Restore The Right To Go To Court for Vaccine Injuries

Kent legalIn America, you can sue soap for being slippery. But you can not sue a vaccine manufacturer. Changing the 1986 act that protected pharmaceutical companies would turbo charge Make America Healthy Again. Rep Paul Gosar in Arizona is working toward that goal.

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Pass HR 9828 

Restore the Right to go to 

Court for Vaccine Injuries

One of the great injustices in modern America is the denial of access to the courts for people who have been injured by vaccines. Fortunately, US Representative Paul Gosar (R-Arizona-9), has introduced HR 9828, a bill that would restore our Seventh Amendment right to go to court for vaccine injuries.

Vaccine manufacturers won nearly complete liability protection with the passage of the National Vaccine Childhood Injury Act in 1986. Since then, anyone injured by a vaccine has to apply to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Program, the “vaccine court.”  

Except it is not a court. There is no judge. Plaintiffs' lawyers are paid by the government. Plaintiffs have no right to subpoena. There is no right to discovery, nor the right to compel defendants to produce documents and other evidence. Damages for deaths have been capped at $250,000 since 1986. The “vaccine court” is notorious for the extremely limited number of vaccine injuries that it will recognize and compensate, yet it has still paid out more than $4 billion. In recent years, the majority of successful cases have been for arm injuries to adults caused by the flu shot. 

In the original text of the 1986 law, we still retained the right to go to state Court after completing the federal process. But that door was slammed shut by the Supreme Court in 2011 with the decision in Brusewitz v. Wyeth.  

Since the 1986 act was passed, the value of the US vaccine market grew from less than $100 million to more than $34 billion in 2023

Take Action

Please CLICK HERE to send a message to your member of the US House of Representatives and ask him or her to co-sponsor HR 9828 if they have not already done so. 

Please share the following link to this action alert with friends and family and on social media:

 https://www.votervoice.net/AUTISMACTION/Campaigns/118368/Respond

Right now, vaccine companies have literally nothing to lose if they produce dangerous products because none of the institutions that are supposed to protect us from unsafe products function in the United States. The regulatory agencies that are supposed to assure that medical products are safe and effective are completely captured by the industries they claim to regulate. 

Government and employer-enforced mandates coerce people into getting shots regardless of our own assessment of their need, efficacy, or safety. And we cannot go to a real court with the full range of protections created by almost 1000 years of Anglo-American jurisprudence. 

Our rights were further eviscerated with the passage of the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act of 2005, which gave complete legal immunity to manufacturers, distributors and administrators of products intended to address public health emergencies or security threats. That includes shots for COVID, “pandemic flu,” and monkeypox among others. 

These shots are considered bio-warfare “countermeasures.” Consequently, injuries caused by COVID shots are not under the jurisdiction of the “vaccine court,” but the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP). In its 14 years of existence, the CICP has compensated a grand total of 46 injured people with $6.5 million, including 16 COVID shot injuries.

During COVID, we saw a huge increase in the number of people forced to get shots to keep their jobs, remain in school, or to participate in civil society. According to OpenVAERS, more than 1.6 million COVID shot injuries alone have been reported to VAERS. More injuries have been reported since 2020 than in the previous 30 years of VAERS’s existence. But COVID shots are not legally considered “vaccines” by the federal government. 

The Seventh Amendment gives us the right to go to civil court for any injury with a value of more than $20: 

"In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."

We can sue Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi or Glaxo for an injury caused by one of their drug products, but we cannot sue for a vaccine injury. These four companies make all the vaccines required to attend school in the United States, and all four of them are serial felons. All of them have paid billions of dollars in fines, penalties and settlements for crimes ranging from racketeering, and bribing doctors, to faking evidence submitted to the regulatory agencies, to killing more than 100,000 people with Merck’s Vioxx.

It is long past the time for the States to end this gross injustice and restore our fundamental human and Constitutional rights and allow us to go to a real court, with real rights.

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An Old Friend

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By Kim Rossi

My oldest daughter was home from her day program yesterday - ever present staffing issues mean 1, 2 and as many as 3 days a week home. We went to the library because she was asking about the old Spot the Dog books. We found two in the stacks. Then she spied the children's section computers and sat herself right down.

Within a minute, she was cheerfully surfing the EdMark games that she LOVED in her childhood. Those old CD-ROM games don't play automatically on newer home computers, and haven't for many years. She's resorted to finding them on YouTube and watching others play them, which is a shame. Because, while I always want to bring her forward, she loved those games and was reading, thinking, answering questions and engaged while using them. I wasn't at all surprised when she said what was on the NEXT screen before it popped up having remembered it for more than 20 years.

The Sesame Street series from Sony was clever and interesting, as was Elmo's Art Workshop. EdMark, with Millie's Math House, Bailey's Book House and Sammy's Science House.  All geared to youngsters, and yet, still provided an opportunity to her. Apps aren't the same. I don't know why, they just aren't.

I updated her library card while there. And to my surprise, the librarian was a former classmate of my youngest daughter. She's a college graduate, working full time in the library. That stung a bit, as so many chance meetings do now that my daughters are adults. Still, it was nice to see her.

How do you bring your older kids forward, while respecting their needs and desires?


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Nightmare In Asheville - Interview With Maureen McDonnell


WeathervaneWhile we don't often discuss the weather, we are focused on disasters, natural and man-made.

Curtis Cost interviewed Maureen McDonnell, Asheville, NC resident about the aftermath of hurricane Helene. Maureen was one of the very FIRST Defeat Autism Now! nurses who helped so manyfamimies. She also was the driving force behind a unique coalition group called Millions Against Medical Mandates. Check out the website. You will not meet a kinder, fiercer, more knowledgeable woman from our community. One might say she is a force of nature. If we hear of individual autism family needs, we'll let you know.  Let's pray Hurricane Milton doesn't add to much insult to injury.

Please click over to Substack to hear this first person, reliable account.

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Nightmare In Asheville - Interview With Maureen McDonnell

I had the honor of interviewing Maureen McDonnell, who has been a health freedom activist for many years, and she is the founder of Millions Against Mandates (MAM). Maureen lives in the Asheville, North Carolina area, and in this interview, she shares some of her first-hand experiences after Hurricane Helene devastated the area.

Nightmare In Asheville - Interview With Maureen McDonnell by Curtis Cost

Read on Substack

According to Mrs. McDonnell, the area looked like a war zone. Even though she has lived in that area for 19 years, she had never seen such destruction from a hurricane. In this interview, she explains why some are speculating as to whether or not there was something more going on.

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We Tried To Help The Somalis 15 years Before PBS Noticed

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Age of Autism reported on the shocking development of autism in the Minnesota Somali immigrant population 16 years ago. Award winning investigative author David Kirby wrote about the looming problem. When you try to read his report on HuffPo, that photo above is what you get. 

Parents who had no word for the diagnosis in their language were rocked when their children changed. From this we know. PBS reports yet additional increases in the numbers. We tried to warn. We tried to help. A certain subset cut us off at the knees, instead seeing a money grab. A grab which has lead to fraud and thievery. And a generation of children harmed.

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By Anne Dachel

PBS: Autism rate one in 16 in MN Somalis, one in 10 Somali boys

"Astonishing" "An alarming increase"

There was an absolutely shocking report from PBS News on the rate of autism among the Somali population in Minnesota. The numbers are staggering, but I can predict that NO OFFICIAL will do anything to address this.

Oct 3, 2024, PBS News: Autism on the Rise

This report should be of immediate concern to everyone at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Here are some of the highlights.

PBS News Hour co-anchor,  Amna Nawaz:

In recent years, the prevalence of autism has risen significantly across all populations in the U.S.

Diagnoses are more common among children of color, but one group, Somali Americans, is seeing an alarming increase.

Fred De Sam Lazaro has this report from Minnesota, home to the largest Somali community in America.

Anisa Hagi-Mohamed, Parent Activist:

I have three children, two girls and a boy. And they have all been diagnosed autistic. Two of my children are verbal. One is partially verbal. And we speak, eat, sleep autism.

Fred De Sam Lazaro:

For Anisa Hagi-Mohamed and husband Duraan Ali (ph), this is one of few outings the family does together in a routine otherwise individually tailored for their 8-, 6-, and 3-year-old children..

On Sundays, the kids get to play in a safe space, set aside just for autistic children. Hagi-Mohamed was a teacher. She has a degree in linguistics, but has devoted her life to advocating for autistic children in the Somali American community.

Fred De Sam Lazaro:

. . .Autism is not widely understood in the Somali community, even though its become alarmingly prevalent.

Jennifer Hall-Lande, Minnesota Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network:

Overall rates in our 4-year-olds of one in 53. And what we were seeing in our Somali 4-year-olds were rates of one in 16.

Fred De Sam Lazaro:

That is astounding, isn't it?

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Age of Autism 2009: Parents United Against Autism Appeal The Somali MN Autism Epidemic

The Somali autism crisis is more than 15 years in the making. And we DO mean making. Take a look at this AofA post from April 3, 2009. Read about the current PBS report last week here.

Abdilmalik and dad Managing Editor's Note: We are pleased to welcome Abdulkadir Khalif as our newest Contributing Editor.

By: Abdulkadir Khalif

On the last day of March 2009, the Minnesota Department of Health finally produced a report on the prevalence of autism in the Somali immigrant population of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was obvious from the numbers that the issue of prevalence has finally been settled, and that there definitely is a cluster of autism in Minneapolis. The MDH arrived at these conclusions not from their own investigations but from that of the MN department of Education. These are the very numbers that the MDH initially doubted and which the CDC poured cold water on towards the end of last year. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate and thank the MN Department of Education for leading the way in the fight against autism in Minneapolis and for showing, on their own, that they (the teachers) know better than the healthcare professionals that autism has a cluster in Minneapolis, especially amongst the people of Somali ethnic group. I hope that the MDH together with the CDC will now come down from the ivory tower and start planning on how to confront this epidemic.
Abdilmalik smiling (This is Abdimalik Khalif.)

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Age of Autism 2008: Welcome Somalis to America! We Hope You Like The Autism!

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Kent Heckenlively wrote this in July of 2008. Now PBS is taking notice? If you want to read David Kirby's HuffPo on the topic, the screenshot above it what you get. The massive campaign to deny vaccine injury has been decades in the making.

Liberty_2By Kent Heckenlively, Esq.

They come to America in search of a better life.  Their children get autism. 

I wonder if they wish they’d just stayed home.

As reported by Elizabeth Gorman in the Minneapolis Post and David Kirby in the Huffington Post (click HERE), there’s something unusual going on with immigrant Somali children in Minnesota and autism.  It might also be happening with other immigrant groups.

According to Gorman’s article, about 6 percent of Minneapolis’ students are Somali-speaking, but “more than 17 percent of the children in the district’s early childhood special education autism program are Somali speaking.”  (It’s estimated that 15,000 to 40,000 Somalis live in Minnesota, the largest Somali population outside of East Africa.)

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Guilty

GuiltBy Cathy Jameson

I had the day off on Monday but ended up going into work to drop something off and to pick something up.  I was going to run some important errands afterward, so I didn’t stick around too long.  These are the errands that can only be done during work hours.  Never having a chance to get to those, I was grateful for the time off to finally get to them.  As I drove into work, I realized I had forgotten to make a copy of the paperwork I needed to mail on my errand.  So much has been going on at home that that simple step got overlooked.  I learned the hard way years ago to make a copy of documents going to government agencies.  It’s always their word against yours unless you can prove it with documentation.

So, while I was in the building, I made copies of that official document that I was finally about to mail.

Four copies.

Done in the open.

But made with guilt.

As I left and started down the road to the post office, the secretary texted me, “Cathy, can you call me when you get a minute?”

OH NO!!  SHE KNOWS!  AND MY BOSS KNOWS, TOO!

We have a group text, the three of us, and I thought surely I was doomed.

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Policy Imperatives from Health Freedom Defense Fund

American Freedom"#1: BAN ALL MEDICAL MANDATES"

Thank you to Leslie Manookian for sharing her list of the requirements for true health freedom. Often, vaccination choice, freedom from mandated vaccines and adjacent autism are left out of the conversation. Not here.

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Policy Imperatives for Health Freedom

By: Leslie Manookian | President | Health Freedom Defense Fund

As a requirement for discussing and appreciating the imperative of health freedom in the USA, we must first define what is meant by health freedom. A simple definition is: the right of every American to decide what medical interventions to put into or onto one’s body, the right to access and use the medical and healing modalities of one’s choice, the right to maintain one’s health according to one’s conscience, and the right to live free of involuntary medication be it via the food supply, the water supply, or something airborne.

In a free and moral society, health freedom is not simply a convenience, it’s an imperative. In this vein, in the event of injury or illness, all Americans must possess the absolute right to choose what medical interventions and treatments to accept and what medical or healing modalities to utilize in order to address illness or injury; Americans must be free to choose how to maintain their health whether that be through nutrition, supplements, herbs, drugs, or a myriad of healing modalities; Americans must have access to truthful information regarding how the seeds for plants and animal feed and the food in our food supply has been grown or developed, medicated, processed, and packaged; and Americans have the right to exist in a society free of water and airborne medications, insect vectors, and chemicals.

Health freedom can only exist in a free and moral society which values each and every member of that society. This prerequisite thus excludes medical mandates of any kind. It is immoral to force another individual to risk their life for the theoretical benefit of another. Moreover, government does not have the moral authority or power to dictate what medical products any American puts into or on his or her body. If anyone in government does possess that power, then no American is truly free, nor does he or she possess any meaningful right whatsoever – Americans are merely chattel.

In order to create a society based on true health freedom, the following policy shifts should be implemented, as a first step. There are many more changes which should be implemented as well, but these proposals would address some of the most glaring, pernicious anti-liberty and anti-health aspects of our system as it exists today:

  1. Ban all Medical Mandates:

The Declaration of Independence states, “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”  Medical mandates are prime facie violations of our founding documents.

Health freedom demands prior voluntary informed consent before a medical treatment or intervention is administered. Medical mandates are thus, by definition, antithetical to voluntary consent and therefore must be prohibited in a free and moral society. No single individual in government knows the medical history of any American, knows what is best for Americans, or has to live with the repercussions of any choices made by Americans, thus, medical mandates are never justified in any circumstance.

  1. Repeal the Bayh-Dole Act:

“The Bayh-Dole Act, formerly known as the Patent and Trademark Act Amendments, is a federal law enacted in 1980 that enables universities, nonprofit research institutions and small businesses to own, patent and commercialize inventions developed under federally funded research programs within their organizations.”

Under this program, government scientists may receive up to $150,000 per year on their patents.

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ARI Praises Epidemic Denier in Heartfelt X

IMG_4734When we launched in 2007, ARI, Autism Research Institute was our first sponsor and lead by the steady hand and generous heart of Dr. Bernard Rimland. "Bernie" as he was affectionately known to those close to him, was the pioneer in taking away the stigma of blame from, "Refrigerator Mothers." ARI was the leader in cutting edge treatments for autism, under the Defeat Autism Now umbrella. Their conferences were the Mecca of hope and medical care for our severely affected kids. Defeating autism was our battle cry, not erasing our kids. Seems so long ago. So very long ago.

Yesterday, ARI X'd about the death of Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes, a book that was integral in promoting "neurodiversity." It was an antidote to Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted's The Age of Autism. Silberman blocked most of us on social media years ago. Looks like we're blocked forever now.

Below is our post from 2015, when the book launched, which features an article from Psychology Today. Whitewashing autism has been catastrophic for research and programs for the more severely affected. This segment of the community has been excluded from the table. And so, we call out ARI for dining off Silberman's "success."

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Age of Autism 2015: We excerpted this piece by Amy Lutz from Psychology today.   The push to normalize the serious diagnosis of autism could mean less funding, fewer programs and opportunities for our loved ones on the spectrum.  It certainly disrespects the plight of many of our families.

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Few things are more surreal to the parent of a severely autistic child than the neurodiversity rhetoric that recently culminated in Steve Silberman’s book NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. To call the disorder that has left our children with profound impairments in cognition, communication and behavior a “strange gift,” as Silberman does, is truly mind-boggling.

No one is contesting the achievements of the “scruffy geniuses” Silberman profiles in his book, or denying that they should be celebrated. The question is whether a comprehensive, 480-page account of “The Legacy of Autism” should have devoted more space to those with low-functioning autism than the nine pages listed under this topic in the index.

Here’s what we know about the autistic population in the United States: According to the CDC, 40% are also intellectually disabled. Autism Speaks reports that 30% are nonverbal, and a 2013 study published in the journal Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders found that over half of autistic children suffer from aggressive and/or self-injurious behavior. So this is not a small fraction, although readers might be forgiven for assuming as much after finishing NeuroTribes. As Jennifer Senior noted in her review for The New York Times, “We don’t see autism in some of its more devastating forms.”

But it’s exactly those forms that need to be confronted before concluding “that much of the suffering associated with autism is the result of the ways that autistic people and their families are habitually denied the services they need,” as Silberman does, rather than the result of brutal neurological symptoms that often necessitate a lifetime of care.  Read the full article at Psychology Today.

Denial
Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future

by Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted | Jul 25, 2017


A Mere 6,201 Days Ago

Bella GR adToday's dose of gut punch (dye free!) is brought to you by the passage of time. How much time? On September 25, 2007, a mere 6,201 days ago, Generation Rescue ran an ad in USA Today, telling Americans that autism had increased by some 6000%. We wrote: "Click HERE to see the full page ad in USA Today from Generation Rescue. Pick up a copy today!" The URL is long gone. As is Generation Rescue, which disappeared in a shroud of secrecy.

On Sunday, thousands gathered in Washington, DC for the Rescue the Republic gathering. There were some familiar faces from the autism vaccine injury community, people we respect,  and many new faces. We need an army. An army willing to fight on all fronts. Including the autism front. 

The child in the photo is now 24 years of age. She is my daughter. 6000% might as well be 6,000,000%.

Laura Hayes wrote a powerful comment on yesterday's post that we're sharing here, below. Why?  I had a boss teach me a saying, "Don't punish progress." The MAHA movement is progress. At the same time? We will hold all of those feet to the fire so that the pediatric vaccine schedule and mandates are included in the conversation.

Apparently, exposing and going after our nation’s toxin-and-poison-filled food supply is a safe and acceptable strategy. Note what isn’t…exposing and going after our nation’s toxin-and-poison-filled vaccine program, which for many then results in a lifetime of toxin-and-poison-filled pharmaceuticals. I see more of the same ahead…talk about and target anything but vaccines. Meanwhile, the Vaccine Holocaust continues in earnest, with more victims every single day. If the topic of concern is ever-worsening health, development, fertility, and longevity, what needs to be be talked about at every speaking opportunity is the urgent need for an immediate moratorium on each and every vaccine, as not one has been studied or approved properly or ethically, either individually, or in the myriad haphazard combinations in which they are routinely administered, and the devastation vaccines leave in their wake is both undeniable and horrific. My 2018 “Why Is This Legal?” presentation covers the many reasons why not even one vaccine should be on the market:  Why are vaccines once again being ignored and left out of the discussion? And let us remember that toxic, poisonous food is not mandated/required to participate in many aspects of society, including school, daycare, college, government assistance, foster care, adoption, military, medicine, and a growing number of occupations, but toxic, poisonous, health-and-life-destroying, sometimes-fatal vaccines are. In addition to a campaign slogan of “Ban Vaccine Mandates, Immediately and Forever!”, I would add: “Moratorium on Vaccines Now!” What better way to protect children and improve health?! How many more children’s lives must be destroyed for the adults in this world to say, “Enough! Stop!” How many more children will there even be who grow up able and capable to both bear and raise children? Toxic, poisonous “foods” are not acceptable, and neither are toxic, poisonous vaccines. It’s that simple. And if these are what our billion and trillion dollar regulatory agencies are rubber-stamping and approving, then we can add to our campaign slogans, “Eliminate Government Regulatory Agencies!”, because very clearly, they are an unacceptable, inexcusable use of our hard-earned tax dollars.

