Stephanie, ADHD, OCD, Dyslexia and Autism? You certainly have your hands full and we all know what that's like. I hope your kids are getting sufficient support and help, regardless of whether we disagree on the "how did this happen" of having four neurologically injured children. I will say that I'd be hard pressed to assign their diagnoses to pure genetics.

Best,

Kim Stagliano

Here we go again. It's always the same. They skirt around the vaccine issue and hide in the bushes. But can we blame the journalists and employees of government agencies who are all at risk of losing their jobs "if they say too much". So even if secretly they have become totally convinced that THE major cause of autism is vaccines, they publicly cannot even state that. Do you think that Dr. Bernadine Healy would have been able to make the public statements that she has regarding vaccines if she was still the acting director of the NIH? Thankfully she is now the Health Editor for U.S. News and World Report.

Congressmen also are making the choice to protect their own interests. Are they willing to risk the loss of campaign "donations" from Big Pharma associated parties, and are they willing to risk loss of re-election due to public scandal created by "public relations" and "investigations" backed by Big Pharma, who are obviously willing to do anything to protect their own interests. Congressman Dan Burton deserves a medal of honor for choosing to stand up for his grandson and the rest of our vaccine damaged children, and so does any other congressman who makes the choice to stand for the truth regardless.

We can see what happened to Dr. Wakefield and the other brave men on trial in England for their research regarding the autism and intestinal damages caused by the MMR. These men should be given a medal of honor for standing up for all of us in spite of the harm that it has brought them, but instead of an award for honesty and bravery, these men have become the victims of a witch hunt. The other parties who had been involved with this research "recanted" their support in order to protect their ability to continue to make a living in their respective fields. ("Recanted" always reminds me of the Inquisition).

I am always amazed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his fearless and outspoken support for the truth. He followed in the footsteps of his father who was also an attorney and willing to stand up for the truth and the downtrodden. John Kennedy authorized Robert (Sr.) to prosecute the Mafia, and it is still a logical question if this contributed to his assassination. In spite of this, Robert Kennedy Sr. continued to fight the battles, including his work with Martin Luther King in support of civil rights for the black community. And both of these great men were also assassinated. In many ways the Autism community is also the victim of civil rights abuse, and yet Robert Kennedy Jr. continues to fight our battles....and do we really understand the risks that this brave man is taking in his stance against the Medical Mafia??!!

There are so many people involved in bringing this horrific vaccine assault on our children to the Public Light, including Age of Autism and the many other organizations. What about the many D.A.N. doctors who are willing to expose the truth about the vaccines and treat our injured children in spite of the dangers and risks to themselves; Doctors who are at risk of persecution and even perhaps loss of their license to practice medicine. My grandson has two medical doctors who also practice alternative medicine. Both of them are "Blacklisted" by the medical community here, and neither one of them can continue to issue any more Medical Exemptions for vaccines.

We are all at risk of persecution if not prosecution. Here I am just the grandmother of a child with autism, and my daughter and myself were investigated for "Medical Negligence" and "Child Neglect" for refusing the vaccines, including various other false allegations. [Regarding refusing vaccines, yes we are Guilty as Charged] My daughter had to comply with the vaccines under threat of loss of custody, and the only reason my grandson is autistic is that he received 27 vaccine doses within 6 months (nine doses each given at once 3 times). We had to hire an attorney to resolve this situation, but it's still not over.

My grandson needs us to take care of him and help him to recover from his vaccine injuries, so we can't risk any more forced vaccines, and we can't risk having to give the money for his recovery over to an attorney, and we can't risk losing custody of him and we can't risk going to jail either. We cannot take the risk of enrolling my grandson in the state autism medical programs here, and we can't even take the risk of having him treated by our local Defeat Autism Now doctor, although she is privately consulting with my grandson's naturopathic doctor. We must "Fly Under the Radar", therefore we will be taking my grandson to a D.A.N. clinic out of state this summer. I posted a condensed version of our story here at Age of Autism, and based on the advice of 2 attorneys and 2 other alternative medicine doctors who have had to move to South America due to medical persecution and prosecution, I should not have signed my true name to my statement. I have been explicitly directed by hospital staff doctors who instigated our investigation to discontinue any further "dangerous" research on the Internet. So here I am now, "Autism Grandma", living in the underground anti-Nazi movement, and cringing in fear that the SS Troops may discover that I am listening to Radio Free Europe.

We are in a WAR to overcome this strongly entrenched propaganda and control by the pharmaceutical and medical Mafia. Anyone who supports us in any way or who makes any kind of public statement regarding the connection of vaccines to autism deserves our appreciation, even if their statements are limited by their own lack of full understanding, or if their commentary is "guarded" due to their own self preservation. Our job as "privates" in this war is to support the officers leading the battles, and to share accurate information in order to bring the truth to the public.

