Mapping the entire field of Autism causation studies in one article.
When one looks at the big picture, the answer becomes clear.
Toby Rogers
May 21, 2025
I. INTRODUCTION
It seems to me that the proper way to understand the Autism epidemic is to read everything that has been written on Autism causation, throw out any studies that are characterized by a financial conflict of interest or fatally flawed study design, and see what patterns emerge from the papers that are left. During my doctoral thesis I reviewed about 80 of the top studies in Autism epidemiology and toxicology. That was groundbreaking at the time because the vast majority of mainstream scholars do not have the courage to discuss any papers that threaten the profits of powerful industries.
As I have continued to work in this space over the 6 last years I now realize that there are over 800 Autism causation studies in the English language focused on the U.S. It is daunting to think about trying to wrap one’s head around a field that large. So most public health officials just grab a favorite study here or there to justify their biases and that is exactly the wrong way to approach this topic. There has to be a better way of working through the available knowledge on this issue.
Now I believe I have figured out how to map the entire field of Autism causation studies (about 850 papers in all) in this 1 in article. If you sat down to read each article individually, it would likely take you several years. But as I will show below, you do not necessarily have to do that. There is a way to move through all of the literature at a meta level that I believe leads to the right answer and a viable plan for how to stop the Autism epidemic.
Let us start with a quick introduction and then get into the different types of studies.
In the early 1980s, vaccines were so harmful that vaccine manufacturers routinely lost in court. They lobbied the U.S. Congress to pass the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act to give themselves liability protection. And they pinky-swore to make vaccines safer but there was no legal mechanism in the bill to enforce that promise so they never did.
Pharmaceutical companies proceeded to add as many vaccines as possible to the schedule. Prior to 1986, there were 3 routine vaccines totaling 7 injections. Today the CDC’s Maternal and Child & Adolescent vaccine schedules include 19 vaccines requiring 76 injections with 94 total doses of antigen (I am actually less worried about the antigens than the other ingredients in the shots).
No one in a position of authority bothered to measure the impact of the growing vaccine schedule on the health of children. Most regulators were auditioning for a job with Big Pharma because that is where the money is. Politicians depend on Pharma donations for their re-election campaigns. The mainstream news media get most of their revenue from Pharma advertising so they were never going to bite the hand that feeds them. Pharma invested heavily in public relations to lay siege to any remaining pockets of resistance.
The Mercury- based preservative Thimerosal was grandfathered in as “Generally recognized as safe” because it is easier to do that than actual safety testing.
Aluminum adjuvants were allowed with only minimal safety testing: 1 man, 3 rabbits, and ever-moving goal-posts. The gold-rush was on, so vaccine manufacturers were free to add whatever they wanted to vaccines and they would all be approved because the regulators and the medical industry were captured mind, body, and spirit by Big Pharma.
The Autism rate skyrocketed in the 1990s, and has continued to increase ever since. Rates of Attention Deficit, Hyperactivity Disorder, life threatening allergies, autoimmune disorders, Asthma, childhood cancers, Diabetes, and Epilepsy soared too, and those are probably vaccine injuries as well. But Autism is more costly than those other conditions because it is a lifelong disability with no known effective treatment (some parents have been able to recover their children through holistic and alternative therapies but the percentage who are successful in doing so is still in the single digits).
At that point, the people who created the Autism epidemic had to pretend to look for the cause. But they had to make sure to never find the actual cause because then the flow of research funding would stop and lots of these doctors and scientists would go to jail (or be hung from lampposts by angry parents of injured kids). So an entire industry was created to cover up the Autism epidemic.
II. TWENTY-TWO STUDIES IN THE VACCINE COVER-UP
Since 2000, more than 20 scientific studies have concluded that there is no association between vaccines and Autism. The most widely cited studies are:
Fombonne & Chakrabarti, 2001;
Madsen et al., 2002;
Mäkelä, Nuorti, & Peltola, 2002;
Pichichero, Cernichiari, Lopreiato, & Treanor, 2002;
Hviid, Stellfeld, Wohlfahrt, & Melbye, 2003;
Madsen et al., 2003;
Nelson & Bauman, 2003;
Stehr-Green, Tull, Stellfeld, Mortenson, & Simpson, 2003;
Verstraeten et al., 2003;
Wilson, Mills, Ross, McGowan, & Jadad, 2003;
Andrews et al., 2004;
Heron & Golding, 2004;
Smeeth et al., 2004;
Honda, Shimizu, & Rutter, 2005;
Fombonne et al., 2006;
Miles & Takahashi, 2007;
Thompson et al., 2007;
Baird et al., 2008;
Hornig et al. 2008;
Schechter & Grether, 2008; and
Tozzi et al., 2009.
Most of these are studies that claim no association between MMR or Thimerosal-containing vaccines and Autism, which is odd because the CDC’s own internal research shows that both of these types of vaccines do indeed cause Autism (see 2014 statement from William Thompson and 2014 SafeMinds analysis of FOIA documents obtained from former CDC researcher turned GSK executive Thomas Verstraeten).
J.B. Handley also documents the conflicts of interests and fatal flaws in study design for most of these papers on a brilliant website called 14studies.com.
More recently, vaccine supporters have made a last stand with Hviid et al. (2019) but that study is also fatally flawed (for example the Autism rate in their sample was more than 65% lower than in the general Danish population; see analysis in Hammond, Varia, & Hooker, 2025 and James Lyons-Weiler, 2019).
Furthermore even though randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials are the gold standard of biomedicine, none of the studies listed above has a proper control group of unvaccinated children (the Informed Consent Action Network provides the details here). The failure to conduct proper double-blind studies renders all of them scientifically invalid. And just like that we have demolished the entire basis for the claim that vaccines do not cause Autism.
III. FIVE LARGE AUTISM GENETICS STUDIES.
In the 1990s, the Human Genome Project captured the public’s imagination and the government’s scientific spending. Claiming that Autism is genetic was a win-win because it offered the hope that Autism might be curable through genetic engineering.
The Federal Government then sank more than $2 billion into searching for the genes for Autism … and found nothing that explained more than 1% of cases.
Not to be outdone by the federal government, private foundations also sought to prove that Autism is genetic and failed categorically.
The genetic explanation for Autism has always been problematic because there is no such thing as a genetic epidemic - the human genome just does not change that fast.
AGRE
The Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE) was established in 1997 by the Cure Autism Now (CAN) foundation, a predecessor organization to Autism Speaks (which later merged with CAN in 2007). AGRE collected genetic (DNA) and phenotypic (clinical, behavioral) data from 2,000 families with at least one member diagnosed with Autism and made the data freely available to qualified researchers globally. This led to the production of 169 scientific journal articles but no major breakthroughs that get us any closer to understanding Autism causation or treating Autism symptoms. Below I will explain more of the why and how all of these gene studies fail in a similar fashion.
SSC
As readers of this Substack will remember, Jim Simons (1938 – 2024) was a billionaire Hedge Fund manager with a daughter wwho had Autism. He wanted to invest some of his wealth in addressing Autism and many of the top scientists in the country took advantage of him by telling him that Autism was likely genetic. Jim set up the Simons Foundation and proceeded to spend over $300 million searching for "Autism Genes". The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) launched a project called the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC) in 2007 that gathered genetic, clinical, and behavioral information from approximately 2,600 “simplex” families - those with one child diagnosed with Autism, unaffected parents, and typically one unaffected sibling. SSC has produced 132 peer-reviewed publications and identified “102 risk genes.” But it has produced no major breakthroughs that get us any closer to understanding Autism causation or treating Autism symptoms.
ASC
In 2010, the Autism Sequencing Consortium (ASC) was founded by Joseph Buxbaum at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, and supported by the Broad Institute and NIH. Like other multi-million dollar health studies, ASC launched with a breathless promotional article in a major journal. Rather than focusing on the whole genome, ASC focuses on sequencing the exome which is “the portion of the genome that contains all the exons, which are the protein-coding regions of DNA.” The claim is that the exome “represents a small percentage of the total genome, about 1-2%, but it contains a majority of the known disease-related genetic variations.”
To date, the ASC has sequenced approximately 50,000 exomes from Autism cases, unaffected siblings, and parents. A search of PubMed shows 22 peer-reviewed publications associated with Autism. In 2020 they published a paper highlighting the role of 102 genes in autism and in 2022 they identified 72 more. These sorts of studies produce excited headlines in the mainstream media but no breakthroughs that get us any closer to understanding Autism causation nor treating Autism symptoms.
IN 2011, A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF TWINS AND AUTISM SHOWED THAT AUTISM IS NOT PRIMARILY A GENETIC DISORDER… AND THIS MADE NO DIFFERENCE IN THE TRAJECTORY OF THE INDUSTRY
In the early 2000s, as the Autism rate soared, political leaders in California wanted to better understand what was happening. So California contracted with sixteen of the best geneticists in the U.S. and gave them access to all birth records in the State. They produced a study titled “Genetic heritability and shared environmental factors among twin pairs with Autism” (Hallmayer et al., 2011) which is the most comprehensive study of twins and Autism to date. They found that genetic heritability explains at most 38% of Autism cases; in 2 places they explain that this is likely an overestimate. So at least 62% of Autism cases (and likely significantly more) are caused by something other than genes. But the search for the genes for Autism had already become a large and very profitable industry, and this study showing that Autism is NOT primarily genetic did little to slow the growth of this field.
MSSNG
As the cost of genetic sequencing went down, Autism Speaks launched the MSSNG study in 2014. MSSNG is not an acronym, the leaders of the study just liked the way it sounded (i i’s pronounced “missing”). They have sequenced the genomes of 13,801 individuals belonging to what they call family “trios” (two parents and one affected child) or “quads” (two parents and two affected children). To date, MSSNG has produced 138 peer reviewed publications. They claim to have identified 134 “genes associated with Autism” but again produced no major breakthroughs that get us any closer to understanding Autism causation nor treating Autism symptoms.
SPARK
Undeterred by the failure of all genetic research projects to date, the Simons Foundation massively expanded their genetic research portfolio with a new project in 2016 — the Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge (SPARK). As of 2025, SPARK has enrolled over 100,000 individuals with Autism and 250,000 total participants (including family members) across the U.S. Recruitment is facilitated by 31 clinical sites (mostly major pediatric research hospitals). To date, SPARK has produced over 40 peer-reviewed publications. Thus far the have identified "10new Autism-risk genes" but no major breakthroughs that get us any closer to understanding Autism causation nor treating Autism symptoms.
STRAIGHT UP CENSORSHIP
As the failures of the Simons Foundation genetic research efforts mounted, rather than change course they hired the editor of Retraction Watch, Ivan Oransky, to push for retraction of studies that question the genetic narrative in connection with Autism research. Given that there is an entire multibillion dollar industry built up around gene and Autism studies, scientific journals are more than happy to accede to Oransky’s requests to censor the narrative on behalf of their patrons.
WHY STUDIES OF GENES AND AUTISM FAIL (THIS WAS KNOWABLE IN THE EARLY 2000s BUT MOSTLY IGNORED BECAUSE THERE WAS SO MUCH MONEY TO BE MADE).
The human genome contains 3.1 to 3.2 billion base pairs. When 1 feeds thousands of human genomes with several billion base pairs each into a computer and asks it to look for an association, it will certainly find many based on chance alone. But it is the classic problem of “correlation is not causation.”
