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Vaccine Cartel Desperately Clings to New MMR Vaccine–Autism “No Link” Study Riddled With Major Flaws

A new Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal study is being promoted by the pharma-captured mass media apparatus as a massive 2.56-million-child analysis disproving an MMR–autism association, but major methodological problems undermine the entire paper.

They did not use a truly unvaccinated control group, did not clinically adjudicate autism, did not interview parents, did not independently verify vaccine histories, and used a narrow ICD-coded autism definition.

No True Unvaccinated Control Group

Most importantly, there was no true unvaccinated control group. The comparison children were only those without a recorded MMR vaccination during the relevant analysis. They were not required to be vaccine-naive and could have received other routine childhood vaccines. The study itself reports that 62.1% of the overall cohort received a PCV booster.

Even their MMR status was not independently verified. Vaccination exposure came from Epic records, including historically documented doses, with no reported state immunization-registry confirmation, parent interview, or outside-record review. That means some children classified as “unvaccinated” in the dataset could theoretically have received MMR outside the participating Epic/Cosmos system without that dose being captured.

Autism Was Based on ICD Codes, Not Clinical Adjudication

The study relied entirely on electronic health records. Autism was defined by an ICD-10 F84.0 encounter code, not by independent clinical adjudication, ADOS testing, chart review, or parent interview. Nearly 9% of autism cases had only a single encounter carrying the diagnosis. Vaccine status was likewise taken from Epic records, with no reported state-registry verification, parent confirmation, or external record review.

The Study Did Not Measure the Full Autism Spectrum

The investigators counted only ICD-10 F84.0 “childhood autism,” a relatively narrow diagnostic code, rather than the broader range of autism-spectrum diagnoses captured under F84.. Yet the 3.2% national benchmark they cite reflects that broader autism-spectrum definition. This means their 2.55% autism prevalence is not directly comparable to the national 3.2% figure and may miss children coded under other autism-spectrum categories. The authors themselves acknowledge this limitation and state that future studies should examine the full F84. spectrum.

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Is a Federal Autism Committee Ignoring Vaccine-Autism Research?

A draft strategic plan publicized by a federal autism committee last month outlines a framework for developing “precision” medical treatment and supporting better long-term care for autistic people — but, according to critics, makes no provision for studying a possible link between vaccines and autism.

The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), which advises U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on autism policies, released the draft plan for public comment last month. The plan recommends defining autism as a condition that may have more than one cause, and that may lead to multiple medical conditions.

The draft plan is also linked to ongoing federal research examining the possible causes of autism and the reasons for its increased prevalence in the U.S. — rising from 1 in 150 children in 2000 to 1 in 31 children in 2022.

According to a statement by the Autism Action Network reviewed by The Defender, while the role of vaccines in autism “is the most contentious and important of the many unanswered questions about autism,” the draft strategic plan includes no mention of studying a possible link.

“Nowhere in the current draft … are ‘vaccines’ or ‘immunizations’ even mentioned, nor are they identified as research subjects for causing autism,” the statement reads.

According to the statement, the report cites environmental factors and medical products as possible factors contributing to the onset of autism. But while these are “broad categories which could include vaccines,” the plan lacks “unequivocal, explicit language” calling for vaccine-autism research.

However, a person familiar with the workings of the IACC who asked to remain anonymous told The Defender that “nothing is excluded and nothing is off the table.”

The source said it was “very important” for the committee to avoid focusing on any one particular potential cause, and for “multiple members of the committee not to be reductionistic and not to reduce autism to one cause or one factor, because I think it’s very clear at this point that this is a sort of a multifactorial process.”

The individual said that the community of autistic people and their caretakers is “drowning” — and requires care and support instead of negative attention.

“Our community is drowning. We have parents, support givers and caregivers who are just inundated with behavioral and caregiving stress … it was very important to the many members of the committee that we make headway on those areas without encountering the massive onslaught of negative attention and coverage that would come from naming any particular environmental exposure.”

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Data from a large autism clinic shows 40% of sudden regression autism happened within 2 days after vaccination

Even though this is a crisis, we do not really want to know the true cause of autism.

Why? Because if we used a time proximity analysis, it would reveal that the parental decision to follow their pediatrician’s advice and vaccinate their kids is the cause.

Congress will not investigate because they will lean on large studies which use methods designed specifically not to find a signal to claim vaccines don’t cause autism. But those studies only prove that bad studies can fail to find a signal if they use the wrong methods.