It is only a matter of time before the Medical Mafia will become "condemned by their own words", because their own medical literature, studies, and research findings regarding vaccine damages are ever increasing. There was plenty of evidence in their own literature to condemn vaccines prior to the manifestation of the Autism Epidemic, and now with so many more hundreds of thousands of autism cases, there is a mountain of evidence the size of Mt. Everest. Yes, they will continue to produce their own funded and manipulated pro-vaccine "research studies" which are in direct contradiction to the majority of amassed scientific evidence, and even though for NOW Power and Corruption enables the continuing raping and pillaging by the vaccine industry, I often think of Martin Luther King's words: "I have been to the mountaintop... and I have seen the Promised Land"....Because this statement applies to the recovery of my grandson and so many thousands of others.

"Apparently the CDC's figures of 1 in 150 are considered the gold standard (even though these figures are many years old and have not be updated)."

The CDC has proven that even gold can tarnish- we all know the true numbers are far larger and far more frightening. By the time the CDC releases its miser-hold on the 1 in 150 stat, the true number will be far closer to 1 in 2.

I only wish our government, media would stand up and tell the truth, be it in small increments or not. But, I think the bigger picture at hand is simply defined as...is autism a trust disease? Why so much autism in AMERICA, the land of the vaccinated and high trust in medical viewpoint/aka through media Snyderman drive by shooting style, what, their killing our children? Many feel our government WILL still PROTECT THEM from harm...NOT!!!

I trusted that vaccines were safe, I trusted that the white coats were honest or even smart how the immune system works (they still don't know), I trusted that the media would show the truth of our stories, no, more than stories, our truth, and I trusted evil conspiring men of our day to make safe whole foods, grow our foods without pesticides, vilified mutated grains and the like. I trusted that they would not, certainly not, poison a generation of children via amalgams, vaccines, coal plants, crematora, and or pollute our waters with fluoride and waste water, air, etc.

My shred of humanity and dignity are lost,broken, everytime my children suffer one more seizure or autism disease symptom, as well as one more despiteful look from predjudiced physicians who think are kids are genetic accidents, flaws. I hate what the world in terms of our dishonesty, conspiring ways have destroyed potential future lives. I want no part of it. But I have to live in it. And the only way I live in it, is to disconnect from the whole ideal that someone will listen to the voices of countless mothers and fathers TELLING THE SAME STORIES in the thousands, that their children disintegrated soon after their vaccine series. This and other reasons is possibly why, I follow the value of not trusting people as this, and never trust a product that "they say" is greened, or safer. I prefer, disconnect, and don't partake in total. That's my way of saying to them, SCREW YOU people... but more than that..in a world such as ours, with lies, and beholden people with stock holdings in mind, I say, are we able to stop the tidal wave of dishonesty from corporate people, politicians and the like? Good luck with that...and I hope it works believe me...but I can't see it ending.

Let's end autism OURSELVES, by being smart...by showing them that unvaccinated children, children born safely without immediate cord clamping and birth drugs, children without mothers who have amalgams and thyroid dysfunction, children who play with safe plastics or wood, and children who are not exposed to toxins in total (as best we can), are in fact, the healthiest, smartest people on the planet. Let's show them OUR AGENDA. It is an agenda, of, screw you people, we won't partake EVER in your products and procedures. Instead of the other way around, or by us trying to force their hands. The only way force it? You make them beg for consumers....who, in the end, will screw their industry by not trusting them anymore. Do I buy Firestone tires anymore? NOPE....same thing should happen with vaccines...in total...

Hey Steve,

I hear you. I'll be at gymnastics or the pool and overhear, "He can talk; he just doesn't want to," or "We have our special- ed evaluation..." I too want to scream out,"Your kid is vaccine damaged; when are you people going to stop trusting your doctors and stop vaccinating your kids?"

Elucidatus, are you really my Mom in cognito? I have no problem with critique or even critism. We'll never please everyone. Nor do we try. I can give as good as I get - and sometimes I do. Thanks for the support. We have a great readership - and I'm grateful for those who disagree too - it keeps us sharp and in tune with various opinions. Nothing wrong with that (unless it's the wackospere, I've not the time, patience or stomach for them.)

Kim

It was just a matter of time before people started question AoA's method of research and writing. I mean this is a blog site for crying out loud! This site is for us and our children that don't have a voice.

Terri, at what point did this blog become a critical reading assignment? On top of that you insult the editor by saying "As a practical matter, maybe we *shouldn't* leap to thank everyone who throws us a bone. Maybe we should save our "action alerts" for the real, heavy-duty political stuff, and concentrate our efforts more."

You should be thankful that she finds the time to write about recent events while taking care of three children with Autism. By the way where is your essay to critique? I thought so. Maybe if you could email her and ask to help out, then maybe your argument would have some value here.

I would love to know of any parents who have thrown their hands up and said "I give up, I am going to abandon AoA." I speak with a lot of parents and let me tell you no one is going anywhere! Kim, keep up the good work!

My comments and questions were sincere.

The CDC promotes vaccines. Don't expect them ever to admit the truth that vaccines cause adverse reactions. They will never admit it (no one associated with the CDC will ever admit it). All of the personnel with the CDC are in the tank for promotion of vaccines and if a person isn't working with the CDC they will be working with the pharmaeutical
companies.