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Kids Eat The (Toxic) Colors of the Rainbow

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Melissa Wervey Arnold is the Chief Executive Officer for the Ohio Chapter of the AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics. She recently posted on the open, public part of her Facebook  page  a photo of a gift basket she made for end of school year, not an AAP gift per se - "orange you glad..." was the theme. Clever, as we all remember the old knock knock joke from childhood. However, every bit of food and drink in the basket was completely contrary to the goal of children's or anyone's health.  An Oompa Loompa would have run away screaming.

Sesame Street had a ditty to promote fruits and veggies that went, "I eat the colors of the rainbow." Unfortunately, American children eat the artificial colors of the rainbow from the moment they wake until they brush their teeth (or what's left of them) before bed. Robert Kennedy, Jr. has embarked on a campaign promoting health - and his recent focus was to educate Americans about the harm of chemical colors in our food. At AofA, we've been writing about the topic since our inception, including the scandalous use of Skittles by ABA therapists as an incentive for good behavior. Like giving a diabetic a cookie for taking his insulin. Jabberwocky. Bass ackwards.

A childhood attached to obesity, developmental delays (even if CDC moves the goal line) asthma inhalers, anti anxiety meds, epipens, glucose monitors & special education is NOT what childhood should be.  We KNOW this. The problem affects every American, Communist to Ultra Conservative.  The solutions are bi-tri-quad-quint-partisan. 

In 2018, we wrote about an American Academy of Pediatrics Ohio chapter travesty - see the photo and caption. AAP Ohio Representative Gloats Over Sugar, HFCS, Dye, GMO Orange End of School Food Gift

Anne Dachel profiles RFK, Jr.'s video on the American Phood industry. We hope his platform can reach every American household.

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In this short video, Robert Kennedy, Jr. explains how the unregulated food industry is poisoning our children. We have the sickest kids on the planet, and things have to change.


Enough Is Enough

Sep 25, 2024

The Democrats, who claim to be all about health care have stood by watching other countries ban these poisons that make our kids sick. Enough is enough. President Trump and I are going to stop the mass poisoning of American children.

VIDEO 5:44 

Robert Kennedy, Jr.:

This is what most Americans innocently put into their bodies these days, and most alarmingly, into the bodies of their children.

And it’s no coincidence that Americans die earlier than Canadians or Germans or Italians or Japanese or Koreans or Australians or most any other comparable country. 

And it wasn’t always that way. Until the early 1990s, our life expectancy was the same or better than other developed countries.

(Here's the Sesame Street veggies song.)



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American Academy of Pediatrics Promotes The Dis-Ease RFK, Jr.'s MAHA Is Trying to Fix

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This is a "Best of" from Spring 2018. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is trying to help Americans understand that the epidemic of chronic illness and overall poor health in our children is in large part, a phunction of the phoods they eat. Phoods promoted by the FDA, by nutritionists, by marketing campaigns and as you can see below, the American Academy of Pediatrics.

A childhood attached to obesity, developmental delays (even if CDC moves the goal line) asthma inhalers, anti anxiety meds, epipens, glucose monitors & special education is NOT what childhood should be.  We KNOW this. The problem affects every American, Communist to Ultra Conservative.  The solutions are bi-tri-quad-quint-partisan. 

By Kim Rossi

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Melissa Wervey Arnold is the Chief Executive Officer for the Ohio Chapter of the AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics. She recently posted on the open, public part of her Facebook  page  a photo of a gift basket she made for end of school year, not an AAP gift per se - "orange you glad..." was the theme. Clever, as we all remember the old knock knock joke from childhood. However, every bit of food and drink in the basket was completely contrary to the goal of children's or anyone's health.  An Oompa Loompa would have run away screaming.  There wasn't an orange or a Halo to be found. No carrots. Nothing remotely healthy, at least in the photo. 

The AAP is the organization that represents the physicians responsible for pediatric health and health care. Had Arnold added, "I know it's not the healthiest basket ever, but it's all for fun and we at AAP recommend kids eat these foods sparingly and partake of fruits and veggies," the irony would have been less drastic. From the AAP Ohio site: The number of obese children in the United States as more than tripled since the 1970’s. The Ohio Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics’ Parenting at Mealtime and Playtime program combines more than 10 years of proven, successful nutrition and obesity-prevention education into a program aimed at making Ohio children healthier. The Ohio AAP’s obesity-prevention work began in 2007, with Ounce of Prevention, and continued in 2012 with the Pound of Cure Learning Collaborative.

This orange food basket is akin to the head of the American Cancer Society sending out cartons of cigarettes as a gift.  Here's a slew of science that links food dyes and pediatric behavioral problems.

Chronic Illness and Developmental Vulnerability at School Entry

CONCLUSIONS: Regardless of the number or type of conditions, chronic illness in young children is a risk factor for reduced school readiness. These effects were seen for health conditions not traditionally considered detrimental to school readiness, such as chronic otitis media. Thus, the implications of a broader range of chronic health conditions in early childhood on school readiness need to be considered.

AAP Statement on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans  The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) welcomes the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans released today. For the first time, the guidelines recommend limiting the consumption of added sugars to less than 10 percent of calories per day, and continue to recommend more vegetables, fruits, whole grains and lean proteins, and less sodium and saturated fat, all of which support a healthy eating pattern for families.

Many in the autism community noticed and commented all over Facebook. Our own Anne Dachel has catalogued thousands of stories of the radical decline of teachability of children and the impact on schools.  Garbage in, garbage out. Food choices matter. However,  Melissa and her friends pooh poohed the cacophony of "Who would feed this to anyone?" and even mocked the NUTRITIONAL topic as the realm of "crazy antivaxxers."  So wrong. So very wrong.  In fact, it's bananas.  Kim

Melissa Arnold Page


Navigating the System: the Individualized Education Plan

IepBelow is Cathy Wrote Best of." She has the weekend off.  Special Education has gotten more complicated than ever, as school districts deal with the onslaught of students needing help. If you have a story to share, please comment. 

As a sidenote, one of the best books you'll NEVER hear about from your district is Skyhorse Publishing's Your Special Education Rights, written by SpEd lawyer Jen Laviano and Advocate Julie Swanson. It offers an "inside baseball" look at what districts will do to protect their budgets and behinds, even at the expense of your child's legal rights.

By Cathy Jameson

IEP.  That acronym can conjure up one of many emotions.  From frustration to relief, what it takes to create an Individual Education Plan can be one of the biggest stressors that special needs parents face.

Susan was one of those parents.  She was becoming more and more nervous about her daughter Anna.  Knowing something just wasn’t right, Susan’s suspicions were confirmed mid-way through Anna’s kindergarten year.  Watching her bloom much more slowly than her peers, she wondered if what she was seeing were tell tale signs of a developmental delay or more specifically, a learning disorder.  Fearing that Anna was going to need a great deal of help to catch up, Susan asked the kindergarten teacher for advice and to set up a parent conference. 

Susan and the kindergarten teacher, Miss Taylor, compared notes as to what each was seeing.  Susan shared how Anna had started to become withdrawn and temperamental once she came home from class.  Wondering if Anna was trying to keep it together at school but lost it at home, Susan suspected her school struggles were the cause of the change in behavior.  Homework was becoming increasingly difficult, bedtime was emotional, and both Susan and her husband were worried that Anna wasn’t grasping the academic demands in the classroom. 

Susan was hoping Miss Taylor could help pinpoint what Anna’s delays were and address them in the classroom.  She liked the school and the staff and wanted to work with them to get her daughter the skills she needed to be successful in the future.  Thankfully, the school could help, and in fact, were required to do so especially if what Anna was dealing were issues that a more specialized program could focus on.  

Anna’s teacher, Miss Taylor, was in agreement that she, too, was beginning to observe Anna slipping behind.  Together, Susan and Miss Taylor worked together to start the evaluation process. Miss Taylor assured Susan that a screening would begin right away.  During this time, Miss Taylor and other district staff were assembled to review testing tools and what they’d need to evaluate Anna.  After Susan was informed of the tests chosen and agreed to them, Anna’s testing began.  A determination meeting, one of the first formal gatherings of the IEP process, was scheduled for 3 week’s time.  Susan put the date on her calendar and stayed in touch with Miss Taylor until the meeting.

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When a parent or teacher suspects that their child has a problem or concern, either the parent or the teacher can request that a child be evaluated.  Once the concern has been submitted to a representative of the school (also known as the local education agency, or LEA) a screening must begin.  Depending on the state guidelines, a school district will have to complete the testing within a certain timeframe.  

If the evaluations come back that determine a child does have a disability per IDEA guidelines, the need for special education will be discussed with the parents and with an IEP team.  IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, enacted in 2004, is: “…a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation. IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education and related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities.

Infants and toddlers with disabilities (birth-2) and their families receive early intervention services under IDEA Part C. Children and youth (ages 3-21) receive special education and related services under IDEA Part B.”

This means that public schools provide free-appropriate public education (FAPE) for a child who needs special education and related services.  The child’s parents, who will not incur any costs when the child is enrolled in those services, take several more steps with the school to create a specific plan for the child.  Those services will be outlined in the IEP. 

IEPs are legal documents that dictate a child’s educational plan.  If done well, the IEP includes input from the entire IEP team who service the child’s needs.  While it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a team to create, implement and track the goals and outcomes of a child’s IEP. 

Typically, the team is made up of the parents, the general education teacher, the special education teacher, a school psychologist, various therapists (if your child requires related services such as physical therapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy), your child (if you wish them to be there, or if they are able to contribute to their education plan), and of course, at least one administrative representative from your school district, which is usually the principal or vice principal of your child’s school.  As time goes on, and depending on how the child’s educational needs, other people may be added. 

A child, after being evaluated, can be found eligible for special education and related services in the following disability categories:

Autism

Deafness

Deaf-blindness

Developmental delay

Emotional disturbance

Hearing impairment

Intellectual disability

Multiple disabilities

Orthopedic impairment

Other health impairment

Specific learning disability

Traumatic brain injury

Visual impairment including blindness

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A great deal can be done to support a child with a disability.  It takes careful consideration and a well-thought out educational plan to get that child the support they need.  That’s what Susan wanted for Anna.  Because she was struggling in specific areas, during the referral process Anna underwent several tests:  a psychological evaluation, an educational evaluation, plus a speech and language evaluation as well as a fine motor delay evaluation.  It took several days to complete the testing including tallying the results.  Those would go in a formal report and be presented to Anna’s parents and discussed at the determination meeting.  Throughout the testing process, Susan was kept informed of which tests Anna’s underwent and was eager to know the results. 

Now that all of Anna’s testing was complete, the next step was to wait to hear the schools’ recommendations.  Susan had just received the invitation to meet from the district.  She was available for the day and time they suggested and started going over in her mind what she wanted to talk about with the team.

Susan wanted to be an active member on the IEP team.  She had already made a list of Anna’s strengths and weaknesses.  She had also started to do a little bit of reading and asked another mom, who had a child on the spectrum and was two years older than Anna, what she knew about their district’s special ed program.  From that conversation, Susan learned she can and should play a very active role in the IEP process.  She started thinking about what goals she wanted for Anna—goals not just to get through first or second grade, but beyond when Anna would be done with school and hopefully on her own.  She wanted Anna’s school experience to be positive where she’d learn, grow and build life-long skills to be an active member of society. 

Suspecting that it was going to take a few more professionally-trained people and a bit of therapy to get Anna where she should be academically, Susan asked for a copy of the official reports everyone had conducted to be sent to her before the IEP meeting was scheduled.  This way she wouldn’t be thumbing through the reports trying to read them while the educational experts were presenting them; she would instead have had time to read and digest them before having to talk about them. 

Susan also requested that, if the school had created proposed goals for Anna from all of the testing they did, she be given a copy of those as well.  Knowing that making goals would be discussed if Anna were made eligible, she made sure to ask for them at least 5 days before the meeting to be able to decipher the language and look up anything that she may not completely understand. 

On the day of the IEP meeting, Susan sat at the head of the conference room table and waited for the rest of the team to be settled in their seats.  Each person went around the table introducing themselves.  Susan had already met most of the group and was ready to find out what they were going to tell her.  The vice principal, acting as the LEA representative, welcomed everyone while the speech therapist prepared to take the official meeting notes.  Susan, also planning on taking notes, asked that the meeting be recorded on her hand-held audio recorder because her husband was unable to attend the meeting. The district LEA agreed to it, and the meeting started. 

After each of the team members who tested Anna had a chance to report on their findings, it was determined that Anna did have significant developmental delays and that they did indeed warrant special education.  Since she was also behind with both speech and language and fine motor skills, Anna was also found eligible to receive related services (speech and occupational therapy).  Not completely surprised, but now full of even more questions, Susan discovered she would actually be invited to another IEP meeting, a meeting immediately following this determination meeting.  Before it was to begin though, Susan was asked to sign the determination paperwork allowing the school to start the next step:  creating Anna’s individualized education plan. 

By signing the document, Susan agreed that Anna was eligible for services.  Susan was nervous, but remained hopeful that the school would continue to guide her in the process to get Anna the appropriate education she needed.  She was ready to continue the process, so Susan signed the invitation to attend the next IEP meeting, which was to start in minutes, while still sitting at the table.

The meeting, which would cover how the school district would provide the services and supports Anna needed, began right away.  Since creating the actual plan that would be unique to Anna’s needs and would also describe the specific services the school would offer, the team had to brainstorm ideas, discuss strategies and work together.  They got started right away.

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Once the evaluation is complete, special education determination decided and signatures acquired, another IEP meeting will be scheduled.  Many topics will be discussed at this and all future IEP meetings.  Educational, therapeutic and social skills goals, among others, have to be created.  Duration of and placement for a child’s specific services must also be addressed.  All involved in the plan contribute a great deal of information to an IEP meeting. 

As meetings can be long, parents should be prepared to spend half a morning, or afternoon depending on when they are scheduled, in discussion.  Some parents will bring snacks when an IEP is scheduled.  Others don’t as they keep a more managerial-style approach to the table.  They instead stay focused on the business at hand.  They see themselves as lead manager of their child’s education collaborating with school experts to create an appropriate educational plan designed to carry their child through their academic career.  Knowing what to bring to a meeting, how to present oneself and how and why parents should document everything that is shared with them, will take practice.  So will knowing the key points frequently discussed at IEP meetings.  Those include: 

-That the child is eligible to receive special education and related services

-That FAPE must be provided

-That accessing the General Education has been considered

-That the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) has been taken into account

-That potential accommodation and modifications are reviewed

-That appropriate placement—either through the public school or in a private school setting--is discussed

-That goals are always measurable, objective (not subjective) and use the child’s strengths to improve their weaknesses

-That inclusion, whenever possible (and not just during specials or recess), is the an option so that every special education student can be educated alongside their typical peers

Throughout the process, as daunting as it might feel, parents will be asked for their input.  From identifying the initial concerns to getting services started, and in the future changed as a child reaches their goals, parents will also be asked to give their consent.  So that a parent can be fully informed, requesting documents the school will share at meetings is important to get prior to the meeting.  Reviewing helpful websites, reading current trends in special education law and asking question until all are answered to the parent’s desire can help one successfully navigate through the system. 

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Because of the information a parent has to consider, learning the basics, and also the intricacies of the IEP process, is important.  Parents can become experts for their child when they understand what is being planned, said and proposed for their child.  Susan was quickly learning in these first two meetings that she needed to know a lot more than she expected. 

Despite some of the unknowns, Susan was pleased with initial outcome of her first step into the special education world.  Surprised at how much goes into the meeting, Susan knew she’d be devoting time to become more familiar with the IEP process.  She also made a note that she had to learn the language better (like common IEP lingo such as 504 Plan, LEA, OT, SLP, PT, Gatekeeper, Gen Ed, Spec Ed, DD, MR, AU, PWN, IDEA, group setting, 1:1; objective, subjective; measurable).  She knew that would only benefit her when the team reconvened. 

By the end of the meeting, Anna’s team created goals in the areas that she struggled:  academic (to include math and reading), social and also speech and OT, which were part of related services.  They had reviewed Anna’s Present Level of Performance (PLOP), considered her strengths while accounting for her weaknesses and made sure each goal was objective as well as having measureable benchmarks.  They’d also decided where Anna would receive those services, for how long and who would be providing them. 

Also reviewed was how Susan and her husband would be notified of Anna’s progress.  Since Anna wasn’t capable of writing yet, Susan requested a communication log be used to track Anna’s daily activities.  They would record Anna’s behavior, when she had therapy and how her day went overall.  Since Anna couldn’t write yet and had already become withdrawn not wanting to share any of her school day news, Susan appreciated having access to how her daughter’s day was. 

Susan was astounded at all that went into this meeting and at how many documents and forms it took to track everything discussed.  Once the IEP meeting was over and the forms signed stating that Susan was in agreement with the district to implement the services, Anna would began working on the goals the team created. 

With that meeting done, Susan took time to go back and read more about the special education process and to familiarize herself with her district’s program.  In her search to know more about the program, Susan found a mentor through the special education parent advisory panel.  She set up a meeting with the mentor having a full list of questions to ask her. 

Susan was happy to find another parent who was a few steps ahead of her in the special education process.  The mentor walked her through what future meetings might be like, including the triennial meeting and a transitional meeting, which would occur when Anna heading to middle school.  Susan discovered that a meeting can be called at any time—by the school or by the parents, and can even be called and scheduled during the summer. 

Before Susan left, the mentor loaned Susan some books, promised to add her to the groups’ email list and said she’d be happy to sit with her at any IEP meetings that Susan’s husband wasn’t able to attend.  Susan knew other parents didn’t have as easy an experience as she did in getting Anna’s IEP started.  She was going to do what she could to keep the lines of communication open with the school, and not just with Miss Taylor, who she saw every day in the car pool line, but with the other members of the team she might only see at IEP meetings. 

Armed with more information, and while getting a better understanding of how the system worked, Susan knew it was still going to take effort to keep up with Anna’s needs.  She knew it would take time to get used to the changes, but was at the same time grateful that in identifying Anna’s delays, a team of people were readily able to address them.  With time, through her own research and by communicating with the team, Susan felt confident that she would be the captain of Anna’s IEP team.  That, and keeping positive, was what Anna needed Susan to be. 

Helpful Links


NCLD http://ncld.org/  

NYCHY http://nichcy.org/

IDEA  http://idea.ed.gov/

Wrightslaw.com http://www.wrightslaw.com

 

When it Takes More than a Team: when a parent has to navigate through the nitty gritty

What if, after following the many steps to create an IEP, your child fails to make progress?  Or, your school district hasn’t followed the procedural guidelines?  Or, an evaluation the district conducted is inaccurate or was not done by a highly qualified person?  Or, the therapy promised in the IEP hasn’t been delivered? 

Not every IEP meeting experience is going to have a happy ending.  Nor will every child’s school experience be a positive one.

What’s a parent to do? 

Depending upon which issue they’ve run into, parents have several options. 

-For the issues that might be more manageable but require a more-adept person to guide them through the myriad of paperwork, a parent might benefit from hiring an advocate.  Look to your local special education support group or special education advisory committee for your district for recommendations. 

-If it’s a procedural safeguard that’s been violated, a parent could be well within their rights to file a complaint at the state level.  Specific steps and documentation is necessary for this step, so review your state’s guidelines on how to do this.

-If it’s a testing issue that contributed to your child not getting the services they need, asking for an IEE (Individual Education Evaluation), funded of course at district’s expense, could help resolve this. 

-Or, if the problem is so great and the parent has already followed every step and gotten nowhere for too long trying to resolve the issue, filing due process is an option.  This is one of the most costly—both in time, money and emotions—but, parents have been successful in taking their concerns to the courts in order to get their child the appropriate education they deserve.

A parent’s role is as important as every person around the IEP team table.  In fact, it’s the most important as a parent knows their child better than anyone else.  Parents, once they recognize their child needs more support, need to get familiar with the law because it’s on their side.  A child can get educational and related services support at no cost when parents are the captain of the IEP team and know their role.  Know the law, the procedure and the safeguards, speak up, sign documents only when you are in full agreement, keep communication lines open, continue to research, don’t be afraid to ask questions and always keep your child’s strengths and abilities in the forefront of your mind. 

Your SPED rightsYour Special Education Rights: What Your District Isn't Telling You.

