It's amazing the power the media and the establishment have to mislead people. People will ignore the data showing the damage and the reasons for it, yet will continue to follow their "trusted authorities" and the media.
Just this morning, on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Host Kristen Welker repeatedly interrupted a guest with the line, “just to be clear, there’s no evidence vaccines cause autism.” I guess you can make such an assertion when the alleged lack of evidence takes the form of government and pharma-paid researchers reaching the conclusions they’ve been told to reach
I wonder how many hundreds of millions of dollars NBC has received for drug commercials.
And, how non-surprising that a shill like Welker would dutifully recite the company/party obfuscations like a good little soldier
I just read MSNBC gets in the area of $14M + per Quarter from Big Pharma. CNN and others, get more. Again, per Quarter.
Here's How Much Ad Revenue the Cable Networks Bring in From ... - Adweek
Of these Top 15 brands by network, Fox News came out on top in Q1 with $30.83 million; CNN was next with $25.86 million; and MSNBC followed with $14.21 million.
So how do you explain 83 cases of vaccine-induced seizures and resulting brain damage that the US government quietly conceded and compensated -- where all the children involved were healthy and normally-developing until they received the vaccines that triggered developmental regression and behaviors that ended up being diagnosed as autism? Read about them here: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1681&context=pelr
Whether he's a troll or a bot, or just a really, really horrible person, he's giving us a great opportunity to post the facts that easily refute everything he says -- and show every reader just how terribly wrong he is.
Fundamental flaws in the Luke Taylor meta-analysis you cited:
1) It considered studies looking either at only ONE vaccine, MMR, (out of 18, most of which are given 3 or 4 times before the child ever receives the MMR) or at ONE chemical additive (that is no longer in any of the official pediatric vaccines, but IS in some formulations of flu shots).
Then it concluded "vaccines are not associated," which is exactly like looking at, say, Prilosec and Pepcid and then concluding "pills are not associated with stomach upset."
2) None of the studies analyzed included children who received zero vaccines. This is like studying various groups of smokers, with no control group of non-smokers to see if smoking causes cancer. (It's what we call "tobacco science.")
So vaccines can and do cause seizures, sometimes resulting in brain damage that just happens to come with features of ... autism. See https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1681&context=pelr. Ok, Ryan, go ahead and explain to us exactly how those vaccine-induced brain damage cases occurred, and how they're not related to autism.
Vaccines are 100% known (no one debates) to cause neurological disorders. That article states flatly that "autism-like symptoms" are often the case, rather than diagnosed autism (Poling case notwithstanding). In other cases, it's also a well-known phenomenon that up to half of autism cases are misdiagnosed. I bet there are some for sure.
@Kelly Green, the thing is, autism is diagnosed ONLY by behavioral symptoms. There is no scan, no blood test, no truly objective way to quantify issues that are specific to autism and not to recognized forms of brain damage.
I agree with you, if we know that seizure-induced brain damage is the real issue for some of these children, then that should be their diagnosis, not "autism."
If we're going to use the term "autism," it should be used to describe only people with specific behavioral symptoms where ALL known possible causes of brain damage have been ruled out.
So perhaps the real problem here is that across the medical community, the term "autism" is ALWAYS used as the defining spectrum, rather than something like "neurodysregulation," which could include both autism and known brain damage.
You are on to something when it comes to the vaccine injury compensation program. They will basically automatically decline payment if the injury is referred to as autism outright but will pay if it called something else. I forget what the alternate diagnosis is called but I read this in an article awhile back. The word autism is a third rail word and is best avoided if one wants to get compensated.
Isn't it interesting that you keep going on and on about febrile seizures when aluminum intoxication causes speech and motor difficulties, dementia, and seizures, all without fever... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3299587/
Can you be more specific about what you want to see evidence of, as there are four sentences containing three different statements of fact you might be referring to.
Tell Hannah Poling’s family that, “Ryan”. They won Inthink $5 million and another half million a year for Hannah’s care. Her dad is a biologist and her mom is some sort of researcher. They won in court, hands down. So have multitudes if others. Read the article and the links— unless you’re a bot.
First of all, it's not a court at all. It's a government compensation program, set up in 1986 because it was admitted at the time that vaccines were causing some children to suffer terrible seizures with resulting brain damage.
Secondly, it turns out that, even though the system was SUPPOSED to assume that cases with preponderance of evidence should be swiftly and generously compensated, that's not the case. In fact, what it turned into was a kangaroo court, where [highly paid] government lawyers defend a government vaccination program using government science.
The end result: families of vaccine-injured children are abandoned by the government that had promised in 1986 to provide a safety net for them.
I am an eyewitness to the exact time after the mmr damage incurred on my grandson. Will not get any vax anymore and strongly urge anyone that will listen not to either.
My grandson is the epitome of a happy, healthy (under the circumstances) and active nine year old.
Back story: my daughter has autoimmune diseases, Sjogren's syndrome, "kidney disease", Raynaud's phenomenon and rheumatoid arthritis. She had these conditions before she became pregnant. What no one tells you when you have Sjogren's are of the complications that are high risk to the mother and the child.
She became pregnant, father is out of the picture, and confirmed that she wanted to keep the baby. Me, being pro-life, couldn't have been prouder. I would help any way I could.
About at the end of the first trimester, doctors diagnosed the child had a condition called heart block. I'd never heard of it. Had to do a lot of research. All along, she wanted this baby. The doctors kept urging her to abort. She said no. As time went on, the doctors continued to push for abortion. She held her guns.