“If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.” ---Nikita Khrushchev

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/nikita_khrushchev/3.html

Ray Gallup

I just heard two co-workers chatting about each of their children's (seemingly quite significant) speech delay. It is SHOCKING how blase of a subject this has become. Daughter not talking until after two - "guess the mouth can't keep up the brain"(laughs).

I felt like shouting from my cube "HELLO, VERY SERIOUS ISSUE - NOT NORMAL, *N*O*T* NORMAL!".

It will take a mountain of information like this before some of these folks are able to connect the dots. That day will come.

"Editor's note: This article has been changed to clarify the CDC's position that research has not proven a link between autism and vaccines."

What part of the article changed? I only read it after the 'change' occurred.

I agree with a lot of what Terri Lewis says. This article and the CDC commenter don't go far enough. But my reaction would be to encourage people to write to the journalist and tell your stories of vaccine injury followed by autism, and link to science on our side etc.

I also agree with Kim that baby steps in the right direction should be encouraged. And I think that sometimes there is too much bashing of people who are raising questions or opening the door a crack without being fully on board (at least, not yet) with the understanding that vaccines can cause autism.

Regardless of where one is on the spectrum of angry agression vs. catching more flies with honey -- both of which can play a helpful role in advocacy -- the following sentence makes me mad: "I know some other people think so, too [that "we're being too cautious and too grateful and we need to push more"], and have abandoned AoA."

I'm so tired of people knocking other people who are working their butts off for this cause. If anyone wants to work more agressively, AoA isn't stopping them.

Dr. Catherine Rice, in my opinion, seems to be open minded and displays a genuine concern and willingness to learn more about what is causing the autism epidemic. If you look at her past involvement in autism issues, she has not taken the historical stance that many of her peers have that there is 'no environmental' cause, and she is trying to learn from our community as evidenced by her participation in autism conferences. I agree with Kim, here. We need to support all progress, even if it seems like baby steps.
It's better than no progress. Further, if we criticize those who try to meet us halfway they will retreat back to the land of mainstream thinking where it is safe and free of conflict. We cannot afford to lose any ground here. Our predecessors have worked for too many years to make the world a better place for our children, and when you read their stories you will find they have been in this battle for 20 years and now have adult children with autism.
It's great to be passionate and driven, but we must also learn to be considerate and diplomatic and not lose credibility with those outside of our community. I have made more progress with my representatives and local media with the tempered but factual approach. There is no generally no argument when I show them the past few years of lab test results for my son.

I think the best thing to do here is have people contact this gentleman and give him more. Ask him to do a follow up , perhaps a three part story. He may get an interview from the polings. Ask him to look at vaers data. Ask him to ask the question....How many dead or disabled babies is too much for the "good of all" . Where do we draw the line?100 dead/disabled,2000? 1 in 700? currently we are at 1 in 6. Too much for me. I think the line needs to be redrawn. Like our goal should be none. why does everyone get a bail out to give themselves bonus' and these children cant get therapy/medical care... Why are they being discriminated against? Other folks with other disease get therapy/medical care.........Heck drug addicts get taken care of for self inflicted harm. Why are these children being discriminated against?

Oh, brother.

It is known what's causing all this autism, AKA brain/immune/central nervous system/gut damage.

It is environmental, in most of the cases we're seeing.

The CDC admitted it a year ago with Hannah Poling's case.

Common sense tells us that many of the kids we're seeing are just like Hannah. The CDC tells us that Hannah's case is "rare," and now--one year later--most people have forgotten all about Hannah Poling, if they ever knew in the first place.

Should we thank the Las Vegas Sun for kind of, sort of, bringing it to everyone's attention again? That autism is (maybe) (in some cases) linked to pesticides or cleaning products or the air we breathe. I ask this sincerely.

And maybe we should thank Dr. Rice, too, for telling us that "everything" causes autism, kind of like "everything" causes cancer, so people just shrug and give up, and keep on going.

I don't know.

I'd feel more thankful if Dr. Rice had said (for example), "Yes, there is a great deal more autism today than there was 20 or 30 years ago," instead of (once again, ho hum), "it's impossible to say for sure."

And maybe she could have actually pointed the finger at vaccines, the way doctors are (finally) happy to point the finger at cigarettes.

"You shouldn't smoke."

"I can't vaccinate your baby until he's two years old. It's just too risky."

"You can't have both shots today. You'll have to come back in 6 months."

"The flu shot!?" (Laughing.) "We haven't given those since 2009. The risks outweigh the benefits."

Oh, gee. I'm still asleep and dreaming.

As a practical matter, maybe we *shouldn't* leap to thank everyone who throws us a bone. Maybe we should save our "action alerts" for the real, heavy-duty political stuff, and concentrate our efforts more.

Any other opinions?

Maybe instead of thanking Mr. Allen, we can ask him to go a little further for us?

I'd truly like to know what others think.

I think we're being too cautious and too grateful and we need to push more. I think that in general, not just in regards to this specific article.

I know some other people think so, too, and have abandoned AoA.

How can we all work together more effectively?

Terri