By Jennifer Laviano and Julie Swanson

The definitive guide for parents of children with disabilities is out.
This book is authored by two special education experts and draws on decades of experience from the front lines of special education advocacy.

The authors, Jennifer Laviano and Julie Swanson, detail a strong, practical, and results oriented perspective that helps parents cut through the fog of special education to get the services their children deserve.

"Our bottom line is parents are often ineffective at advocating for their child because they don't know their rights," said Jennifer Laviano, co-author and special education attorney. "We see it time and again: The child doesn't get what he or she needs because the parents don't know what they don't know.



Sick, Sicker, Sickest

Quiet-Sick-Zone-779020An estimated 43% of US children (32 million) currently have at least 1 of 20 chronic health conditions assessed, increasing to 54.1% when overweight, obesity, or being at risk for developmental delays are included... Science Direct 2011

We ran the post below in 2011. Robert Kennedy, Jr. has been vocal about the demise of pediatric health, and he's taking a drubbing for it. How DARE he! The Make America Healthy Again slogan is really about our future as a nation. If he can open hearts, minds and eyes, our society as a whole will benefit.

Generations of sick Americans will not fill tax coffers, will not be able to fight in the forever war of the moment, will not be able to care for their aging parents or their own children, if they can even have children. The cost of chronic sickness is really immeasurable as it affects every aspect of society. Of course, sickness means profit for the insurance, hospital, health"care" and pharmaceutical industries.

Age of Autism - 2011

A recent study (below) states that 54% of American children currently suffer from chronic illness. WHY? When did school nurses become pharmaceutical specialists? When did reading and writing require an Epi-pen? Why does a jar of Skippy need a skull and crossbones for so many kids?  When was Romper Room replaced by Early Intervention? And when did the gee-whiz days of youth come to mean G-tubes for feeding? Our kids are sick.  Pediatrics has failed them miserably despite dozens of "well" visits before school age. What the hell has gone so wrong? We need to demand answers. This report concludes we need more specialists and healthcare access. But what if that's the actual problem?  We need a yellow alert... Come to our Age of Autism presentation on Friday at 1:30 at Autism One to learn more. And stay tuned. You're about to be called into action.

Abstract Read Full Study HERE

Background

Parent/consumer–reported data is valuable and necessary for population-based assessment of many key child health and health care quality measures relevant to both the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) of 2009 and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA).

Objectives

The aim of this study was to evaluate national and state prevalence of health problems and special health care needs in US children; to estimate health care quality related to adequacy and consistency of insurance coverage, access to specialist, mental health and preventive medical and dental care, developmental screening, and whether children meet criteria for having a medical home, including care coordination and family centeredness; and to assess differences in health and health care quality for children by insurance type, special health care needs status, race/ethnicity, and/or state of residence.

Methods

National and state level estimates were derived from the 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health (N = 91 642; children aged 0–17 years). Variations between children with public versus private sector health insurance, special health care needs, specific conditions, race/ethnicity, and across states were evaluated using multivariate logistic regression and/or standardized statistical tests.

Results

An estimated 43% of US children (32 million) currently have at least 1 of 20 chronic health conditions assessed, increasing to 54.1% when overweight, obesity, or being at risk for developmental delays are included; 19.2% (14.2 million) have conditions resulting in a special health care need, a 1.6 point increase since 2003. Compared with privately insured children, the prevalence, complexity, and severity of health problems were systematically greater for the 29.1% of all children who are publicly insured children after adjusting for variations in demographic and socioeconomic factors. Forty-five percent of all children in the United States scored positively on a minimal quality composite measure: 1) adequate insurance, 2) preventive care visit, and 3) medical home. A 22.2 point difference existed across states and there were wide variations by health condition (autism, 22.8, to asthma, 39.4). After adjustment for demographic and health status differences, quality of care varied between children with public versus private health insurance on all but the following 3 measures: not receiving needed mental health services, care coordination, and performance on the minimal quality composite. A 4.60 fold (gaps in insurance) to 1.27 fold (preventive dental and medical care visits) difference in quality scores was observed across states. Notable disparities were observed among publicly insured children according to race/ethnicity and across all children by special needs status and household income.

Conclusions

Findings emphasize the importance of health care insurance duration and adequacy, health care access, chronic condition management, and other quality of care goals reflected in the 2009 CHIPRA legislation and the ACA. Despite disparities, similarities for public and privately insured children speak to the pervasive nature of availability, coverage, and access issues for mental health services in the United States, as well as the system-wide problem of care coordination and accessing specialist care for all children. Variations across states in key areas amenable to state policy and program management support cross-state learning and improvement efforts.

 

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Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

Anthony Fauci seems to have not considered that his unprecedented quarantine of the healthy would kill far more people than COVID, obliterate the global economy, plunge millions into poverty and bankruptcy, and grievously wound constitutional democracy globally.


What's A Full Night's Sleep?

CJ blue bedInteresting information on the possible role of iron in sleep issues in autism shared on X by ARI. How do your children sleep? Which affects how YOU sleep. Of my three adult daughters, they each go to sleep pretty well. One sleeps relatively better than her sisters, and occasionally as late as 7:00am! Another sleeps through the night mostly, but she wakes as early as 4:00am. And she has bouts of insomnia, especially around her period. My other daughter wakes at least once per night and gets out of bed, and then wakes very early, around 5:00am.  I've found that hiding ALL technology, iPad,  my laptop, helps. But they jiggle my bedroom door like a horror movie. "Leeeettt  usssssss iinnnnnnn, Mommmmmmm!"

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Iron and sleep/wake disorders

Iron is a trace element present in neurons, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia. Iron is also an essential component for both the synthesis of neurotransmitters that regulate the sleep/wake cycle, as well as the dopamine synthesis pathway.

These observations indicate that ID could significantly influence sleep and wake patterns; however, iron levels are rarely considered in the clinical management of sleep/wake disorders.

The most frequent causes of sleep/wake disorders are hyper-arousability, restless leg syndrome (RLS), hyper-motor restlessness, restless sleep disorder (RSD), and periodic limb movements in sleep (PLMS).

Read more HERE.

 

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Laura Hayes Asks "Why Is This Legal" About Our Vaccination Policy

Crying libertyWhy is it legal to mandate even one, much less scores of, invasive medical procedures that include long lists of serious, often permanent, risks, including death, chronic illness, and severe disability? Bear in mind that mandated medicine makes informed consent impossible. Laura Hayes

Yesterday, we directed readers to the positive news from ICAN about the restoration of the Religious Vaccine Exemption in the University of California system. The right to refuse a vaccine has been under attack for many years. In 2024, five states offer nothing but a medical exemption, having banished both religious and philosophical exemptions, effectively denying parent choice for their children. The Biden Harris implemented its own Covid vaccine mandates. No shot, no job.

Back in 2018, Laura Hayes shared video link and transcript for her 2018 presentation called, "Why is this legal," and we're running it here today. You can watch and read. Take an opportunity to snip and share across social media. When I scroll back through the AofA archives, I'm amazed at, and grateful for, the depth and breadth of our content. Laura has written a treasure trove. You can find all of Laura Hayes' work at our Age of Autism Special Reports/Exclusives.

Every day, our job is to further embed that burr under the saddle of politicians and industry.





Dear AoA Readers,

I wanted to share the video link and transcript for the vaccine-related presentation I gave in Utah this past Friday titled, "Why Is This Legal?"

A big shout out to symposium organizer, Kristen Chevrier. She and her Your Health Freedom team planned an informative 2-day event featuring a wonderful and well-spoken array of speakers, for whom video links will soon be available at Your Health Freedom.

As always, I am hoping my presentation will open eyes and ears to the terrible truth about vaccines.

Please share...together, we might just save a child and their family from a lifetime of needless suffering.

Thank you,

Laura Hayes

“Why Is This Legal?” by Laura Hayes, delivered on 11-2-18 in Utah

This evening, I am going to be speaking to you about vaccines, specifically, their inexcusable lack of safety, the toxic and hazardous ingredients contained in them that have no business being injected into any human, and the catastrophic results we continue to witness due to their use. In the time I have, I will only be able to scratch the surface of the harm that vaccines cause, both to the individual recipient, and to subsequent generations, if the recipient is still able to reproduce. I won’t have time to delve into the lack of efficacy or necessity for vaccines, but suffice it to say that their failure rate is high, their “efficacy” is based on measures which are unproven and unreliable, and injecting poisons, toxins, neurotoxins, carcinogens, immune- and nervous-system destroyers, endocrine disruptors, ingredients that have never been clinically approved, and unknown ingredients that are not required to be disclosed, is in no way health-inducing or protective, for any one, at any age. As I like to say, one does not need to be a PhD in biology or chemistry, or an MD, or even academically astute to understand that the practice of vaccination is not founded on any valid science. Common sense, basic science, and parental instincts are more than enough to discern the truth about vaccines. Now, let’s launch into the topic of vaccine safety, an oxymoron if ever there was one.

Not too long ago, in a vaccine-related forum to which I belong, someone proposed that we launch a meme campaign titled, “Why Is This Legal?”. It was in response to yet another teenager becoming paralyzed after receiving Merck's Gardasil vaccine. I find why is this legal to be a compelling question to ask with regard to vaccines, our nation’s vaccine program, and vaccine mandates.

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Informed Consent Action Network Scores Win for University of California Students

Legal updateWe invite you subscribe to the ICAN (Informed Considet Action Network) newsletter to learn about their work. Look at this glorious win for medical freedom. Laws are tools. Useful. They create civilized society and fix problems. Everyone has a hammer in the toolbox. But a hammer can also be a nifty weapon for bashing in heads. I suppose we could call that an "off label use." So too can laws be used to punish, block, subjugate, and worse.

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BREAKING NEWS: University of California Allows Religious Exemptions on the Heels of Two Successful ICAN-Backed Lawsuits

ICAN’s attorneys recently scored major wins in lawsuits brought against both UC Davis and UCLA for the UC system’s refusal to grant religious exemptions to students. As a result, the entire University of California (UC) school system has changed its vaccination policy to permit religious exemptions for all 295,000+ of its students!

In January and February 2024, ICAN’s attorneys—led by Aaron Siri, who also happens to be an alumnus of UC Berkeley Law School—filed two successful lawsuits on behalf of students at University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Can I Get an AMEN!

Amen"God, faith, family. It's part of who we are."

By Cathy Jameson

Once a month, my husband and I have been able to meet up for the evening Mass while one of the siblings keeps an eye on Ronan.  We turn that time into a date night, sometimes afterward actually going on a date.  We go to church and then stop in a favorite restaurant on the way home.  The last few times we’ve been able to meet up for Mass, we have called the kids on the way home and asked them to join us for dinner.  Even though that time had been reserved for just us, I love having the family altogether on our date. 

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Last week, we juggled a few events while our older kids came home from college.  When we know we’ll be busy all day long on Saturday and through most of the day on Sunday, we plan as much ahead as possible.  That includes deciding when we’ll go to church.  Church comes first, it always has, even when we have a lot of things to get to. 

Knowing we’d be here, there, and everywhere, we discussed who would go to which Mass and where.  Some could go Saturday night, others wanted to go Sunday morning.  Some could go to our local church while others could go to the one day the road.  We ended up splitting up, as usual – some went Sunday morning while others of us went to the very late 7pm Sunday evening Mass. 

We have the luxury of going to 3 different churches, 4 actually, but we know Ronan doesn’t like to go to the 4th church.  The one we chose has 3 different areas where we could keep Ronan as comfortable and quiet as possible.  He’s not usually loud in church, but he will stand up mid-way through the readings and want to leave.  At this church’s evening Mass, we see a few other families with special needs adult children.  We fit right in, so it’s a nice option when Ronan has the energy to join us.

Here, Ronan is used to sitting in the very, very back in the cry room.  It isn’t a big room, the pews are really close together, and when the air conditioner is off, it sometimes smells like mashed Cheerios and dirty carpet.  Most of the time, it’s just one other family who takes up residence in there with us.  Nodding or smiling that they recognize that Ronan is much older than their baby or toddler, we find a spot on one of the cramped pews and sit together.  Last Sunday night, we were surprised to see a large family with typical teenagers and young adults taking up 2 of the 3 pews.  At first, I didn’t know if these kids were truly typical, but by the end of Mass, they proved that they were the teens I try to avoid in quiet spaces.  They took out their phones, they talked to each other, they poked each other during the Consecration, and they tried to make each other laugh at other solemn part of the Mass. 

Two other families ended up joining us when their toddlers got too chatty in the main part of the church.  Those two other families had every right to be in the cry room, but man, did they add to the distractions!  Ronan picked up on just how loud and busy these two other children were.  I was so surprised because he doesn’t usually take note or stare at strangers like he was doing.  Our youngest daughter was with us, and she did an amazing job keeping Ronan focused by pointing to where we were in the missalette. 

By the end of Mass, I was more than a little frustrated – not at Ronan!  I was frustrated at these seemingly typical adults who did their very best to not participate in the most sacred hour of the week.  One hour.  They wouldn’t focus.  One hour.  They didn’t sing.  One hour.  They didn’t respond to the prayers or the readings.  One hour.  They couldn’t sit still.  One hour.  They almost ruined things for me.  But I wouldn’t let them because each time they fooled around, or knowingly distracted each other, Ronan remained focused.  He remained seated without wiggling.  He stayed next to us without trying to leave like he usually wants to.  Ronan went, attended to, and even participated in the Mass.  It has been a long time that he has been able to do that.  And he did it better than those teens, young adults and their parents.  Can I please get an amen! 

After receiving communion, we opted to stay in the narthex and not return to the cry room.  It was just too overwhelming and distracting.  Ronan indicated that he was ready to go at that point, too, so we said our after-communion reflections and tip toed out.  As usual, we stopped in our favorite restaurant for dinner, gobbled up some chips and salsa, and enjoyed some fun, family conversation at the table.

This weekend will be as busy as last weekend was for us.  We have a sporting event, haircuts scheduled, projects and homework to finish, a birthday party to get to, and time to spend with one of the kids who’s coming home from college again—we Jamesons will be hopping!  We’ll plan ahead on who’s going where and to which Mass first.  God, faith, family…it’s part of who we are, and I’m so glad that Ronan could be part of that faith bit for one hour with us last weekend.

Cathy Jameson is a Contributing Editor for Age of Autism.

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I Love My Son, But I'm Scared of Him

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By Anne Dachel

I just posted a story from Ireland on Loss of Brain Trust

It was an interview from a radio station in Donegal. The parents of a family with four young adults with autism talked about the utter lack of support once autistic children leave school.

Sept 13, 2024, OceanFM: Mountcharles family with four autistic young adults say supports are completely inadequate

Patrick and Maria Brogan of Mountcharles in Donegal are the parents of four autistic young adults – Marty, Cassie, Daniel and Patrick. They’ve expressed their absolute frustration at the lack of supports and facilities in place for them, and say they’re considered merely as ‘add-ons’ in the eyes of the State

In the course of 12 minute interview was this shocking exchange between the father, Patrick Brogan, and the OceanFM host.

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Patrick: It’s estimated that 23 percent of the child population, at the present  moment, has a diagnosis of autism, ADD, ADHD, and the Belfast Trust has the prevalence and school age children with autism and Aspergers. And they estimate it to be one in 14.

One in 14 is two out of every big class and every national school in the county of Donegal.

There’s something badly wrong. Autism was not there, and the numbers—

Why so much autism?

OceanFM: Was it not there, or did we just not hear about it?

Patrick: Well, they changed the diagnosis 20 years ago, and the diagnoses have only gone up. So if they changed it to make it a broader range, well that should have compensated for the numbers, but the numbers have only gone up.

So there’s something wrong. I don’t know what’s causing it. It’s gone up at a steady rate. Let it be Wi-Fi signal, let it be food, let it be the water, phone signals, chemicals. 

NO QUESTIONS ALLOWED!

I don’t know what’s causing it, but we as parents find it impossible to ask questions.

OceanFM: That’s one of your main frustrations, that you can’t ask questions.

What do you mean by that? Ask questions of whom? And what questions?

Patrick: Through the years, because of having the epilepsy with the children and all that, I’ve been in different hospitals at different times, and I often have conversations with different doctors, different consultants.

And four or five them told me, they can’t talk about it. If they do, they’re going to be struck off.

What’s that about? Why would they say something like that at the end of the day?   . . .

So doctors in Ireland are NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT AUTISM OR THEY WILL LOSE THEIR JOBS.

Of course this is part of the massive cover-up and denial that has been swirling around autism for two decades, and it’s not just in Ireland. We’ve all been steadily brainwashed to believe that every stunning increase in the autism rate is thanks to better diagnosing by doctors and no real increase at all.

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Autism Research Review International Call for Post-Mortem Brains

Autism Research Review logoEditorial- Autism and the brain: the vital contribution of postmortem research

Below is an editorial from Autism Research Institute from Dr. Stephen Edelson, Dr. Marvin Natowicz and Dr. Margaret Baumann. They are asking you to consider donating your loved one's brain to their research, and they provide donor options. I suggest the organizations they recommend pay for a lifetime of quality housing and care in exchange for this commitment. They might also follow wandering/drownings for a rich source - as there would have been more than 2 dozen at their doorstep this Summer alone.

You might recall that Dr. Baumann's brain research lab at Harvard University was destroyed several years ago, when the freezers failed, and no back up systems took over. This was a great loss, to have a baseline of brains from the early days of the epidemic when babies received hundreds of mcg of mercury.

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Editorial- Autism and the brain: the vital contribution of postmortem research

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects approximately 1% of the global population. It presents in diverse ways, but the core features typically include challenges with social interaction and communication, as well as repetitive behaviors and focused interests. Despite these shared characteristics, individuals with autism can vary significantly in how the condition initially manifests and progresses. Unfortunately, the causes of autism are usually not determined, and the biological mechanisms underlying the condition remain poorly understood. This gap in knowledge can result in suboptimal care for affected individuals and, consequently, has ramifications for family members. To address this, it is crucial to gain a deeper understanding of the brain processes involved in autism. One important way to achieve this is through postmortem brain research that is made possible through the donation of brain tissue for scientific study.


Why is studying human brain tissue important in autism research?

There are many ways to study autism, including epidemiological studies, clinical analyses, genetic research, and neuroimaging of living individuals. These methods have provided valuable insights, such as the recognition that autism is a highly heritable and heterogeneous condition, both in terms of its causes and its clinical presentations. Studies have also identified genetic variations associated with autism, particularly those affecting aspects of brain development and function. Given these advances, one might wonder why it is still essential to study brain tissue directly.

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Kennedy Supporter Tells Trump: "Convince Us"

Fool Me Once
Below is an open letter to Donald Trump from John Gilmore, founder of the Autism Action Network.
He voices the concerns of many within the autism vaccine injury community. 2016 was ripe with promises that withered on the vine. Do you need or want to be convinced?

Donald Trump: Convince Us.

In the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the issues of vaccine safety and rights, the chronic disease epidemic, drug industry and regulatory agency corruption, and autism, issues at the core of the mission of the Autism Action Network, were not mentioned by either candidate.

There is no reason to expect Harris to talk about these topics that are now taboo for almost all Democrats. But Trump recently forged an alliance with former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in large part specifically to talk about these issues, and they coined the slogan “Make America Healthy Again” to market them.

Yet there was silence at the debate on Trump’s part as well. He bragged about his disastrous handling of the COVID debacle, even saying he deserves more credit for his efforts to produce ventilators, even though the death rate for COVID patients placed on ventilators was more than 90%.

Granted, the questions asked were selected by ABC talking heads, but both candidates seemed to have no problem pulling in whatever issue they wanted to talk about regardless of the question asked during what may be the only debate before the election.

Neither the Trump nor Harris campaign websites mention these issues. Again, there is no reason to expect anything on Harris’ website, but the absence on Trump’s is troubling.

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What Was That B?

Vitamin B 1 adDear Tough Nuts and Old Timers, below is a Vitamin B study summary from the Safeminds site. ...due to the risk of peripheral neuropathy at high doses, medical supervision is essential... That sentence made me laugh. Can you imagine asking your (non-organic) garden variety pediatrician about vitamin doses and getting anything other than, a blank stare followed by "buy a multivitamin?"