One of the world’s foremost epidemiologists, John Ioannidis, points out in “Why Most Published Research Findings are False” (2005) that only about 1/10th of 1% of these sorts of fishing expeditions discovery oriented exploratory research with massive testing - usually nutrition and genetic studies with large numbers of variables are reproducible.
As Sheldon and Gruber show in their book Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense (2013) the entire theory of the case that single (or even multiple) genes code for a particular disease has unraveled in recent years.
Generally speaking, the understanding of genes has been replaced in recent years by a completely different paradigm. British philosopher of science John Dupré at the University of Exeter argues in his book Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology (2012) that DNA is neither a blueprint nor a computer code for biological outcomes, but rather a sort of warehouse that the body can draw upon for a range of different purposes; i.e., The assumption that identifiable bits of DNA sequence are even “genes” for particular proteins has turned out not to be generally true.
The people who actually study genetics know that, at least when it comes to Autism, genetic determinism is dead. But there is a fortune to be made from pretending otherwise. So the story that is sold to government and private foundations is that the “genes for Autism” are out there somewhere just waiting to be found if only they will keep the research money flowing.
Government plays along with this ruse because funding genetics research keeps scientists away from studying toxicants which might threaten powerful interests. The result is an entire multibillion dollar research industry that produces hundreds and hundreds of peer-reviewed articles that never get us any closer to understanding Autism causation nor providing a cure.
As the search for an "Autism gene” repeatedly failed, geneticists came up with a placeholder theory they call “genetic dark matter” patterned after the dark matter in astrophysics that is said to make up most of the universe that astrophysicists cannot explain or measure. The idea is that a gene for Autism must surely exist but that they do not have the tools to detect it yet. This has kept the grant money going for now. But the entire scheme is untenable.
For more on the boondoggle of the mythical search for the “genes for Autism” please see my article, “Nearly everything that we’ve been told about genes and Autism is wrong” (2025).
IV. FOUR LARGE EPIGENETIC STUDIES.
CHARGE
The University of California, Davis launched the Childhood Autism Risks from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE) study in 2003 to investigate environmental causes and risk factors for Autism and developmental delay. It is led by 1 of the most respected and widely-published environmental epidemiologists in the world, Irva Hertz-Picciotto. CHARGE is a case-control study where researchers identify children age 2 to 5 with Autism and compare them with similarly matched children without the diagnosis of Autism. They have enrolled more than 2,000 Autism families in their studies and produced foundational reports on the effects of:
To be clear, all of the toxicants they study are a problem, can likely cause Autism, and should be better regulated or banned. What I am saying though is that one cannot measure the relative impact of each of these chemicals without including a variable for the potentially confounding effect of vaccines.
So for example, a brilliant CHARGE study, Shelton et al. (2014) found that mothers who lived within 1.5 km (less than 1 mile) of agricultural fields sprayed with various pesticides had elevated risks of Autism in their offspring. But who is most likely to live that close to the fields? Farmworkers and other low income residents. So it is also possible that the children born to women who live closest to agricultural fields get lower quality vaccines through the Vaccines For Children Program, and this explains the higher Autism risk. Or perhaps these children were not vaccinated at all and the increased Autism risk is entirely from the pesticides. But we will never know the relative risk of each factor because Shelton et al (2014) did not control for vaccination status.
Or take another example. Lots of CHARGE studies claim that supplementation with folic acid during the first month of pregnancy reduces Autism risk. But vaccines and other toxicants can cause dysregulated folate metabolism. And for some of these women, supplementing with folic acid increases Autism risk in their offspring because their bodies cannot convert folic acid to folate (see Raghavan et al. 2018). By failing to control for the number of vaccines taken by the mother before and during pregnancy we are unable to unravel the relative effects of genetic mutations, vitamin supplementation, vaccines, and pesticides.
Why would some of the best epidemiologists in the world spend so much time, money, and effort and then make a mistake this basic? The answer is pretty straightforward - the field of Autism research is so polarized and politicized that everyone involved with these studies knows that if they include vaccines as a variable they would instantly lose all of their research funding and be blacklisted from future research funding. That 1 principled and scientifically necessary decision would immediately and permanently end their careers. So they avoid "the variable that shall not be named" even though this omission renders all of their work unreliable.
I would just add that all of these mainstream Autism causation studies fail in a similar way - they engage in circular reasoning (the logical fallacy in which the premise of an argument assumes the conclusion to be true).
MARBLES
In 2006, the UC David MIND Institute launched the Markers of Autism Risk in Babies - Learning Early Signs (MARBLES) study. MARBLES is a prospective longitudinal study for pregnant women who already have a biological child with Autism. Information about each participant’s genetics and environment is collected through a number of sources, including:
With a study design that comprehensive one would imagine they would be able to figure out Autism causation fairly quickly. But once again, MARBLES studies do not control for vaccines (vaccinated vs unvaccinated, number of vaccines for the mother and child, timing of vaccines, etc) even though they have access to that information. The failure to control for these known and potentially large toxic exposures renders all of the MARBLES research unreliable.
When I was writing my Doctoral Thesis I was very impressed by epigenetic studies including MARBLES because they were so complex and looked at toxicological variables that most mainstream scientists lacked the fortitude to study. I read as many as I could, and included detailed summaries in my Thesis. But now that I know they never controlled for vaccines I find these studies deeply troubling. MARBLES is a prospective study that follows women who already had one child with Autism through a subsequent pregnancy and they never gave these women informed consent because they did not discuss with them the dangers of vaccines. For researchers to then turn these children - many of whom developed Autism because of this lack of informed consent - into "data" for their peer-reviewed published papers, I believe violates the Hippocratic Oath, the Declaration of Helsinki, and even the Nuremberg Code.
SEED
In 2007, the CDC launched the Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) - a multi-site, case-control study to identify risk factors and early indicators of Autism and other developmental disabilities in children aged 2 to 5 years. SEED has enrolled over 4,500 families, including more than 1,500 children diagnosed with Autism, across multiple phases of the study. The study uses parental questionnaires, clinical assessments, biospecimen collection, and medical record reviews to gather data on genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors that may influence Autism risk. The budget was over $5 million a year and the study is still ongoing. To date, the SEED study has produced 54 peer-reviewed publications. None of the SEED studies control for vaccines (vaccinated vs. unvaccinated, number of vaccines for the mother and child, timing of vaccines, etc) even though they have access to that information. The failure to control for these known and potentially large toxic exposures renders all of the SEED research unreliable.
EARLI
In 2008, the NIH and Autism Speaks launched the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI) study - a multi-site prospective cohort study aimed at identifying environmental and genetic factors contributing to Autism. It enrolled over 260 pregnant mothers who already had a child with Autism, following the younger siblings through age 3 to examine possible environmental risk factors and genetic contributions for Autism. The consortium includes Johns Hopkins University, UC Davis, Drexel University, the University of Pennsylvania/Children’s Hospital Philadelphia, and Kaiser Permanente Northern California.
1 branch of EARLI (primarily looking at diet, nutrition, and phthalate exposures) produced 39 peer-reviewed publications; another branch (primarily looking at industrial air pollution and exposure to heavy metals) produced 40 peer-reviewed publications; and a third branch (primarily looking at air pollution from freeways and diesel-powered trucks) produced 9 peer-reviewed publications. But none of these studies controlled for vaccines (vaccinated vs. unvaccinated, number of vaccines for the mother and child, timing of vaccines, etc.) thus rendering all of the EARLI results unreliable.
The best case I can make for these large epigenetic studies is that the researchers assume that everyone is vaccinated and everyone got the same vaccines at the same time so they do not need to include that variable. None of that is true, but just for the sake of argument let us pretend that the researchers believe this. The large epigenetic studies then measure the harms from other toxicants in addition to the base rate that includes the fact that everyone is vaccinated. But that is not necessarily true either. There are likely synergistic effects between various toxicants, vaccines, and systems in the body (endocrine, immune, digestive, etc) so we cannot know the relative harms from these other toxicants without knowing what vaccines the person has already received.
Anything that causes an immune activation event (an infectious disease, a toxicant, or a vaccine) can cause Autism. But research from Thomas and Margulis (2016) shows that the Autism rate in children with no vaccines is 1 in 715, and the Autism rate in vaccinated children is 1 in 31. So these large epigenetic studies that fail to control for vaccines can help explain the 1 in 715 Autism cases but they are unlikely to help us stop the Autism epidemic unless they radically change their protocols.
SO THAT LEAVES US WITH A MUCH NARROWER SET OF STUDIES FOR UNDERSTANDING AUTISM CAUSATION.
The key study that helps us to understand the relative impact of the different toxicants that contribute to causing Autism was led by Sally Ozonoff at UC Davis, and it was published in 2018. Using a brilliant study design she showed that up to 88% of Autism cases are characterized by Autistic regression - the child was developing normally and then suddenly over the course of hours, days, or weeks the child lost eye contact, speech, and the ability to socialize with others. This suggests an acute toxic exposure, and we now have eyewitness testimony from hundreds of thousands of parents that the acute toxic exposure that preceded the Autistic regression was a “well baby” vaccine appointment with a pediatrician.
The holy grail in Autism research is to find vaccinated vs. unvaccinated studies. Thankfully there are now six good studies that we can rely on.
GALLAGHER & GOODMAN (2008 & 2010)
Gallagher and Goodman (2008), using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2000, found that boys who received all 3 doses of the Hepatitis B vaccine were 8.63 times more likely to have a developmental disability including Autism than boys who did not receive all three doses.
Gallagher and Goodman (2010), using data from the National Health Interview Survey 1997-2002, found that boys “who received the first dose of Hepatitis B vaccine during the first month of life had 3-fold greater odds for Autism diagnosis (30 with Autism diagnosis and 7,044 without) as compared with “boys either vaccinated later or not at all.”
And that is just the effect of 1 shot. No one knows the effect of doing that 76 more times, but that is what is recommended by the CDC Child & Adolescent Vaccine Schedule.
MAWSON (2017A & 2017B)
Anthony Mawson was a visiting professor of epidemiology at the Jackson State University School of Public Health with a thirty-year career in epidemiology and a long publishing track record including 2 publications in The Lancet. In 2017, Mawson and his co-authors designed “a cross-sectional survey of homeschooling mothers on their vaccinated and unvaccinated biological children ages 6 to 12”, and they worked with the National Home Education Research Institute, a homeschool think-tank, to implement the study. They obtained results for 666 children of which 405 (61%) were vaccinated and 261 (39%) were not. The study controlled for race, gender, "adverse environment" (not defined), antibiotic use during pregnancy, preterm birth, and ultrasound during pregnancy.
As one would expect, they found that vaccinated children were significantly less likely than the unvaccinated to have had Chickenpox (7.9% vs. 25.3% and Whooping cough (Pertussis) (2.5% vs. 8.4%).
The results for chronic illness were a different story. Vaccinated children were significantly more likely than the unvaccinated to have been diagnosed with
HOOKER & MILLER (2021)
Brian Hooker at Simpson University in California and independent researcher Neil Miller (2021), using survey data from respondents associated 3 with medical practices in the US, compared vaccinated children to unvaccinated children for the incidence of several chronic health conditions including Autism. Vaccinated children were significantly more likely than unvaccinated children to be diagnosed with:
The findings in this study on the relationships between vaccination and breastfeeding status and the relationship between vaccination and birth delivery status are particularly shocking: Children who were vaccinated and not breastfed had a more than 12-fold higher risk of Autism. And children who were vaccinated and delivered via cesarean section had a more than 18-fold higher risk of Autism.
