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The ‘Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism’ Trope is False — Systematic Review

A scientific review paper published January 10 documented how the CDC’s claim that ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is based on studies which do not support that deduction.

The culmination of the medical establishment’s work to claim that vaccines do not cause autism came in 2019 in the form of a population-based observational study by Hviid et al.

“However, as detailed in this critical review, Hviid et al. did not faithfully intend or interpret the data to test this hypothesis and, therefore, cannot possibly have falsified it,” the scientific review said in the ‘Abstract’ section. “We elucidate methodological flaws, discrepancies, irreproducibility, and conflicts of interest for Hviid et al.”

This is a big blow to the vaccine-industrial-complex, as the Hviid et al. study seemed to be a crowning achievement of sorts.

“This study was hailed at the time by the U.S. media and medical establishment as conclusive proof that the MMR vaccine does not increase the risk of autism, even among “genetically susceptible children,” the scientific review said in the ‘Abstract’ section.

Perhaps shockingly to some, this scientific review even implied that the Hviid et al. study was not just a work of incompetence, but rather malicious misrepresentation and flat out deceit, perhaps venturing into the realm of fraud.

“We further conjecture that researchers who faithfully serve the status quo of a vaccine orthodoxy know how to design studies to produce the desired results,” the scientific review said in the ‘Abstract’ section.

Notably, the authors discussed how the Hviid et al. study is not applicable in the real world, where infants get copious amounts of vaccines along with life’s other risk factors and environmental conditions.

“In addition, we further illustrate that the conclusion from Hviid et al. cannot be generalized to the CDC childhood vaccination schedule, salient features of which have remained oblivious to so many opinion leaders, regulators, mainstream media, and professional associations in the USA,” the scientific review said in the ‘Abstract’ section.

The authors gave some historical background early on in the ‘Abstract’ section, then ventured into the Covid-era later in the section.

“The controversy surrounding measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination and autism has been ongoing for over 30 years. It is rooted in the gaslit, parent-led, grassroots movements of the 1990s and was further fueled by a case-series clinical study in 1998 by Wakefield et al., which hypothesized a causal link between MMR vaccination, gut inflammation, and autism,” the scientific review said in the ‘Abstract’ section. “Looking at the broader picture, in the post-COVID-19 era, stereotyping, social stigma, shunning, condescension, and polarization of parents who choose not to vaccinate their children have only been exacerbated and intensified. We would retort that health freedom, parental autonomy, and open, frank, and honest scientific debate, not consensus or censorship, are the only pathways to foster real advancements for true service to our children, families, and the wider society.”

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Why Is California an Autism Hotspot?

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has surged in children in recent years, even among those who are just 4 years old.

According to data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network, the overall prevalence of ASD in 2020 was 21.5 per 1,000 children aged 4. This marks a 26% increase from 2018, when the prevalence was 17 per 1,000.

The numbers are not uniform across all regions, with California reporting the highest rate at 46.4 per 1,000, while Utah saw the lowest at 12.7 per 1,000. Stark gender and racial disparities also exist in ASD diagnoses.

Boys are diagnosed with autism more frequently than girls, with a prevalence of 32.3 per 1,000 compared to 10.4 per 1,000 for girls, whose ASD symptoms often differ from their male counterparts.

Overall, however, in 2020, 1 in 30, or 3.49%, of children ages 3 to 17 were diagnosed with autism — that’s about 33 per 1,000 individuals.

Shifting demographics: Autism rates higher in certain groups

Recent data reveals a significant shift in autism prevalence among different racial and ethnic groups. For the first time, the ADDM Network reported that white children aged 8 years have a lower prevalence of autism compared to their Black, Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander peers.

Specifically, the prevalence was 24.3 per 1,000 among white children, while it was 29.3 among Black children, 31.6 among Hispanic children and 33.4 among Asian or Pacific Islander children.

Another compelling aspect of the latest autism statistics is the nuanced relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and autism prevalence. Unlike earlier years, where higher SES was strongly associated with increased autism diagnoses, the 2020 data shows a more complex picture.

In three out of the 11 ADDM Network sites — Arizona, New Jersey and Utah — children from lower-income households exhibited higher autism prevalence. When data from all sites were combined, there was a noticeable trend of lower autism prevalence in higher SES census tracts.

However, the differences across low, medium and high SES groups were relatively modest, ranging between 23 to 27.2 per 1,000 children.

Understanding when children are diagnosed with autism is important for ensuring they receive timely interventions. The 2020 ADDM Network data provides valuable insights into the age at which children receive their first autism diagnosis.