Vitamin B was a rock star back in the prehistoric autism treatment days (early 2000s.) My daughter used Dr. Derrick Lonsdale's TTFD - high dose Vitamin B1 Thiamine - in his first clinical trials. It came in a suppository and made my beautiful 6 year old daughter smell like a skunk. There was a multi-B supplement we all used from a company whose name I can not recall. Anyone remember? I can't. Guess I too need vitamins. It smelled and tasted.... like B vitamins. Awful. I'm sure I have the brand in a notebook buried in my autism "Save this forever in case someday..." but I just don't have it in me to go look.

Vitamin B is back in the news for autism. Much like gut issues. And we roll our eyes knowing that the Defeat Autism Now! structure had all of this in its sights for so many years. Until.... defeating autism became a sin. I will always be pissed about this. Feel free to join me.

From Safeminds.

Study Finds Vitamin B6 Enhances Brain Balance, Suggests Benefits for Autism, ADHD, and Anxiety Conditions

A new British study has found that high-dose Vitamin B6 supplementation may improve sensory hyperreactivity and motor control issues in individuals with sensory over-responsivity by altering the brain’s excitation-inhibition (E-I) balance. This improvement is achieved by increasing the inhibitory GABA levels and reducing excitatory glutamate levels, as demonstrated in both animal models and human participants. In contrast, the study discovered that Vitamin B12 showed no such benefits, suggesting that the effects are specific to Vitamin B6. This research also highlighted potential improvements in postural control and coordination, indicating that Vitamin B6 could be particularly beneficial for addressing motor issues often accompanying sensory hyperreactivity. Given that sensory over-responsivity is common in conditions such as autism, ADHD, and anxiety, these findings suggest a wide potential application. However, due to the risk of peripheral neuropathy at high doses, medical supervision is essential, and further studies are necessary to determine the optimal dose and ensure long-term safety.

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Speak to Me

Cj prayer is not asking
By Cathy Jameson

Years ago, I used to be on all sorts of social media sites, but the time I spent on those sites ended up bringing a lot of noise and distraction to me.  My focus would be better served elsewhere, so one by one I deleted accounts.  I limit myself to just facebook now and only with a few close family and friends these days.  Someday I may jump ship off of FB, but not yet.  I’m still hooked on the interactions and the memories.  Oh, the memories!

I’ve referenced the On This Day memories feature before.  Like previous times, something I saw on it last week made me pause and reflect.  Usually, the memory is still somewhat fresh, but I’ll be honest.  I don’t remember this post at all.

Thank you to our friends and family who are so totally awesome. Each and every one of you...you with the loud voices, you whispering a kind word, you hanging in the back waiting for the right moment to lend a hand, thank you. I heard this on the way home yesterday; it was a great message at just the right moment. Then I linked a song that had a great message. 

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New Ideas Needed

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I saw this post on social media yesterday, and ran it on X asking, "What if we had something like this for autism?" A very smart, very dear friend told me, "We do!" Her daughter worked for a L'Arche community home in Maryland after college. L’Arche USA works on behalf of L’Arche communities in the U.S. to advance the rights and inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through inclusive leadership, engagement, and bringing the power of community to life, changing society so people living with intellectual disabilities can thrive.

I'm not usually pessimistic, but could we ever hope for a home where lively, happy-to-be-there volunteers from all walks of life become a vibrant part of our adult children's lives?  I wouldn't mind people coming in and out of my daughters' lives if they were there from their hearts, not trudging in to the only job they can get. I'd trade staff consistency for a flow of warm, loving people. I feel like individuals with autism (and behaviors) have been left behind, left out and cast aside in so many ways.  We have an empty convent in my town, and I often look at it and see a safe, congregate care facility that could house adults with autism. Of course, congregate care is verboten for many. But why? We have Alzheimer's facilities. Community based living is not the only option and often unrealistic for adults with profound autism.

There is no L'Arche here in Connecticut, there is one on Long Island and one on the North Shore of Massachusetts. If you know anything about L'Arche, chime in. Adult housing is a mountain of worry. Parents do not live forever. We need ideas and then action. Put on your thinking caps. 

 

 


Why Are the FDA and CDC Allowing Vaccine Companies to Conduct Fraudulent Vaccine Safety Studies?

CautionNote: Thank you to AoA contributor Dr. William Gaunt for sharing this article, originally run at Children's Health Defense. Please share far and wide.

By Dr. William H. Gaunt, NMD

“A false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will not go free.” Proverbs 19 verse 5

New vaccines should be proven safe before they are accepted onto the CDC vaccine schedule. That is not happening. Vaccine companies are doing studies that claim to demonstrate the safety of new vaccines but are carefully designed and conducted to intentionally hide the toxicity of these vaccines. To see how this is done and why the vaccine companies are able to get away with it, read on.

What does an honest vaccine safety study look like?

An honest safety study must have a test group which gets the vaccine and a placebo control group which gets something harmless like a normal saline injection. Injuries and deaths are compared in the two groups. If the test group has many more adverse events than the placebo control group, the vaccine is not safe. None of the vaccines on the CDC vaccine schedule have been safety tested in this way. Is that a shock?

What does a fraudulent vaccine safety study look like?

Rule #1 for conducting a fraudulent study: Do not have a placebo control group. This is where the fraud is happening: the “control group” is deliberately given something that is as toxic as the vaccine being tested. It can be an older vaccine or the vaccine ingredients minus the antigen or a toxic adjuvant. The results will show that the injuries and deaths are similar in both groups. That is because both groups are receiving toxic ingredients. The new vaccine is then illogically declared safe. If there is no placebo control group, the toxicity of the new vaccine is hidden. This is both clever and diabolical. Can you see it?

The public is unaware of this subterfuge:

Turtles All the Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth is the most thorough and brutally honest book ever written about vaccines. The authors tell us on page 81:

“... vaccine trials are designed and performed in such a way as to ensure that the true extent of adverse events is hidden from the public. There is not a single vaccine in the US routine childhood vaccination schedule whose true rate of adverse events is known.”

This must be difficult for many people to believe but it is true. Sad but true.

Examples of how toxic vaccines got on the CDC vaccine schedule:

Prevnar-13 (a pneumococcal vaccine) was given to the test group and the “control group” was given the older Prevnar vaccine. Severe adverse events occurred in 8.2% (one out of every 12 children) in the test group. Severe adverse events also occurred in 7.2% (one out of every 14 children) of the control group. What percent of a placebo control group would have had severe adverse events? Probably 0% because they would have received something harmless. The authors of this study choose not to have a placebo control group. The Prevnar-13 vaccine was declared “safe” and was approved for use by the FDA. You don’t have to be a doctor or scientist to suspect that both the Prevnar and the Prevnar-13 vaccines are unsafe. The Turtles book covers this fraudulent study on pages 60 and 61. 

Here is a second example which the authors describe on pages 77 and 78:

“... in one of the DTaP vaccine trials, 1 in every 22 subjects in the trial group was admitted to the hospital. A similar hospitalization rate was also reported in the “control group” (which received the older-generation DTP vaccine).”

Again, there was no placebo control group. Both vaccines appear to be decidedly unsafe yet the newer DTaP vaccine made it onto the CDC vaccine schedule. DTP and DTaP vaccines contain antigens for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis.

A third example is covered in the book Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak by Robert F. Kenndey Jr and Brian Hooker PhD. They describe the fraudulent Gardasil study on page 7:

“... the FDA did not require an inert placebo prior to its 2007 approval of the Gardasil human papilloma virus vaccine. In fact, rather than using a saline placebo, researchers gave the control group an injection of highly toxic amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate (AAHS), a strong adjuvant with no prior safety testing.”

Once again, there was no placebo control group. The test group and the “control group” both got very toxic ingredients. Gardasil got approved. A major law suit is ongoing for more than a decade attempting to show this fraud and get compensation for people who were injured or killed by Gardasil.

Why is this happening?

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Mandateversary

IMG_4398"Our patience is wearing thin." President Biden to the unvaccinated, 3 years ago.

As we approach the 2024 election, where does vaccine freedom fall in your list of candidate requirements? Donald Trump launched Operation Warp Speed. Biden carried the ball down the field.

Do you think we will ever see another mandate, like we did in 2021? It would be nice if each candidate was asked this question during tonight's Presidential debate.

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JB Handley on Autism & Aluminum

Jb handle substackJB Handley is the godfather of Age of Autism. Before we launched in November of 2007 with Dan Olmsted at the helm, Kim Rossi (then Stagliano) ran a new blog called The Rescue Post. It was JB Handley's brainchild, a way to speak directly to families on topics that even in 2006, few mainstream publications would touch. We shortly thereafter combined forces with Dan and Mark Blaxill to become The Age of Autism.  JB Handley co-founded the now defunct Generation Rescue, and opened America's eyes to the man made autism epidemic.

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Generation Rescue Ad in USA Today (2005?)

Today, he champions Spelling to Communicate and runs a Substack site. Below are two articles that dovetail with his 2014 book How To End The Autism Epidemic from Skyhorse Publishing. We've published many articles from Professor Chris Exley in the UK, an expert on aluminum.

I'll excerpt JB's two articles, and send you right to his Substack,, it much easier to read and digest over there. Subscribe HERE.

1) Retract Mitkus 2011, end the autism epidemic

Some studies matter more than others, Mitkus 2011 is holding back the dam on the truth about aluminum adjuvant toxicity

ROCKVILLE, Maryland — Ever heard of a “biostitute”? The scientific world is filled with them, scientists willing to publish garbage to protect industry (and captive regulatory agencies) from the truth about the damage their products are causing. When it comes to the autism epidemic, no study has caused more trouble (or deserves to be retracted) more than this one, published in 2011 by Mitkus et al: Updated aluminum pharmacokinetics following infant exposures through diet and vaccination

2) International scientists have found autism's cause. What will Americans do?

Five clear, replicable, and related discoveries explaining how autism is triggered have formed an undeniably clear picture of autism’s causation.

STAFFORDSHIRE, England —Dr. Chris Exley of Keele University in England and his colleagues published a paper that for the first time ever looked at the brain tissue of subjects with autism to determine the level of aluminum (note: they spell “aluminum” as “aluminium” in the United Kingdom) found within their brain tissue. For anyone trying to convince the world that “the science is settled and vaccines don’t cause autism,” the study’s findings are deeply contradictory to that statement.

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How to end the autism epidemic coverHow To End The Autism Epidemic

In How to End the Autism Epidemic, Handley confronts and dismantles the most common lies about vaccines and autism. He then lays out, in detail, what the truth actually is: new published science links the aluminium adjuvant used in vaccines to immune activation events in the brains of infants, triggering autism; and there is a clear legal basis for the statement that vaccines cause autism, including previously undisclosed depositions of prominent autism scientists under oath.


Meet Them Where They Are

Grow at your own paceBy Cathy Jameson

Developmental milestones are important to monitor, especially when a child is showing signs of delay.  The checklist I would have referenced for my son’s development would’ve been the one from 2004.  The CDC changed the checklist in 2022.  I haven’t discovered why yet, but people are talking about the 2022 changes again.

I saw this Facebook post shared by a longtime Age of Autism reader mid-week. 

I then found this recent video at the end of the week – the topic was also about the developmental surveillance milestone checklist from 2022.  

I’m part of a team that works with young children which includes observing and assessing their development.  Working mostly with typically developing children, developmental milestones are a big part of what I focus on when I evaluate their abilities in the natural setting.  Years of personal research, as well as research I did back in college, contribute to the knowledge I bring to the program.  Some parents are grateful for my insight when I share reports while others are not ready to hear what I see their child doing or not doing.  My heart goes out to those parents because many years ago, I was once in their shoes. 

Knowledge is power, though, so I work to build a relationship with the parents to help them understand what we report to them and how that information affects their child’s education.  I’m not part of a medical team, but it was good to review that second video as I gear up some initial assessments.  In that video, I was reminded of the steps my son’s team had to take.  That included recalling that pediatricians are recommended to complete a developmental surveillance – which is a screening done at every well-child visit.  At those visits, doctors will:

1 review monitoring checklist and the child’s history

2 ask about concerns

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Healthy Children Do Not Shoot Their Peers and Teachers

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Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.
Healthy children do not shoot their peers and teachers.

1 line for each of the school shootings in 2024. If we do not take a hard look at pediatric health - far beyond the handful of vaccine-targeted diseases and well into every aspect of the life of the WHOLE child, we're doomed to lose more children, their peers and teachers. We need to re-define healthy. Because I'm not sure anyone remembers what it was.


The Healthy American Has Questions for Kennedy

Health applePolitical season is in full bloom. Peggy Hall, author of The Healthy American Substack has an article asking questions of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  Questions that I think we need to ask the candidates as well. RFK Jr. has brought our issues to the forefront. It's nothing short of astounding. Only a handful of men have risked so much taking on pharma sacred cows. Andrew Wakefield. Dan Olmsted. David Kirby. To name a few. I worry about this new MAHA slogan though. Make America Healthy Again requires that Americans A) acknowledge their deficient health status and B) want to make complicated, difficult and often "heretical" choices rather than rely on quick fixes. MAGA was  easy enough to understand. Most of us (I hope) think the USA is pretty great - despite our foibles. Asking Americans to get healthy? That's a gigantic ask of a stagnant, distracted population many of whom have NEVER known health, including parents of children profoundly less healthy than previous generations.  Chronic disease is the norm. SpongeBob inhalers and pill bottles stored at school, and fear of a PB&J at the lunch table are all taken in stride as America limps along. Let's keep the dialog going and the questions flowing, as we move into Autumn.

We exist for one reason - AUTISTIC CHILDREN (many of whom are now adults.) Hall's article is sharp, and pulls no punches. But I think RFK, Jr. has proven over and over his bona fides to us. Jump in the ring and share your thoughts.

I've excerpted Ms. Hall's Substack and you can link over and comment as you wish.

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By Peggy Hall, The Healthy American

My Questions for Kennedy

Let me state from the outset that RFK Jr has definitely raised awareness about vaccine injuries. Parents who might never have known about the link between vaccines and damage to the nervous system, life-long side effects like autism, immune disorders, allergies, learning disabilities and so much more are waking up to these horrors. So Kennedy’s work in raising awareness of vaccine injuries definitely gets a round of applause, wouldn’t you say?

But I believe he doesn’t go far enough. Here are the questions I would ask him:

Why the Focus on Vaccine Safety?

Kennedy talks a lot about "vaccine safety." But why not focus on the harms, dangers, and side effects? Some say this is how he gets around censorship, but I’d like to hear him explain that himself.

Where's the Push to Repeal Heinous Laws?

Kennedy's website gives little attention to repealing the 1986 law that removed liability for pharmaceutical companies. This law created a vaccine court with a mere $250,000 cap for damages—an amount that's woefully inadequate for families affected by vaccine injuries. Why isn’t he fighting to repeal this?

Why Advocate for More Vaccine Testing?

Kennedy has called for expanded safety testing for childhood vaccines. But what does that really mean? Who are the guinea pigs (*cough* children? *cough*), and how reliable are the results from these pharmaceutical companies?

What do you mean by “Restore Confidence in Regulatory Agencies?”

Kennedy talks about "restoring confidence" in agencies like the CDC and FDA. But did we ever have confidence in them to begin with? I never did. And why doesn’t he ever mention that his uncle, JFK, was the one who got the ball rolling with the childhood pin-cushion programs through his initiation of federal government assistance for vaccine programs in public schools?

How Do You Define Democracy, and Why Don’t You Refer to it Correctly as a Constitutional Republic?

Kennedy frequently mentions "democracy" but rarely talks about our constitutional republic. Does he understand the difference? A pure democracy lacks the guardrails that a constitutional republic provides, and those guardrails are crucial to protecting our freedoms. I’ve heard you refer to it as a constitutional democracy, or something similar, but you didn’t refer to it as a constitutional republic—I know that for sure. So, why? Why are you so reluctant to use that phrase? Now, I’m not going to assume you’re using the word “democracy” like a socialist, because socialists love to use that word—it’s kind of a step toward socialism. So, I’m asking you directly: Why do you keep using the word “democracy,” and why don’t you talk about restoring our freedom, our constitutional republic, or our Constitution?   READ MORE AT THE HEALTHY AMERICAN HERE.


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Unavoidably Unsafe coverUnavoidably Unsafe: Childhood Vaccines Reconsidered
Authors: Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke

In Unavoidably Unsafe, Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke confront the prevailing beliefs surrounding childhood vaccines with unflinching scrutiny and bold insight. Drawing on decades of clinical experience and exhaustive research, the authors challenge conventional wisdom. Unavoidably Unsafe is not an indictment of vaccines but a call to arms for informed decision-making and transparency in healthcare. Geehr and Barke aim to empower parents, guardians, and healthcare providers with the knowledge needed to navigate the complex landscape of childhood immunization responsibly.

In a rapidly evolving medical landscape where uncertainties abound, Unavoidably Unsafe serves as a beacon of clarity and integrity, reaffirming the importance of critical thinking and patient-centered care in safeguarding the health and well-being of future generations.


School Teachers and Administrators: You NEED an National Autism Association Big Red Safety Teacher Tool Kit

BRSTT-Teacher-Toolkit-ImageAs autism has overwhelmed schools from coast to coast, admins, teachers and paraprofessionals need more training and support than ever to keep our children SAFE.  Training is crucial and often, paltry. Long term staff can become complacent, newer staff unaware of the dangers they need to prevent on a daily basis. One mistake can be the difference between life and death.  National Autism Association is the leader in autism safety programs.  Please share this post with your schools administrators and teachers.  Full information from NAA below.  Thank you.

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The National Autism Association’s Big Red Safety Teacher Toolkit® is a free-of-charge safety toolkit for educators in need of wandering-prevention tools.

Please review all of the information below before submitting your application.

To apply for an NAA Big Red Safety Teacher Toolkit®, you must:

  • Be a school administrator, teacher or aide working with individuals with an autism diagnosis.
  • Be employed at a school within the U.S. and provide the school address for shipping. (Homeschool programs are not eligible for this toolkit, please apply for a Big Red Safety Box.)
  • Agree to the terms and conditions stated in the application.
  • Apply only once. Multiple requests cannot be processed, limit one toolkit per school.

NAA’s Big Red Safety Teacher Toolkit® includes:

  • Printed educational materials and tools in our BeREDy booklet for teachers
  • Two (2) Door/Window Alarms including batteries
  • Five (5) Laminated Adhesive Stop Sign Visual Prompts for doors and windows

Please note:

  • If you need additional stop signs, alarms, or other safety-related items, they can be purchased separately in our Big Red Safety Shop.
  • All printed materials can be downloaded for free here.
  • NAA Big Red Safety Teacher Toolkit® grants are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis to all qualifying applicants while supplies last. You are not required to make a donation to receive one.

NAA’s Big Red Safety Teacher Toolkits® have a retail value of over $25.00. If you would like to help NAA continue this program, we ask you to please consider Paying it Forward by making an optional donation when requesting your free NAA Big Red Safety Teacher Toolkit®.

Regardless of any tools already in place, if an individual’s medical condition interferes with their ability to recognize danger or stay safe, it is critical to maintain close supervision and security in all settings. For more information and ways to prevent wandering-related incidents, please visit http://awaare.org.

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Unavoidably Unsafe coverUnavoidably Unsafe: Childhood Vaccines Reconsidered
Authors: Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke

In Unavoidably Unsafe, Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke confront the prevailing beliefs surrounding childhood vaccines with unflinching scrutiny and bold insight. Drawing on decades of clinical experience and exhaustive research, the authors challenge conventional wisdom. Unavoidably Unsafe is not an indictment of vaccines but a call to arms for informed decision-making and transparency in healthcare. Geehr and Barke aim to empower parents, guardians, and healthcare providers with the knowledge needed to navigate the complex landscape of childhood immunization responsibly.

In a rapidly evolving medical landscape where uncertainties abound, Unavoidably Unsafe serves as a beacon of clarity and integrity, reaffirming the importance of critical thinking and patient-centered care in safeguarding the health and well-being of future generations.