The most sensitive method is simply to make a histogram of the time between a child’s most recent vaccine and the onset of rapid regressive autism. The methodology was described in my earlier Substack article.

You can do this in any autism practice anywhere in the world retrospectively. It is simple. NOBODY HAS DONE THIS. I wonder why?

It took a long time, but I finally located a large autism treatment clinic who was willing to share the statistical information that they had gathered from the parents of autistic kids in the clinic that I wrote about in an earlier Substack article.

This is new. This has never been revealed to the world before. Nobody would dare do that.

The clinic examined 182 patient records.

84 were “rapid onset autism” cases (46%).

Of those cases, a “routine vaccination” was mentioned as happening before the event in 98% of those cases.

In 40% of the cases, the regression happened within 2 days after routine vaccination.

In 76% of the cases, the regression happened within 2 weeks after routine vaccination.

These numbers cannot happen by chance.

The only explanation is vaccines cause autism. Adding acetaminophen post-vaccine makes the autism outcome more likely.

However, if you believe otherwise, please explain in the comments what you think is causing these cases.

I predict there will be no follow ups on this from any country in the world because they don’t want to know the truth that they are causing the autism epidemic.

This data is stunning. I’m arranging funding of a larger version of this study and hopefully, we can get it on a preprint server. It will likely never be published in any mainstream journal.

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‘Three-Way Collision’: How Genes, Mold and Vaccines Might Lead to Autism

Take a genetically susceptible child, expose that child to mold, and then add an immune trigger — like a vaccine — that “tips an already-strained system over the edge,” and you may create a “three-way collision” that can lead to autism, according to Dr. Christian Bogner.

Bogner, a physician and researcher, and other experts told The Defender that environmental triggers have become more prevalent in recent decades, with the expansion of the childhood immunization schedule and the widespread use of toxic pesticides, including glyphosate, to produce food.

Many blame toxic exposures for the drastic increase in autism diagnoses among U.S. children, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention measured at 1 in 31 children in 2022 — up from 1 in 10,000 in the 1970s.

Physician and author Dr. Neil Nathan believes there is “clearly a relationship” between one of those toxic exposures — mold toxicity — and autism, though studies attempting to identify a link have so far been few and inconclusive.

“It’s hard enough to get any studies done on toxic mold that get into the mainstream narrative — to say nothing of the vaccine issue,” said Dr. Margaret Christensen, a trained gynecologist, clinical educator and co-founder of the Carpathia Collaborative.

According to Christensen, exposure to toxic mold “affects everybody … as it is such a common environmental toxin.” She noted that at least half of homes and 60% of commercial buildings “have had sufficient water damage to have a toxic mold issue as a component to common environmental exposures, creating illnesses.”

Bogner said that each child has different levels of susceptibility when exposed to toxins. Even within the same household, two children exposed to the same toxins may have different outcomes — one may become very ill or develop autism while the other may remain healthy.

But there’s at least one common denominator among the sick children he’s treated: an imbalance in the gut.

“Triggers vary — some children were pushed by vaccines, some by mold, some by antibiotics, some by none of those — but every autistic child I have evaluated has dysbiosis,” Bogner said. These children “carry specific bacterial overgrowths” that lead to toxicity in the gut and the potential onset of neurological disorders.

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What’s Behind Skyrocketing Autism Rates — Better Diagnostics? Or an Avalanche of Toxins?

A new study in JAMA Psychiatry suggests rising rates of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses are likely driven by broadening diagnostic criteria. But scientists at Children’s Health Defense said better diagnostics can’t on their own explain the steep increases in autism and ADHD rates since the 1990s.

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) scientists are pushing back against a study in JAMA Psychiatry suggesting that the global increase in autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses is likely driven by broadening diagnostic criteria.

Brian Hooker, Ph.D., CHD chief scientific officer, and Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., CHD senior research scientist, criticized the authors of the JAMA study for failing to consider that environmental toxins might be driving the increase.

Hooker said the authors overlooked the possibility that there are now so many toxic exposures that it takes very little genetic susceptibility to trigger autism or ADHD. Changes in diagnostic criteria may be a factor, Hooker said, but there is no way that it explains the steep increase in autism and ADHD rates since the 1990s.