The median age of earliest known autism diagnosis was 49 months, with significant variations across states — from as early as 36 months in California to as late as 59 months in Minnesota.

Additionally, children diagnosed with ASD who also have an intellectual disability tend to receive their diagnoses earlier, with a median age of 43 months compared to 53 months for those without an intellectual disability.

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President Trump Named TIME Magazine Person of the Year, They Refuse to Use His Iconic Image, and Slap Him with a Fake Fact-Check

President Donald Trump was named TIME Magazine Person of the Year on Thursday morning.

TIME Magazine refused to use the iconic image of President Trump facing the assassin’s bullet.

That would be obvious and too honest for the TIME staff.

TIME also couldn’t help themselves and fake fact-checked President Trump on the link between vaccines and Autism.

TIME says without hesitation that there is no link. They got this from Big Pharma.
Millions of Americans today would disagree.

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There has long been damning evidence of how CDC covered up vaccine-induced autism. Black male toddlers who received the MMR at a young age were at 3-4 times the risk of autism as other children

I recently received a treasure trove of electronic documents from deep inside the CDC. These documents have never been made publicly available.

The documents include voice-recordings, emails, hand-written notes, diagrams, and data.

The often repeated claim that “vaccines don’t cause autism” is quite simply inconsistent with this evidence which can be authenticated.

I am working with Trevor Fitzgibbon to pitch this to all the mainstream media so that I’m not talking to an echo chamber with this data. It is much better if we can get the blue-pilled media to red-pill their peers; it’s unlikely to happen any other way.

This is a huge scandal and our kids having been paying the price for decades all because the CDC doesn’t want to publicly admit they were wrong

I spoke with a top journalist at Inside Edition who thought that it’s one of the biggest stories of the decade. He said he would try to interest his friends at 60 Minutes and other outlets in viewing the data (the story is too big for IE).

I will keep you apprised.

The documents can be authenticated by people inside and outside the CDC.

I’ve sent the documents to others on our side (just in case something happens to me).

Brian Hooker analyzed the CDC autism study data from the DeStefano paper; the evidence I received confirms what he found

The Hooker paper is published in the scientific peer-reviewed literature and is simply an analysis of the data that the CDC officials told CDC scientist William Thompson to destroy.

See the 3.86 odds ratio in the last row? See the .005 p-value? Those are damning. There is no way to explain such large effect sizes.

This is why Coleen Boyle ordered Thompson to destroy the subgroup data showing the high OR value: because they couldn’t make the signal go away so they made the data go away.

Also, the evidence I obtained shows that Coleen Boyle would have flatly refused to testify in Congress about the matter had US Congressman Bill Posey been able to follow through on his desire to have a hearing. Why would she do that if they weren’t hiding anything? Unfortunately, Posey was ordered by his peers in Congress to nix the investigation to protect the drug companies. That’s why it never happened.

OR= 3.86 with a p-value of .005 is an absolute train wreck.

It means that most of the autism in that subgroup is caused by vaccines.

There is no other viable explanation of the data.

If the MMR shots are safe with respect to autism, all the OR values in the table above should all be very close to 1 (and the p-values should be >0.10) because these are measure of the timing of the MMR shot (not the timing of the autism diagnosis) which has to be IRRELEVANT if the shots are safe.

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Over 300 pages of evidence from the CDC show that vaccines cause autism

I recently received a treasure trove of electronic documents from deep inside the CDC. These documents have never been made publicly available.

The documents include voice-recordings, emails, hand-written notes, diagrams, and data.

The often repeated claim that “vaccines don’t cause autism” is quite simply inconsistent with this evidence which can be authenticated.

I am working with Trevor Fitzgibbon to pitch this to all the mainstream media so that I’m not talking to an echo chamber with this data. It is much better if we can get the blue-pilled media to red-pill their peers; it’s unlikely to happen any other way.

This is a huge scandal and our kids having been paying the price for decades all because the CDC doesn’t want to publicly admit they were wrong

I spoke with a top journalist at Inside Edition who thought that it’s one of the biggest stories of the decade. He said he would try to interest his friends at 60 Minutes and other outlets in viewing the data (the story is too big for IE).

I will keep you apprised.

The documents can be authenticated by people inside and outside the CDC.

I’ve sent the documents to others on our side (just in case something happens to me).

Brian Hooker analyzed the CDC autism study data from the DeStefano paper; the evidence I received confirms what he found

The Hooker paper is published in the scientific peer-reviewed literature and is simply an analysis of the data that the CDC officials told CDC scientist William Thompson to destroy.