Heart block is a condition where the fetus heartbeat is low. 40 bpm in-utero. The doctors knew this was a high risk pregnancy so they prepared. At 34 weeks, they scheduled her to deliver at Baptist Memorial in Miami. When he was born, just 2.5 hours old, they airlifted him to Miami Children's Hospital. A six mile drive that normally takes 45 minutes. Once at Miami Children's, they cracked his chest and installed a pacemaker. He was in NICU for 87 days, intubated, extubated four times.
When they came home, we tried to make it as comfortable as possible. They settled in.
Fast forward to his "well-care" one year. He was babbling, drunkenly walking and curious about everything. Laughing, crying getting into stuff. She brought him in for the "wellness" visit. He got the mmr at that visit.
Keep in mind that we were ignorant of vax injury at that time and thought we were being good guardians.
The third day after the vax he stopped being curious, stopped attempting to speak, stopped making eye contact. Showing all the classic symptoms plus absolutely nonverbal. In the same time frame, he was diagnosed with Trisomy 15. Another one I had never heard of. Had to do a lot more research.
Bottom line is, there's no doubt in my mind that the mmr damaged him in less than three days and it was black and white. He's still nonverbal so she can't leave him with anyone. She cannot work and stays home with him almost every day (I try to give her some time with her friends) He goes to therapy three times a week.
We've handled it all in stride. And otherwise, he's healthy. He'll never go to school or be a productive member of society but I believe he is a gift from God and has a great pupurpose. I hope this has answered some of your questions.
Thank you for this well-informed and comprehensive overview. I had not realized that children with tubular sclerosis were particularly vulnerable – – it explains a lot about a close relative.
Hi. Mother of two boys. Both are diagnosed autistic! This makes me extremely upset. I love my kids and I always will but i would do anything to help prevent them from the struggles they are going to live with their whole life. This is just unacceptable.
But thankfully, at the time there was also Dr Robert Mendelsohn who told the truth that the unvaxxed kids were far healthier and to avoid them altogether. My Mom took his advice.
Which "preventable" diseases are you talking about?
Chicken pox? Fewer than 80-100 children died of that per year in the US before the vaccine. With birth cohorts of around 4 million children per year, hat's an extremely low IFR, so the question is, why were they susceptible? Were they already ill? Were they malnourished? Were they denied access to adequate medical care?
And the same is true for most of the other "preventable" diseases we vaccinate for today. Even measles had a 1 in 10,000 infection fatality rate way back in the 1950's and early 1960's, and it's quite likely that most of those were children lacking access to proper nourishment and medical care, as that was when children of color were, sadly, denied access to "white" doctors and hospitals.
Perhaps, instead of trying to prevent diseases at all costs, we should instead be discussing how to prevent severity and complications.
So you want to discount the suffering and deaths from preventable diseases. And measles and polio were the major diseases taking lives which you conveniently don’t mention.
“A measles vaccine became available in 1963. In the decade before, nearly all children got measles by the time they were 15 years old. It is estimated 3 to 4 million people in the United States were infected each year. Among reported measles cases each year, an estimated:
400 to 500 people died
48,000 were hospitalized
1,000 suffered encephalitis (swelling of the brain)
Regarding Polio, In 1946 there were 25,000 cases that grew steadily to the level of 1952 of 52,000 cases.
For a few though, polio affected the brain and spinal cord, which could lead to meningitis and, for one out of 200, paralysis. For two to 10 of those suffering paralysis, the end result was death.
Your method of dealing with these diseases would be totally unethical risking death and paralysis from them for those infected. Not to mention inhumane.
FDR was in a wheelchair due to Polio. He certainly was not malnourished or lacking access to healthcare.
I had the measles in the early 60’s. The worst I have ever felt. The only treatment once you have it is to take aspirin and drink fluids. Can’t eat much so you get weaker. I was well nourished prior and Caucasian. I had a friend like me who died from it.
So you’re not making any sense based on what happens in the real world.
You show your inherent bias with your statements "so you want to discount the suffering and deaths from preventable disease" and "your method of dealing with these diseases..." No, I did not discount anything, and you have no idea how I would deal with those disease.
I did indeed mention measles AND the deaths it caused, so it is dishonest of you to say I didn't, and you didn't address the fact that the children most likely to have serious complications from measles in the 1950's and early 1960's were those lacking adequate nutrition and proper medical care. In fact, the major US outbreak in 1989-90 was in a religious sect in Philadelphia that refused all medical care -- not just vaccines, but ALL medical care, including Tylenol for reducing high fevers.
The most common complications of measles are dehydration due to diarrhea and secondary (bacterial) pneumonia. The first is easily treated with IV fluids, and pneumonia is treated with antibiotics and breathing treatments.
By the way, it has been recommended for several decades now to avoid giving children aspirin, due to the risk of Reye's syndrome, which causes swelling of the liver and/or brain. Maybe that's why you felt so sick.
The vaccine link has been thoroughly debunked. My brother has an autistic son; we have studied the issue for decades. We are educated on the topic. The people out there telling you otherwise are profiting from the falsehoods they promote or they wouldn’t care about it.
“The vaccine link has been thoroughly debunked” tells me you are not aware or ignoring all the evidence which has been either ignored or dismissed and therefore cannot have been debunked
Those are nowhere close to being credible sources for genuine scientific evidence. There are no studies for the first link. Here is a review from a credible third party about the info they put out: “A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency, and/or is fake news.”
The second one is a very well known antivax organization that Kennedy made millions from that spews out conspiracy BS and disinformation.
Here is a review of their newsletter, the Defender: “Overall, we rate The Defender a strong conspiracy and quackery-level advocacy group that frequently promotes unsupported claims. We also rate them low for factual reporting due to the promotion of propaganda and several failed fact checks.”
