The Vaccine Autism Link
Age of Autism embraces the belief expressed by the great Bernie Rimland that “the autism epidemic is real, and excessive vaccinations are the cause.”
This carefully calibrated statement reflects several of our core beliefs:
- The autism epidemic is real. This fundamental truth has been
established time and again, completely independent of any concern about
vaccination as the cause. Yet there are epidemic deniers in medicine and
the media who keep claiming otherwise. This pernicious nonsense
detracts from the effort to find out why there has been a
twenty-fold increase in the past two decades. Since the rise in autism
is real, the cause can only be environmental, and finding that cause
becomes the clear priority for all honest research.
- Vaccines are causing the autism epidemic. Exactly how that is taking
place is subject to much discussion both within and without the vaccine
safety community – again, vaccine injury denialists claim it never
happens. But far too many parents, families, and an increasing number of
independent journalists and medical professionals know the truth.
Vaccines that are untested and unsafe when given individually or in
combinations – whether a mercury-laden flu shot in utero, as many as
nine vaccinations at 6 months, or the MMR at age 1 – are clearly
implicated. Because that threatens many powerful interests and
comfortable orthodoxies, confronting the vaccine-autism link is
assiduously avoided.
- A delayed or less aggressive vaccination schedule would reduce the
autism rate significantly. Parents should find ways to educate
themselves and each other about the risks. They also must be free to
choose which vaccinations they want their child to receive and when, and
they must be free to reject vaccination entirely.
- Yet the whole debate over vaccine safety and parental choice has
been framed in terms of infectious disease and declared too dangerous to
be allowed. We don’t buy that, and we exist to give voice to those
whose concerns have been suppressed, denied or lied about.
- Children who have never been vaccinated can develop autism. That
seems to be rare, but it probably points to other toxic exposures such
as pesticides, certain medications in infancy or childhood, or genetic
vulnerabilities that are triggered in ways not yet understood. Also,
vaccination has become so widespread and intrusive that some children
may have been vaccinated at birth or later without their parents’
knowledge. Vaccination of parents and grandparents can cause epigenetic
changes affecting their offspring that have not been adequately studied.
- The idea that vaccines might trigger autism “in a small subset of
children,” and that is somehow okay or inevitable, is the wrong way to
look at the issue. What subset? What children? Why? At 1 in 68, that is
not a small subset, and while there are certain risk factors that
parents should look for – including auto-immune disease in the mother or
the family, mitochondrial anomalies, a child being unwell at the time
of a scheduled vaccination, a history of previous reactions by the
child, siblings or other family – there are too many unknowns to decide
“the coast is clear” for all but some imagined group that medical
authorities like to suggest would have developed autism anyway. There is
no effort being made to identify such a subset or subsets, and it’s
unlikely to happen as long as the CDC holds tight to vaccine safety
monitoring at the same time as it recommends the childhood immunization
schedule. This conflict of interest alone ought to make careful parents
realize that, on this issue as on many others, they simply cannot trust
the government. A safer vaccination schedule, no mandates, and a respect
for parental choice are the real solutions.
- The current crisis in children’s health is much broader than autism.
Over half have a chronic or developmental condition, and that is also
mostly the result of vaccine zealotry run amok along with excessive
interventions like too many antibiotics and pain relievers, often given
in conjunction with vaccination.
- Autism is the defining disorder of our Age and points to the terrible state of health care in America, the suppression of free speech and the triumph of a kind of political correctness that is essentially a smiling mask for good old-fashioned bullying.
9. Nobody should have the power to ruin your life simply because they think it will make someone else’s better.
For further information: Vaccines 2.0 – A Careful Parent’s Guide to Making Safe Vaccination Choices for Your Children, by Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted.
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