These are the highest odds ratios I have ever seen in any study of Autism causation. In a just world the findings from this study would have been front-page news across the country and immediately led to Congressional hearings and regulatory action against vaccine makers, formula makers, and obstetricians/hospitals with high c-section rates. But because the mainstream media and the political system in the U.S. are completely captured by Big Pharma this study received little mention at all.
MAWSON & JACOB (2025)
Anthony Mawson and Binu Jacob returned with another groundbreaking study in (2025). The study population comprised children born and continuously enrolled in the Florida State Medicaid program from birth to age 9. The analysis of claims data for 47,155 9-year-old children revealed that:
1) vaccination was associated with significantly increased odds for all measured neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs);
2) among children born preterm and vaccinated, 39.9% were diagnosed with at least one NDD compared to 15.7% among those born preterm and unvaccinated; and
3) the relative risk of Autism increased according to the number of visits that included vaccinations. Children with just 1 vaccination visit were 1.7 times more likely to have been diagnosed with Autism than the unvaccinated, whereas those with 11 or more visits that included vaccinations were 4.4 times more likely to have been diagnosed with Autism than those with no visit for vaccination.
We know what is causing the Autism epidemic. The bloated, unscientific, profit-driven CDC vaccine schedules are causing it. The U.S. must immediately shift to a science-based, individualized, approach to immunization, with no liability protection for vaccine makers nor the medical profession, and only those vaccines shown to produce more benefits than harms allowed on the market.
VI. CONCLUSION
Mainstream studies that attempt to prove that vaccines do not cause Autism are all invalid because they do not have a proper unvaccinated control group.
The over 2 billion dollars spent searching for the “genes for Autism” has not been a good investment - other than to definitively rule out genes as the primary driver of the epidemic.
The large epigenetic studies are somewhat better designed and show courage in investigating toxicants made by powerful industries. Unfortunately their failure to control for vaccination exposures renders all of their conclusions unreliable.
So that leaves us with 6 very good vaccinated vs unvaccinated studies that show that vaccines cause Autism. Vaccination in general seems to increase Autism risk about 4-fold (the range across these 6 studies is 3.002 to 8.63). Vaccinating premies,
vaccination + c-section delivery, and vaccination in the absence of breastfeeding causes Autism risk to skyrocket. That is what is causing the Autism epidemic, according to the best available scientific evidence.
The takeaway from all of this is that the entire field of Autism research is a shambles. Parents of Autistic children are spending what little money they have to fund proper scientific research while corporations, foundations, and the government use their considerable power to cover up the causes of the epidemic.
The Mercury- based preservative Thimerosal was grandfathered in as “Generally recognized as safe” because it is easier to do that than actual safety testing.
Aluminum adjuvants were allowed with only minimal safety testing: 1 man, 3 rabbits, and ever-moving goal-posts. The gold-rush was on, so vaccine manufacturers were free to add whatever they wanted to vaccines and they would all be approved because the regulators and the medical industry were captured mind, body, and spirit by Big Pharma.
The Autism rate skyrocketed in the 1990s, and has continued to increase ever since. Rates of Attention Deficit, Hyperactivity Disorder, life threatening allergies, autoimmune disorders, Asthma, childhood cancers, Diabetes, and Epilepsy soared too, and those are probably vaccine injuries as well. But Autism is more costly than those other conditions because it is a lifelong disability with no known effective treatment (some parents have been able to recover their children through holistic and alternative therapies but the percentage who are successful in doing so is still in the single digits).
At that point, the people who created the Autism epidemic had to pretend to look for the cause. But they had to make sure to never find the actual cause because then the flow of research funding would stop and lots of these doctors and scientists would go to jail (or be hung from lampposts by angry parents of injured kids). So an entire industry was created to cover up the Autism epidemic.
II. TWENTY-TWO STUDIES IN THE VACCINE COVER-UP
Since 2000, more than 20 scientific studies have concluded that there is no association between vaccines and Autism. The most widely cited studies are:
Fombonne & Chakrabarti, 2001;
Madsen et al., 2002;
Mäkelä, Nuorti, & Peltola, 2002;
Pichichero, Cernichiari, Lopreiato, & Treanor, 2002;
Hviid, Stellfeld, Wohlfahrt, & Melbye, 2003;
Madsen et al., 2003;
Nelson & Bauman, 2003;
Stehr-Green, Tull, Stellfeld, Mortenson, & Simpson, 2003;
Verstraeten et al., 2003;
Wilson, Mills, Ross, McGowan, & Jadad, 2003;
Andrews et al., 2004;
Heron & Golding, 2004;
Smeeth et al., 2004;
Honda, Shimizu, & Rutter, 2005;
Fombonne et al., 2006;
Miles & Takahashi, 2007;
Thompson et al., 2007;
Baird et al., 2008;
Hornig et al. 2008;
Schechter & Grether, 2008; and
Tozzi et al., 2009.
Most of these are studies that claim no association between MMR or Thimerosal-containing vaccines and Autism, which is odd because the CDC’s own internal research shows that both of these types of vaccines do indeed cause Autism (see 2014 statement from William Thompson and 2014 SafeMinds analysis of FOIA documents obtained from former CDC researcher turned GSK executive Thomas Verstraeten).
J.B. Handley also documents the conflicts of interests and fatal flaws in study design for most of these papers on a brilliant website called 14studies.com.
More recently, vaccine supporters have made a last stand with Hviid et al. (2019) but that study is also fatally flawed (for example the Autism rate in their sample was more than 65% lower than in the general Danish population; see analysis in Hammond, Varia, & Hooker, 2025 and James Lyons-Weiler, 2019).
Furthermore even though randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials are the gold standard of biomedicine, none of the studies listed above has a proper control group of unvaccinated children (the Informed Consent Action Network provides the details here). The failure to conduct proper double-blind studies renders all of them scientifically invalid. And just like that we have demolished the entire basis for the claim that vaccines do not cause Autism.
III. FIVE LARGE AUTISM GENETICS STUDIES.
In the 1990s, the Human Genome Project captured the public’s imagination and the government’s scientific spending. Claiming that Autism is genetic was a win-win because it offered the hope that Autism might be curable through genetic engineering.
The Federal Government then sank more than $2 billion into searching for the genes for Autism … and found nothing that explained more than 1% of cases.
Not to be outdone by the federal government, private foundations also sought to prove that Autism is genetic and failed categorically.
The genetic explanation for Autism has always been problematic because there is no such thing as a genetic epidemic - the human genome just does not change that fast.
AGRE
The Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE) was established in 1997 by the Cure Autism Now (CAN) foundation, a predecessor organization to Autism Speaks (which later merged with CAN in 2007). AGRE collected genetic (DNA) and phenotypic (clinical, behavioral) data from 2,000 families with at least one member diagnosed with Autism and made the data freely available to qualified researchers globally. This led to the production of 169 scientific journal articles but no major breakthroughs that get us any closer to understanding Autism causation or treating Autism symptoms. Below I will explain more of the why and how all of these gene studies fail in a similar fashion.
SSC
As readers of this Substack will remember, Jim Simons (1938 – 2024) was a billionaire Hedge Fund manager with a daughter wwho had Autism. He wanted to invest some of his wealth in addressing Autism and many of the top scientists in the country took advantage of him by telling him that Autism was likely genetic. Jim set up the Simons Foundation and proceeded to spend over $300 million searching for "Autism Genes". The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) launched a project called the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC) in 2007 that gathered genetic, clinical, and behavioral information from approximately 2,600 “simplex” families - those with one child diagnosed with Autism, unaffected parents, and typically one unaffected sibling. SSC has produced 132 peer-reviewed publications and identified “102 risk genes.” But it has produced no major breakthroughs that get us any closer to understanding Autism causation or treating Autism symptoms.
ASC
In 2010, the Autism Sequencing Consortium (ASC) was founded by Joseph Buxbaum at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, and supported by the Broad Institute and NIH. Like other multi-million dollar health studies, ASC launched with a breathless promotional article in a major journal. Rather than focusing on the whole genome, ASC focuses on sequencing the exome which is “the portion of the genome that contains all the exons, which are the protein-coding regions of DNA.” The claim is that the exome “represents a small percentage of the total genome, about 1-2%, but it contains a majority of the known disease-related genetic variations.”
To date, the ASC has sequenced approximately 50,000 exomes from Autism cases, unaffected siblings, and parents. A search of PubMed shows 22 peer-reviewed publications associated with Autism. In 2020 they published a paper highlighting the role of 102 genes in autism and in 2022 they identified 72 more. These sorts of studies produce excited headlines in the mainstream media but no breakthroughs that get us any closer to understanding Autism causation nor treating Autism symptoms.
IN 2011, A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF TWINS AND AUTISM SHOWED THAT AUTISM IS NOT PRIMARILY A GENETIC DISORDER… AND THIS MADE NO DIFFERENCE IN THE TRAJECTORY OF THE INDUSTRY
In the early 2000s, as the Autism rate soared, political leaders in California wanted to better understand what was happening. So California contracted with sixteen of the best geneticists in the U.S. and gave them access to all birth records in the State. They produced a study titled “Genetic heritability and shared environmental factors among twin pairs with Autism” (Hallmayer et al., 2011) which is the most comprehensive study of twins and Autism to date. They found that genetic heritability explains at most 38% of Autism cases; in 2 places they explain that this is likely an overestimate. So at least 62% of Autism cases (and likely significantly more) are caused by something other than genes. But the search for the genes for Autism had already become a large and very profitable industry, and this study showing that Autism is NOT primarily genetic did little to slow the growth of this field.
MSSNG
As the cost of genetic sequencing went down, Autism Speaks launched the MSSNG study in 2014. MSSNG is not an acronym, the leaders of the study just liked the way it sounded (i i’s pronounced “missing”). They have sequenced the genomes of 13,801 individuals belonging to what they call family “trios” (two parents and one affected child) or “quads” (two parents and two affected children). To date, MSSNG has produced 138 peer reviewed publications. They claim to have identified 134 “genes associated with Autism” but again produced no major breakthroughs that get us any closer to understanding Autism causation nor treating Autism symptoms.
SPARK
Undeterred by the failure of all genetic research projects to date, the Simons Foundation massively expanded their genetic research portfolio with a new project in 2016 — the Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge (SPARK). As of 2025, SPARK has enrolled over 100,000 individuals with Autism and 250,000 total participants (including family members) across the U.S. Recruitment is facilitated by 31 clinical sites (mostly major pediatric research hospitals). To date, SPARK has produced over 40 peer-reviewed publications. Thus far the have identified "10new Autism-risk genes" but no major breakthroughs that get us any closer to understanding Autism causation nor treating Autism symptoms.
STRAIGHT UP CENSORSHIP
As the failures of the Simons Foundation genetic research efforts mounted, rather than change course they hired the editor of Retraction Watch, Ivan Oransky, to push for retraction of studies that question the genetic narrative in connection with Autism research. Given that there is an entire multibillion dollar industry built up around gene and Autism studies, scientific journals are more than happy to accede to Oransky’s requests to censor the narrative on behalf of their patrons.