So you’re being misguided as are so many others by sites like these whose motives are to make money off of gullible people, causing them and their families potential harm from preventable diseases that they are vulnerable to getting.
You didn’t specify you wanted me to back up my claim with credible science. It doesn’t apply in this context. My claim is about evidence over decades that has been either dismissed or ignored and I provided two examples, of where vaccines are undeniably involved. I was keen to hear your thoughts specifically on those particular cases. Your response illustrates my point about evidence being ignored or dismissed. Vaccine injury denial is why people end up going to particular Organizations to be heard and inform other parents that vaccines can and do harm. Ignoring or dismissing these cases only creates distrust in the community.
Can’t help but notice that you have a lot of anti-Trump posts in your feed. I am sorry about your nephew. I for one would like very much to know why there has been such an increase in autism in children if it’s vaccines fine if it’s something else that’s fine too. I would just want some TRUTH. Something that I have seen over the past few decades that the anti-Trump left has had very little acquaintance with instead they have a lot of squandering and laundering of our government resources
It appears that you are a full blown Trumpist believing all the lies he spews out daily. I am an independent not following any party lines.
When our President can’t ever be relied upon to provide any factual information, having tried to overthrow the election, that’s a huge issue for many independents, let alone Dems. If you are aware of what he is now doing to our government and are in favor, you’re not seeing the reality of the consequences. His ratings are plummeting. So many lies were spun to get votes that are unraveling. We heard how inflation was going to drop immediately. Impossible with tariffs. Egg prices skyrocketing. Our collective health at risk with the likes of RFK coming in. He would end The war in Ukraine by his first day. I could go on….
I latch on to solid research backed by good science, not pseudo science. I think that this doctor gives a good summary with some truth about the situation with Autism as we understand it now. There are well over a hundred other peer reviewed studies that show similar findings.
Good for you. I am more of a constitutional conservative with libertarian propensities. I am also a perpetual student of the constitution . I have several cases published in the ninth circuit court of appeals, the California Supreme Court, and other appellate courts as well as the United States Supreme Court most of which I was representing law enforcement agencies and a local government.
I actually voted for Ted Cruz in the primary in 2015
I am a definite Trump supporter however, even back in 2015 when I voted for a Cruz in the primary, I later commented that Trump was like the little boy in the Emperor’s new clothes and indeed he has the Democrat party naked and exposed them
It is a terrible shame that people like you refuse to see it or just like the towns people in the emperors new clothes… Are apparently incapable of seeing it
It’s an interesting analogy that you chose with the kings clothing. In fact what we have been dealing with for years now coming from Trump is a false state of reality that he projects. That the rioters on J6 were actually engaging in a love fest. That Covid was going to just magically disappear. That Haitian people were eating people’s dogs. I mean the list is endless. So in reality he is the self declared king without clothes; his entire existence is based on egregious lies that get repeated ad nauseam until the weak minded are lulled into submission. So what is sad to me is when seemingly intelligent people buy into the nonsense being thrown at them and normalize it. That is what is the ongoing tragedy here that is pushing our Country along the path of becoming a banana republic with a dictator above the law in power.
Thank you for continuing to report on this. Sheryl, how come the baby boomers didn’t have these problems? Did the vaccine formulae change? Or is the issue with newer vaccines introduced in more recent generations?
During the 1970s, one vaccine was eliminated. Because of successful eradication efforts, the smallpox vaccine was no longer recommended for use after 1972. While vaccine research continued, new vaccines were not introduced during the 1970s.
Late 1970s | Recommended Vaccines
Diphtheria*
Tetanus*
Pertussis*
Polio (OPV)
Measles**
Mumps**
Rubella**
* Given in combination as DTP
** Given in combination as MMR
There are tables showing the difference in the number of vaccines required by age for certain year ranges, and they are astounding. (Sorry I've no time to look for any of these tables at the moment.)
Cumulative effect can be a problems, but individual vaccines can also cause problems for some individuals. The safety of the Pertussis vaccine has been questioned for a long time, and much early research documents the problems.The book "A Shot in the Dark" gives background on this. I did not suspect vaccines as a cause of my son's disabilities until I read this book. We have been mislead for a very long time.
mmr package insert: "If rubella infection occurs during the first trimester of pregnancy, it can result in severe congenital defects, Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS). Congenital Rubella Syndrome in the infant includes, but is not limited to, eye manifestations (cataracts, glaucoma, retinitis), congenital heart defects, hearing loss, microcephaly, and intellectual disabilities." https://www.fda.gov/media/75191/download
friends who just had their baby girl diagnosed with deafness. She is 8 months old. I know it was vaccines as she had just gotten a round, maybe 2 weeks prior to them beginning to suspect, but they are militant abt not listening.
There’s a comedian (forgot his name) that does a bit about growing up where everyone in the house used the same hand towel, where he ate dirt with other kids, and the regularly swam in a polluted river. Doesn’t sound funny but his delivery is very funny. But his point is relevant. He never gets sick and he thinks it’s because he did all these “bad” things growing up and developed a healthy immune system. I wonder what the impact is on a child’s natural immune system from taking all these shots. What’s the cumulative effect? And does the FDA LOOK AT ADVERSE EVENTS and adverse impact of all these shots interacting? Maybe evaluated individually each one is safe and effective. But think of all the prescription drugs you have taken where the packaging says don’t take this at all if you take that. Or take this one hour before or two hours after that. Both drugs presumably safe by themselves but not when taken together.
Perhaps it's the sheer NUMBER of newer pediatric vaccines.