On RFK, Jr. Throwing Support to Donald Trump

AofA Op EdDr. Richard Moskowitz is an elder statemen who has been a valued member of the vaccine injury awareness community and AofA contributor for many years. He was a volunteer physician at Woodstock! (That's a dinner conversation I'd enjoy. Don't eat the brown acid.) A Harvard trained MD, he practiced homeopathy in his Massachusetts family practice for more than 50 years. He wrote Vaccines A Reappraisal for Skyhorse Pubishing in 2017 (one of many published pieces.) I had the pleasure of meeting him in person in 2019, Vaccines Richard Moskowitzbefore Covid hit. He's one of those people who instantly conveys a quiet authority, and kindness. Below are his thoughts on RFK, Jr.'s decision to withdraw from the Presidential race, and support Donald Trump. Spoiler alert: He is NOT happy. As ever, our mission precludes endorsing any candidate. Our readers come from all political persuasions. Thank you to Dr. Moskowitz.  Feel free to comment, and if you disagree, please remain civil. I mean it. Thank you.  Kim

By Richard Moskowitz, MD

I was away last week when RFK Jr. threw his support to Trump, of all people, which felt to me like a shocking betrayal of rock-bottom American values that I and so many others feel most strongly committed to, some of which he still claims to hold dear, like aiding and protecting the most basic needs of ordinary people, and especially the poor, sick, elderly, and disadvantaged, as against the profit-driven agendas of the obscenely rich and the big corporations.

Especially offensive was the fact that not so long ago he was a hero to me and many others, for helping to expose and publicize the dangers of vaccines, and for calling out the drug companies, not only for their greed, for which they were already famous, but also for their fraudulent science, which helped them to take over the CDC, FDA, and NIH, and ultimately control these Federal agencies that were supposed to regulate and restrain them. This too should be a signature issue for the Democrats, as the party of FDR and the New Deal, who created these agencies for precisely that purpose.

He was therefore entirely right to highlight that issue, to take the Democratic Party to task for failing to recognize it, and to be outraged when the Democratic National Committee refused to take it seriously enough to ask the voters about it, dismissed him as a nut case, and sidelined his own political ambitions, just as they had done with Bernie Sanders in 2016, both because and in spite of his winning primary after primary.

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The Age of Polio: How an Old Virus and New Toxins Created a Man-made Epidemic Lessons learned and lost.

Polio triumph In 2011, our founder Dan Olmsted and Editor-at-Large Mark Blaxill wrote a 7 part series on polio, a disease that is in the news this week as having been the only thing to HALT the fighting in Gaza . Dan also wrote a lengthy separate series about the genesis of the polio epidemic in New York city - and we will run that at a later date. 

By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill

1. The Wrong Narrative.

Polio is the iconic epidemic, its conquest one of medicine’s heroic dramas. The narrative is by now familiar: Random, inexplicable outbreaks paralyzed and killed thousands of infants and children and struck raw terror into 20th century parents, triggering a worldwide race to identify the virus and develop a vaccine. Success ushered in the triumphant era of mass vaccination. Now polio’s last hideouts amid the poorest of the poor in Asia and Africa are under relentless siege by, among others, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Eradication is just a matter of time, and many more illnesses will soon meet the same fate.

But based on our research over the past two years, we believe this narrative is wrong – and wrong for reasons that go beyond mere historical interest. The misunderstanding of polio has warped the public health response to modern illnesses in ways that actually make them harder to prevent, control, and treat.

The reality, we believe, is that the virus itself was just half the epidemic equation -- necessary but not sufficient to create The Age of Polio. Outbreaks were not caused solely by poliovirus – the microbe was an ancient and heretofore harmless intestinal bug -- but by its interaction with a new toxin, most often innovative pesticides used to treat fruits and vegetables.

This alternative narrative makes better sense of the natural history of polio, and it resolves a number of anomalies that remain to this day. It suggests why poliomyelitis outbreaks emerged, evolved, and exploded the way they did; it probably solves, for the first time, the enduring riddle of why Franklin D. Roosevelt was afflicted 90 years ago this summer on Campobello Island; and it may mean today’s billion-dollar-a-year eradication effort is misguided, if not downright quixotic.

These are large claims. Let us explain.

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Polio was a strange illness, never fully understood even by those who devoted their lives to studying and subduing it. It was a summer plague, coming on in late spring and all but vanishing in the fall. Many thought contagion had something to do with water, and Americans kept their children away from swimming pools in droves.

There is a profound distinction between poliovirus – an enterovirus, one that enters through the mouth and takes up residence in the GI tract and bloodstream – and poliomyelitis, the paralytic form of the illness. In the vast majority of cases, the virus causes either a minor illness or an inapparent infection.

But in 1 or 2 in 100 cases, the virus somehow gets past multiple defenses and into the nervous system, where it finds its way to the anterior horn cells at the top front of the spinal column. There, it preferentially attacks the gray-colored motor neurons (polio means gray in Greek) and causes inflammation of the protective myelin sheath (myelitis). This interferes with nerve signals to the muscles and can lead to temporary or permanent paralysis of the limbs and the respiratory system. A small number of people who contract poliomyelitis -- on the order of 1 percent -- die.

The first recorded U.S. outbreak was in 1841 in West Feliciana, Louisiana (10 cases, no deaths). There was a half-century gap until the next cluster, in 1893 in Boston (26 cases, no deaths). Then, in 1894, came what is widely regarded as the first major epidemic, in Rutland and Proctor, Vermont (132 cases, 18 deaths). Thirty more outbreaks – from such seemingly disparate locations as Oceana County, Michigan, and California’s Napa Valley -- were reported in the United States through 1909. The worst by far was New York in 1907, with 2,500 cases and a five percent mortality rate, a harbinger of the 1916 epidemic in the Northeast that killed 2,000 in New York City alone.[i]

What is most remarkable about this list is that so few outbreaks of paralytic polio were recorded anywhere in the world before the latter 19th century. Poliomyelitis is considered an ancient scourge, but the evidence supporting that belief is quite threadbare. An oft-cited Egyptian drawing depicts a priest with a withered leg that could have stemmed from paralytic polio, but for most of recorded history there were few observations of the sudden-onset fever and paralysis in infants that characterizes the disease. The earliest well-documented case of infantile paralysis in an individual is widely considered to be Sir Walter Scott, afflicted as an infant in 1773.[ii]

There is little question that the poliovirus was endemic in humans for millennia; there may even have been isolated cases of poliomyelitis for much of that period. Yet the poliovirus did not trigger widespread outbreaks of poliomyelitis. Setting aside for now the 1841 Louisiana outbreak, reported retrospectively, something seems to have happened around 1890 to launch The Age of Polio in the United States. And something else must have changed around the end of World War II to create the large modern epidemics seared into the minds of older Americans, thousands of whom are poliomyelitis survivors and almost all of whom know someone who was afflicted.

While we have not written about polio, we have seen this pattern before. In our book, The Age of Autism – Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-made Epidemic, we argued that something happened in the 1930s to launch The Age of Autism.[iii] We proposed it was the commercialization of ethyl mercury compounds for use in pesticides – seed disinfectants and lumber preservatives – and in vaccinations; we offered evidence of those inventions in the family backgrounds of the first autism cases identified in the medical literature, in 1943. Similarly, we proposed that the sharp rise in autism cases beginning around 1990 tracks with the federal government recommending several more mercury-containing shots.

Our attention was drawn to polio during our autism research when a virologist mentioned, in passing, that poliomyelitis could be triggered in some instances by injections. Called “provocation poliomyelitis,”[iv] this can happen when a needle stick punctures a nerve in the peripheral nervous system. An active poliovirus infection – typically, in a child exposed to the virus for the first time and not yet immune -- can gain access to the nervous system through a process called “retrograde axonal transport,” traveling back to the spinal column and triggering the dreaded paralytic form, poliomyelitis.

Such cases of provocation paralysis, we learned, occurred in Eastern Europe when antibiotics were excessively administered by injection; this practice led to multiple cases of poliomyelitis.[v] Bulbar polio – of the throat and respiratory system – was recognized as more common after tonsillectomies, again because nerve endings had been exposed.[vi] Outbreaks, then, can unquestionably occur as a result of an environmental injury, in these instances either excessive injection or surgery that led to peripheral nerve damage, in the presence of poliovirus infection.

We began to look at the poliomyelitis literature and found that another and much more comprehensive environmental theory of the disease had been put forward almost immediately after the early outbreaks, although it never gained mainstream attention. This theory proposed that what is called “polio” is not caused by a virus at all, but by poisoning from pesticides. In this theory, lead arsenate triggered the early clusters, and DDT kicked off the large outbreaks after World War II. (The pesticide theory has been championed in recent years by Jim West[vii] and by Janine Roberts[viii].)

That really got our attention. In our research for The Age of Autism, we investigated a paralytic illness we believe resulted from an unrecognized interaction between a toxin and a microbe. Called general paralysis of the insane, or GPI, it was a gruesome and universally fatal outcome in a percentage of people infected years earlier with the syphilis bacteria. We proposed that a manmade mercury compound -- ironically used to “treat” syphilis -- allowed syphilis to gain entrance to the brain. When penicillin was developed in the 1940s and actually killed syphilis infections, GPI disappeared because one of the two requirements for the illness – the microbe – was destroyed.

We suggested that a number of other illnesses may follow a similar pattern in which microbes and metals interact, including, in some instances, autism. So the idea that an environmental insult – whether a needle stick or surgery or a toxic metals exposure – could be at work in outbreaks of poliomyelitis intrigued us.

But we did not find the claim that polio was simply poisoning by pesticides alone to be persuasive. The strong versions of both the virus theory and the pesticide theory – that it was entirely one or the other – are too simple to explain the pattern of evidence. The strong viral theory can’t explain the sudden emergence of poliomyelitis; the strong pesticide theory can’t explain the sudden protective effect of poliovirus vaccinations. Rather, we propose that poliomyelitis outbreaks are man-made events that result from the synergy of microbe and toxin.

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Try try again
By Cathy Jameson

Like for other families, it can take weeks, if not months, of planning to get an appointment scheduled with a specialist.  Our specialists are pretty helpful and very respectful, so it’s usually worth the wait.  Sometimes, it’s not because of their busy schedules that have us waiting; sometimes it’s something else that causes a delay. 

The reason for our latest specialist’s visit is because for a while, Ronan has been experiencing something beyond his usual neurological issues.  We communicated this with our doctor telling her what we were observing and what strategies we were using to keep Ronan comfortable during the episodes.  When these weren’t just happening every so often anymore, we knew we needed to do more than just inform her of what was going on.  Rather quickly, our usual quick convos turned into lengthy discussions.  I appreciated her swift replies and how I could share more than just facts with her.  Our concern was growing, and she could sense that.  With how unusual things were becoming, IMG_4277we asked for testing.  Our doctor agreed that it was time that something more needed to be done for Ronan.   

We had everything set up for the big day:  Time off from work.  Bags packed.  Hotel room booked.  Since it was an early morning appointment, we wanted to be within minutes of the testing site, not have to drive the almost 2-hour trip there the morning of.  With everything ready, and with our youngest staying with a close friend while we were away, we got on the road. 

Getting into town the night before was one strategy that worked in our favor.  What we didn’t factor in was Ronan’s sensory defensiveness during the much-anticipated appointment.  No matter what we tried, he could not get through the procedure.

We tried everything.    

Oh, we tried. 

And we tried again. Cj ekg

But Ronan couldn’t cooperate.  Sensory issues.  Fear.  Adamant refusal.  It all kept us from being successful with the testing.  I was crushed because we’d waited so long to get to this day, to this appointment, to the possibility of a solid answer of what was happening.  

The provider who worked with us gave us some options. 

But it’s another sit and wait for everything to align for us to try, try again. 

I’m usually a perpetually hopeful person.  Friday, I wasn’t.  And it made me so sad to walk away.  It doesn’t take just a few days to get things scheduled. 


Cj scarfIt takes time. 

Our medical team will come up with another plan for us soon, though, so I know that I will find hope again.  Until then, I pray that we can continue to comfort Ronan during whatever these episodes are.  I’d love it if you could pray with us, too. 

Cathy Jameson is a Contributing Editor for Age of Autism.


Ten Years Later: William the Reticent aka CDC Whistleblower

IMG_4229Ten years have passed since CDC scientist William Thompson, PhD admitted to Brian Hooker, PhD that the CDC had intentionally altered MMR data for African American males vaccinated according to the CDC timetable versus later. We created a category just for posts about Thompson and the cover up, which ran along with the publication of Vaccine Whistleblower by Kevin Barry from Skyhorse Publishing. Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as an example of his bona fides. TEN YEARS. How many children could Thompson have shielded from an ASD diagnosis had he not backed off?

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From 2014

Dr William ThompsonBy James O. Grundvig

It appears that the only thing dirtier than the ingredients found in vaccines is the science behind vaccine safety.

In the new book, Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing the Autism Research Fraud at the CDC, attorney Kevin Barry has provided context to a series of tapes that were recorded last summer by Brian Hooker, PE, PhD, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) senior epidemiologist Dr. William Thompson.

Had someone not blown the whistle on the CDC whistleblower last August 2014, Thompson would have divulged a lot more. Needless to say, when he was outed last August, with the most powerful Vaccine Whistleblower Skyhorse Publishingpeople in the media and government away on vacation, by the time Labor Day came around the story had lost its lift.

Being outed prematurely forced Dr. Thompson to hire a law firm that specializes in protecting whistleblowers against retaliation.

Press Release on Dr. William Thompson

After Dr. Thompson introduced himself in the August 27, 2014, presser, he stated:

“I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.”

Today, outed for a second time with the book being published by Skyhorse Publishing (disclosure: my publisher for 3 upcoming books) without Thompson’s permission, the “raw” tapes, which had been transcribed, evolved into a coherent narrative on some of the darker elements of the “science of justification,” allegedly perpetrated by the agency that is tasked with the health, wellbeing and prevention of diseases of Americans.

Sobering Numbers

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Mark Zuckerberg "The Devil Made Me Do It"

Deal-With-DevilYesterday, news reports shared the letter that Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Meta, wrote in response to Senator Jim Jordan describing his compliance with censorship of Covid information as cajoled by the Biden administration. Millions of Americans are aghast that the First Amendment could be so easily set aside.

For us, it was just another Tuesday. Pass the tacos.

Zuckerberg claims to have collapsed like a cheap lawn chair to the White House's pressure. One can not help but wonder if pillow talk might have played a part. Have you seen the 7 foot tall statue he had commissioned  of his wife Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician by degree and who runs the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative?? No decisions are made in a vacuum.

Here is the letter. Is it a MEA CULPA or a way to stave off a whistleblower or other hammer that might be coming down on Meta and every other platform that has censored speech that is detrimental to certain powerful industries? WHO knows?

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Unavoidably Unsafe coverUnavoidably Unsafe: Childhood Vaccines Reconsidered
Authors: Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke

In Unavoidably Unsafe, Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke confront the prevailing beliefs surrounding childhood vaccines with unflinching scrutiny and bold insight. As seasoned physicians, they acknowledge the revered status vaccines hold in modern medicine while bravely questioning their safety and efficacy.

Drawing on decades of clinical experience and exhaustive research, the authors challenge conventional wisdom by addressing critical issues.


Documenting Hope Autism Conference for Autism Families and Medical Providers

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Nothing Lazy About AofAers

Save the date and reserve your seat at the Documenting Hope Conference in Orlando, Florida. What a great way to launch the holiday season, with HOPE!

Conferences are so much more than opportunities to learn. They provide a desperately needed connection and build a community that can last long after the goodbyes. Many Age of Autism readers met at the DAN! Conferences of yore. There is a family member track and a medical provider track. You'll see familiar names and newcomers too - all devoted to helping people with autism thrive. Hope

Register for Documenting Hope HERE

November 15-17, 2024 • Orlando, Florida

Documenting Hope Presents 2 events in 1:
Live CME Event for Health Professionals
The Childhood Integrative Healthcare Conference
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Adventures In Healing
The Ultimate Field Guide To Restoring Health In Our Children

Join Hundreds of Healthcare Professionals and Parents at Documenting Hope’s Conference at the Upscale Destination Hotel, Omni ChampionsGate in Orlando, Florida.

The only 3-day Conference and Health Expo you need to attend this year

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Unavoidably Unsafe coverUnavoidably Unsafe: Childhood Vaccines Reconsidered
Authors: Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke

In Unavoidably Unsafe, Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke confront the prevailing beliefs surrounding childhood vaccines with unflinching scrutiny and bold insight. As seasoned physicians, they acknowledge the revered status vaccines hold in modern medicine while bravely questioning their safety and efficacy.

Drawing on decades of clinical experience and exhaustive research, the authors challenge conventional wisdom by addressing critical issues.


Transcript Robert F. Kennedy Jr's Promise for American Children

Health appleNote: Last week, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Nicole Shanahan tabled their run for the White House. We've known Robert for many years; he's no Johnny Come Lately on the decline of pediatric health. He IS a lightning rod, politically. Rather than focus on the immense hatred toward him, the worst of it coming from his own family, our focus is on his unwavering fight for our children. His mission is our mission. Like Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Robert does not have a child with autism. Both men have courage and heart, even at their own expense. 

Our Anne Dachel is the queen of transcripts. Below is Robert's portion of his announcement that talks about his dedication to pediatric health in the USA.  Feel free to let us know if you feel about Kennedy's throwing in with Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump. Or if you think Vice President Harris will craft a better future for children.

We're neutral in that we do not endorse.  Kennedy is stalwart. Trump has a lot of baggage and many broken promises. Harris and Walz, himself Dad to a disabled son, may fund programs of value, but what of health choice issues? Discuss nicely. It's going to be a long road to November.

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Read and watch video at Anne Dachel's Substack RFK, Jr. made it about the chronic disease disaster facing us, our children

Bobby Kennedy spent the last thirty minutes of his announcement suspending his campaign on the chronic disease crisis in America. His words were genuine and moving. He told us he was putting children first. By suspending his campaign, he would be able to put this catastrophe into the forefront of political arena. News sources that totally ignored him previously, now have to at least acknowledge his presence.

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Three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place. Primarily, and these are the three causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent and now to throw my support to President Trump.

The causes were free speech, the war in Ukraine and the war on our children. . . .

Less than two hours after President Trump narrowly escaped assassination, Calley Means called me on my cell phone, I was in Las Vegas. Calley is arguably the leading advocate for food safety, for soil regeneration and for ending the chronic disease epidemic that is destroying America’s health and ruining our economy. 

Calley has exposed the insidious corruption at the FDA and the NIH, the HHS and the USDA that has caused the epidemic.

Calley had been working on and off for my campaign, advising me on those subjects since the beginning. And those subjects have been my primary focus for the last 20 years.

I was delighted when Calley told me that day that he had also been advising President Trump.

He told me President Trump was anxious to talk to me about chronic disease and other subjects, and to explore avenues of cooperation.

He asked if I would take a call from the President. President Trump telephoned me a few minutes later, and I met with him the following day. A few weeks later, I met again with President Trump and his family members and close advisors in Florida.

In a series of long, intense discussions, I was surprised to discover that we are aligned on many key issues. In those meetings, he suggested that we join forces as a Unity Party. We talked about Abraham  Lincoln’s team of rivals.

That arrangement would allow us to disagree publicly and privately and furiously, if need be on issues over which we differ, while working together on the existential issues upon which we are in concordance. . . .

We are aligned with each other on other key issues .  . .ending the childhood disease epidemic. . . unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies . . .

. . . Vice President Harris decline to meet or even to speak with me.

Suspending my candidacy is a heart-rending for me, but I’m convinced that it’s the best hope for ending the Ukraine War and ending the chronic disease epidemic that is eroding our nations vitality from the inside, and for finally protecting free speech.

I feel a moral obligation to use this opportunity to save millions of American children, above all things.

In case some of you don’t realize how dire the condition is of our children’s health and chronic disease in general, I would urge you to view Tucker Carlson’s interview with Calley Means and his sister, Dr. Casey Means, who is a top graduate of her class at Stanford Medical School

This is an issue that affects all of us far more directly and urgently than any culture war issue and all the other issues that we obsess on and that are tearing apart our country. 

This is the most important issue, therefore it has the potential to bring us together. So let me share a little bit about why I feel it is so urgent.

Today two-thirds—we pay, we spend more health care than any country on earth, twice what they pay in Europe, and yet we have the worst health outcomes of any nation in the world.

