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The CDC Was Ordered to Prove the DTaP Vaccine Didn’t Cause Autism… but Their Only Study Showed it Did

For decades, the question of whether vaccines are linked to autism has remained one of the most contentious and widely debated issues in public health.

While major health agencies have maintained that vaccines are safe, critics have continued to scrutinize the data, pointing to gaps, unanswered questions, and the historical record of how these concerns were first investigated.

A video circulating online features attorney Aaron Siri discussing the historical roots of vaccine-related debates, focusing specifically on the pertussis vaccine rather than the more commonly cited MMR vaccine.

According to the caption, Siri traces the issue back to the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study a list of injuries that had been frequently reported in connection with the pertussis vaccine. Among those listed for investigation was autism.

In the clip, Siri describes how the Institute of Medicine (IOM) was tasked with reviewing available research on the topic. He notes that in 1991, the IOM concluded it could not determine whether the pertussis vaccine caused or did not cause autism due to a lack of sufficient studies.

He then points to a later review commissioned by the CDC and HRSA in 2012, stating that the IOM reached a similar conclusion after examining the broader body of scientific literature.

According to Siri, the IOM reported that it could not find studies demonstrating that the pertussis vaccine does not cause autism, and that the only study identified showing an association was ultimately excluded because it did not include an unvaccinated comparison group.

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RFK Jr. Updates Guidelines for CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel to Include Risk Assessment

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on April 9 issued a revised charter for a key vaccine advisory panel, expanding its role to emphasize vaccine safety risks and widening the criteria for membership selection.

The new charter came after a judge ruled last month that previous votes from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) were invalid and blocked its new vaccine schedule for children.

The ACIP is a federal advisory committee that provides recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the use of vaccines to control diseases and helps establish immunization schedules for children and adults in the United States.

In the updated charter, signed by Kennedy on March 31 and published on April 9, the panel’s tasks now include advising the CDC on “gaps in vaccine safety research including adverse effects following vaccination.”

The charter says the ACIP will consider the “cumulative effects of vaccines and their constituent components” and engage in “re-analysis of vaccine safety and efficacy” as gaps are identified.

The new charter broadens the membership criteria of potential panelists beyond those with expertise in the use and research of vaccines and immunization practices, specifically adding toxicology and data science.

It states that members “shall be selected from authorities who are knowledgeable in the fields of medicine, vaccines, immunization practices, immunology, toxicology, pediatric neurodevelopment, epidemiology, data science, statistical analysis, health economics, recovery from serious vaccine injuries, or public health; have expertise in the use of vaccines or other immunobiologic agents in clinical practice or preventive medicine, have expertise with clinical or laboratory vaccine research, or have expertise in assessment of vaccine safety and efficacy.”

Ronald G. Nahass, president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, said the revised charter appears to shift ACIP’s focus toward vaccine safety and adverse events, rather than maintaining its traditional approach that considered “the full scope of vaccine data.”

“These changes suggest that routine immunization is unsafe — adding to confusion and increasing vaccine hesitancy,” Nahass said in a statement, warning that the updated charter could lead to lower vaccine uptake.

In an emailed statement to The Epoch Times, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services said, “The ACIP charter renewal and its publication are routine statutory requirements and do not signal any broader policy shift.”

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End of Federal Childhood Vaccine Incentives

Doctors will no longer receive financial rewards tied to childhood vaccination rates under key government programs. The announcement, first detailed in a December 30 memo from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), states that the agency “does not tie payment to performance on immunization quality measures in Medicaid and CHIP [the Children’s Health Insurance Program] at the federal level.” CMS urged states to discontinue similar incentives and eliminated mandatory reporting of childhood immunization data, though voluntary reporting remains an option. The memo also signaled efforts to strengthen informed consent and accommodate religious exemptions.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. welcomed the directive, posting: “Government bureaucracies should never coerce doctors or families into accepting vaccines or penalize physicians for respecting patient choice. That practice ends now.” Advocates such as Children’s Health Defense CEO Mary Holland called it a welcome step toward treating vaccines like other medical interventions, free from metric-driven pressure. Pediatrician Dr. Michelle Perro noted that tying compensation to specific decisions can erode trust in care.