Hooker told The Defender:

“What we’re seeing instead is a lowering of the genetic threshold required to reach a toxic tipping point as the toxic load between 1994 and 2016 skyrocketed with the expanding vaccination schedule, acetaminophen use, the GMO [genetically modified organism] revolution, etc.”

The authors of the JAMA study analyzed data from over 37,000 individuals in Denmark diagnosed with autism or ADHD over two decades. They reported that genetic risks for the conditions decreased over time, while diagnoses increased.

The study concluded that since genetic risk didn’t explain the increase in autism and ADHD diagnoses, the global surge in diagnoses was likely because the criteria used for diagnosing the conditions had broadened.

The authors claimed that the diagnosis threshold for autism and ADHD had lowered over time, so that kids who showed only mild symptoms were now being diagnosed.

The researchers examined three hypotheses for why diagnosis rates have increased — none of which took into account environmental toxins.

First, they thought it possible that diagnostic criteria for autism and ADHD may have broadened over time to include kids with milder symptoms.

Second, they thought maybe that psychiatric disorders that previously had been diagnosed as separate from autism or ADHD were getting lumped into autism or ADHD diagnoses.

Third, they speculated that there is now better detection of autism and ADHD than in the past.

Their data matched the first hypothesis but not the other two, they said.

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TOTAL CORRUPTION: Two Minnesota Muslim Women Arrested In Massive $21 Million Autism Program Scam — Taxpayer Cash Sent Overseas!

The Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has arrested two Muslim women in Minnesota for defrauding American taxpayers of more than $21 million through a brazen scheme targeting the state’s autism services program.

Shamso Ahmed Hassan, 55, and Hanaan Mursal Yusuf, 25, both of Brooklyn Park, were taken into custody by HSI agents. Federal prosecutors say the pair submitted $46.6 million in fraudulent claims to Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) program — a Medicaid-funded service for children with autism — and pocketed approximately $21.1 million in taxpayer money for services that were never provided.

According to the DHS statement and indictment:

  • Hassan was a beneficial owner of Smart Therapy Center LLC and Star Autism Center LLC but hid her ownership interests from Minnesota regulators as required.
  • Yusuf worked as a provider and was heavily involved in operations and submitting claims.
  • They paid illegal kickbacks to parents to enroll children.
  • They billed for services that were never rendered, for children who didn’t qualify, and disguised the kickbacks by routing money through family members and employees — with some funds sent overseas.
  • The scheme ran from at least May 2020 through December 2024.

“These Minnesota residents have been accused of stealing more than $21 million from the American taxpayer,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.

“They now face charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, EIGHT counts of health care fraud, and TWO counts of money laundering. Their Medicaid fraud scheme started during the COVID pandemic and lasted for four years. ICE continues to zero in on the rampant fraud in Minnesota. Under Secretary Mullin, we will end the defrauding of the American people.”

Both women are U.S. citizens (Hassan naturalized). They have pleaded not guilty and remain in federal custody.

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FDA Ousts Another Top Official: Who’s Behind the Shakeup — and Why?

Tracy Beth Høeg, M.D., Ph.D., an epidemiologist and sports physician who supported studying — and reducing — the recommended childhood vaccination schedule, was fired by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Høeg was acting director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).

In a post on X last Friday, Høeg wrote that she “learned so much” and is leaving the FDA “with no regrets.”

And in an interview with MD Reports published shortly after her firing, Høeg said she first learned about the agency’s plans to fire her earlier in the week, through media reports.

On May 15, two unnamed FDA officials offered her the choice to resign or be fired. When she refused to resign, she was fired on the spot.

“I said I didn’t want to resign,” Høeg told MD Reports. “I said I’m not signing a letter of resignation if it’s not my choice.”

During her time at the FDA, Høeg was involved in several research initiatives broadly tied to the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. According to The New York Times, this included work on an “intense investigation” last year that linked the COVID-19 vaccines to “at least” 10 child deaths.

Høeg also authored a report recommending that the number of diseases covered by the recommended childhood vaccination schedule be reduced from 17 to 11.

In January, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. implemented these recommendations. However, in March, a federal court issued a stay pausing adoption of the new schedule.

According to The Associated Press, Høeg was most recently involved in the FDA’s review of a petition to add new warnings to antidepressants about risks to pregnant women, “including fetal abnormalities that could lead to autism and other disorders.”