We’re about seventy-ninth in health outcomes, behind Costa Rica and Nicaragua and Mongolia and other countries.

Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have, and during the COVID epidemic, we had the highest body count of any country in the world.

We had 16 percent of the COVID deaths, and we only have 4.2 percent of the world’s population.

And CDC says that’s because we are the sickest people on earth. We have the highest chronic disease rate on earth and for the average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases.

So these were people who had immune system collapse, who had mitochondrial dysfunction, and no other country has anything like this.

Two-thirds of American adults and children suffer from chronic health issues.

50 years ago, that number was less than one percent. So we’ve gone from one percent to 66 percent.

In America, 74 percent of Americans now are overweight or obese, and 50 percent of our children.

120 years ago, when somebody was obese, they were sent to the circus. There were case reports done about them. Obesity was almost unknown.

In Japan, childhood obesity rate is three percent, compared to 50 percent here. 

Half of Americans have pre-diabetes or Type II diabetes. When my uncles was President and I was a boy, juvenile diabetes was effectively nonexistent.

A typical pediatrician would see one case of diabetes during his entire career, 40 or 50 year career.

Today one out of ever three kids who walks through his office door is diabetic or pre diabetic.

And the mitochondrial disorder that causes diabetes is also causing Alzheimer’s, which is now classified as diabetes, and it’s costing this country more than our military budget every year.

There’s been an explosion of neurological illness that I never saw as kid, ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, Tourette’s syndrome, narcolepsy, ASD, Aspegers, autism.

In the year 2000, rate was one in 1,500. Now autism rates in kids are one in 36, according to CDC  nationally.

Nobody’s talking about this.

One in every 22 kids in California has autism.  and this is a crisis: that 77% of our kids cannot or are too disabled to serve in the United States military. What is happening to our country, and why isn't this in the headlines every single day?

There's nobody else in the world that is experiencing this. This is only happening in America. About 18%, and by the way, you know, there has been no change in diagnosis, which the industry sometimes likes to say, there has been no change in screening. This is a change in incidence.

In my generation of 70-year-old men, the odds and rates [of autism] are about one in 10,000. In my kids’ generation, one in 34.

I'll repeat: in California, 1 in 22. Why are we letting this happen? Why are we allowing this to happen to our children? These are the most precious assets that we have in this country. How can we let this happen to them?

About 18% of American teens now have fatty liver disease. That's like one out of every five. That disease, when I was a kid, only affected late-stage alcoholics who were elderly. Cancer rates are skyrocketing in the young and the old. Young adult cancers are up 79%.

One in four American women is on antidepressant medication, 40% of teen teens have a mental health diagnosis, and 15% of high schoolers are on Adderall, and half a million children on SSRIs.

So what's causing this suffering? I'll name two culprits. First and the worst is ultra-processed food. About 70% of American children's diet is ultra-processed. That means industrial manufactured in factories. These foods consist primarily of processed sugar, ultra-processed grains, and seed oils.

Laboratory scientists who have formed many of them formerly worked for the cigarette industry, which purchased all the big food companies in the 1970s and ‘80s, deployed thousands of scientists to figure out chemicals, new chemicals, to make the food more addictive. And these ingredients didn't exist 100 years ago.

Humans aren't biologically adapted to eat them. A hundred of these chemicals are now banned in Europe but are ubiquitous in American processed foods. The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, our medicine, and our environment. Pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs, and toxic waste permeate every cell of our bodies.

This assault on our children's cells and hormones is unrelenting. And to name just one problem, many of these chemicals increase estrogen. Because young children are ingesting so many of these hormone disruptors, America's puberty rate is now occurring at age 10 to 13, which is six years earlier than girls were reaching puberty in 1900.

Our country has the earliest puberty rates of any continent on the earth, and no, this isn't because of better nutrition. This is not normal. Breast cancer is also estrogen-driven, and it now strikes one in eight women. We are mass-poisoning all of our children and our adults.

Considering the grievous human cause of this tragic epidemic of chronic disease, it seems almost crass to mention the damage it does to our economy. But I'll say it is crippling the nation's finances. When my uncle was president, our country spent zero dollars on chronic disease. Today, government healthcare spending is almost all for chronic disease, and it's double the military budget, and it is the fastest-growing budget item in the federal budget.

Chronic disease costs more to the economy as a whole, costs at least $4 trillion—five times our military budget. And that's a 20% drag on everything we do and everything we aspire to.

Poor and minority communities suffer disproportionately. People who worry about DEI or about, you know, bigotry of any kind, this dwarfs anything. We are poisoning the poor. We are systematically poisoning minorities across this country. Industry lobbyists have made sure that most of the food stamp lunch program, about 70% of food stamps, and about 70% or 77% of school lunches are processed foods.

There's no vegetables. There's nothing that you would wanna eat. We are just poisoning the poor citizens, and that's why they have the highest chronic disease burden of anybody, any demographic in our country, and the highest in the world. The same food industry lobbied to make sure that nearly all agricultural subsidies are owed to commodity crops that are the feedstock of the processed food industry.

These policies are destroying small farms, and they're destroying our soils. We give, we give about, I think, eight times as much in subsidies to tobacco than we do to fruits and vegetables. It makes no sense. If we want a healthy country, the good news is that we can change all this.

We can change it very, very quickly. America can get healthy again. To do that, we need to do three things. First, we need to root out the corruption in our health agencies. Second, we need to change incentives in our healthcare system. And third, we need to inspire Americans to get healthy again.

Eighty percent of NIH grants go to people who have conflicts of interest. These are the people virtually everybody who sits — you know who Joe Biden just appointed a new panel to NIH to decide food recommendations.

And they're all people who are from the industry. They're all people who are from the processed food companies. They're deciding what Americans, you know, hear is healthy. And the recommendations on the food pyramid, and what goes to our school lunch programs, which would go to the, you know, the program, the SNAP program, the food stamp programs, they're all corrupted and conflicted individuals.

These agencies, the FDA, USDA, and CDC — all of them are controlled by giant for-profit corporations. Seventy-five percent of the FDA's funding doesn't come from taxpayers. It comes from pharma. And pharma executives and consultants and lobbyists cycle in and out of these agencies. With President Trump's backing, I'm gonna change that.

We're gonna staff these agencies with honest scientists and doctors who are free from industry funding. We're gonna make sure the decisions of consumers, doctors, and patients are informed by unbiased science. A sick child is the best thing for the pharmaceutical industry. When American children or adults get sick with a chronic condition, they’re put on medication for their entire life.

Imagine what will happen when Medicare starts paying for Ozempic, which costs $1,500 a month—and it's being recommended for children as young as 6—all for a condition, obesity, that is completely preventable and barely even existed 100 years ago. And 74% of Americans are obese.

The cost if all of them took their Ozempic prescription is $3 trillion a year. This is a drug that is made by Novo Nordisk, the biggest company in Europe. It’s a Danish company, and the Danish government does not recommend it. It recommends change in diet to treat obesity and exercise. And in our country, the recommendation now is for Ozempic to children at age 6.

Novo Nordisk is the biggest company in Europe, and virtually its entire value is based upon its projections of what it's gonna sell, of the Ozempic it's gonna sell to America. And we have — the food lobbyists have a bill in front of Congress today that is backed by the White House, backed by Vice President Harris and President Biden, to to allow this to happen.

This $3 trillion cost is gonna bankrupt our country. For a fraction of that amount, we could buy organic food for every American family, three meals a day, and eliminate diabetes altogether. We're gonna bring healthy food back to school lunches. We're gonna stop subsidizing the worst foods with our agricultural subsidies.

We're gonna get toxic chemicals out of our food. We're gonna reform the entire food system. And for that, we need new leadership in Washington because, unfortunately, both the Democrats and the Republican parties are in cahoots with the Big Food producers, Big Pharma and Big Ag, which are among the DNC's major donors. Vice President Harris has expressed no interest in addressing this issue. Four more years of Democratic rule will complete the consolidation of corporate and the neocon power, and our children will be the ones who suffer most.

I got involved with chronic disease 20 years ago, not because I chose to or wanted to. It was essentially thrust upon me. It was an issue that should have been central to the environmental movement. I was a central leader at that time, but it was widely ignored by all the institutions, including the NGOs, who should have been protecting our kids against toxins. It was an orphaned issue, and I had a weakness for orphans.

I watched generations of children get sicker and sicker. I had 11 siblings, and I have seven kids myself. I was conscious of what was happening in their classrooms and to their friends, and I watched these sick kids, these damaged kids — in that generation, almost all of them are damaged. And nobody in power seemed to care or to even notice.

For 19 years, I prayed every morning that God would put me in a position to end this calamity. The chronic disease crisis was one of the primary reasons for my running for president, along with ending the censorship and the Ukraine war. It's the reason I've made the heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and to support President Trump.

This decision is agonizing for me because of the difficulties it causes my wife and my children and my friends. But I have the certainty that this is what I'm meant to do, and that certainty gives me internal peace even in storms. If I'm given the chance to fix the chronic disease crisis and reform our food production, I promise that within two years, we will watch the chronic disease burden lift dramatically.

We will make Americans healthy again. Within four years, America will be a healthy country. We will be stronger, more resilient, more optimistic, and happier. I won't fail in doing this. Ultimately, the future, however it happens, is in God's hands and in the hands of the American voters and those of President Trump. If President Trump is elected and honors his word, the vast burden of chronic disease that now demoralizes and bankrupts the country will disappear. This is a spiritual journey for me.

I reached my decision through deep prayer, through a hard-nosed logic, and I asked myself, “What choices must I make to maximize my chances to save America's children and restore national health?” I felt that if I refused this opportunity, I would not be able to look myself in the mirror, knowing that I could have saved lives of countless children and reversed this country's chronic disease epidemic.

I'm 70 years old. I may have a decade to be effective. I can't imagine that a President Harris would allow me or anyone to solve these dire problems. After eight years of President Harris, any opportunity for me to fix the problem will be out of my reach forever.

President Trump has told me that he wants this to be his legacy. I'm choosing to believe that this time he will follow through. His son, his biggest donors, his closest friends all support this objective. My joining the Trump campaign will be a difficult sacrifice for my wife and children but worthwhile if there's even a small chance of saving these kids.

Ultimately, the only thing that will save our country and our children is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other. That's why I launched my campaign to unify America.

My dad and uncle made such an enduring mark on the character of our nation, not so much because of any particular policies that they promoted, but because they were able to inspire profound love for our country and to fortify our sense of ourselves as a national community held together by ideals.

They were able to put their love into the intentions and hearts of ordinary Americans and to unify a national populist movement of Americans, blacks and whites, Hispanics, urban and rural Americans. They inspired affection and love and high hopes and a culture of kindness that continue to radiate among Americans in their memory.

That's the spirit on which I ran my campaign and that I intend to bring into the campaign of President Trump. Instead of vitriol and polarization, I will appeal to the values that unite us, the goals that we could achieve if only we weren't at each other's throats. The most unifying theme for all Americans is that we all love our children.

If we all unite around that issue now, we can finally give them the protection, the health, and the future that they deserve. Thank you all very much.

 

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Remember When...?

Typewriter-storyBy Cathy Jameson

Remember when… that’s the name of an online page I like to visit.  It’s full of memories from a small town where I used to live a long time ago.  Many of the topics are of the original settlers to the area and their descendants.  I’ve learned about which families came first, which businesses they opened, and which ones still exist decades and decades later.  Even though I only lived there for 4 years, this place will always have a very special place in my heart.  I cherish friendships made and am very grateful to still be in contact with friends so many years later. 

Being a military brat, I’d get to know the people and the surrounding places we’d move to, and then a few years later, we’d move miles and miles away.  That was life, and it’s all I knew.  I love getting to peek at the past in these Remember when… stories because many of the original families, too, traveled a great distance to set up residence.  The difference is that they never left. 

Some of the recent photos that were recently shared on the page are of the original town library, the original school, some of the first teachers, one whose name now adorns a new multi-level, multi-grade, tech savvy building.  Last week someone shared photos of what the original playgrounds included - swings, a very tall metal slide, and an intricate set of monkey bars that would likely never be allowed on certain properties these days.  

I remember when I used to play at those kinds of playgrounds, when I walked to those smaller schools, and when there were truly only a handful of students who needed educational supports.  These days, so much more support seems to be required, and not just at school.  We see that being offered in grocery stores, shopping centers and movie theatres in the form of sensory-friendly activities, with recognizing emotional support animals, and with the addition of para-professional assistance.  I’m not saying any of that is a terrible thing; it’s that it’s increased astronomically since I was a kid playing on death-defying playgrounds in small towns in the south.

I remember when kids had more time to just be a kid and to explore. 

I remember when teachers only had to teach those kids, not teach to a test, as some most, while fearing for their lives because of school violence.  

I remember when doctors were respected and worked with parents, not against them as I experienced when my children were younger.

I remember when things were so much simpler!  Of course, I was a child when things were really Old and weird
simple.  Times have really changed across-the-board and in so many aspects since then.  It’s good to talk about what we remember, which is why I love logging in and seeing new posts on Remember when…

 It’s good to see the past and to also yearn for it. 

It’s good to see who the pioneers were. 

It’s good to know their stories and to want to honor their lives and their work ethic. 

We each have our own stories, and many have shared their own Remember when… stories here.  They’ve written about what was and what changed.  That’s what brought me here and why I still share bits and pieces of what life was like for us before Ronan got sick and what life is like for him now. 

What brings you here?  What brings you back each week?  Is it something that makes you Remember when…?  I hope whatever the reason may be is one that gives you hope, peace and maybe a little bit of happiness.

Cathy Jameson is a Contributing Editor for Age of Autism. 

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Why We Continue to Fight

Its never overNote: We're into the swing of the Presidential politics season. Louis Conte, a name many of you will know, wrote the piece below for The Kennedy Beacon on Substack. Feel free to send us any and all content from any of the candidates that you think is important to our readers.

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Why We Continue to Fight – Even as We Are Attacked, Marginalized, Censored, and Vilified

By Louis Conte, Medical Freedom Reporter, The Kennedy Beacon

I have often told people that I should not be here. I should not be a writer. I should not be involved in political commentary.

But the reason I am here is because I have triplet boys, now twenty-four. Two have autism.

If it had not been for autism, I doubt that I would be here. I might have never known Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Autism changes everything. Whatever I thought my family’s future was going to be like went out the window. Caring for my sons, figuring out a future for them and trying to navigate our lives became a never-ending mission. My wife, Andrea, became a ‘warrior mom,’ fighting and advocating for boys. There were endless meetings with special education committees, setting up speech and therapy appointments. It never ends. Andrea continues to make sure that my sons have a meaningful, good life.

As our lives unfolded, I studied the science involved in autism and came to the awful conclusion that my son’s autism was triggered by vaccines and environmental toxins.

In 2009, I started an investigation into the ‘Vaccine Court’, also known as the national Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP). Mary Holland, Robert Krakow, Lisa Colin and I produced a research paper –  Unanswered Questions from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program –  that demonstrated that, despite the denial that autism is caused by vaccines, the federal government had been compensating children in the NVICP with vaccine-induced brain damage for years.

Many of the children had conditions that matched an autism diagnosis; many had, in fact, been diagnosed with autism. The government kept this information – that children with autism have been compensated by the vaccine injury court – from the public. Government health agencies continue to deny, contrary to the government’s own legal findings, that vaccines do not trigger autism. 

Kennedy supported our work. He knew we had uncovered essential information that the public needed to know.

This may stun you, but the pharmaceutical industry and the government were not happy with us. All of the authors of Unanswered Questions were attacked in various ways. The media buried the study.

But our work was supported by parents who had children with autism. The ‘warrior moms’ respected our work. One mother, Katie Weisman, who had triplet boys with autism said, “Thank you for getting the truth out there. The truth gives us hope.”

Katie passed away from cancer a few years ago. Before she passed, Katie worked tirelessly with Kennedy and all the other team members on The Real Anthony Fauci.

In his interview with Joe Rogan, Kennedy talked about the ‘warrior moms’ who influenced his decision to involve himself in the autism/vaccine controversy. “I just felt that someone should listen to them,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy will tell you that this may not have been a good career decision, but he listened anyway.

And Kennedy has fought for us ever since. When other political leaders walked away, Kennedy stood with us and advocated for real science to be done about the vaccine/autism controversy. He realized the connections between this controversy and the other chronic diseases that are wrecking the health of Americans. 

He also understands the ongoing suffering of those who have Covid vaccine injuries. He has taken on captured federal agencies and Big Pharma. For this he has been attacked, marginalized, censored, and vilified.

Kennedy chose Nicole Shanahan, an autism warrior mom, to be his vice-presidential candidate. In an  interview with Tom Bilyeu on his “Impact Theory” podcast, Shanahan gave an honest appraisal of where things stand with the campaign. At times, she was almost in tears when she spoke about how underhanded the Democratic Party has been. This interview may be tough to hear, but we made a promise to always let you know where things stand. In her assessment, another Democratic administration would be far worse for the health of all Americans, especially children, than another Trump administration. 

The Democrats are that bad.

As Kennedy reported yesterday, the Democratic Party and their agents have dragged him into dozens of court proceedings to knock him off the ballot. The party that used to fight for voter’s rights is now spending millions to suppress the rights of those who want Kennedy on their state’s ballots. The DNC-aligned media has cheered them on. 

Democracy is crumbling before our eyes. And yet that word and idea, ‘democracy,’ is what the Democrats want us to believe they are saving. 

The Democratic Convention is an unwatchable exercise in mass-marketing and public manipulation, devoid of meaningful content. 

For me, it is important to note that the 2024 Democratic Party platform does not take on the chronic disease epidemic. It says nothing about the vaccine injured. It makes no mention of autism.

Only Kennedy has taken on these issues.

Kennedy recently posted on X: “After a recent rally, I spent time backstage with Katie, a director on our campaign, and her son Dusty, a 26-year-old non-verbal autistic young adult and incredibly special human being. Members of the autism community like Dusty, who enrich our lives in so many ways, and parents like Katie, who tirelessly advocate and sacrifice so much for their kids, inspire me every day to do what I do.”

This is why we fight. 

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Did the US Government Pay $370,000 Death Benefit for a Covid Vaccine?

Krispy kreme vaccineAfter President Trump christened Operation Warp Speed,  CDC granted the vaccine emergency use authorization. Under the EUA, when (not if) there is an injury, plaintiffs must go through the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, or CICP. This is akin to asking your abuser for medical care and then to hear your case in court. A sweeter deal than even Krispy Kreme could imagine.

Thank you to Wayne Rohde for letting us share his Substack Did CICP pay a death benefit from a COVID-19 vaccine?

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By Wayne Rohde
Subscribe to The Vaccine Court Substack today.

When President Trump Christened Operation Warp Speed, the vaccine was granted emergency use authorization, which took away what limited product liability vaccines have here in the USA. When there is an injury, plaintiffs must go through the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, or CICP. This is akin to asking your abuser for medical care and then to hear your case in court.

HRSA did it before with SmallPox vaccine causing myocarditis.

Wayne Rohde, August 19, 2024

This past week, HRSA published the August 2024 statistics for injury claims in the CICP. Only 1 additional compensable award since the July data was published. And it was a very large award.

The petition filed alleged the COVID-19 vaccine caused myocarditis. It was the dollar amount that was alarming. $370,376.00.

Wayne graphic

The average compensable cases for COVID-19 vaccines prior to this award was around $4,000.00.

This award may just be unreimbursed medical expenses. It also could be something else. A possible death benefit payout. First for the COVID era.

Why do I suspect this new award includes a death benefit. One, the dollar amount is much larger. It is in line with the current death benefit amount. Two, HRSA has done this before.

Back in early 2023, I sent a FOIA request to HRSA asking for the payout details of the top 5 awards prior to COVID. Years 2010 - 2019. The dollar amounts ranged from $323,000.00 to approximately $2.3 Million.

I received a response back in May of 2024 with an outline. See below.

Wayne FOIA

The CICP did award a death benefit from a SmallPox vaccine alleging myocarditis.

The recent award of $370,376.00 was from a petition alleging a COVID-19 vaccine causing myocarditis.