WHY STUDIES OF GENES AND AUTISM FAIL (THIS WAS KNOWABLE IN THE EARLY 2000s BUT MOSTLY IGNORED BECAUSE THERE WAS SO MUCH MONEY TO BE MADE).
The human genome contains 3.1 to 3.2 billion base pairs. When 1 feeds thousands of human genomes with several billion base pairs each into a computer and asks it to look for an association, it will certainly find many based on chance alone. But it is the classic problem of “correlation is not causation.”
One of the world’s foremost epidemiologists, John Ioannidis, points out in “Why Most Published Research Findings are False” (2005) that only about 1/10th of 1% of these sorts of fishing expeditions discovery oriented exploratory research with massive testing - usually nutrition and genetic studies with large numbers of variables are reproducible.
As Sheldon and Gruber show in their book Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense (2013) the entire theory of the case that single (or even multiple) genes code for a particular disease has unraveled in recent years.
Generally speaking, the understanding of genes has been replaced in recent years by a completely different paradigm. British philosopher of science John Dupré at the University of Exeter argues in his book Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology (2012) that DNA is neither a blueprint nor a computer code for biological outcomes, but rather a sort of warehouse that the body can draw upon for a range of different purposes; i.e., The assumption that identifiable bits of DNA sequence are even “genes” for particular proteins has turned out not to be generally true.
The people who actually study genetics know that, at least when it comes to Autism, genetic determinism is dead. But there is a fortune to be made from pretending otherwise. So the story that is sold to government and private foundations is that the “genes for Autism” are out there somewhere just waiting to be found if only they will keep the research money flowing.
Government plays along with this ruse because funding genetics research keeps scientists away from studying toxicants which might threaten powerful interests. The result is an entire multibillion dollar research industry that produces hundreds and hundreds of peer-reviewed articles that never get us any closer to understanding Autism causation nor providing a cure.
As the search for an "Autism gene” repeatedly failed, geneticists came up with a placeholder theory they call “genetic dark matter” patterned after the dark matter in astrophysics that is said to make up most of the universe that astrophysicists cannot explain or measure. The idea is that a gene for Autism must surely exist but that they do not have the tools to detect it yet. This has kept the grant money going for now. But the entire scheme is untenable.
For more on the boondoggle of the mythical search for the “genes for Autism” please see my article, “Nearly everything that we’ve been told about genes and Autism is wrong” (2025).
IV. FOUR LARGE EPIGENETIC STUDIES.
CHARGE
The University of California, Davis launched the Childhood Autism Risks from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE) study in 2003 to investigate environmental causes and risk factors for Autism and developmental delay. It is led by 1 of the most respected and widely-published environmental epidemiologists in the world, Irva Hertz-Picciotto. CHARGE is a case-control study where researchers identify children age 2 to 5 with Autism and compare them with similarly matched children without the diagnosis of Autism. They have enrolled more than 2,000 Autism families in their studies and produced foundational reports on the effects of:
- air pollution (e.g., particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, ozone)
- pesticides (e.g., organophosphates, pyrethroids, carbamates)
- heavy metals (e.g., mercury, lead, cadmium)
- per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
- polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
- nutritional factors (e.g., folic acid, vitamin D)
- flame retardants (e.g., polybrominated diphenyl ethers – PBDEs)
- maternal metabolic conditions (e.g., obesity, diabetes) and
- volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
To be clear, all of the toxicants they study are a problem, can likely cause Autism, and should be better regulated or banned. What I am saying though is that one cannot measure the relative impact of each of these chemicals without including a variable for the potentially confounding effect of vaccines.
So for example, a brilliant CHARGE study, Shelton et al. (2014) found that mothers who lived within 1.5 km (less than 1 mile) of agricultural fields sprayed with various pesticides had elevated risks of Autism in their offspring. But who is most likely to live that close to the fields? Farmworkers and other low income residents. So it is also possible that the children born to women who live closest to agricultural fields get lower quality vaccines through the Vaccines For Children Program, and this explains the higher Autism risk. Or perhaps these children were not vaccinated at all and the increased Autism risk is entirely from the pesticides. But we will never know the relative risk of each factor because Shelton et al (2014) did not control for vaccination status.
Or take another example. Lots of CHARGE studies claim that supplementation with folic acid during the first month of pregnancy reduces Autism risk. But vaccines and other toxicants can cause dysregulated folate metabolism. And for some of these women, supplementing with folic acid increases Autism risk in their offspring because their bodies cannot convert folic acid to folate (see Raghavan et al. 2018). By failing to control for the number of vaccines taken by the mother before and during pregnancy we are unable to unravel the relative effects of genetic mutations, vitamin supplementation, vaccines, and pesticides.
Why would some of the best epidemiologists in the world spend so much time, money, and effort and then make a mistake this basic? The answer is pretty straightforward - the field of Autism research is so polarized and politicized that everyone involved with these studies knows that if they include vaccines as a variable they would instantly lose all of their research funding and be blacklisted from future research funding. That 1 principled and scientifically necessary decision would immediately and permanently end their careers. So they avoid "the variable that shall not be named" even though this omission renders all of their work unreliable.
I would just add that all of these mainstream Autism causation studies fail in a similar way - they engage in circular reasoning (the logical fallacy in which the premise of an argument assumes the conclusion to be true).
- The vaccine studies assume that vaccines are safe and effective so they never bother with a proper placebo group that might prove otherwise.
- The gene studies assume that genes are the cause, so they just gather trillions of data points until they can find a spurious association (the gene studies do not control for vaccination status even though the possible mutagenic effects of vaccine ingredients on DNA is an ongoing concern).
- And the epigenetic studies assume vaccines could not be a factor so they do not control for them (in spite of the fact that some of the toxicants they are studying in the environment are the same toxicants being injected directly into children’s bodies).
MARBLES
In 2006, the UC David MIND Institute launched the Markers of Autism Risk in Babies - Learning Early Signs (MARBLES) study. MARBLES is a prospective longitudinal study for pregnant women who already have a biological child with Autism. Information about each participant’s genetics and environment is collected through a number of sources, including:
- Blood, urine, hair, saliva, and breast milk, as well as through home dust samples, in order to obtain a comprehensive picture of the environment surrounding each pregnancy.
- They also conduct interviews with the mother and access medical records in order to uncover more information about any behavioral aspects or trends that may contribute to the development of Autism.
- Mothers maintain detailed diaries tracking health symptoms, diet, and product use during and after pregnancy.
- They also conduct standardized assessments of the child’s development up to 36 months of age.
With a study design that comprehensive one would imagine they would be able to figure out Autism causation fairly quickly. But once again, MARBLES studies do not control for vaccines (vaccinated vs unvaccinated, number of vaccines for the mother and child, timing of vaccines, etc) even though they have access to that information. The failure to control for these known and potentially large toxic exposures renders all of the MARBLES research unreliable.
When I was writing my Doctoral Thesis I was very impressed by epigenetic studies including MARBLES because they were so complex and looked at toxicological variables that most mainstream scientists lacked the fortitude to study. I read as many as I could, and included detailed summaries in my Thesis. But now that I know they never controlled for vaccines I find these studies deeply troubling. MARBLES is a prospective study that follows women who already had one child with Autism through a subsequent pregnancy and they never gave these women informed consent because they did not discuss with them the dangers of vaccines. For researchers to then turn these children - many of whom developed Autism because of this lack of informed consent - into "data" for their peer-reviewed published papers, I believe violates the Hippocratic Oath, the Declaration of Helsinki, and even the Nuremberg Code.
SEED
In 2007, the CDC launched the Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) - a multi-site, case-control study to identify risk factors and early indicators of Autism and other developmental disabilities in children aged 2 to 5 years. SEED has enrolled over 4,500 families, including more than 1,500 children diagnosed with Autism, across multiple phases of the study. The study uses parental questionnaires, clinical assessments, biospecimen collection, and medical record reviews to gather data on genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors that may influence Autism risk. The budget was over $5 million a year and the study is still ongoing. To date, the SEED study has produced 54 peer-reviewed publications. None of the SEED studies control for vaccines (vaccinated vs. unvaccinated, number of vaccines for the mother and child, timing of vaccines, etc) even though they have access to that information. The failure to control for these known and potentially large toxic exposures renders all of the SEED research unreliable.
EARLI
In 2008, the NIH and Autism Speaks launched the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI) study - a multi-site prospective cohort study aimed at identifying environmental and genetic factors contributing to Autism. It enrolled over 260 pregnant mothers who already had a child with Autism, following the younger siblings through age 3 to examine possible environmental risk factors and genetic contributions for Autism. The consortium includes Johns Hopkins University, UC Davis, Drexel University, the University of Pennsylvania/Children’s Hospital Philadelphia, and Kaiser Permanente Northern California.
1 branch of EARLI (primarily looking at diet, nutrition, and phthalate exposures) produced 39 peer-reviewed publications; another branch (primarily looking at industrial air pollution and exposure to heavy metals) produced 40 peer-reviewed publications; and a third branch (primarily looking at air pollution from freeways and diesel-powered trucks) produced 9 peer-reviewed publications. But none of these studies controlled for vaccines (vaccinated vs. unvaccinated, number of vaccines for the mother and child, timing of vaccines, etc.) thus rendering all of the EARLI results unreliable.
The best case I can make for these large epigenetic studies is that the researchers assume that everyone is vaccinated and everyone got the same vaccines at the same time so they do not need to include that variable. None of that is true, but just for the sake of argument let us pretend that the researchers believe this. The large epigenetic studies then measure the harms from other toxicants in addition to the base rate that includes the fact that everyone is vaccinated. But that is not necessarily true either. There are likely synergistic effects between various toxicants, vaccines, and systems in the body (endocrine, immune, digestive, etc) so we cannot know the relative harms from these other toxicants without knowing what vaccines the person has already received.
Anything that causes an immune activation event (an infectious disease, a toxicant, or a vaccine) can cause Autism. But research from Thomas and Margulis (2016) shows that the Autism rate in children with no vaccines is 1 in 715, and the Autism rate in vaccinated children is 1 in 31. So these large epigenetic studies that fail to control for vaccines can help explain the 1 in 715 Autism cases but they are unlikely to help us stop the Autism epidemic unless they radically change their protocols.
SO THAT LEAVES US WITH A MUCH NARROWER SET OF STUDIES FOR UNDERSTANDING AUTISM CAUSATION.
The key study that helps us to understand the relative impact of the different toxicants that contribute to causing Autism was led by Sally Ozonoff at UC Davis, and it was published in 2018. Using a brilliant study design she showed that up to 88% of Autism cases are characterized by Autistic regression - the child was developing normally and then suddenly over the course of hours, days, or weeks the child lost eye contact, speech, and the ability to socialize with others. This suggests an acute toxic exposure, and we now have eyewitness testimony from hundreds of thousands of parents that the acute toxic exposure that preceded the Autistic regression was a “well baby” vaccine appointment with a pediatrician.
The holy grail in Autism research is to find vaccinated vs. unvaccinated studies. Thankfully there are now six good studies that we can rely on.
GALLAGHER & GOODMAN (2008 & 2010)
Gallagher and Goodman (2008), using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2000, found that boys who received all 3 doses of the Hepatitis B vaccine were 8.63 times more likely to have a developmental disability including Autism than boys who did not receive all three doses.
