coincidence contrary to what seems logical or what one would expect, usually something amusing.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ironic
The mercury thing is still being debated.
I'm not ruling it out but there isn't a favourable majority consensus from the people whose job it is to research these things.
Vaccines do not cause autism, and also you are an idiot for believing they do. And people, if you have autism, that's an issue with your alleles, don't blame vaccines. I have had vaccines, everyone I know has had vaccines, none of them have autism. If you are one of those *beep* who gets an entire school sick because you are afraid of the 0% chance of your kid getting autism, then you are probably also a vegan, because you must believe every idiotic piece of pseudoscience you read.
shareNot ironic, maybe a foreshadowing. In 1998 nobody was talking about Mercury contributing to autism.
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Almost every comment in this thread is disturbed, paranoid, and horrifying. I hope your children don't get sick, weaken, and maybe die of a preventable disease, or kill someone else who has a compromised immune system. You all should be ashamed of yourselves. Are any of you old enough to know anyone who caught some of the diseases you don't want us to suppress? Are you old enough to know anyone who died from one? Are any of you old enough to know anyone living with Polio, today, right now, in the United States? I'd be willing to bet you have no concept of the horrors of these diseases we've fought so hard against. Heavy metal poisoning presents in a whole lot of ways, including several mental issues, but AUTISM IS NOT ONE OF THEM. The typical onset age of autism is unchanged whether the child is vaccinated or not, and autism is also the new ADD, too-often used as a catch-all for any child whose brain doesn't toe the company line, skewing diagnostic statistics as well as further disadvantaging those who sincerely HAVE the condition. CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION. You fearmongering anti-vaxers make me sick.
Sincerely,
An Aspie* who thinks you're all** dangerous, selfish idiots.
(*a person with Asperger's Syndrome - a high-functioning form of autism, which is not caused by vaccines.)
(**except the one comment from someone with sense in their head, out of all you lot)
I think it’s an astrological reference
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