Why the confusion of awarding for myocarditis when the vaccine injury resulted in the death of an individual? Maybe myocarditis was the medical condition AT THE TIME of the initial petition filing. Death may have occurred later and petitioner’s estate updated the record.

Upon learning about the large amount for a COVID-19 vaccine causing myocarditis and the petitioner being compensated for $370,376, I immediately fired off a FOIA request to HRSA asking for the same breakouts as previous FOIA request.

It might take some time to learn. HRSA might even ignore the FOIA request.

The Public has a right to know. Federal tax dollars are funding the CICP, straight from the general fund of the US Federal Government.

So we will continue to be searching for the truth of the damage caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.

Keep Learning, Keep Challenging yourself and always, always question authority.


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Unavoidably Unsafe coverUnavoidably Unsafe: Childhood Vaccines Reconsidered
Authors: Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke

In Unavoidably Unsafe, Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke confront the prevailing beliefs surrounding childhood vaccines with unflinching scrutiny and bold insight. Drawing on decades of clinical experience and exhaustive research, the authors challenge conventional wisdom by addressing critical issues such as:

The proliferation of childhood vaccines and their impact on public health
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and its implications for vaccine safety
The symbiotic relationship between pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies
The shortcomings of Emergency Use Authorization and its implications for vaccine safety
The presence of potentially harmful additives in vaccine formulations
A fresh look at possible links between vaccines and autism
Cautionary considerations regarding mRNA vaccines and their suitability for children
Practical guidance for evaluating the risks and benefits of vaccines for individual children
The significance of proper informed consent and patient advocacy in vaccination decisions


Unavoidably Unsafe is not an indictment of vaccines but a call to arms for informed decision-making and transparency in healthcare. Geehr and Barke aim to empower parents, guardians, and healthcare providers with the knowledge needed to navigate the complex landscape of childhood immunization responsibly.

In a rapidly evolving medical landscape where uncertainties abound, Unavoidably Unsafe serves as a beacon of clarity and integrity, reaffirming the importance of critical thinking and patient-centered care in safeguarding the health and well-being of future generations.


Children's Disability Support Doubles in UK

Abadnonned schoolNote: Unimaginable yesterday, unmanageable today and unsustainable tomorrow.

By Anne Dachel

England/Wales: Number of children receiving disability support "more than doubles" in decade

AUTISM and ADHD are behind the surge

There is a national crisis unfolding in the U.K., and people seem surprised that it’s happening.

I’m referring to the disastrous statistics just published showing that over the last decade the number of children in England and Wales receiving disability benefits more than doubled. The reason behind the increase is AUTISM and ADHD.

Guardian: Warning over rise in children on disability benefits in England and Wales

In a new report, the Resolution Foundation thinktank points out that the number of children whose families receive disability living allowance (DLA) has more than doubled in the last decade, to 682,000.

The biggest shift has come among teenagers, with 8% of all 15-year-olds receiving DLA last year, up from 5% in 2013. . . .

The thinktank says the increase in DLA payments has been “almost entirely driven by awards made to children whose main condition is either a learning difficulty, behavioural disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)”.

Understanding and diagnoses of such conditions have increased rapidly in recent decades. A study by UCL researchers found a 20-fold increase in diagnoses of ADHD between 2000 and 2018. Another paper found that autism diagnoses had shot up by 787% over the 20 years from 1998. . . .

DLA, which includes a “mobility” and a “care” component, is worth between £28.70 [$37] and £184.30 [$240] a week, depending on how much additional help the child is deemed to need.

With claims rising sharply, the total cost of paying the benefit has increased from £1.9bn [$2.5B] to £4bn[$5B] in real terms over the past 10 years.

The spending watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast that the cost of all disability benefits will increase by almost half over the next five years, to £58bn [$75B].

 Independent: Surge in young people claiming disability benefits, research suggests

A study from the Resolution Foundation found 1.2 million children across England and Wales are living with a disability. . . .

The think tank said four in five children receiving the Child DLA had been diagnosed with a learning difficulty, behavioural disorder, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

There are even calls for the government to find out why there’s been this dramatic increase.

Ms Murphy said the Government needed to focus on tackling the underlying prevalence of disability.

“It is understandable that politicians want to reduce the rise in disability benefit spending,” she said.

“But to do that they will need to understand and address the root causes of rising disability among children.”

Still, the claim of greater awareness is out there.

A Government spokesperson said: “We are committed to ensuring parents with children with disabilities are supported fairly.

“Awareness of neurodevelopmental conditions has increased over the past decade with a rise in the numbers of children seeking formal diagnoses reflected in those seeking support.”

Surge in young people claiming disability benefits, research suggests | UK News | Sky News:

. . .Ms Murphy added: "For example, the number of children being prescribed medication for ADHD and for conditions like anxiety and depression has increased quite significantly.

"And we've seen some quite troubling trends. For example, an increase in the number of children being admitted to hospital in relation to self-harm.

Since news outlets long ago stopped caring about the nonstop increases in disabled children globally, I wouldn’t expect them to understand what’s really happening here.

IF they were paying attention, members of the press in the U.K. would have noticed the nonstop increases in special needs students everywhere in the country over the last two decades.

On my site, LossOfBrainTrust, https://www.lossofbraintrust.com/ most of the news reports are from the U.K., and I can’t even begin to give examples of the disaster that is special education in that country, there are so many. There are literally thousands.

 I cite routine stories announcing yet another new autism/special school. There are the reports on “increased demand” and “more complex needs” out every day in the news. Kids are on waiting lists for years just for assessments, followed by waiting lists for services. Local councils are facing bankruptcy over the cost of special education.

Without fail there is never anyone asking where all these disabled children are coming from. The only solutions talked about are more funding and more special needs places.

Autism is never a problem

Just like in the U.S., members of the press in the U.K. call for celebrating autism awareness and acceptance every April. They credit the increases in autism to greater awareness of a disorder that’s always been around. They promote neurodiversity and inclusion and are never alarmed over the rate increases.

Across the U.K. something is terribly wrong with the developmental health of children.

Eight months ago the Glasgow Herald announced that 37 percent of Scottish students have special needs.

This scenario might sound far-fetched, but it is in fact just average. Figures published by the Scottish Government this week reveal that the number of children with additional support needs (ASN) has reached a record high of 259,036, or 36.7 per cent of pupils.

In 2020 that figure was 32 percent

In 2022, it was 34 percent of Scottish students.

Last month the press in Wales reported that 48 percent of children had “some form of additional learning needs.”

Where was the national alarm over these numbers?

And the cause of the explosion in special needs students is AUTISM.

In 2022, Schools Week in the U.K. published, SEND isn’t on the precipice – it’s tipped over the edge

Over half of the children and young people in special schools have a primary or secondary need of autism. For children in early years specialist settings, the figure is 65 per cent….

As far as autism is concerned, statistics are truly catastrophic in the U.K.

In May, 2023, the BBC reported that Northern Ireland had the highest rate of autism in the world.

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The Healthy American's Peggy Hall Interviews Laura Hayes about Vaccines, Mandates & So Called Safety

No-is-a-complete-sentence.-It-does-not-require-justification-or-explanationAs Augusts winds to a close, kids are going back to school, and thousands of families across the country are wondering what to do about school vaccination requirements. Five states have only the medical exemption, Maine, Connecticut, New York, West Virginia and California. Obtaining a medical exemption is a difficult road, many doctors are afraid to grant them, for fear of having to face their licensing board. Others are just unwilling. The remaining states have religious and/or philosophical exemptions (see the NVIC US Map.)  These laws change into adulthood, where it's not school that bans participation, but government mandates (soft or hard) and individual businesses from rock stars to Broadway theatres. Even family members can enforce mandates, as we found out during the Lockdown. The Democratic Convention is running in Chicago this week. Kamala Harris has been elevated to candidate, while the sitting President, Joe Biden, has shrunk into the background. Donald Trump is running for a third time, hoping for a charm, or a spell or a hex or something. And Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is running as an Independent candidate. His message squelched in all mainstream media.   At AofA, we have readers from all walks of life. Vaccination is a major topic for most of our readers. Will any candidate really support choice? Prevent mandates and open segregation? We have a history with former President Trump, who promised us the moon and delivered Operation Warp speed. We have a deeper history with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, his having spoken more than a decade ago at Autism One, taking on Dr. Paul Offit, getting behind World Mercury Project, and then launching Children's Health Defense. I'm not sure Harris has ever uttered the word autism.

Below is a two part interview on Peggy Hall's Healthy American Substack, with Laura Hayes, whom you know as an Age of Autism benefactress and highly valued contributor. She is a woman of deep faith, and shares her thoughts about the current choices we face. I encourage you to subscribe to the Healthy American Substack, from Peggy Hall.  You can read for free.  KIM

HOW IS THIS EVEN LEGAL?!

"I CAVED! I COMPLIED! And MY SON PAID the PRICE!" (Laura Hayes Interview, Part 1 & 2)

By Peggy Hall

Friends, today I’ve got something really important for you—a two part, eye-opening interview (links below) with a dedicated Healthy American who’s been in the trenches, fighting to educate us all about the dangers of these so-called ‘cocktails,’ especially when it comes to our children. She’s going to share her personal journey, the battles she’s faced, and how she’s tackled the frustrations with the mainstream, medical merry-go-round head-on.

Laura Hayes is a fierce advocate for health freedom and most crucially, parental rights—issues that are especially close to our hearts as fellow Californians. Our state has become ground zero in the fight against government overreach, where the line between parental authority and state control is constantly under siege. Laura has long been a vocal opponent of these pin-cushion requirements and she has been fighting against these so-called “vaccine mandates” that infringe on our individual liberty and right of no consent.

You can dive deeper into Laura’s work at Age of Autism: https://www.ageofautism.com/exclusives.html

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We also discussed the confusion surrounding RFK Jr. A lot of people think he’s anti-vaccine, but he’s made it clear—he’s fiercely pro-vaccine, just pushing for more testing on these poisons — “safety testing.” Imagine the parents who line up to roll the dice for “science” and for money. Imagine taking your healthy, precious baby and putting them into a trial, all for money, to see whether these injections will cause harm.

People like RFK Jr. are missing the core questions here. It’s not about making these poisons “safe,” and certainly not about testing them on innocent children and animals only to discover later that, surprise (!), they’re not safe after all… The real question is, why is this even being promoted in the first place? Why are practices that would be illegal outside of a medical setting not only allowed but actively encouraged?

This is the crux of the issue, and I’ve been clear about this from the start: I don’t care if these cocktails were filled with chocolate syrup and could keep me alive and kicking until I’m 120 years old without so much as a sniffle, I still have the absolute right to decide what medical interventions I accept or reject, period.

Laura and I are on the same page: even if these ‘cocktails’ were thoroughly tested and approved (which they haven’t been), we still have the absolute right to say NO.

The fact that these cocktails are harmful, poisonous, and damaging just adds insult to injury—injuries already being inflicted on our bodies, minds, and spirits.

For people of faith, you understand, just as I do, that this is a deeper battle—a battle for the soul. There’s a real attempt here to separate us from God, but let’s be clear: no one with a strong sense of faith and a firm line they refuse to cross will ever be torn away from that divine connection.

This is one interview you will want to watch, and it’s packed with insights you can share with other concerned parents who want to keep their children healthy and safe. 

(Part 1 has over 225 comments as of Sunday evening. Go into YouTube to add your thoughts)

Part 2 has over 100 comments as of Sunday evening.






Best of: Planning a Vacation With a Child with Autism

SummertimeNote: Cathy's "Littlest Pickle" is off to college this weekend, so we're running a Best of."

By Cathy Jameson

As we make plans for a family getaway this summer, I realized that I never shared what we did on our family vacation from last year.  After months of planning, we took the kids with a two-week vacation to the Pacific Northwest. 

Since I love surprises, we didn’t tell the kids where we were going until we were on the plane.  They guessed and guessed and guessed all sorts of fun places we might go.  Little Buddy guessed correctly that we were going to Washington state.  It wasn’t an easy trip to plan, but it was one of the neatest ones we have been able to go on as a family.  From one coast to the other, with all seven of us traveling, our trip was quite the adventure. 

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TGIF: Toes Go In First…even if the water was only 55 degrees!

Plan, Plan, and Then Plan Some More

On any given day when Ronan and I leave the house, I plan ahead.  I think about how long we’ll be out of the house and pack what I think we may need.  That includes diapers, wipes, snacks, and a change of clothes, seizure meds, and emergency seizure meds.  It isn’t much to carry around, but those essentials must come with us. 

I knew that we’d need to bring a lot more than those few items on a cross-country trip.  Planning for the trip and for the length of time we’d be gone took months.  I had to think about so many things.

The travel aspect – Ronan hasn’t been on an airplane since 2007.  A million questions went through my mind as I thought about our trip.  Would he board the flight willingly?  Would he stay calm on the flight?  Would the flight crew understand autism?  What if we run into delays – what can we do/bring to help Ronan handle that?  What if we had a medical emergency en route?  How would we manage that?  Not being able to do a practice run at an airport in our area, I knew that we’d be winging it and that we’d have to plan for every possible scenario and hope for the best.

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Oregon First Responder Rescues Autistic Boy from Mud Flats

NAA Wandering Red GraphicAnother story of bravery and lifesaving rescue. Amen. God bless first responders, and a quick thinking family who acted immediately once they noticed their son missing. None of us has eyes 360o around our heads.  We have to use the restroom. Maybe we work from home. Other children need attention. The doorbell rings. There are a 1000 little and big distractions a day that can lead to tragedy. Imagine how the family must feel? Many of us know first hand.

Please share the info and link from NAA on wandering risks and precautions.

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10-year-old boy with autism rescued from mud flats at Oregon beach

YAQUINA BAY, Ore. (KATU) — Crews located and rescued a 10-year-old boy who has autism in Yaquina Bay after a two-hour search.

According to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, officers received a concerning call from the boy's family. They reported noticing their son was missing within three minutes and had looked for him briefly before call for help.

Multiple agencies including the City of Newport Police Department and Newport Fire Department worked together to find the boy.

Officials say after about two hours after the boy went missing an Oregon Coast Aquarium employee noticed a boyplaying in the mud flats approximately 300 feet off Southeast 30th St in the Yaquina Bay and reported it to management staff who reported it to Law Enforcement.

City of Newport Police and Fire responded to the area of SE 30th St with Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office personnel and located the missing boy playing in the water.

Deputies said multiple rescuers swam into the mud flats to retrieve the boy and reunite him with his family.


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Unavoidably Unsafe coverUnavoidably Unsafe: Childhood Vaccines Reconsidered
Authors: Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke

In Unavoidably Unsafe, Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke confront the prevailing beliefs surrounding childhood vaccines with unflinching scrutiny and bold insight. As seasoned physicians, they acknowledge the revered status vaccines hold in modern medicine while bravely questioning their safety and efficacy.

From the historical triumphs of polio eradication to the complexities of modern immunization schedules, Geehr and Barke unravel the layers of vaccine development and regulation. They shed light on the unintended consequences of vaccine mandates and the erosion of informed consent in the face of mounting pharmaceutical influence.

Drawing on decades of clinical experience and exhaustive research, the authors challenge conventional wisdom by addressing critical issues such as:

The proliferation of childhood vaccines and their impact on public health
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and its implications for vaccine safety
The symbiotic relationship between pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies
The shortcomings of Emergency Use Authorization and its implications for vaccine safety
The presence of potentially harmful additives in vaccine formulations
A fresh look at possible links between vaccines and autism
Cautionary considerations regarding mRNA vaccines and their suitability for children
Practical guidance for evaluating the risks and benefits of vaccines for individual children
The significance of proper informed consent and patient advocacy in vaccination decisions


Unavoidably Unsafe is not an indictment of vaccines but a call to arms for informed decision-making and transparency in healthcare. Geehr and Barke aim to empower parents, guardians, and healthcare providers with the knowledge needed to navigate the complex landscape of childhood immunization responsibly.

In a rapidly evolving medical landscape where uncertainties abound, Unavoidably Unsafe serves as a beacon of clarity and integrity, reaffirming the importance of critical thinking and patient-centered care in safeguarding the health and well-being of future generations.


Unavoidably Unsafe: Physicians' Candid Look at Pediatric Vaccinations

Unavoidably Unsafe coverUnavoidably Unsafe: Childhood Vaccines Reconsidered

Authors: Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke

An unavoidably unsafe product isn't necessarily dangerous by design. It's a product that manufacturers cannot make safe for its intended and ordinary use. Source: FindLaw

We are pleased to share a new book from ICAN/Skyhorse Publishing. As is ever the case, it will not please everyone. It is not an ice cream sundae. It will enrage many who will try to censor it. Many will call it codswallop (hey, how often does anyone get to use that gem of word?) And some of our readers will say that it doesn't go far enough. So be it. Read it. Share it. Shelve it in your local Little Free Library if you can afford an extra copy. Here's the synopsis, and we're ready for a strong volley of disputes by the second paragraph. Fire away. Every book that brings the masses closer to opening their eyes and realizing that ICAN roll down their sleeves in a display of bodily autonomy is a win.... in our book.

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In Unavoidably Unsafe, Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke confront the prevailing beliefs surrounding childhood vaccines with unflinching scrutiny and bold insight. As seasoned physicians, they acknowledge the revered status vaccines hold in modern medicine while bravely questioning their safety and efficacy.

From the historical triumphs of polio eradication to the complexities of modern immunization schedules, Geehr and Barke unravel the layers of vaccine development and regulation. They shed light on the unintended consequences of vaccine mandates and the erosion of informed consent in the face of mounting pharmaceutical influence.

Drawing on decades of clinical experience and exhaustive research, the authors challenge conventional wisdom by addressing critical issues such as:

The proliferation of childhood vaccines and their impact on public health
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and its implications for vaccine safety
The symbiotic relationship between pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies
The shortcomings of Emergency Use Authorization and its implications for vaccine safety
The presence of potentially harmful additives in vaccine formulations
A fresh look at possible links between vaccines and autism
Cautionary considerations regarding mRNA vaccines and their suitability for children
Practical guidance for evaluating the risks and benefits of vaccines for individual children
The significance

Buy Unavoidably Unsafe: Childhood Vaccines Reconsidered here.


Parents Need HELP

Go Talk Help - CopyJudge not lest ye be judged, or something like that. Let it be known that we ALL have a breaking point. We may be nowhere near it, not even once in our journey. Some may teeter on the brink for long periods of time. Others cross the line and do the unthinkable. The thing is, we just don't know. Families, parents, Moms perhaps more than Dads because of our caretaker role with or without a spouse, are cracking. And that means danger and even death for our kids. It's not just autism. Severe mental health breakdowns are taking a toll too. What has happened to childhood, to children? Last week, I read this plea on social media:

Hi everyone,  I am looking for a residential placement for my 15 year old daughter.  She has a history of self harm, suicidal ideations, depression and emotional disregulation. Looking for CT or within reasonable driving distance.  If anyone has experience with this please let me know.  Thank you.

I admire that parent's forthright information, and request for help. Not that there will be much concrete assistance. Then there was this story from San Antonio, Texas, of a Mom who locked her daughter in a dumpster enclosure, leaving her there. The article says she had contacted CPS about relinquishing rights. And looks like she did. It's better than killing the child, faint praise.

SAN ANTONIO — Police said a 15-year-old autistic girl was left behind near a dumpster by her mother in June.

Natalie Munno was arrested on this accusation Sunday and booked into the Bexar County Jail.

An affidavit details how on June 13 Munno is seen on a coffee shops' surveillance footage getting her daughter out of the back passenger seat of her car and walking her through the metal doors near a dumpster.

A coffee shop owner would find her and call authorities. When SAPD arrived they said the 15-year-old was erratic.

It’s alleged in the affidavit that Munno went back home to Bandera and that’s when the girl’s grandmother asked where the teen was. She then called Bandera County deputies and filed a missing persons report.

When deputies went to the house, Munno allegedly told them she got ahold of CPS, and met someone named Sarah at a Costco to relinquish her rights to her daughter.

Days later, an amber alert was briefly issued before deputies realized, the girl had been found already by San Antonio Police.

The affidavit claims Natalie knew her child could not take care of herself.