Here is the current schedule -- 21 shots by age 6 months, 28 shots by age 1:
Day of birth
Hepatitis B
RSV
2 months:
Hepatitis B
Rotavirus
Diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis combo
HIB
Pneumococcal
Polio
4 months:
Rotavirus
Diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis combo
HIB
Pneumococcal
Polio
6 months:
Hepatitis B
Rotavirus
Diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis combo
HIB
Pneumococcal
Polio
Influenza
Covid
7 months:
second influenza shot
12 months:
RSV
HIB
Pneumococcal
MMR
Varicella
Hepatitis A
And women are now given Covid, DTaP, influenza, and RSV vaccines during pregnancy, even though no long-term studies exist on health and developmental outcomes for the babies.
The cause of autism has to be found and the investigation has to go wherever it goes. Too many cases and increasing every year. We are just supposed to accept that fact?
The problem is they pretend it's a conspiracy theory and they run it thru the media and then they polish it with high production value and then they bring in the so called "experts" to debunk it. Also, ppl don't want to believe they gave their children a shot that may have given them autism. Robert DeNiro removed a controversial film about the link between vaccines and autism in 2016 from the lineup of his Tribeca Film Festival after tremendous backlash on social media. This is the power Big Pharma has. It's an uphill battle but hopefully RFKJ will get in there and do some clean up. Also ppl like you continuing to talk about this issue is so very important. I am trying to spread the word too. Thanks for all you do Sharyl! sabrinalabow.substack.com
Many of the autism cases I read about traced back to mishandled vaccines. When what’s in the syringe is degraded and NOT vaccine, anything can happen. With so many doses of vaccine pushed at modern kids the opportunity for getting stuck with a dose that is no longer vaccine is much increased.
Question anything about autism links to vaccines and the answer is always "that's been debunked" (to the point where it seems everybody must be watching MSNBC or CNN before they go to work). My doctor's, since I've been doing medicare (I rarely saw doctors previously) all respond with a guffaw and "that's been debunked" every time I challenge their advice to get more vaccines. And the last I checked, my pharmacy gave me a list of 12 or so shots I need to get me caught up on my personal vaccine schedule. It's a crazy world out there.
It's amazing the power the media and the establishment have to mislead people. People will ignore the data showing the damage and the reasons for it, yet will continue to follow their "trusted authorities" and the media.
Good article. Thanks Sharyl.
They're misled because it's easier than thinking.
https://www.freekentucky.com/americas-real-birthday-the-day-they-shot-back/
Yes, we humans seem to be inherently "lazy". Or perhaps too busy with other things.
Just this morning, on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Host Kristen Welker repeatedly interrupted a guest with the line, “just to be clear, there’s no evidence vaccines cause autism.” I guess you can make such an assertion when the alleged lack of evidence takes the form of government and pharma-paid researchers reaching the conclusions they’ve been told to reach
I wonder how many hundreds of millions of dollars NBC has received for drug commercials.
And, how non-surprising that a shill like Welker would dutifully recite the company/party obfuscations like a good little soldier
I just read MSNBC gets in the area of $14M + per Quarter from Big Pharma. CNN and others, get more. Again, per Quarter.
Here's How Much Ad Revenue the Cable Networks Bring in From ... - Adweek
Of these Top 15 brands by network, Fox News came out on top in Q1 with $30.83 million; CNN was next with $25.86 million; and MSNBC followed with $14.21 million.
Haven't vetted beyond this!
Kristen Welker is an anagram of 'Erl skew tinker'. Perhaps she was programmed to twist things. :)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24814559/
Not only is there no evdence vaccines cause autism there's great evidence that they don't
So how do you explain 83 cases of vaccine-induced seizures and resulting brain damage that the US government quietly conceded and compensated -- where all the children involved were healthy and normally-developing until they received the vaccines that triggered developmental regression and behaviors that ended up being diagnosed as autism? Read about them here: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1681&context=pelr
Ryan's a troll. He likes to go about sowing confusion.
Whether he's a troll or a bot, or just a really, really horrible person, he's giving us a great opportunity to post the facts that easily refute everything he says -- and show every reader just how terribly wrong he is.
Thanks Alison, and if I may say, keep up the good work.
Let's see ANY evidence for your position
You've not, and I can't stress this enough, posted facts to show me wrong
Facts.. I like to go about sowing facts.
Like the fact that vaccines don't cause autism
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24814559/
Fundamental flaws in the Luke Taylor meta-analysis you cited:
1) It considered studies looking either at only ONE vaccine, MMR, (out of 18, most of which are given 3 or 4 times before the child ever receives the MMR) or at ONE chemical additive (that is no longer in any of the official pediatric vaccines, but IS in some formulations of flu shots).
Then it concluded "vaccines are not associated," which is exactly like looking at, say, Prilosec and Pepcid and then concluding "pills are not associated with stomach upset."
2) None of the studies analyzed included children who received zero vaccines. This is like studying various groups of smokers, with no control group of non-smokers to see if smoking causes cancer. (It's what we call "tobacco science.")
3 years later, a study was published that avoided the flaws in Taylor's study, and also thoroughly refuted Taylor's "findings." See https://www.oatext.com/Pilot-comparative-study-on-the-health-of-vaccinated-and-unvaccinated-6-to-12-year-old-U-S-children.php#Article
They looked at every vaccine. Show otherwise
So vaccines can and do cause seizures, sometimes resulting in brain damage that just happens to come with features of ... autism. See https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1681&context=pelr. Ok, Ryan, go ahead and explain to us exactly how those vaccine-induced brain damage cases occurred, and how they're not related to autism.