Promoting Preventive Care or Distorting Judgment?

This change comes after years of scrutiny over financial incentives in pediatric medicine. An October 2025 clip from Dr. Suzanne Humphries on The Joe Rogan Experience claimed some doctors could lose up to $250,000 annually by not meeting vaccination targets, including for Covid shots in infants. These incentives stemmed from value-based payment models under Medicaid, CHIP, and private insurers. Practices received bonuses or higher reimbursements for hitting coverage benchmarks (e.g., percentages of patients vaccinated). One analysis of an Oregon pediatric practice projected more than $1 million in annual losses for declining CDC-scheduled vaccines, largely from administrative fees. Roughly 40 percent of U.S. children are on Medicaid, amplifying the program’s reach. During Covid, specific per-dose payments (around $45 plus administration fees) added to the structure.

Proponents of the incentives argued they promoted preventive care and reduced disease outbreaks, with insurers — not pharmaceutical companies — providing payments to lower long-term costs. Critics, however, contended the metrics distorted clinical judgment and pressured families, contributing to eroded trust and reports of patients being dismissed for declining shots.

The CMS policy applies only at the federal level; some states or private insurers may retain incentives. It is telling that pediatric organizations are pushing back against broader vaccine-policy shifts under the current administration.

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HHS Expands Criteria for Embattled CDC Vaccine Panel — What Does It Mean?

Federal health officials have expanded the criteria for eligibility to serve on the panel that advised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccines, according to a notice about the committee’s renewed charter published today in the Federal Register.

The move fueled speculation that U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may soon reconstitute the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) with members of his choosing, The New York Times reported.

Last month, a federal judge froze ACIP and disbanded its members. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy wrote that some ACIP members chosen by Kennedy last year lacked the legally required expertise in vaccines.

CHD appealed the ruling and asked the court for an emergency order to stay, or freeze, Murphy’s order.

CHD also appealed Murphy’s denial of the nonprofit’s motion to intervene in the case brought by the American Academy of Pediatrics against Kennedy and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The court has yet to rule on CHD’s request.

Now that HHS has changed the expertise criteria, Kennedy could rebuild the committee by bringing back some of the disbanded members — even without appealing the judge’s ruling, according to the Times.

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Norwegian study links mRNA COVID vaccines to heightened heart risks in teens

According to BrightU.AI‘s Enoch, myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle, while pericarditis is inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart—both can be serious, particularly in physically active individuals and have been linked to sudden cardiac events.

Dr. Clayton J. Baker, an internal medicine physician, told the Epoch Times that the findings confirm mRNA vaccines “cause myocarditis in adolescents” and that the second dose “dramatically increases toxicity.”

Experts challenge study’s limitations

While the researchers concluded that the vaccines demonstrated overall safety, independent scientists criticized the study’s narrow risk windows—ranging from 14 to 56 days—arguing they likely undercounted long-term complications.

Brian Hooker, Chief Scientific Officer of Children’s Health Defense, warned that myocarditis cases “significantly increase long-term mortality,” with 25%-30% of patients suffering lasting damage. A separate Lancet study funded by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found that 60% of young myocarditis patients still showed heart abnormalities six months post-vaccination.

Steve Kirsch, founder of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, accused the researchers of “deliberate narrative control,” noting that critical findings—such as post-window myocarditis cases—were buried in the data. “They know most readers never look past the first page,” he said.

Conflicts of interest and calls for accountability

Several study authors disclosed financial ties to pharmaceutical giants, including AstraZeneca and GSK, prompting concerns about bias. Critics argue that the study’s framing downplayed risks while emphasizing rare adverse events as statistically insignificant.

“The evidence is indisputable—these shots cause myocarditis in young people at unacceptable rates,” said Baker. “Given the minimal risk of severe COVID-19 in adolescents, these products should not remain on the market.”

The Norwegian study adds to growing evidence that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines carry disproportionate risks for teenagers, particularly after multiple doses. As governments and health agencies weigh booster recommendations, experts demand rigorous, long-term safety reviews—and honesty about potential harms. For families navigating vaccination decisions, the findings reinforce the importance of informed consent, natural immunity and alternative health strategies in an era of escalating medical skepticism.