Gallagher and Goodman (2010), using data from the National Health Interview Survey 1997-2002, found that boys “who received the first dose of Hepatitis B vaccine during the first month of life had 3-fold greater odds for Autism diagnosis (30 with Autism diagnosis and 7,044 without) as compared with “boys either vaccinated later or not at all.”
And that is just the effect of 1 shot. No one knows the effect of doing that 76 more times, but that is what is recommended by the CDC Child & Adolescent Vaccine Schedule.
MAWSON (2017A & 2017B)
Anthony Mawson was a visiting professor of epidemiology at the Jackson State University School of Public Health with a thirty-year career in epidemiology and a long publishing track record including 2 publications in The Lancet. In 2017, Mawson and his co-authors designed “a cross-sectional survey of homeschooling mothers on their vaccinated and unvaccinated biological children ages 6 to 12”, and they worked with the National Home Education Research Institute, a homeschool think-tank, to implement the study. They obtained results for 666 children of which 405 (61%) were vaccinated and 261 (39%) were not. The study controlled for race, gender, "adverse environment" (not defined), antibiotic use during pregnancy, preterm birth, and ultrasound during pregnancy.
As one would expect, they found that vaccinated children were significantly less likely than the unvaccinated to have had Chickenpox (7.9% vs. 25.3% and Whooping cough (Pertussis) (2.5% vs. 8.4%).
The results for chronic illness were a different story. Vaccinated children were significantly more likely than the unvaccinated to have been diagnosed with
- a learning disability (5.7% vs. 1.2%;
- ADHD (4.7% vs. 1.0%;
- Autism (4.7% vs. 1.0%;
- any neurodevelopmental disorder (i.e., learning disability, ADHD or ASD) and
- any chronic illness (44.0% vs. 25.0% (Mawson et al. 2017a).
- No association between preterm birth and neurodevelopmental disability in the absence of vaccination.
- Preterm birth coupled with vaccination increased the odds of Neurodevelopmenntal Disorders (NDD) by more than five-fold as compared to non-preterm children who were vaccinated (48% vs. 8.9%.
- Preterm birth coupled with vaccination increased the odds of NDD by more than 12-fold, compared to preterm birth without vaccination (48% vs. 0%). “Not technically significant because no child in the sample with an NDD was both preterm and unvaccinated.”.
- Preterm birth coupled with vaccination increased the risk of NDD by more than fourteen-fold “compared to children who were neither preterm nor vaccinated” (48% vs. 3.3%.
HOOKER & MILLER (2021)
Brian Hooker at Simpson University in California and independent researcher Neil Miller (2021), using survey data from respondents associated 3 with medical practices in the US, compared vaccinated children to unvaccinated children for the incidence of several chronic health conditions including Autism. Vaccinated children were significantly more likely than unvaccinated children to be diagnosed with:
- severe allergies
- Autism
- gastrointestinal disorders
- Asthma
- ADHD , and
- chronic ear infections.
The findings in this study on the relationships between vaccination and breastfeeding status and the relationship between vaccination and birth delivery status are particularly shocking: Children who were vaccinated and not breastfed had a more than 12-fold higher risk of Autism. And children who were vaccinated and delivered via cesarean section had a more than 18-fold higher risk of Autism.
These are the highest odds ratios I have ever seen in any study of Autism causation. In a just world the findings from this study would have been front-page news across the country and immediately led to Congressional hearings and regulatory action against vaccine makers, formula makers, and obstetricians/hospitals with high c-section rates. But because the mainstream media and the political system in the U.S. are completely captured by Big Pharma this study received little mention at all.
MAWSON & JACOB (2025)
Anthony Mawson and Binu Jacob returned with another groundbreaking study in (2025). The study population comprised children born and continuously enrolled in the Florida State Medicaid program from birth to age 9. The analysis of claims data for 47,155 9-year-old children revealed that:
1) vaccination was associated with significantly increased odds for all measured neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs);
2) among children born preterm and vaccinated, 39.9% were diagnosed with at least one NDD compared to 15.7% among those born preterm and unvaccinated; and
3) the relative risk of Autism increased according to the number of visits that included vaccinations. Children with just 1 vaccination visit were 1.7 times more likely to have been diagnosed with Autism than the unvaccinated, whereas those with 11 or more visits that included vaccinations were 4.4 times more likely to have been diagnosed with Autism than those with no visit for vaccination.
We know what is causing the Autism epidemic. The bloated, unscientific, profit-driven CDC vaccine schedules are causing it. The U.S. must immediately shift to a science-based, individualized, approach to immunization, with no liability protection for vaccine makers nor the medical profession, and only those vaccines shown to produce more benefits than harms allowed on the market.
VI. CONCLUSION
Mainstream studies that attempt to prove that vaccines do not cause Autism are all invalid because they do not have a proper unvaccinated control group.
The over 2 billion dollars spent searching for the “genes for Autism” has not been a good investment - other than to definitively rule out genes as the primary driver of the epidemic.
The large epigenetic studies are somewhat better designed and show courage in investigating toxicants made by powerful industries. Unfortunately their failure to control for vaccination exposures renders all of their conclusions unreliable.
So that leaves us with 6 very good vaccinated vs unvaccinated studies that show that vaccines cause Autism. Vaccination in general seems to increase Autism risk about 4-fold (the range across these 6 studies is 3.002 to 8.63). Vaccinating premies,
vaccination + c-section delivery, and vaccination in the absence of breastfeeding causes Autism risk to skyrocket. That is what is causing the Autism epidemic, according to the best available scientific evidence.
The takeaway from all of this is that the entire field of Autism research is a shambles. Parents of Autistic children are spending what little money they have to fund proper scientific research while corporations, foundations, and the government use their considerable power to cover up the causes of the epidemic.
The good news is that tens of thousands of parents appear to have figured it out. The best available scientific evidence suggests we can stop the Autism epidemic by only allowing beneficial vaccines on the market (a couple of live virus vaccines) and giving them, if at all, under conditions of informed consent at later ages when the body’s immune system can respond appropriately.
Reducing the over-use of c-sections and birth drugs, and supporting breastfeeding are also likely to produce large reductions in the Autism rate.
Somewhat smaller but still significant reductions in the Autism rates are also likely through reducing all toxic exposures (including air pollution, pesticides, endocrine disruptors, other pharmaceuticals, etc) for everyone.
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Book Reviews To Come:
- A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism
- A Parent's Guide To Autism
- Autism: Identification, Education, and Treatment
- Autism Treatment Guide
- Group Treatments of Autistic Children
- Helping a Child With Non-verbal Learning Disorders or Asperger's Syndrome
- High-functioning Individuals With Autism
- Star Shaped Pegs, Square Holes
- Targeting Autism
- The Empty Fortress
- The World of the Autistic Child
- Too Wise To Be Mistaken - Too Good To Be Unkind
- Unraveling the Mystery of Autism
- Unstrange Minds
- Without Reason
These are already on my shelf. There are hundreds more. Stay tuned.
- A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism
- A Parent's Guide To Autism
- Autism: Identification, Education, and Treatment
- Autism Treatment Guide
- Group Treatments of Autistic Children
- Helping a Child With Non-verbal Learning Disorders or Asperger's Syndrome
- High-functioning Individuals With Autism
- Star Shaped Pegs, Square Holes
- Targeting Autism
- The Empty Fortress
- The World of the Autistic Child
- Too Wise To Be Mistaken - Too Good To Be Unkind
- Unraveling the Mystery of Autism
- Unstrange Minds
- Without Reason
These are already on my shelf. There are hundreds more. Stay tuned.
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Genie's isolation. Another excellent documentary (see my review). Genie developed Autistic-like behavior without it actually being Autism. There was also a movie made about her called Mockingbird Don't Sing; excellent (horrible tragic) movie. See my review. - Sharisa nicklie. Oregon. I do not know what "nicklie" is, but Sharisa was a character I mentioned in my review of the documentary Loving Lampposts. She was severely Autistic, totally non-verbal, wore Irlen lenses, and was a genius. See my review. Also, I am originally from Oregon, and I occasionally mention it on this site as a reference-point for the differing cultures I have struggled to assimilate into (or observed from a distance with a deer in headlights look on my face). - American Journal of Gastroenterology identifies Gluten sensitivity. Gluten is poison to Autistics. It exacerbates the Autistic tendency for tantrumming/melt-downs/rage-attacks. - Movie reviews, and Autism book, and Autism puzzle book review, and Autism books and movies. That is what this site is all about. No one else on the Internet does what I do here, at least not to the extent I do it; i.e., every book and movie ever produced are reviewed somewhere on the Internet, but no one has a specific site wherein only books and movies about Autism are this elaborately reviewed (in this quantity). I was searching the Internet for days, trying to find this type of site - there were none (thet were adequate). So I started my own. Once I went on-line with it, I immediately started getting 40+ visits a day, with no advertising what-so-ever, thus demonstrating thet many other people were actively searching for this information too but could not find it elsewhere. I am proud to provide this service. - Neurotypicals: 55% gesture; 37% tone; 8 % language. Asperger. Autism. Aspies communicate in 90% words, that is why I am a literary genius who has no clue what is going on socially - the Normals unable to properly use language. - Sodenshaltd timer. I Yahooed, Googled, and Binged that. I have no clue what it is, thus no idea how that search led them to my site. - Laura Lee Mystycah farm. LLM wrote the book Living In An Indigo House (see my review). She and 2 of her 3 children have Aspergers, but she does not know it. Instead she thinks they are "Indigo Children", which does not exist. The Farm is a natural childbirth center mentioned in my review of the documentary More Business of Being Born. - Schizophrenia inurl:links.html Like Autism, Schizophrenia is partly an intestinal disorder, thus it can be alleviated with diet alone. - Annabel Stehli. Autism. AS wrote the book Sound of a Miracle, about her severely Autistic daughter being outright cured with AIT. See my review of her book, and see my AIT page. - Aspergerated wife support-group. Living with an Aspie is like living alone, thus Normals married to Aspies definitely need support. There are several web-sites about this. I love words such as Aspergerated, Aspergianism, and Aspergirl. - Imagine a patient with AIDS and 2 opportunistic infections. AIDS (referred to as a contagious disease caused by HIV) does not exist. But like quote-unquote "AIDS", Autism is a physical illness, thus explaining how that search would have led them to my site; i.e., intestinally, Autism could be loosely termed an "opportunistic infection." - A Test For Living. ATFL was an episode of the Quincy ME TV show, and was specifically about Autism. It was absolutely superb. See my glowing review. - Zine. Autism. A Zine is an independently published magazine. Back in the 90s I had 2 of the top 100 most popular zines on Earth. I went on to publish 77 zines. I hope to eventually review all of them here, demonstrating with my own publications (I wrote before I knew I was Autistic) what Autistic writing is. - Irlen Syndrome/Glasses/Whoopi Goldberg, and Whoopi Goldberg wears colored glasses for a reason, and Whoopi's colored glasses. Why does Whoopi wear colored glasses, and Does Whoopi Goldberg wear Irlen lenses? Yes, as does Elton John, Ozzy Ozborne, and me. They are spectacular, and have played a significant role in helping alleviate my Autism symptoms by 2/3; specifically anger (my Autistic meltdown/rage-attacks were caused by visual over-stimulation and my ability to see, but not process, Ultra Violet light) and anxiety (caused by me not being able to interpret and process what was going on visually). See my Irlen Lenses page for more elaboration. Whoopi's specific problem is Dyslexia, as is Ozzy's, alleviated in both cases with Irlens. - Blue lenses effect on Autism, Colored lenses Autism, and Irlen lens review, Irlen eyes - green lenses, are Irlen lenses any good?, and When driving at night my eyes become ultra light sensitive, and Sensory Processing Disorder - blue blocker glasses. Please read my Irlen Lenses page. - Why does Elton John wear colored glasses?, Elton John's colored glasses, Elton John tinted lenses, Why does Elton John wear red tinted glasses?, and Does Elton John have Irlen