Nope. Febrile seizures aren't autism and happen from viruses MUCH more often than vaccines. https://www.autismspeaks.org/expert-opinion/febrile-seizures-epilepsy-and-autism-your-questions-answered
See page 72 top left. "Another change was how some vaccines
were propagated. The “new” component could be the
human DNA from the preparation of the rubella component
of the MMR II vaccine and the chicken pox vaccine. See
“Changes in Rates of Autism Incidence” above. The United
States Government and Dr. Geberding, Director of Vaccines
at Merck & Co., Inc. say that autistic conditions can result
from encephalopathy following vaccination (Child Health
Safety, 2010)." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21299355/
Vaccines are 100% known (no one debates) to cause neurological disorders. That article states flatly that "autism-like symptoms" are often the case, rather than diagnosed autism (Poling case notwithstanding). In other cases, it's also a well-known phenomenon that up to half of autism cases are misdiagnosed. I bet there are some for sure.
@Kelly Green, the thing is, autism is diagnosed ONLY by behavioral symptoms. There is no scan, no blood test, no truly objective way to quantify issues that are specific to autism and not to recognized forms of brain damage.
I agree with you, if we know that seizure-induced brain damage is the real issue for some of these children, then that should be their diagnosis, not "autism."
If we're going to use the term "autism," it should be used to describe only people with specific behavioral symptoms where ALL known possible causes of brain damage have been ruled out.
So perhaps the real problem here is that across the medical community, the term "autism" is ALWAYS used as the defining spectrum, rather than something like "neurodysregulation," which could include both autism and known brain damage.
You are on to something when it comes to the vaccine injury compensation program. They will basically automatically decline payment if the injury is referred to as autism outright but will pay if it called something else. I forget what the alternate diagnosis is called but I read this in an article awhile back. The word autism is a third rail word and is best avoided if one wants to get compensated.
Because there is no association of vaccines with autism.
At all
The claim was that seizure induced brain damage was the proper diagnosis.
this is not backed by science.
Vaccines don't cause more febrile seizures than the diseases they protect against.
Vaccines reduce the rates of febrile seizures.
https://www.vaccinesafety.edu/do-vaccines-cause-seizures/#:~:text=Fever%20is%20a%20common%20symptom,by%20protecting%20against%20natural%20infections.
Isn't it interesting that you keep going on and on about febrile seizures when aluminum intoxication causes speech and motor difficulties, dementia, and seizures, all without fever... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3299587/
Nope. Show any evidence of this.
Can you be more specific about what you want to see evidence of, as there are four sentences containing three different statements of fact you might be referring to.
That the article states "autism-like symptoms" rather than "autism" can be confirmed by reading the article.
QED - all three testable statements of fact. enjoy your life!
Pick your favorite. none of your claims can be supported.
Febrile seizures aren't autism and are more often caused by viruses
Don't need to.
If there's no association then it can't cause it.
Tell Hannah Poling’s family that, “Ryan”. They won Inthink $5 million and another half million a year for Hannah’s care. Her dad is a biologist and her mom is some sort of researcher. They won in court, hands down. So have multitudes if others. Read the article and the links— unless you’re a bot.
The vaccine court has lower standards of evidence than normal court.
Them winning doesn't mean vaccines have been proven to cause autism
First of all, it's not a court at all. It's a government compensation program, set up in 1986 because it was admitted at the time that vaccines were causing some children to suffer terrible seizures with resulting brain damage.
Secondly, it turns out that, even though the system was SUPPOSED to assume that cases with preponderance of evidence should be swiftly and generously compensated, that's not the case. In fact, what it turned into was a kangaroo court, where [highly paid] government lawyers defend a government vaccination program using government science.
The end result: families of vaccine-injured children are abandoned by the government that had promised in 1986 to provide a safety net for them.
Read about it here: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2015/07/vaccine-court-engstrom-070615
Heard of Wm Thompson?
He paints kind of boring landscapes
Refusing vaccines is the side with more death
Links to evidence, please? You claim to be all about the evidence.
Vaccines don't cause autism.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24814559/
They're incredibly safe
https://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/immunizations/Pages/vaccine-studies-examine-the-evidence.aspx
I am an eyewitness to the exact time after the mmr damage incurred on my grandson. Will not get any vax anymore and strongly urge anyone that will listen not to either.
Can you say more? What happened? Was your grandson getting many vaccines at that time? Was he otherwise ill at all?
My grandson is the epitome of a happy, healthy (under the circumstances) and active nine year old.
Back story: my daughter has autoimmune diseases, Sjogren's syndrome, "kidney disease", Raynaud's phenomenon and rheumatoid arthritis. She had these conditions before she became pregnant. What no one tells you when you have Sjogren's are of the complications that are high risk to the mother and the child.
She became pregnant, father is out of the picture, and confirmed that she wanted to keep the baby. Me, being pro-life, couldn't have been prouder. I would help any way I could.
About at the end of the first trimester, doctors diagnosed the child had a condition called heart block. I'd never heard of it. Had to do a lot of research. All along, she wanted this baby. The doctors kept urging her to abort. She said no. As time went on, the doctors continued to push for abortion. She held her guns.
Heart block is a condition where the fetus heartbeat is low. 40 bpm in-utero. The doctors knew this was a high risk pregnancy so they prepared. At 34 weeks, they scheduled her to deliver at Baptist Memorial in Miami. When he was born, just 2.5 hours old, they airlifted him to Miami Children's Hospital. A six mile drive that normally takes 45 minutes. Once at Miami Children's, they cracked his chest and installed a pacemaker. He was in NICU for 87 days, intubated, extubated four times.
When they came home, we tried to make it as comfortable as possible. They settled in.