On Sunday she was arrested and booked into the Bexar County jail. She’s facing a charge of child endangerment and abandonment without the intent to return.


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Unavoidably Unsafe coverUnavoidably Unsafe: Childhood Vaccines Reconsidered
Authors: Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke

In Unavoidably Unsafe, Dr. Edward Geehr and Dr. Jeffrey Barke confront the prevailing beliefs surrounding childhood vaccines with unflinching scrutiny and bold insight. As seasoned physicians, they acknowledge the revered status vaccines hold in modern medicine while bravely questioning their safety and efficacy.

From the historical triumphs of polio eradication to the complexities of modern immunization schedules, Geehr and Barke unravel the layers of vaccine development and regulation. They shed light on the unintended consequences of vaccine mandates and the erosion of informed consent in the face of mounting pharmaceutical influence.

Drawing on decades of clinical experience and exhaustive research, the authors challenge conventional wisdom by addressing critical issues such as:

The proliferation of childhood vaccines and their impact on public health
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and its implications for vaccine safety
The symbiotic relationship between pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies
The shortcomings of Emergency Use Authorization and its implications for vaccine safety
The presence of potentially harmful additives in vaccine formulations
A fresh look at possible links between vaccines and autism
Cautionary considerations regarding mRNA vaccines and their suitability for children
Practical guidance for evaluating the risks and benefits of vaccines for individual children
The significance of proper informed consent and patient advocacy in vaccination decisions


Unavoidably Unsafe is not an indictment of vaccines but a call to arms for informed decision-making and transparency in healthcare. Geehr and Barke aim to empower parents, guardians, and healthcare providers with the knowledge needed to navigate the complex landscape of childhood immunization responsibly.

In a rapidly evolving medical landscape where uncertainties abound, Unavoidably Unsafe serves as a beacon of clarity and integrity, reaffirming the importance of critical thinking and patient-centered care in safeguarding the health and well-being of future generations.


Bisphenol A(utism?)

BpaTake a listen in the first video - the doctor catches herself saying, "ABNORMAL" development and quickly changes her language to "DIFFERENT."  That's the story, morning glory.  Autism MUST be called a difference. and doctors have been told as much.  Oh, and man-made toxic load during pregnancy might cause autism.

By Anne Dachel

AUSTRALIA: Is BPA exposure in utero linked to autism? “World-first study” finds a risk

At last, there is something substantive to say about why there is so much autism in kids today. As the rate of autism continues to climb, it’s getting harder and harder to sell the tired claim that we’ve always had autism around like this, but doctors didn’t know what it was until recently.

Research has, over the past two decades, linked the development of autism to bad moms. I’ve long talked about the dead-end studies showing an “association” between the behavior of mothers and autism in children: moms who are old, fat, drinking, smoking, having babies too close together, having preemies, living too close to freeways, taking antidepressants, etc.

It was a bit of a stretch to say that any of those findings could explain the world-wide explosion in the rate of autism to now three to five percent of children and growing.

At last, research shows a link between male fetuses exposed to BPA (bisphenol A) and autism in mice.

Australian scientists have produced research from over the past ten years pointing to plastics as the culprit in boys developing autism. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done here, but the good news is, not only do they suspect plastics are a factor, but they’ve also found a way to reverse the symptoms of autism in mice.

Several American scientists were involved in this study, but the main effort was in Melbourne, Australia.

This is very important in Australia because, as we learned in April this year, one in 25 “seven to 14-year-olds now have a primary diagnosis of autism.” Guardian

Researchers are careful to avoid saying there is a causal link, but there are reports everywhere talking about the scientists and what this means going forward.

It would naturally follow that we need to clean up the plastics industry and have pregnant women be careful about their exposure to BPA.

Here’s what the press is telling us.

News.com.au: BPA plastic in womb linked to autism, world-first study finds

A world-first study by Aussie scientists has discovered a link between a common chemical, and autism symptoms.

Pregnant mothers who gave birth to boys with autism were found to have had higher levels of a plastic chemical commonly used in food packaging in their wombs, according to Aussie scientists in a world-first study.

A long-term peer-reviewed study by the Florey Institute in Melbourne found boys with lower levels of a key brain enzyme aromatase and who were born to mothers with high levels of the plastic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in their wombs are three-and-a-half times more likely to have autism symptoms by the age of two.

By the age of 11, they are six times more likely to have had a verified ­autism diagnosis.

BPA can be found in takeaway containers, plastic bottles, the lining of takeaway coffee cups as well as polycarbonate (hard) plastics such as baby bottles.

It’s also used in the lining of cans to stop the food coming into contact with the metal, and is even found on the shiny coating of cash register receipts.

“Exposure to plastic chemicals during pregnancy has already been shown in some studies to be associated with subsequent autism in offspring,” Florey scientist and co-author Professor Anne-Louise Ponsonby said in a statement.

“BPA can disrupt hormone controlled male fetal brain development in several ways, including silencing a key enzyme, aromatase, that controls neurohormones and is especially important in fetal male brain development. This appears to be part of the autism puzzle.”

Speaking to The Australian, Professor Ponsonby stressed the chemical is “not the cause of autism”.

Dr. Anne-Louise Ponsonby is getting the most coverage about the study.

ABC News: Study links prenatal BPA exposure and autism risk in boys




Dr. Ponsonby:

Several past studies have shown a link between higher plastic exposure in pregnancy and abnormal child neurodevelopment including or different child neurodevelopment including autism.

We wanted to go beyond correlation to understand this more deeply. So we conducted an program  of research over 10 years including two birth cohorts, one here in Australia . . . and one in New York Columbus Centers study, and then over 25 laboratory studies to consistently get a picture on what was happening  with the link between these two in terms of underlying mechanisms. We have now published that.

So we find that this link between higher BPA exposure in the womb and the risk of male autism is through suppression of aromatase, a key steroid enzyme in brain development, particularly for males.  . . .

PBA is not the only chemical to worry about and much more study is needed.

So now we’re concerned about chemical mixtures. Sorry for the difficult news, but we can only move forward.

We’re worried about chemical mixtures acting together. BPA is just the oldest and the easiest one to start with and study, but we’re not saying that’s the only one that needs consideration here.

It’s up to the regulators.

It’s not our job to consider. It’s safety regulators of governments, and already the findings of this paper have gone towards EU regulation systems. So it’s good to know that the findings are feeding back into that loop. . . .

The anchor asked if these findings would result in advice to parents.

Ponsonby: 

I think that the regulatory bodies that are responsible for giving advice about exposures during pregnancy or process levels in food, they themselves will  consider and bring it into their recommendations.

More generally, things don’t usually change just on one study, but certainly this study will contribute to that machinery of advice and recommendations.

With the treatment, we’re yet to evaluate it in humans. We haven’t even established the safety in humans, yet alone the efficacy. That’ll be work that Florey [Institute] is continuing to do hopefully eventually developing human trials, but now that …Boon have identified this compound it really starts to give us some better ideas towards future autism treatment for subgroups of children with autism that it  might be warranted for and also for prevention.

In both the cohort studies, higher levels of BPA were associated with switching down that aromatase gene that’s very important for controlling male brain development in particular, less so for females. . . .

Then in the lab studies we had a whole lot of other mechanistic data: cell cultures, electrical activity.  The important is my colleagure, associate professor Boon found a target compound that once we had identified the mechanism could then negate some of these effective BPA, and in fact, minimize some of  the features of autism. across different types of models in the lab.

Anchor:

Wow! That is a huge development in itself, two big developments.

People who may be pregnant may be worried watching this . . .  So what is it that’s in a mother’s stomach that is causing the damage?

Ponsonby:

Unfortunately we find plastic avoidance at the individual level is quite difficult to achieve. Many studies have shown that, so it’s really a job for government regulators.

Currently BPA is in some food contact plastic materials. It’s in lining of cans, and it’s in epoxy lining on various different products

Even though BPA has become less common, other bisphenols like BPF and S. They’re very similar in structure, and I think we have to consider that they may have some health issues as well and should be evaluated for that.

And the other thing in our work is this aromatase site is the site that we know that other chemicals like flame retardants can operate.

So now we’re concerned about chemical mixtures. Sorry for the difficult news, but we can only move forward. . . .

The Australian: Doctors are calling for tougher regulation of the chemical BPA amid health harms

Medical experts have called for an overhaul of plastics regulation in Australia as growing evidence indicates that neuroendocrine-disrupting chemicals are linked with the development of autism.

The nation’s top doctors’ group has called for an overhaul of plastics regulation in Australia as growing evidence indicates that neuroendocrine-­disrupting chemicals found in disposable water bottles, food containers, canned food packaging and cosmetics are linked with the development of autism.

News9 Australia: Plastic chemicals may trigger autism in boys, says research

Anchor:

There’s been a big breakthrough in understanding what may cause autism with new research linking autism in boys with plastic chemicals. Two Melbourne based scientists found that pregnant women with traces of food packaging in their system are more likely to give birth to boys who then develop the condition. 

Anne-Louise Ponsonby:

The unique feature of our work was not so much the link between high plastic exposure and autism, several past studies have shown that, but we went beyond correlation to be actually be able to map out an underlying mechanism, and that involved the suppression of a key steroid enzyme called aromatase that is particularly important for male brain in utero.

And let me add that this mechanism is not possibly occurring for all autism. Autism is a complex multifactorial disease with both genetic and environmental drivers. . . . We think this is a contributing factor to some cases of autism. 

It’s very helpful to understand something about a mechanism because it puts us in a much better position for future prevention and treatment. . . .

Anchor: Could this lead to preventive treatment? ,,,

Ponsonby:

We are hoping to move towards treatment. One of my colleagues. . .  she tested and identified a target compound that could negate some of the effects of plastic and actually reduce some of the autism symptoms. . . . We’re yet to move to any human phase with safety or efficacy. . . .

Professor Boon and team have been talking with the U.S. FDA and are trying to move towards safety human trials in the first instance.

Medical News: Higher BPA levels in pregnant mothers linked to autism in sons

Professor Ponsonby said the researchers analysed two large birth cohorts – the Barwon Infant Study (BIS) in Australia and the Columbia Centre for Children's Health and Environment in the USA. . . .

BPA can disrupt hormone controlled male fetal brain development in several ways, including silencing a key enzyme, aromatase, that controls neurohormones and is especially important in fetal male brain development. This appears to be part of the autism puzzle."  . . .

In laboratory work, Dr Boon studied the impact of prenatal BPA on mice. . . .

Professor Ponsonby said BPA, similar bisphenols and other plastic chemicals with endocrine-disrupting effects are now widespread and almost impossible for individuals to avoid. 

"We all ingest plastic chemicals in many ways – through ingesting plastic food and drink packaging, inhaling home renovation fumes, and through the skin from sources such as cosmetics. There are so many ways these chemicals enter our bodies, so, it's not surprising that BPA was present in a large proportion of the women's urine samples we studied. It's important for us to understand how these plastics affect our health," Professor Ponsonby said. 

7News Australia: Microplastics warning for expectant mums - Products to avoid 

7News:



Researchers here at the Florey tested BPA levels in the urine of pregnant women. Male babies with a lower level of brain hormones were six times more likely to be diagnosed with autism if their mothers had high levels of BPA. It’s commonly found in food packaging like plastic bottles and tin cans.

To limit exposure avoid drinking out of soft waster bottles, don’t put plastic in the microwave, also don’t touch till receipts

Professor Mark Green, Melbourne University:

Here in Australia, till receipts are absolutely covered in BPA, so just doing those simple things will hopefully reduce your exposure to BPA.  

7News:

The same scientists also found a drug that can reduce BPA-induced autism in mice.

Dr. Wah Chin Boon:

That symptoms were actually reversed, and their brain activity returns to normal.

7News: Scientists are now planning to test whether this drug can reverse autism in humans. The safety studies could begin as early as next year.

Ponsonby: First we have to establish safety and then work towards efficacy. 

The Project: Are Plastic Chemical Causing Autism?

A plastic chemical found everywhere in our daily lives, and now a group of Aussie scientists  have linked it to the development of autism in boys.

So, can this world-first discovery revolutionize our understanding of the condition?

It leaches into our food, we absorb it through our skin, inhale it when we breathe. It’s in plastic bottles and takeout containers, the linings of coffee cups and canned food, the shiny coatings of cash receipts, a chemical that is used to harden plastics.

About 95 percent of us have bisphenol A, also known as BPA, in our bodies right now.

Dr. Wah Chin Boon:

The problem now is that it’s everywhere. So even if it passes through your body in 45 minutes, you’re constantly being exposed to it.

Reporter:

Now in a ground-breaking study, a group of Aussie scientists have discovered a link between high levels of BPA in pregnant moms and the development of autism in boys. 

Ponsonby: 

It seems to be particularly in mid-gestation, rather than very early or very late I pregnancy.

Reporter:

Studying 1,770 pairs of mothers and children over more than a decade, scientists found that BPA can switch off an enzyme called aromatase, which is key to brain development, particularly in boys. 

Ponsonby:

If the child had a genetic architecture indicating that they were vulnerable—

Reporter:

—then those boys, when exposed to high levels of BPA in the womb, were three and a half times more likely to have autism symptoms by the age of two. 

Six times more likely to have an autism diagnosis by age 11.

And there’s a potential antidote, a fatty acid that reversed the effects of BPA in lab mice.

Boon:

They can actually start to socialize and stop their excessive grooming, and even their brain activity returns to normal.

This is huge news. Plastic exposure is worldwide so it makes sense that the damage would be seen everywhere.

IF these findings gain support, it would be a way for doctors and health officials to finally admit autism is increasing, something no one in our regulatory agencies has ever done in the past.

Of course it will be years before we have anything conclusive about the link between BPA and autism, but I can see a massive effort for companies to get on board with the move for SAFE PLASTIC. We’ll see the end to plastic coated cash register receipts, and we could go back to glass bottles for soft drinks. The possibilities are endless.Top of Form

Cathy Jameson is a Contributing Editor for Age of Autism.

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Torrential

Tornado angelby Cathy Jameson

I promise you that I would never have gone grocery shopping had I known what was to come.  I was just getting a little bored and needed to get out of the house for a bit.  Even though it was almost dinner time, I loaded up two of the kids and headed to Costco to restock some bulk items.  

Ronan had dealt with some odd episodes that morning, which kept my focus on him all afternoon.  Besides that, we don’t have cable, and I’d stayed off of the news sites the rest of the day.  I didn’t miss any of the political updates and other stories from around the world.  But I did miss that we were under some severe weather watches. 

On the way to the store, it started to sprinkle.  Light grey clouds had filled the sky all day, but nothing seemed too unusual to me.  Costco was so busy that I couldn’t hear that the clouds had unleashed buckets and buckets of rain while we were in the store.  Not until we got closer to the exit did I see just how messy it looked outside.  Rain was coming down so hard, and it was much darker than I thought it would be – how long were we shopping?? 

We weren’t really in there that long, but we were inside when the weather reports went from we’re under a tornado watch to a tornado warning.

Taco warning
I saw a similar image 2 years ago – it’s genius!

 

Still, I had no idea we were even under a watch.  I had given up listening to the car radio during Lent several months ago.  I keep it off after Lent turning that quiet driving time into prayer time.  Prayers help me get through some tough moments and through disappointing news.  Prayers would be most welcomed as we not only got caught in a deluge in the parking lot with Ronan in his bulky adaptive stroller.  They’d help get us home through the tornado that was looming in the area.

Running through puddles, juggling the rain-soaked groceries, and then helping Ronan navigate through the rain kept my heart rate up.  Ronan and his youngest sister and I were soaked!  None of us were wearing jackets because none of us expected the torrential downpour, so the drive home in our wet clothes would be a tad uncomfortable.  That didn’t dampen our spirits too much as we were looking forward to being back at the house, ready to try some of the new treats I’d bought.     

While the two kids sat in the back, I turned to my usual prayer routine as I turned onto the highway.  Happy for that quiet time again, I focused on the road.  With just how much rain we were still getting, though, I thought I should probably turn on the radio.  The clouds were getting darker and also a little bit lower.  I found the local station and hoped for a weather report.  I didn’t have to wait too long.

“If you’re on this section of the highway…seek shelter now.  A funnel has been sighted.”  

OH GEEZ!  We had just passed that section of the highway! 

No wonder it looked so ominous out there. 

We’ve driven through tornadic activity before, and holy moley, it’s quite scary.  Every few months we talk about emergency weather plans, but we’ve been blessed with mostly mild weather since the winter and haven’t had those weather convos.  Spring saw some thunderstorms, and it’s been hot and humid all summer, which is not terribly unusual.  We don’t see too many tornados, and would I ever plan to be driving near one if I can help it!  So, I shared a quick lesson with my daughter on what we’d need to do if the tornado, which had touched down right after that new report, was moving in the same direction we were.  That included how we’d have to get Ronan to cooperate with us.  He can be an easy-going kid.  But when he doesn’t want to do something, it can take some creativity on our part to get him to join us.

I wanted to make a bee line home but ended up driving slower than I normally would due to the flooding on the roads.  Once home, we got a battery powered radio on as soon as the groceries were unloaded.  The storms lingered south of us, thankfully.  Even so, we kept the radio on and also looked up what the forecast was for the next few hours.  The weather would continue to be severe in areas close to us, which meant we could experience potential flooding as well as potential tornados.  Before bedtime, we talked about a plan – for the girls, me and Ronan’s sisters – if weather turns, we immediately get to the safe spot in the house.  For the boys, my husband and Ronan’s younger brother – they immediately get Ronan out of bed because he will need to be picked up and taken to the safe spot in the house. 

I don’t like to imagine what could happen during an emergency situation when we’d have to book it out of somewhere quickly.  I especially don’t like to imagine what could happen to Ronan if we can’t get to him or if he refuses to follow directions.  We’ve had a few emergencies to handle, with most of them taken care of timely.  A tornado, though?  I’ve heard those happen faster than one expects, and I know they cause a great amount of destruction instantly.  

Our weather emergency plan fortunately didn’t need to be acted on that night.  The rain subsided at some point while we were sleeping, and our area stayed out of the fray.  Others were not so lucky, but I read that neighbors rallied to help remove storm debris.  We’re grateful to be safe and sound and will hope for that again when the next storm rolls through.

Cathy Jameson is a Contributing Editor for Age of Autism.

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Parental rightsNote: We're excerpting this article from People Magazine. No one is spared the heartache of worrying about their disabled children, including actor Colin Farrell. The photos and video in the article will look very familiar to our readers. A loving parent, proud of every small gain and thinking about the future. One difference that caught my eye? "Live in caretaker." That's a luxury for the wealthy. I like how Farrell pointed out the cliff young adults face when Federally mandated services end at age 22. That's something I'd like to see the next administration address - adult services.

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Colin Farrell Starts Foundation in Honor of Son with Angelman Syndrome as He Opens Up About Their Life (Exclusive)

“Once your child turns 21, they’re kind of on their own,” Farrell says. “All the safeguards that are put in place, special ed classes, that all goes away, so you’re left with a young adult who should be an integrated part of our modern society and more often than not is left behind.”

The Colin Farrell Foundation will provide support for adult children who have an intellectual disability through advocacy, education and innovative program

By Julie Jordan

Julie Jordan is an Editor at Large for PEOPLE. She has been with the brand for 25 years, writing cover stories and features and managing special issues including the Beautiful Issue and Sexiest Man Alive. 

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Colin Farrell's house is filled with a bustle and din that’s far from the actor’s comfort zone.

As photography and video teams scurry about the hillside home in Los Angeles, Farrell, 48, is keeping tabs on his son James, 20, who has Angelman syndrome, a rare neurogenetic disorder. James, who is nonverbal, is sitting in the backyard playing catch with his live-in caregiver. He makes eye contact with a journalist standing nearby and immediately throws the miniature basketball in her direction to include her in his game.

James’ eyes light up when he spots Farrell, but it’s nothing in comparison with the noticeable swell in his dad’s chest when those around them respond so sweetly to his son. “I want the world to be kind to James,” the actor tells PEOPLE. “I want the world to treat him with kindness and respect.”  Continue reading: Colin Farrell Starts Foundation in Honor of Son with Angelman Syndrome as He Opens Up About Their Life (Exclusive)

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