Syndrome? Elton's famous pink lenses are in fact Irlen. He is known for being extremely irritable, and does very few interviews because he has a bad case of Attention Deficit. He said in interview thet the reason he does not write his own lyrics is because he cannot stay focused long enough to get to the end of the song; i.e., he comes up with a good idea for a song, writes the first verse, and by the time he has gotten to the bottom of the page he has changed subjects so many times he no longer knows what the song is even about (but he can play piano all night long because of his obsessive pattern recognition). Also, in his spoken interviews he Attention-deficits badly, and becomes very irritated with himself for being unable to finish a sentance without changing subjects. I would suggest he has at least a touch of Autism genetics. See my Irlen Lenses page for my personal experience with these miraculous lenses (mine are plum colored, Elton's are pink, Ozzy Ozbourne's are very dark blue). - Irlen Syndrome. Mauve paper. Irlen lenses alleviate the Autistic Visual Processing Disorders. - What kind of material is best for Irlen glasses? CR39 plastic, naked. See my Irlen Lenses page for more details. - Can Transition Lenses be Irlen tinted? No. If the transition lenses get tinted they will no longer work; they transition due to the molecules changing when exposed to certain spectrums of light. The Irlen tint filters out those frequencies, thus blocking the light thet cause the transition reaction. Also, the reason you need transition lenses is because you are hyper-sensitive to light. Once you get the Irlens, you will no longer need the darkening effect of Transition Lenses. Also, the dye they tint the lenses with will not soak into glass. - Irlen lenses too dark. Most regular prescription lenses become obsolete in about 2 years. It is natural thet your Irlens will also become obsolete due to you simply aging. Also, after your processor adjusts to the new Irlens (which in my case took 11 months), it is time for an up-date. The point is thet your lenses were probably not too dark when you first got them, it is just thet your processor has adjusted enough thet it is now time for the next step. - Is there an eye doctor in Albuquerque who believes in colored lenses? Yes. See my Irlen Lenses page. Also see www.irlen.com to find a practitioner in your area. - Movie about an Autistic man who watches Baywatch every night. I have not seen this movie, nor could I find it. If anyone knows the title, please tell me. - A Mother's Courage/The Sunshine Boy reviews. Autistic perspective. A Mother's Courage, originally titled The Sunshine Boy, is a superb documentary. See my glowing review. - Aut-erobics guidebook. See my review of the documentary Aut-erobics. - Changeling child switched with a Faerie. See my review of The Daisy Chain, a movie about an Autistic child who is mistaken for a Faerie Changeling (which scares the crap out of the superstitious hicks she lives among). - Guarding Eddy movie review. Eddy was Retarded, not Autistic. - How to recover from Autism. See my How To Recover Page. - Hyperlexia. Tomatis. Most Aspies have Hyperlexia (they communicate in 90% words), and Tomatis is a fraud used to rip off people who need Berard AIT. See my AIT page for elaboration. - MCT and DMG Autism. See www.autismcoach.com/Autism_Supplement _Overview_s/159.htm for a basic explanation of what these supplements can do to help Autistics recover. - Grandin. Temple Grandin is one of the world's most famous Autistics. See my reviews of the movie Temple Grandin, and her books Emergence: Labeled Autistic, and The Autistic Brain: Thinking across the Spectrum. - Lars and the Real Girl Autism analysis. LATRG is a movie about an Aspie man who has a life-sized doll as his only companion. It is a very good story. See my review. - Sheldon Cooper afraid of germs. Nikola Tesla. See my reviews of The Big Bang Theory, and Tesla: Master of Lightening, and The Secret of Nikola Tesla. - Autistic children stimming and spinning objects. Once I got my Irlen lenses I stopped spinning things. - Dr Mengele. Autism. On my site I repeatedly refer to all medical Doctors as "Dr Frankenstein Mengele", and "Puppet-whores of the pharmaceutical industry." - Genius intensity to over-stimulation. I learned to focus my stimming into creative endeavors, such as drumming. In my prime, I was referred to as "a world-class drummer" because I drummed as a Stim (read: "practiced" obsessively). - I want to kill myself at AIT. See my AIT page, wherein I explain thet I felt much AIT-induced anxiety, and a fellow patient burned-out completely. - Asperger expert says AIT is a scam. Tomatis AIT is a scam. Berard AIT works wonders. - Tomatis. Crying during a song. AIT hurts, and in my case generated tremendous anxiety, and made my Synesthesia freak-out. It was very stressful and utterly exhausting. It takes your processor a while to adjust during the treatment, and then takes it another year or so to adjust to as-good-as-it-is-going-to-get. It is profoundly worth it. Please read my AIT page for my year-long diary explaining in detail my experience with it. It is an uncomfortable treatment which could make some people cry; see my fellow patient mentioned above. But most of the patients I saw, a dozen or so, were little kids who were definitely stressed by it but not freaked-out nor in pain. - What is the difference between Berard and Tomatis? Dr Berard invented AIT. Tomatis is a fraud. See my AIT page. - Berard AIT ruined my hearing. I do not understand how that could happen, but I would like to hear that person's story. You can read my experience with it on the AIT page. - Berard AIT and self-talk/verbal stimming. I do not know what connection there would be between the Hyperlexic nothing-makes-sense-unless-it-is-in-words symptom of Aspergers and AIT, but I suggest Stuttering is an audio processing disorder; i.e., if a stutterer cannot hear themselves, they stop stuttering. Also see my AIT page. - Numb3rs. What is Charlie's Autistic diagnosis, and Charlie Eppes Autistic tendencies. Charlie Eppes of the TV show Numb3rs, does not have Autism. He is an obsessive math genius with no friends, but is not actually Autistic (see my review). - Would 50,000 milligrams of vitamin E cause Acid Reflux? I have no idea, but I do know "Acid Reflux Disease" does not exist, it is merely the symptom of having Type O blood and the wrong diet. Read the book Eat Right For Your Type (see my review). It will change your life. - Hallmark movie/Autistic boy pitching baseball, and Movie/Autistic boy pitching apples, and Mickey, Autistic pitcher, and A Mile In His Shoes/Autism. See my review of the movie A Mile In His Shoes. - Aspergirl masturbation, and What page is the quote, "I was subject to fits of feeling myself"?, and Autism sexuality - Elephant in the room. See my Autistic Sex lecture, and my Chrysalis Discussion tilted Adelmar. - What is the moral lessons of the movie Mercury Rising?, and Movie review of Mercury Rising from the standpoint of the child, and Autistic figures out puzzle movie. In the movie Mercury Rising, the non-verbal Autistic child assembles a 500-piece puzzle face down in 15 minutes. See my review. - How many Autistic children has Stacey Snider represented? I had never heard of Stacey Snider, so I looked her up. There is a Stacey Snider in the film industry who is active in Autism Awareness events, but she is not "representing" Autistics as a lawyer as far as I know. If someone knows the other Stacy Snider (the Lawyer) please tell me the story. - John Paul's Story: Autism and Daily Life. This is listed on my site as a movie I intend to review. - Movie. Autistic child won Nobel Prize. I have not seen such a story yet. If anyone knows what movie that is, please tell me. - My 4-month-old boy has brownish color around the pupil of his eyes. I have no idea how that search led them to me, but Iridology is the study of the irises. Look it up, it is a very interesting subject. - OB Gyn expert witness in court for brain-injury and Autism. I do not know that specific story, but most Obstetricians are evil; See my reviews of Pregnant in America: A Nation's Miscarriage, and The Business of Being Born. Autism is caused by the medical profession. - GAPS Diet. Nervous breakdown. The GAPS (Gut And Psychology Syndrome) Diet is described and explained in the book Gut And Psychology Syndrome (see my review); and I have had several nervous breakdowns, caused in part by extreme sleep deprivation (due to the fact my hearing does not turn off when I go to sleep), and otherwise Autistic hypersensitivity. - Gaps diet with anti-fungal treatment, Nystatin, oregano. Autism. The GAPS Diet is a relative cure-all for what ails you. See my review of the book Gut And Psychology Syndrome. - Gutbliss: a 10-day plan to ban bloat and flush toxins. See my reviews of the books Gut and Psychology Syndrome and Internal Bliss. - Biocidin and Chlaymedia Pneumoniae. In 1 of my reviews I say, "2 drops of Biocidin in fruit juice once a day at dinner has normalized the urinary excretion of Clostridia." - Is Tourettes engramic? No. See the below list of movies about Tourettes. - Medical Mysteries. Autism. 20/20. See my review of 20/20 Medical Mysteries, about an Autistic child. - MMS cured my bladder infection. MMS (Miracle Mineral Supplement) was invented to cure Malaria. It turns to Chlorine in your blood, killing the bad bugs but not the good. I take this myself and recommend it highly. See Kerry's interview with MMS's inventor Dr Jim Humble on projectcamelotportal.com. - Touch-averse Autism. Those words are used many times on this site, as touch-aversion is a common symptom of Autism. - Transmix acid contraindication. Transmix is another vitamin supplement combination recommended for Autistics - it helps the body excrete Mercury. Also see my review of the book Its All In Your Head. - Waging War On the Autistic Child review. A book I have yet to read, it's full title is, Waging War on the Autistic Child: The Arizona 5 and the Legacy of Baron von Munchausen. I mention Munchausen Syndrome many times on this site. Munchausen Syndrome is a common mental illness seen in theatrical martyr-moms who feel oh-so-special playing the victim because they have a Special child. Also see The War On Kids below. - From her facial expressions and body language it is obvious that ... It continues to make me wonder how specific searches bring people to my site when I do not recall that specific sentance appearing here. Does anyone really know how the Internet works? - Autism by Tatianna. Accept No Autism is a book written by Tatianna Dickens - see my review. - Autism therapy reviews. Is all of this crap? There are 7 million web sites thet mention Autism therapies. I could review these therapies myself, for I am qualified to do so, considering I have self-alleviated my own symptoms by 2/3 - through MMS, Chelation, GF/CF Diet, Irlen lenses, vitamins, and AIT. None of these are considered therapies. As far as I know, the 24 therapies approved by the U.S. public school system would be useless unless you did MMS, Chelation, GF/CF, Irlen, vitamins, and AIT first. - Does Edward Scissorhands have Reactive Attachment Disorder? Possibly. RAD is when the child connects with no one, or indiscriminately attaches to anyone. Though I think Edward was more Autistic-like, in thet he never really attached to anyone at all, he learned to interact with them only through their mutual interests; i.e., what they did together was more important to him than who he was doing it with. Also see My Little Pony, Season 7 Episode 24 "Uncommon Bond", wherein Glimmer projects onto Sunburst a deep emotional bond thet just does not exist because she apparently has RAD. Synopsis https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Uncommon_Bond Also see DWK's "Totally Legit Recap" sarcastic retelling of the story at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwAgthWN-cU&frags=pl%2Cwn - Example of interpersonal constructs in the movie Benny and Joon. See my elaborate review of the movie B&J addressing this subject specifically. - Learning how to recover from Autism movies. See my How To Recover page for the specific things I did to recover myself from Autism by 2/3. The above sentance actually asks how to recover from Autism movies, not just Autism. As you can see from this site, the majority of Autism movies suck, thus asking how to recover from seeing them is a really good question. "Recovering from Autism movies" does take some effort on my part; i.e., sometimes I really hate this job. I encourage you to make your own documentaries and movies, but please make good ones (and send them to me for accurate reviews). - Bad intestinal flora, feeling like being tortured. The antibiotics kill your intestinal flora, resulting in bad digestion and intestinal yeast infections, which cause Leaky Gut Syndrome, which in turn causes food allergies and chronic pain. Also take Biocidin (available in any healthfood store) to kill the intestinal yeast. Then take Probiotics (also available in any health-food store) - they seed your intestines with new, correct, flora, thus alleviating the above problems. Also take Vitamin K2, which heals the damage done to the intestines, healing Leaky Gut Syndrome. - Gliadorphins quack. According to Wikipedia: Gliadorphin (also known as gluteomorphin) is an opioid peptide that is formed during digestion of the gliadin component of the gluten protein. It is usually broken down into amino acids by digestive enzymes. It has been hypothesized that children with Autism have abnormal leakage from the gut of this compound, which then passes into the brain and disrupts brain function. This is partly the basis for the Gluten-free, Casein-free diet. This is mentioned in 1 of my book reviews. As for Quack; it is an abbreviation of the word