Fast forward to his "well-care" one year. He was babbling, drunkenly walking and curious about everything. Laughing, crying getting into stuff. She brought him in for the "wellness" visit. He got the mmr at that visit.
Keep in mind that we were ignorant of vax injury at that time and thought we were being good guardians.
The third day after the vax he stopped being curious, stopped attempting to speak, stopped making eye contact. Showing all the classic symptoms plus absolutely nonverbal. In the same time frame, he was diagnosed with Trisomy 15. Another one I had never heard of. Had to do a lot more research.
Bottom line is, there's no doubt in my mind that the mmr damaged him in less than three days and it was black and white. He's still nonverbal so she can't leave him with anyone. She cannot work and stays home with him almost every day (I try to give her some time with her friends) He goes to therapy three times a week.
We've handled it all in stride. And otherwise, he's healthy. He'll never go to school or be a productive member of society but I believe he is a gift from God and has a great pupurpose. I hope this has answered some of your questions.
The media would rather go down in flames than admit vaccines maim & kill.
🙏🏼
Thank you for this well-informed and comprehensive overview. I had not realized that children with tubular sclerosis were particularly vulnerable – – it explains a lot about a close relative.
this makes me sick to my stomach - I can't imagine how parents of autistic children feel
Hi. Mother of two boys. Both are diagnosed autistic! This makes me extremely upset. I love my kids and I always will but i would do anything to help prevent them from the struggles they are going to live with their whole life. This is just unacceptable.
Pls detox asap, and WELL! JBX (google it) and bentonite clay among other things, have truly helped a lot of these kids.
Remember when they used to blame the mothers? Bruno Bettleheim. The mothers were too cold and controlling.
But thankfully, at the time there was also Dr Robert Mendelsohn who told the truth that the unvaxxed kids were far healthier and to avoid them altogether. My Mom took his advice.
What about the kids that died of a preventable disease? I guess he’s referring to those that survived.
Which "preventable" diseases are you talking about?
Chicken pox? Fewer than 80-100 children died of that per year in the US before the vaccine. With birth cohorts of around 4 million children per year, hat's an extremely low IFR, so the question is, why were they susceptible? Were they already ill? Were they malnourished? Were they denied access to adequate medical care?
And the same is true for most of the other "preventable" diseases we vaccinate for today. Even measles had a 1 in 10,000 infection fatality rate way back in the 1950's and early 1960's, and it's quite likely that most of those were children lacking access to proper nourishment and medical care, as that was when children of color were, sadly, denied access to "white" doctors and hospitals.
Perhaps, instead of trying to prevent diseases at all costs, we should instead be discussing how to prevent severity and complications.
So you want to discount the suffering and deaths from preventable diseases. And measles and polio were the major diseases taking lives which you conveniently don’t mention.
“A measles vaccine became available in 1963. In the decade before, nearly all children got measles by the time they were 15 years old. It is estimated 3 to 4 million people in the United States were infected each year. Among reported measles cases each year, an estimated:
400 to 500 people died
48,000 were hospitalized
1,000 suffered encephalitis (swelling of the brain)
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html
Regarding Polio, In 1946 there were 25,000 cases that grew steadily to the level of 1952 of 52,000 cases.
For a few though, polio affected the brain and spinal cord, which could lead to meningitis and, for one out of 200, paralysis. For two to 10 of those suffering paralysis, the end result was death.
https://www.history.com/news/polio-fear-post-wwii-era
Your method of dealing with these diseases would be totally unethical risking death and paralysis from them for those infected. Not to mention inhumane.
FDR was in a wheelchair due to Polio. He certainly was not malnourished or lacking access to healthcare.
I had the measles in the early 60’s. The worst I have ever felt. The only treatment once you have it is to take aspirin and drink fluids. Can’t eat much so you get weaker. I was well nourished prior and Caucasian. I had a friend like me who died from it.
So you’re not making any sense based on what happens in the real world.
You show your inherent bias with your statements "so you want to discount the suffering and deaths from preventable disease" and "your method of dealing with these diseases..." No, I did not discount anything, and you have no idea how I would deal with those disease.
I did indeed mention measles AND the deaths it caused, so it is dishonest of you to say I didn't, and you didn't address the fact that the children most likely to have serious complications from measles in the 1950's and early 1960's were those lacking adequate nutrition and proper medical care. In fact, the major US outbreak in 1989-90 was in a religious sect in Philadelphia that refused all medical care -- not just vaccines, but ALL medical care, including Tylenol for reducing high fevers.
As for FDR's polio, many experts today consider that he likely had Guillain-Barre, not polio. See https://www.science.org/content/article/did-fdr-have-guillain-barr
It's a pity you are not aware that there are indeed treatments for measles. Vitamin A significantly reduces risk of severity, complications, and death. See https://www.nfid.org/what-you-should-know-about-measles-and-vitamin-a/.
The most common complications of measles are dehydration due to diarrhea and secondary (bacterial) pneumonia. The first is easily treated with IV fluids, and pneumonia is treated with antibiotics and breathing treatments.
By the way, it has been recommended for several decades now to avoid giving children aspirin, due to the risk of Reye's syndrome, which causes swelling of the liver and/or brain. Maybe that's why you felt so sick.
The vaccine link has been thoroughly debunked. My brother has an autistic son; we have studied the issue for decades. We are educated on the topic. The people out there telling you otherwise are profiting from the falsehoods they promote or they wouldn’t care about it.
“The vaccine link has been thoroughly debunked” tells me you are not aware or ignoring all the evidence which has been either ignored or dismissed and therefore cannot have been debunked
You didn’t post any evidence for what you’re claiming.
