Look. I played with mercury in my dad's dental lab when I was a kid.
As a grad student, I have a 4.0 and got my undergraduates degrees (all 3 of them) magna cum laude.
Well, maybe in your case the Hg did you some good. Or maybe it did nothing at all. Actually, what you are doing here is using anecdotal evidence to argue that anectodal evidence is no good. And you're also disputing the clinical evidence of Hg poisoning. You've caught yourself coming and going through a two-way door of credulity.
Still, I think a grad student in molecular biology ought to know a nucleic acid when she sees one. I would expect more from one who claims to be the academic princess of this forum.
”HM