Quacksilber, which evolved into Quicksilver, which is Mercury. See my review of the book It's All In Your Head for the history of "mercury treatments" done by incompetent doctors. After it was proven thet Mercury was poisonous, doctors who continued to use it were called Quacksilbers, "Quacks." The dental profession belligerently refused to stop using it until very recently, due to them knowing they will get sued for causing Multiple Sclerosis if they admit the Mercury they installed in your teeth is poison. - Why do Autistics rip books? I am not aware thet Autistics in general rip books. If your Autistic does, I will ask if it is done as part of a tantrum/rage-attack?, or do they carefully rip paper because the sound of it is a soothing Stim? See this video of a non-Autistic kid delighted with the tearing of paper: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_YOhAmlDI Autistics need the predictable outcome of a repetitious action to give their overwhelmed senses something to fixate on, which is comforting. See Sabine in the documentary Her Name Is Sabine (see my review) irritatingly asking the same question over and over because she was comforted by the answer she knew was coming. In the video above it is suggested thet it is the equivalent of hearing a well-told joke. Some jokes you can hear over and over and they never stop being funny. Does ripping other types of paper work as well? proving it is the sound thet soothes them?, or is it thet they know books are not to be torn, resulting in the joke aspect? - the child may see ripping a book as absurdist humor. Or is it an outright tantrum, and the book just happened to be on hand? In her book, Nobody Nowhere (see my review), Donna said this: Tearing paper. Symbolically disintegrating the threat of closeness. A symbolic act of separation from others in order to reduce fear. I often did this when I had to say goodbye to anyone, in order to not feel any sense of desertion or loss. I have never "got off" on tearing paper, nor have I ever felt the way Donna did, so I do not know what more to say about this. - Teacher evaluates my 4-year-old but will not tell me the diagnosis. This does not surprise me. I suggest this "teacher", and the whole skkkool system, who have no credentials nor right to diagnose anyone, are being paid by Big Pharma to "diagnose" kids so they can cash in by prescribing drugs, in this case for "diseases" thet do not even exist. The reason the "teacher" will not tell you the diagnosis is because they know thet you know full-well your child has no such disease. But the "teacher" gets paid to label your kid and poke pills down their throat. Mengele would be proud. Get your kid the-hell-out of there! - Child development. Children overwhelmed by outside stimuli. They are overwhelmed due to Sensory Processing Disorders, which is what Autism is. - Autistic boy licks windshield. My son gets bloody nose. It fascinates me how weird requests like that bring people to my site, for I do not recall those words being written here. All I have to say is thet spontaneous nose-bleeds are an allergic reaction. Stay the hell away from the medical profession, for all Dr Frankenstein Mengele will do is scar your nose shut with lasers to stop the bleeding. Find out what he is allergic to. In my case it was usually soap (industrial cleaners), but also if I eat Quinoa or Spelt I get a nose-bleed. - DMG for Autism in Australia. I got the following from Isybeeautism.com: DMG is Dimethylglycine (Pangamic Acid), it is an amino acid that is found in some foods naturally such as red meat, some grains and legumes. It is closely linked to Vitamin B15, and it increases Pangamic Acid production in the body. There is evidence to suggest that DMG provides benefits for many individuals with Autism. DMG has not been classified as a Vitamin because there is no evidence that a lack of it can cause any health problems. In some countries DMG is used as a physical enhancement supplement for athletes, and in the Soviet Union it is considered an important nutrient and is used for treating problems such as alcoholism and drug addiction, mental problems such as those of aging and senility, minimal brain damage in children, Autism, Schizophrenia, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, skin diseases, liver disease. and chemical poisonings. In the USA, Australia and other Western countries DMG has been recommended for treatment of Autism, particularly for behavior issues, as there are claims that it can improve eye contact, frustration tolerance, speech, and interest in interacting socially, as well as decreasing aggressive behavior toward self and others in severe cases. At the time they wrote that, DMG was not available in Australia, but could be easily mailed to Aussies from suppliers in the USA - Comparing Amelie to Temple Grandin. See my reviews of the movies Amelie and Temple Grandin. - Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Movie. See my review. - Eat Right 4 Your Type. Autism. Type O blood. See my review of the book Eat Right For Your Type. - The movie Limitless and Aspergers. See my review of Limitless. - MLP Disability: Snowdrop, Scootaloo, Stellar Eclipse. MLP (My Little Pony) is a TV show which has included 7 disabled characters in 4 Seasons. This is why adults like it; generally speaking, most Bronies are disabled people. See my Autism Lecture #16 titled My Take On Derpy Hooves, wherein I discuss disabled characters and how they are portrayed on TV shows, including the MLP characters of Scootaloo (a Pegasus who cannot fly), Stellar Eclipse (who uses a wheelchair), and the fan fiction character Snow Drop (who is blind) Also see my review of My Little Pony - the best Autism show of all time. - Movie review. Pees her pants. In the movie Molly (see my review) the character is Autistic and Retarded and pees herself. - Send encephaly now rising other life cilantro chocolate. 
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Movie Reviews to come: Those on this list I know exist. I will be reviewing them as soon as possible. I do not review anything less than 20 minutes long, unless they are profoundly good; see Guang. A Child's Cry For Help [Munchausen by Proxy] Adults With Autism: The journey home. All My Children. Lily Montgomery Animating Autism Anton's Right Here A Piece Of The Puzzle: Autism, Recovery and the GF/CF Diet A Place to Belong: Asperger's and a School [Pacifist BS] A Simple Man Ask Me About Asperger's Syndrome [Training video] A Still Jacket (Eine ruhige Jacke) Austistic (2009) [not a typo] Autism, Disco, and Me Autism Enigma. Are bacteria to blame? Autism: Now What Do I Do? [ABA training video] Autistic Dissonance Autistic License Movie [stage play] Autistic Like Me: A Father's Perspective [Single dads with Autistic kids] A Vision of Wholeness Beautiful Son BBC Autistic Driving School Behind the Glass Door: Hannah's Story Beck Pojken I Glaskulan benchMARKED [2009] Between Night and Day (Entre la noche y el día) Biola Tak Berdawai Bob's Burgers Bodyshock: Dad's Having a Baby [lesbian couple living as gay men have Aspie son] Breakthrough Strategies for ASD [Lectures on the Son-Rise Method] Brother Carl [1971] Cade [2011] Canary Kids [Documenting the fact Autism is an intestinal disorder] Carbuncle [Autistic director films sex life of Retards] Carne [1991 French movie] Certain Proof: A Question Of Worth Changes: Based On True Events Children of the Stars [Chinese Autism documentary] City Rats Coaching Colburn: Finding love and laughter in the face of Autism. Colored My Mind Communication (Joseph Martin) Cool Air Darkness Bride (You gou) Daglicht (Daylight) Dentro de sí DPT: Vaccine Roulette DPT: One Year Later Dreaming In Autistic Colors Dreaming Of Paradise Dr Pomerantz Drei Herren Dustbin Baby [Aspie actor plays Aspie character] Einstein: The Autism Connection El Abuelo El Cortez [2006] En esos universos Frankie's Dream Getting My Child Back: Fighting Autism God's Ears Golf in America. Episode #2.1. Tyler Lagasse. Gork! Go The Dogs [Autralian movie] Hanako Haridas Hästdans på Hovdala [Autistic dance with horses] Henry & Verlin Hold Me Steady: A Story of Autism Service Dogs How I Am If You Were Me [Korean movie] In Aut [Non-verbal Russian girl philosophy] Indifferent City In Plain Sight. S3 E10. - Her Days Are Numbered Intricate Minds: Understanding classmates with Asperger Syndrome Jack of the Red Hearts Jam Jar [Donna Williams documentary] Jégszekrénybe zárva Jesse Speeks JJ's Journey [biofeedback therapy] Joyful Noise [Queen Latifah & Dolly Parton] Kids With Cameras Lance's Brewery Tour Les Diables Liberation Saturday Life With Alkis Lili m'a dit Look, I'm In College! [Autism Documentary] Mabul Madi [Autism documentary] Mama/M.A.M.A. [Munchausen by proxy] Marathon [about crossword puzzles] Maria and I [Spanish documentary] Martian Child Mater Amatisima [Spanish movie] Messages of Hope From the Autistic Spectrum Midwinter Night's Dream (San Zimske Noci) [Serbian movie] My Brother Freeway Mike McCarter My Family and Autism [English documentary] My Own Sky [Hindu movie] My Son, Pankaj My World Learning: Autism Learning Tools NightLights [movie] Night of Too Many Stars: An overbooked concert for Autism education Nikki: A Girl Who Has Rett Syndrome Normal People Scare Me Too NOVA: scienceNOW: Season ?. Episode 2 - Autism Genes Off the Rails One In a Million (Lucy Mattson) [2009] Operation Vacation. - Julianna Vittorio Or Rishon [2011] On The Spectrum: Coping With AS and Autism Outreach Connection: Robin and Landon Shipman: Autism Paradox Lake Planet Asperger Portraits of Emotion Programming Hope P.S. I Love You Rainman Goes To RocKwiz Raising Kate [2009] Reaching the Autistic Mind: An Educational Challenge Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back Redwoods ReGenesis Rescue Mediums. S4 E26. Caledon East: Isolated No More Rewind ... A step into the mind Ride a Wave: Live and Love It Up Room Of Riddles SABAH: Making a Difference Sailboat (2013) Satan's Playground Screaming in Silence [Autism in the Black community USA] Season Of Miracles Shameful: A film about Autism in France Silent Journey Simple Simon Sinfonía De Juliette Y Pascal Smart Eyes: The Challenges of Autism So Far, So Near Somne Son of the Stars Souls: Beneath and Beyond Autism Special Angelz [not a typo] Spoonface Steinberg [Radio play] Stay Then Go Straight On 'til Morning Straight Talk About Autism With Parents Static Summer Superbrother Temple Grandin: A View From Inside The Afternoon Play. - Tea With Betty The Asperger's Difference The Autistic ABA Therapist The Boy Inside [Asperger documentary] The Boys Next Door [by Hallmark] The Bridge [TV cop show] The Changing Face of Autism The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time The Curse of Blue Harbor! The Frog Princes [not a typo] The Girl From the Wardrobe The Great Fight The Humming Child The Innocent [1994 TV movie] The Kandi Factory: Anything? Anything! [Episode 6] The Luzhin Defense The Middle The Other Child [Autism documentary] The Other Child [English Movie] The Puzzle [Natalia Smirnoff] The Pye-dog The Red Carpet The Siege (1998) The Silence of Adultery The Story of Merit. In the white world. The Things You Taught Me [Japanese movie] The Third Parent The Wall: Psychoanalysis put to the test for Autism The Well (El Pozo) [2012] Three For the Road [Autism documentary] Trace Amounts: Autism, Mercury, and the hidden truth. Trail of Lies Travels With My Brother Triloquist Tsunami und Steinhaufen Vaclav Vicente Walking In the Dark: Finding the Light in Autism We Are All In This Together: The process of understanding the humanity of Autism We Have Autism What Is It? You Don't Know Jack (2014) Yo Yo. Understanding Autism ... one child at a time I am definitely going to be busy for the next couple of years! If you know of any other Autism Movies not mentioned here, please let me know and I will get to them eventually. What I have learned by searching all these titles is thet you should give your product a name thet is easy to find on the Internet. There are hundreds of unrelated products thet all have the same name, which is exhausting to sort through. Do not publish books titled Overcoming Autism. Do not make TV shows called The Autism Puzzle. And do not name your child John Smith! WTF! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just for fun. Some famous Aspies: Aspergirl Susan Boyle: She was raised thinking that she had been briefly deprived of oxygen during a difficult birth resulting in a learning disability. But in 2012, Boyle was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, and an IQ "above average". She made her diagnosis public in a BBC interview in December 2013. Asperboy David Byrne: "I was a peculiar young man - borderline Asperger, I would guess." See my review of Stop Making Sense. Aspergirl Bjork: She has stimmy mannerisms, musical genius, gaze-aversion, connection to nature rather than people, and sings in Neologisms. You can read interviews with her thet demonstrate she is clearly an Aspie; e.g., in several she mentions her difficulty maintaining spacial location, and she has Synesthesia, wherein she can see sound, so when she is listening to music she actually sees (as a mental image picture) a tunnel (demonstrated in the Crystalline App). The number of sides of the tunnel changes depending on the rhythms and the music. See my review of Bjork Inside Bjork. Asperboy Gary Numan: "Polite conversation has never been one of my strong points. Just recently I found out I have Asperger's Syndrome, which basically means I have trouble interacting with people.” See my review of Gary Numan: Android in La La Land. ----------------------------------------------------------- According tom Alexa Traffic Ranks there are 13,401,510 Web Sites more pupular than mine. ----------------------------------------------------------- ANTIBIOTICS.