Here are some findings about autism over the past decades of research that provide evidence for what I posted.
https://substack.com/@immunologic/note/c-99492876?r=1f0zhx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Thanks for providing the link. Yes I am happy to provide some links that irrefutably implicate vaccines and the onset of autism:
https://christiansfortruth.com/healthy-mcdowell-triplets-all-become-autistic-within-hours-of-being-vaccinated/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/isaac-ihben-autism-vaccine-injury/
Those are nowhere close to being credible sources for genuine scientific evidence. There are no studies for the first link. Here is a review from a credible third party about the info they put out: “A questionable source exhibits one or more of the following: extreme bias, consistent promotion of propaganda/conspiracies, poor or no sourcing to credible information, a complete lack of transparency, and/or is fake news.”
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/christians-for-truth/
The second one is a very well known antivax organization that Kennedy made millions from that spews out conspiracy BS and disinformation.
Here is a review of their newsletter, the Defender: “Overall, we rate The Defender a strong conspiracy and quackery-level advocacy group that frequently promotes unsupported claims. We also rate them low for factual reporting due to the promotion of propaganda and several failed fact checks.”
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-defender-childrens-health-defense-credibility/
So you’re being misguided as are so many others by sites like these whose motives are to make money off of gullible people, causing them and their families potential harm from preventable diseases that they are vulnerable to getting.
You didn’t specify you wanted me to back up my claim with credible science. It doesn’t apply in this context. My claim is about evidence over decades that has been either dismissed or ignored and I provided two examples, of where vaccines are undeniably involved. I was keen to hear your thoughts specifically on those particular cases. Your response illustrates my point about evidence being ignored or dismissed. Vaccine injury denial is why people end up going to particular Organizations to be heard and inform other parents that vaccines can and do harm. Ignoring or dismissing these cases only creates distrust in the community.
Can’t help but notice that you have a lot of anti-Trump posts in your feed. I am sorry about your nephew. I for one would like very much to know why there has been such an increase in autism in children if it’s vaccines fine if it’s something else that’s fine too. I would just want some TRUTH. Something that I have seen over the past few decades that the anti-Trump left has had very little acquaintance with instead they have a lot of squandering and laundering of our government resources
It appears that you are a full blown Trumpist believing all the lies he spews out daily. I am an independent not following any party lines.
When our President can’t ever be relied upon to provide any factual information, having tried to overthrow the election, that’s a huge issue for many independents, let alone Dems. If you are aware of what he is now doing to our government and are in favor, you’re not seeing the reality of the consequences. His ratings are plummeting. So many lies were spun to get votes that are unraveling. We heard how inflation was going to drop immediately. Impossible with tariffs. Egg prices skyrocketing. Our collective health at risk with the likes of RFK coming in. He would end The war in Ukraine by his first day. I could go on….
I latch on to solid research backed by good science, not pseudo science. I think that this doctor gives a good summary with some truth about the situation with Autism as we understand it now. There are well over a hundred other peer reviewed studies that show similar findings.
https://substack.com/@danbridges318484/note/c-92173994?r=1f0zhx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
What about children that develop autism that didn’t get vaccinations?
Yes its not surprising that other environmental insults besides vaccines could be associated with a developmental disorder such as Autism.
The parent testimonials I provided can be accessed on different websites. 🤷 What about the testimonial itself, and whether it has merit?
Good for you. I am more of a constitutional conservative with libertarian propensities. I am also a perpetual student of the constitution . I have several cases published in the ninth circuit court of appeals, the California Supreme Court, and other appellate courts as well as the United States Supreme Court most of which I was representing law enforcement agencies and a local government.
I actually voted for Ted Cruz in the primary in 2015
I am a definite Trump supporter however, even back in 2015 when I voted for a Cruz in the primary, I later commented that Trump was like the little boy in the Emperor’s new clothes and indeed he has the Democrat party naked and exposed them
It is a terrible shame that people like you refuse to see it or just like the towns people in the emperors new clothes… Are apparently incapable of seeing it
https://www.
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It’s an interesting analogy that you chose with the kings clothing. In fact what we have been dealing with for years now coming from Trump is a false state of reality that he projects. That the rioters on J6 were actually engaging in a love fest. That Covid was going to just magically disappear. That Haitian people were eating people’s dogs. I mean the list is endless. So in reality he is the self declared king without clothes; his entire existence is based on egregious lies that get repeated ad nauseam until the weak minded are lulled into submission. So what is sad to me is when seemingly intelligent people buy into the nonsense being thrown at them and normalize it. That is what is the ongoing tragedy here that is pushing our Country along the path of becoming a banana republic with a dictator above the law in power.
That you can’t recognize that is appalling.
Thank you Sharyl for all the work you have done to expose the lies.
Yes, the mechanism of Autism caused by late term jabbing of the mother is very well known
https://geoffpain.substack.com/p/autism-is-caused-by-endotoxin-in
"Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth" tells you more than most media outlets ever will.
Thank you for continuing to report on this. Sheryl, how come the baby boomers didn’t have these problems? Did the vaccine formulae change? Or is the issue with newer vaccines introduced in more recent generations?
One obvious reason is the cumulative effect of vaccines was much less of a problem.
This from chop.edu site:
Late 1960s | Recommended Vaccines
Smallpox
Diphtheria*
Tetanus*
Pertussis*
Polio (OPV)
Measles
Mumps
Rubella
* Given in combination as DTP
The 1970s — vaccine success
During the 1970s, one vaccine was eliminated. Because of successful eradication efforts, the smallpox vaccine was no longer recommended for use after 1972. While vaccine research continued, new vaccines were not introduced during the 1970s.