Watch the video below that talks about underreported myocarditis as a COVID-19 vaccine injury.

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Social Media Users Respond with Facts When Writer at The Atlantic Asks Why Trust in Public Health Institutions Decreased Significantly After Covid Scam

Conor Friedersdorf, a staff writer for the far-left outlet The Atlantic, took to X to ask why there has been a precipitous drop in the people’s trust in public health institutions following the endless gaslighting and lies during the Covid era, and we was on the receiving end of a litany of truth bombs.

Friedersdorf asked, “A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly.”

“If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I’m hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.”

One person cited the ‘massive and inexplicable” CDC failures.

The Gateway Pundit reported that a peer-reviewed study exposed that the CDC inflated Covid deaths by 1600% throughout the 2020 election cycle.

Others noted the politically motivated rules surrounding public gatherings.

“When public health officials who were insisting on extraordinary measures of isolation to include the forbidding of outdoor church services and funerals unanimously announced in May 2020 that mass BLM protests were an acceptable COVID risk because racism was worse than COVID, I learned that public health was pseudoscientific activism.”

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Rising number of Americans refusing life-saving blood transfusions because they come from vaccinated donors

Health researchers are sounding the alarm after noticing more people refusing life-saving blood transfusions because they come from vaccinated donors. 

In a study out of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 15 patients or families of patients who needed blood transfusions rejected them because they requested blood from donors who were not vaccinated. 

The majority of patients were children or teenagers. 

The refusal led one patient to go into shock, another to develop anemia and others to have their surgeries delayed. 

Now, doctors involved say they fear more Americans, spurred by vaccine-suspicious health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, will follow.  

Over a two-year period, the researchers found requests for non-anonymous – meaning patients can choose specific donors for their transfusion – had increased because the patients specifically wanted blood from unvaccinated individuals. 

The patients had told doctors they wanted unvaccinated blood because they believed it was safer, but their exact safety concerns are unclear. 

Researchers noted that while the total number of these donations was small, the requests caused delayed care and could have contributed to complications of not receiving a timely blood transfusion, which can include organ failure, stroke and death. 

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Big Pharma Giants Pfizer and BioNTech Forced to Shut Down COVID-19 Booster Shot Trials After Americans Refuse to Be Guinea Pigs

Major Big Pharma companies have abruptly halted their latest COVID-19 mRNA “booster” trial because they literally couldn’t find enough willing participants.

After years of gaslighting the American public, raking in hundreds of billions in profits from experimental shots that were shoved down our throats under the guise of “public health,” the same corporations that partnered with the Biden regime, Anthony Fauci, and the lying mainstream media are now facing the cold, hard reality: Americans are done being lab rats.

According to internal letters sent to trial investigators and obtained by Reuters, Pfizer is ending its study of “updated” shots in healthy adults aged 50 to 64.

The company admitted it was “unable to generate relevant data” because recruitment had effectively hit a brick wall.

Reports indicate that more than 80% of potential recruits didn’t even make it past pre-screening, or simply refused to participate.

The trial, which aimed to enroll a massive 25,000 to 30,000 participants, folded after failing to meet even the most basic enrollment targets.

This comes at a time when the “science” is being scrutinized like never before. Under the current administration, the FDA has been pressured to actually require randomized placebo-controlled trials, the very thing skeptics have been demanding for years.

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The American Mind Has Collapsed: How Vaccine Damage and Tribal Stupidity Created a Nation of Gullible Fools

How Mainstream America Became Dumb… and then Dumber

I’ve spent years observing, documenting, and sounding the alarm about the erosion of American intelligence and discernment. Today, I believe we are witnessing not just a cultural or political decline, but a mass cognitive collapse — a deliberate, engineered stupidity that has rendered a once-critical populace into a nation of gullible fools.

This is not an accident. It is the culmination of a multi-front war on human cognition, waged through toxic vaccines, processed food poisons, electromagnetic pollution, and a relentless propaganda machine that celebrates mediocrity and punishes truth. The evidence is everywhere, from the halls of government to the checkout line at the grocery store. We have crossed a cognitive event horizon, and the path back to reason seems all but lost [1]. Here’s how we got here, and why it matters for the survival of freedom itself.