intro by Chryssie. Antibiotics kill the bad bugs in your system. Unfortunately they also kill the good bugs. Killing the good intestinal flora allows intestinal yeast to grow explosively. This intestinal yeast infection eats holes in your intestines, causing Leaky Gut Syndrome. LGS allows molecule sized food particles to enter your blood-stream directly. Your body then recognizes them as foreign DNA and develops a resistence to them. This is what causes food allaergies. Having chronic food allergies exhausts your immune system. This weakened immune system allows more deseases to take hold. Dr Frankenstien Mengele thus prescribes even more Antibiotics. And on the cycle goes. Eventually this leads to your inability to digest Gluten and Casien properly. Your Vaccine and Antibiotic damaged intestines thus digest Gluten and Casien into toxins rather than nutrients, causing Intestinal Autism. I got the following from The University of San Francisco School of Nursing: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), up to 30 percent of antibiotics prescribed in America are unnecessary. This figure is based on a study that analyzed the use of antibiotics in emergency departments and doctors’ offices. The majority of prescriptions are aimed at treating respiratory conditions, such as bronchitis, viral sore throats, and common colds. These conditions are typically resistant to antibiotics. To learn more, checkout the University of San Francisco’s Online Master of Science in Nursing program. Excess prescriptions place the lives of patients at considerable risk for allergic reactions. In 2015, the White House introduced an action plan designed to reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics by at least 50 percent by 2020. Experts believe that setting achievable targets to lower the excess use of antibiotics is a crucial step towards protecting patients. The efforts should be spread across the entire health continuum to ensure that medical practitioners prescribe the drugs correctly. Duration, dose, and the type of antibiotic are crucial aspects in enhancing proper usage. It is recommended that healthcare providers should evaluate prescribing patterns and implement remedial actions, including delayed prescribing and watchful waiting. Additional measures include the provision of clinical decision support, communications training, as well as patient and staff education. Patients can provide feedback to practitioners with the aim to curb unnecessary use. In 2016, the United States Congress approved new funding worth millions for the CDC to implement measures aimed at combating antibiotic resistance. The CDC is using the funds to accelerate outbreak detection, improve prescription tracking, and support research work to address knowledge gaps. Antibiotic-resistant superbugs. The CDC reported that up to two million people are infected by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Around 20,000 of these patients succumb to their infections. Direct healthcare costs associated with such illnesses are estimated to reach 20 billion every year. More than 30 percent of gonorrhea and strep pneumonia infections are resistant to antibiotics and multiple drugs. Some examples of antibiotic-resistant bacteria include enterobacteriaceae, enterococcus, and acinetobacter. On the other hand, the total number of antibiotics approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have decreased considerably over the years. As a result, the pharmaceutical companies have stopped producing these drugs. Pfizer reportedly shut down its antibiotic research projects in 2011. The majority of new antibiotics in development are highly unlikely to receive FDA approval. The research projects are now mainly conducted by smaller biotech companies. They account for up to 80 percent of antibiotic development. There are a number of effective ways to combat the risks posed by superbugs. These include hand-washing in healthcare facilities and reversing unnecessary antibiotic prescribing. On another level, animal feeds account for a significant proportion of antibiotics used around the world. They also contribute to resistance. Part of the challenge is that bacteria adapts to new drugs. Another issue lies with the need for pharmaceuticals to boost profits because antibiotics are taken for short periods. Conversely, medications for conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and cholesterol are taken daily. This helps reduce the cost because pharmaceuticals make profits over long periods. Combating superbugs. When it comes to typhoid fever, medical practitioners still prefer immunization. The disease affects up to 21.5 million people in Third World countries, and its effects spread beyond these nations due to increased global travel. In America alone, more than 5,000 cases are recorded each year due to the consumption of contaminated food while abroad. The disease is caused by Salmonella typhi, which can be treated using a wide variety of antibiotics. However, resistance is on the rise, thus complicating efforts to combat the problem in regions such as Asia. Multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is known to cause a variety of symptoms, including abscesses, arthritis, boils, and blood poisoning. This form of bacteria is an area of concern for healthcare facilities and medical practitioners. It is part of a group of notorious superbugs known as ESKAPE. The pathogens have the capacity to trigger a number of symptoms, such as diarrhea, meningitis, pneumonia, septicemia, and urinary-tract infections. The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned that if the problem is not tackled, the resistance may mean that patients on a routine hospital visit could easily contract a serious condition. Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae is another culprit that started showing signs of resistance in the 1930s. The resistance has not be broken through the development of new drugs. Instead, the bacteria resists some of the commonly used antibiotics like Tetracycline and Penicillin. Cephalosporins are the only class of drugs capable of fighting Neisseria gonorrhoeae. But resistance has been reported in 10 countries, and it is feared that the trend may spread around the world. If this happens, gonorrhea may become untreatable, thus leading to an epidemic throughout a promiscuous population. Experts estimate that there are more than 88 million cases of gonorrhea infections globally. Influenza virus. Influenza virus types A and B commonly affect people around the world during the winter months. They are associated with a variety of symptoms, including headaches, muscle pain, and fever. According to the WHO, between 3 and 5 million cases result in severe illness, and up to 500,000 deaths are recorded annually. The infection is mainly treated using antiviral drugs like Oseltamivir and Zanamivir. Some of the drugs that were previously used to fight Influenza have since been rendered ineffective owing to resistance. These include preventative antivirals, Amantadine, and Rimantadine. As a result, the use of these medications is no longer recommended. The Influenza virus is constantly evolving, hence the capacity to become resistant to drugs over time. Viruses that are resistant to Amantadine appeared in 2003 while Oseltamivir resistant viruses emerged in 2007. Although resistant forms may continue spreading, the majority of viruses found around the world are still sensitive to key medications. Experts have hinted that a global health crisis could certainly unfold due to the increase in the number of drug resistant diseases. Some diseases, like Tuberculosis, Gonorrhea, and Malaria are showing high levels of resistance against a surprisingly big arsenal of pharmaceuticals. For more information see http://onlinemsn.usfca.edu/news-resources/infographics/the-rise-of-the-antibiotic-resistant-superbug/ ------------------------------------------------------- |
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Good movies about other Neurological Disorders,
distantly related to Autism:
- The Tic Code. (Tourette.)
- Dirty Filthy Love. (Tourette, Obsessive Personality Disorder, and Compulsive Behavior Disorder.)
- Maze. (Tourette.)
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Good movies about other subjects
not necessarily related to Autism:
- That Sugar Film.
Very much like Supersize Me, this is the same basic presentation but with Sugar as the subject. Very well done. It shows how the same amount of calories, but from bad food rather than good food, will make you obese and sickly; thus proving thet eating too much is not what causes you to get fat.
- The Disappearing Male.
In the last 50 years Humans have invented 90,000 new synthetic chemicals, but 85% of them have never been tested for safety in humans.
Today the average male in his prime produces 50% less sperm than his father did in his prime, and 50% of today’s sperm is abnormal.
Alligators in Florida now have sexual organs 2/3 smaller, resulting in a reproductive rate 10% of normal.
- Children of Darkness.
A documentary about the mental hospitals in the USA in 1983. Includes the fact Autistics were routinely institutionalized back then, with drugs, shock-treatments, and possible Lobotomies as the only course of treatment.
I am sure the Mental Institutions of today are just as dependent on massive drug over-dosing to control the zombie patients, but at least we have come a long way since then concerning Autism.
- Waiting For "Superman".
The utter corruption of America's horrid public school system.
- The Cartel.
The utter corruption of America's horrid public school system.
- The War On Kids.
If you send your child to public school you are an unfit parent.
- The Principal.
Bad teachers cannot be fired, they just get passed on to worse schools.
Also see Payton Goddard's blog about her experience with the public school system. http://www.peytongoddard.com
- Sicko.
A Michael Moore documentary about the utter corruption of the Health Insurance business, the puppet/whore politicians (Obama) who protect it (with Obamacare), and the depraved indifference of the money-grubbing Medical Profession.
- Hungry For Change.
A basic discussion of how processed food kills you and how natural food heals you.
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