Late 1970s | Recommended Vaccines
Diphtheria*
Tetanus*
Pertussis*
Polio (OPV)
Measles**
Mumps**
Rubella**
* Given in combination as DTP
** Given in combination as MMR
There are tables showing the difference in the number of vaccines required by age for certain year ranges, and they are astounding. (Sorry I've no time to look for any of these tables at the moment.)
Cumulative effect can be a problems, but individual vaccines can also cause problems for some individuals. The safety of the Pertussis vaccine has been questioned for a long time, and much early research documents the problems.The book "A Shot in the Dark" gives background on this. I did not suspect vaccines as a cause of my son's disabilities until I read this book. We have been mislead for a very long time.
Plus the combination of vax ingredients and Tylenol administered concurrently. And glyphosate on food.
I agree re individual vaccines. The Turtles book gets into this. But the cumulative effect of unproven/unsafe vaccines seems to be even worse.
Yes, and how early
they get them. Loads of other countries have backed off in both the number AND the early age and they have seen improvements in overall child health.
Not all vaccines are created equal. All are bad, some are worse than others.
One reason, they keep lowering the age and as per this mom and confirmed by the package inserts, it is the R in the MMR, live Rubella, that attacks the brain. Her son got his first one at 19 months in 2013 and NOW it has been lowered to 12 months and given 4 times by age 4 -6! The closer they get to the size of a first trimester baby in the belly, the more likely it will cause "intellectual disabilities". https://www.deseret.com/2013/5/23/20452608/mmr-vaccine-caused-my-son-s-autism/ https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-schedules/child-easyread.html
mmr package insert: "If rubella infection occurs during the first trimester of pregnancy, it can result in severe congenital defects, Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS). Congenital Rubella Syndrome in the infant includes, but is not limited to, eye manifestations (cataracts, glaucoma, retinitis), congenital heart defects, hearing loss, microcephaly, and intellectual disabilities." https://www.fda.gov/media/75191/download
We have family
friends who just had their baby girl diagnosed with deafness. She is 8 months old. I know it was vaccines as she had just gotten a round, maybe 2 weeks prior to them beginning to suspect, but they are militant abt not listening.
I am so very sorry. It could be from the Hep B given at 8 months as per the package insert on the FDA website "Ear and Labyrinth Disorders
Earache, tinnitus, vertigo." https://www.fda.gov/media/119403/download https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-schedules/child-easyread.html It is so sad people do not realize they love their News that lies to them more than their children...
Very helpful and thank you.
There’s a comedian (forgot his name) that does a bit about growing up where everyone in the house used the same hand towel, where he ate dirt with other kids, and the regularly swam in a polluted river. Doesn’t sound funny but his delivery is very funny. But his point is relevant. He never gets sick and he thinks it’s because he did all these “bad” things growing up and developed a healthy immune system. I wonder what the impact is on a child’s natural immune system from taking all these shots. What’s the cumulative effect? And does the FDA LOOK AT ADVERSE EVENTS and adverse impact of all these shots interacting? Maybe evaluated individually each one is safe and effective. But think of all the prescription drugs you have taken where the packaging says don’t take this at all if you take that. Or take this one hour before or two hours after that. Both drugs presumably safe by themselves but not when taken together.
Perhaps it's the sheer NUMBER of newer pediatric vaccines.
Here is the current schedule -- 21 shots by age 6 months, 28 shots by age 1:
Day of birth
Hepatitis B
RSV
2 months:
Hepatitis B
Rotavirus
Diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis combo
HIB
Pneumococcal
Polio
4 months:
Rotavirus
Diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis combo
HIB
Pneumococcal
Polio
6 months:
Hepatitis B
Rotavirus
Diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis combo
HIB
Pneumococcal
Polio
Influenza
Covid
7 months:
second influenza shot
12 months:
RSV
HIB
Pneumococcal
MMR
Varicella
Hepatitis A
And women are now given Covid, DTaP, influenza, and RSV vaccines during pregnancy, even though no long-term studies exist on health and developmental outcomes for the babies.
Sharyl, you are amazing in your preserverence. We will prevail over the monies interests who are proving more psychopathic by the day.
And to all reading this, Sharyls books should be required reading.
The cause of autism has to be found and the investigation has to go wherever it goes. Too many cases and increasing every year. We are just supposed to accept that fact?
The problem is they pretend it's a conspiracy theory and they run it thru the media and then they polish it with high production value and then they bring in the so called "experts" to debunk it. Also, ppl don't want to believe they gave their children a shot that may have given them autism. Robert DeNiro removed a controversial film about the link between vaccines and autism in 2016 from the lineup of his Tribeca Film Festival after tremendous backlash on social media. This is the power Big Pharma has. It's an uphill battle but hopefully RFKJ will get in there and do some clean up. Also ppl like you continuing to talk about this issue is so very important. I am trying to spread the word too. Thanks for all you do Sharyl! sabrinalabow.substack.com
Like he did in Samoa?
Many of the autism cases I read about traced back to mishandled vaccines. When what’s in the syringe is degraded and NOT vaccine, anything can happen. With so many doses of vaccine pushed at modern kids the opportunity for getting stuck with a dose that is no longer vaccine is much increased.
Greatly read, Love the audiobook
Question anything about autism links to vaccines and the answer is always "that's been debunked" (to the point where it seems everybody must be watching MSNBC or CNN before they go to work). My doctor's, since I've been doing medicare (I rarely saw doctors previously) all respond with a guffaw and "that's been debunked" every time I challenge their advice to get more vaccines. And the last I checked, my pharmacy gave me a list of 12 or so shots I need to get me caught up on my personal vaccine schedule. It's a crazy world out there.