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The bulk of credible science finds vaccines ‘can and do’ cause autism 

It’s amazing how many media figures remain so uninformed on the proven links between vaccine and autism. Without knowing the subject thoroughly, they keep falsely claiming the links have been “debunked.” 

Quite the opposite. 

I understand, because I was surprised, too, at what I learned when I was first assigned to cover the subject of vaccine safety at CBS News in 2001. At the time, I knew nothing about how vaccines work, scientific studies linking them to autism and many side other effects, or the medical and industry complex set up to defend them at any cost.

As an investigative reporter looking into this topic independently for more than two decades, I have helped expose a lot of what many are desperate to cover up. Some of my work on the topic has received journalism awards, and it has been cited favorably in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The news that’s been revealed in this time period, including compelling studies, testimony, court cases, and other evidence, is now easily accessible to any reporter who knows better than to simply google and get the industry and medical establishment approved narratives; or rely upon information from the vast network of groups, organizations, and fake “fact checkers,” ultimately set up by industry to spin us all.

With Donald Trump about to enter a second term in office, appointing and relying upon figures in public health who are familiar with the facts on these controversies (and willing to act upon them), we are already being exposed to incessant and increasingly desperate propaganda. 

The propagandists have important connections and plenty of money to spend to wield influence, as they long have, with federal agencies, members of Congress, and in media. They support fake “fact check” groups like Health Feedback and Science Feedback, dominate social media narratives, provide “journalism resources” that give false information, control medical information distributed by our once-esteemed public health agencies, influence medical associations, and back nonprofits that are designed to sound independent but put out industry misinformation. 

They have proven they will go to any lengths to protect their billion dollar profits and to try to stop any disruption of the corrupt medical establishment built to support them. 

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Acetaminophen is unsafe for kids at any dose because it can cause AUTISM, review finds

A groundbreaking literature review by William Parker, Ph.D., has raised significant concerns about the safety of acetaminophen — commonly known as Tylenol — when administered to children. Published in Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics, the study reveals troubling associations between basic pediatric doses of the drug and severe, potentially permanent impairments in cognition and socialization in children. These cognitive impairments may lead to various levels of autism.

Acetaminophen, the gateway to autism

Acetaminophen, widely used for fever reduction, mild to moderate pain relief, and adverse events from vaccination, has long been associated with liver toxicity. Additionally, the scientific literature also provides evidence that the drug disrupts the nervous system of children in a way that can forever change how they communicate and process the world around them.

Dr. Parker, the CEO of the nonprofit research firm WPLab, highlighted a critical oversight in previous studies on this issue. These studies focused primarily on acetaminophen use during pregnancy, while neglecting postnatal exposure — an area where he suspects the greatest risk lies.

“Less than 20% of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) cases can be attributed to maternal acetaminophen use during pregnancy. The majority of risks occur after birth,” Parker explained in an interview with the Defender.

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5-year-old develops autism after receiving 18 vaccines in one day

In 2016, David Ihben moved his wife and three children from Chicago to Jamestown, in rural Tennessee, with high hopes for a new and calmer life.

But the dream turned into a nightmare for David and his children in December 2019, when divorce proceedings and a subsequent custody battle resulted in the forced vaccination of the children — and changed the family’s fortunes forever.

Ihben said his ex-wife decided “this wasn’t the life she wanted.” So they were attempting to develop a parenting plan in family court — when Tennessee judge Todd Burnett “pulled up the vaccine issue” after discovering the couple’s children were unvaccinated — and forced the parents to vaccinate their children.

Ihben’s two oldest children — daughter Hannah and son Joseph — were spared significant adverse events following their vaccination.

But his youngest son, Isaac, wasn’t so fortunate. After receiving 18 vaccines in one day, Isaac developed severe regressive autism. Today, he requires around-the-clock care.

The children’s mother soon abandoned the children, leaving Ihben to raise them as a single parent — even though he is still obliged to pay child support.

Ihben shared his story with Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) Vax-Unvax bus. In a subsequent interview with The Defender, he detailed the challenges he faces in caring for Isaac and the harassment he endured from officials in his community. Ihben shared documentation with The Defender verifying his story.

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It’s Been 10 Years Since a Whistleblower Exposed the CDC’s Cover-up of the Link Between Vaccines and Autism. The Agency Has Done Nothing.

Ten years after a whistleblower at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) leaked data showing the agency identified a link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism in African American boys, the agency has done nothing to address the issue.

William Thompson, Ph.D., a CDC senior scientist, on Aug. 27, 2014, issued a statement through his attorney revealing that he and his colleagues at the CDC omitted data from a 2004 article in Pediatrics that “suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism.”

“Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final protocol was not followed,” Thompson wrote.

Since then, the CDC has continued to assert that “studies have shown there is no link between vaccines and ASD,” autism spectrum disorder.

Meanwhile, the agency also reports that autism rates have continued to climb — 1 in 36 children now have autism according to its most recent study.

For the first time since the agency began doing autism prevalence studies in 2000, in 2023 the CDC also reported that autism rates were higher among Black, Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander children than among white and biracial children.

Since then, the agency has continued to add more vaccines to its list of recommended childhood immunizations, including the flu, COVID-19 and RSV monoclonal antibody shots.

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It’s not just the MMR vaccine that triggers autism

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition characterised by difficulties in social interaction, communication, and restricted or repetitive behaviours. The exact causes of autism remain unclear, but extensive research points to a combination of genetic and environmental risk factors that influence early brain development. In addition, known triggers of autism are communicated by the mother’s of autistic children, the most common being vaccines.

Genetic Factors in Autism

Whilst twin and family studies have consistently shown that autism has a strong genetic component, it is clearly influenced by environmental factors. A meta-analysis of twin studies estimated the heritability of ASD to be between 64% and 91%, indicating that genetic differences account for a substantial proportion of the likelihood of developing autism. Siblings of individuals with ASD have a 10-20 times higher risk of also being diagnosed compared to the general population .

While ASD is highly heritable, its genetic architecture is complex, involving a combination of rare and common genetic variants [2,3]. Rare mutations, including copy number variants (CNVs) and single nucleotide variants (SNVs), are found in 10-30% of individuals with ASD and often have a large effect size . Common variants, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), individually have small effects but cumulatively can contribute to a significant proportion of ASD risk [2,3]. Genetic studies have implicated hundreds of genes in ASD, many of which are involved in key processes like synaptic function, transcriptional regulation, and chromatin remodelling [2,3]. However, translating these genetic findings into clinical practice remains challenging due to the heterogeneity of ASD genetics and the variable expressivity and penetrance of identified variants .

Environmental Factors

While genes play a major role, environmental factors also contribute to the development of ASD, likely through complex interactions with genetic susceptibility. Several prenatal and perinatal exposures have been associated with increased autism risk, including parental age, air pollution, maternal infections and immune activation, maternal metabolic conditions, pregnancy and birth complications, drugs and medications

Both older maternal and paternal age at conception are linked to higher rates of ASD. A meta-analysis found that mothers over 35 had a 1.5 times higher odds of having a child with ASD compared to mothers aged 25-29 . Advancing paternal age over 40 also confers increased risk, possibly due to the accumulation of de novo mutations in sperm .

Exposure to traffic-related air pollution, particularly particulate matter, during pregnancy and early life has been associated with ASD . A study in California found that children living in areas with the highest levels of traffic-related air pollution were 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with ASD .

Maternal influenza infection, prolonged fever, and autoimmune conditions during pregnancy may increase the likelihood of ASD in offspring, potentially by altering foetal brain development . In the CHARGE study, mothers who reported influenza or fever lasting over one week had a 2-fold increased risk of having a child with ASD. Diabetes, hypertension, and obesity during pregnancy have been linked to elevated autism risk. A study found that mothers with gestational diabetes had a 1.4 times higher chance of having a child with ASD, while pre-pregnancy obesity conferred a 1.6 times greater risk . Preterm birth, low birth weight, and neonatal hypoxia have shown associations with ASD [8,9]. In a study of ex-preterm infants, those who screened positive for ASD had higher rates of low birth weight, neonatal seizures, and brain abnormalities on MRI .

The use of valproic acid, an anticonvulsant and mood stabiliser, during pregnancy has been associated with a 3-5 fold increased risk of ASD in offspring . Prenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) has also been suggested to influence ASD risk, although evidence is mixed . It’s important to note that these exposures show an association, not necessarily a causal link, with ASD. Most children exposed to these risk factors do not develop autism, and conversely, many children with ASD have no known environmental exposures. The timing, duration, and intensity of exposures likely interact with genetic predisposition in complex ways .

Rather than acting in isolation, genetic and environmental factors probably combine to influence ASD risk through gene-environment interactions. Certain environmental exposures may have different effects depending on an individual’s genetic background. For example, some studies suggest that prenatal vitamin supplementation or higher folate intake may reduce ASD risk, but this protective effect may depend on the mother’s and child’s genotype related to folate metabolism . Variants in genes involved in detoxification and immune function could also modify the effects of toxicant and infection exposures .

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