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Landmark Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Vaccination Is a Major Risk Factor for Autism

For decades, scientists have debated what drives the relentless rise in autism. Some have claimed it’s simply due to “increased screening” while others insist vaccines play no role whatsoever. Thousands of studies have explored genetic, environmental, and perinatal factors—but very few have ever evaluated vaccine and non-vaccine determinants together within a unified analytical framework.

Now, our peer-reviewed study titled Determinants of Autism Spectrum Disorder, officially published in the Journal of Independent Medicine, provides one of the most comprehensive syntheses on the possible causes of autism to date.

Most importantly, by systematically evaluating all known autism risk factors side by side, we found that combination and early-timed routine childhood vaccination represents a significant modifiable risk factor for autism within a broader multifactorial framework. We found 79% of studies evaluating vaccines or their components (107 of 136) reported evidence consistent with a vaccine–autism link. The evidence converged across epidemiologic, clinical, mechanistic, toxicologic, and neuropathologic domains.

This publication represents a major breakthrough through the longstanding censorship imposed by the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex on the issue of vaccination and autism. It also marks Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s major return to the peer-reviewed scientific literature after enduring decades of coordinated attacks from the vaccine cartel.

By systematically integrating more than 300 studies across epidemiologic, clinical, mechanistic, toxicologic, molecular, and neurodevelopmental domains, our analysis identified a broad range of interacting ASD risk factors beyond vaccination, including advanced parental age, premature delivery, genetic susceptibility, sibling recurrence, maternal immune activation, in utero drug exposure, environmental toxicants, metabolic dysfunction, pesticide exposure, gut-brain axis disruption, and mitochondrial abnormalities. However, no single non-vaccine factor sufficiently explains the unprecedented rise in autism prevalence observed over recent decades.

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The Autism Question Medicine Refuses to Answer

RFK Jr. told Tucker Carlson the CDC buried its own internal study showing a 1135% INCREASE in autism risk from hepatitis B vaccination.

The researchers were shocked.

So they covered it up.

How?

“They got rid of all the older children essentially and just had younger children who are TOO YOUNG TO BE DIAGNOSED [with autism],” Kennedy explained.

Imagine discovering evidence of catastrophic harm and making sure no one ever found out.

Then, telling everyone it’s “safe.”

If health authorities are willing to keep a signal this alarming hidden from you, what else are they not telling you about vaccines?

Is it possible that your child’s allergies or chronic immune issues didn’t appear organically, but were triggered by vaccination instead?

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Former CDC Autism Scientist Extradited to U.S. on Fraud, Money Laundering Charges

A former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist who played a key role in research that denied any link between vaccination and autism was extradited to the U.S. last week to face charges of wire fraud and money laundering stemming from a 2011 indictment.

Poul Thorsen, 65, a Danish native, began working for the CDC in the late 1990s. In 2011, a federal grand jury indicted him for the alleged misuse of over $1 million in CDC grant money that was earmarked for autism and public health research. Thorsen is accused of redirecting the funds for his personal use.

Despite the indictment — and the existence of an extradition treaty between the U.S. and Denmark — Thorsen continued to live and work in Denmark. However, he was arrested in Germany last year on an INTERPOL warrant.

On May 8, U.S. Air Marshals escorted him from Germany to Atlanta, where he was arraigned.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which listed Thorsen on its most wanted list in 2012, posted a video of his extradition.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Thorsen faces two counts of wire fraud and nine counts of money laundering. He is being held without bail until trial.

In 2011, studies Thorsen co-authored were used to dismiss cases filed by the parents of autistic, vaccine-injured children that were part of the Omnibus Autism Proceedings pending before the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).

A 2016 book, “Master Manipulator: The Explosive True Story of Fraud, Embezzlement, and Government Betrayal at the CDC,” focused on the Thorsen case, describing him as “a world-class villain whose manipulation of health data gave CDC and big pharma what they wanted: a report clearing thimerosal of any possible role in the autism crisis.”

Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), said Thorsen “was central to the CDC and Pharma lies that ‘vaccines do not cause autism.’”

Brian Hooker, Ph.D., chief scientific officer for CHD, said Thorsen’s work “set autism research back more than 20 years.”

“Previous administrations did not appear interested in pursuing Thorsen,” according to the MAHA Report. As a result, Thorsen was “living openly, apparently without concern of being captured in Denmark.”

HHS and DOJ did not respond to The Defender’s requests for comment.

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