The Unprecedented Decline of American Intelligence

The data is in, and it’s grim. Across all ages and demographics, test results show Americans are getting dumber [2]. This isn’t a minor dip in scores; it’s a systemic plunge. I believe this mass cognitive decline is largely driven by physical and chemical assaults on the brain, with vaccine damage playing a central role. The adjuvants in vaccines, particularly aluminum, are a silent, pervasive threat [3]. Studies have found high aluminum levels in patients with Alzheimer’s, autism, and epilepsy, and this neurotoxic substance is directly injected into the population, especially infants [3].

Long-term persistence of vaccine-derived aluminum hydroxide is associated with chronic cognitive dysfunction [4]. This is not speculation; it is documented science that the corrupt medical establishment desperately wants you to ignore. When you combine this with the brain-damaging effects of other environmental toxins like lead [5], glyphosate in food, and electromagnetic fields from 5G, you have a perfect storm for neurological decay. The once-critical American mind, capable of innovation and self-governance, has been replaced with a gullible, tribalistic stupidity that I find unprecedented in our history. We are becoming a population of psychological zombies, primed to believe anything our tribal leaders tell us [6].

The Artemis Moon Farce: A Case Study in Celebrating Nothing

Nothing exemplifies this collapse of basic reasoning more than the public’s reaction to NASA’s Artemis program. Celebrating a flight that’s merely planned to go around the moon as “going back” to the moon reveals a total failure of logic and an embrace of empty symbolism. This manufactured triumph is a perfect symbol of an empire that can no longer distinguish reality from propaganda, nor achievement from theatrics.

This isn’t about space exploration; it’s about the degradation of meaning. A society that celebrates a symbolic loop as a monumental return has lost its ability to assess value and substance. It eagerly consumes the spectacle while ignoring the substance — or lack thereof. This willingness to applaud a non-event is a symptom of a deeper sickness: a population so cognitively damaged that it cannot perform the most basic reality checks. It is ready to be sold any story, no matter how hollow, as long as it’s wrapped in the flag and accompanied by a press release. The provided sources on this specific NASA mission are limited, but the pattern of celebrating engineered narratives over tangible reality is a hallmark of our cognitive decline.

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Air National Guardsman Being Denied Reenlistment for Refusing Flu Shot Cites Violation of Constitutional Rights

After 18 years of dedicated service, Arkansas Air National Guardsman Chris Babczak is being denied the opportunity to reenlist next month—solely because he stood firm in his decision to refuse the flu vaccine [emphasis mine].

It is important to highlight that this will happen two years before reaching retirement eligibility. Additionally, it should be noted that this is taking place under the current leadership. Moreover, as these individuals should be ready to acknowledge at this point, scientific evidence suggests that receiving an annual flu shot may actually heighten the risk of contracting influenza.

The Gateway Pundit spoke to Technical Sergeant Chris Babczak who shared that he was able to opt out of the COVID-19 vaccine, in 2022, due to his involvement in a class action lawsuit with fellow objectors. After researching the effectiveness and risks associated with the COVID-19 shot, the C-130 aircraft electrician also submitted a request for a religious accommodation regarding the flu vaccine. “Like COVID,” he said, “it was a rubber stamp denial.”

In the years to follow, Babczak has taken it upon himself to learn the law and know his rights, stating that “never again will I ask permission for any of my rights when government agencies, to include the military, never had constitutional authority to interfere with conscience beliefs or to make health decisions for people in the first place.”

He pointed to Article 2, section 24 of the Arkansas Constitution, which explicitly states, “No human authority can, in any case or manner whatsoever, control or interfere with the right of conscience.”

He further contended that “offering religious accommodations converts a right into a privilege and gives a false presumption that government, or the military in my case, can make a person’s health decisions by requiring a vaccine, even when a person lawfully objects.”

For him, “A person’s right to health is an absolute right, the constitution secures the right to health against government compulsion of a vaccine.”

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