Sanjay Gupta, Alisyn Camerota and the Really Big Lies about Autism.
By Anne Dachel
Video: Recently CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota interviewed Dr. Sanjay Gupta about earlier diagnosing for autism in this three minute video. Now experts can see the signs at 14 months.
The subject of the interview was hardly news. Over the years there have been continuous calls for finding autism as early as possible so all those ABA therapies can be started. It is standard stuff every April during Autism Awareness Month.
In her opening statement Camerota incorrectly stated, “One in 59 children has autism.” She told viewers that finding the disorder sooner could be “a game changer.”
Gupta replied, “It could be.”
The real message on CNN was EARLY DIAGNOSING IS ALL WE CAN DO. We are totally helpless when it comes to autism. One in 54 (the actual rate) children may be on the spectrum but there’s no way to stop it from happening to your child. Furthermore we can only expect that statistic to keep going up and up until everyone has at least one child with autism.
Camerota and Gupta and their tedious chat about labeling toddlers with autism sooner isn’t a big story, but what is frustrating is that both of them know so much more that they aren’t talking about.
Alisyn Camerota used to be at Fox News where she did outstanding job reporting on the vaccine autism link. She interviewed people like Dr. Bob Sears, Mary Holland and Dr. Sarah Bridges on the link between vaccines and autism.
Ten years ago I named her Journalist of the Year for Age of Autism.
Dec 30, 2010, Age of Autism Awards 2010: Fox News' Alisyn Camerota Journalist of The Year
Dr. Gupta now seemingly has forgotten his interview with Dr. Jon Poling back in 2008 about the reality that YES, vaccines are recognized to cause autism.
Back then he did not challenge the link between vaccines and autism in Hannah Poling’s case. Gupta told Dr. Poling that he was worried about vaccinating his own two daughters with the standard one-size-fits-every-child vaccine schedule.
The reality here is that two media personalities who are well aware of the truth about vaccines and autism now pretend that kids are born with autism and all we can do about it is find it as early as possible.
The glaring omission especially when it comes to what Dr. Gupta said is that around 30 percent of children on the spectrum start out as normally developing kids and around age two lose learned skills and regressed into autism just like Hannah Poling did. I’m sure at 14 months those children were meeting their developmental milestones.
I’m not sure what Gupta and Camerota tell themselves when they do this scripted, pro forma, pretend journalism. Maybe the ad for the migraine medicine Aimovig that I had to watch before I could see the interview on CNN had something to do with what they didn’t say.
Anne Dachel is Media Editor for Age of Autism.
Totally agree with Aimee Doyle
Posted by: Mir Ishaq Ali | May 23, 2020 at 04:18 PM
Hi Benedetta F Stilwell,
You will find this of interest about Fauci per:
Fauci tells Congress: ‘There’s no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective’
Key Points
Even once a vaccine to fight the coronavirus is developed, White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress Tuesday, “There’s no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective.”
Fauci testified in front of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions about the road to reopening businesses in the U.S.
He also warned there’s a potential for a vaccine to make the course of the disease even stronger.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/12/fauci-tells-congress-no-guarantee-the-coronavirus-vaccine-will-be-effective.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain&fbclid=IwAR3IN8vgEK-xW2oTA_Y7i1HWWmR6XJ_CtGcHQB6zdVEfFLa3bc8hoEzPdTI
Maybe Rush Limbaugh is right, Fauci is being muzzled because the guy contradicts himself constantly. Rush said it tongue in cheek today but pretty funny. Per:
Dr. Fauci Muzzled!
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/05/15/dr-fauci-looks-like-hes-been-muzzled/
Ray
Posted by: Raymond Gallup | May 15, 2020 at 09:02 PM
The important thing is that vaccine encephalitis is the major cause of autism. Mercury and aluminum can do it, but even in those cases I think the metal triggers encephalitis. And just the baffled overreaction of the immune system to strange unknown ingredients causes hyper inflammation and stroke-like brain damage. Even with no mercury or aluminum.
Posted by: Cia | May 15, 2020 at 10:19 AM
Speaking of TV host and such; I have been enjoying Tucker Carlson the last few nights on Fauci.
Another direction, is to try to make the public understand what genius (not) the likes of Fauci and the rest of the CDC swamp creatures are.
Tucker said a couple of nights ago that it was a prerequisite before criticizing Fauci was to first exclaim that he is a really great man first.
Kind of like all those that try to criticize vaccines. Well first of all vaccines have saved millions of people but ---
Well they never saved mine, they put mine in extreme danger of being homeless, dying of addiction, and they are still waiting like vultures to take any wealth I have accumulated when I need medical help for seizures, a strep infection that has lead to OCD.
738 dollar check is waiting to be mailed out for a bunch of labs that showed: Everything is fine. Except my son was not fine.
Posted by: Benedetta F Stilwell | May 14, 2020 at 04:18 PM
@Bob Moffitt "THE "CORRELLATION WITH COVID PROVE IT CAUSATION. THE CORRELATION OF MULTIPLE VACCINES WITH AUTISM DOES NOT PROVE CAUSATION. I THINK I GOT IT NOW …" That is absolutely amazing. I'll be using that.
@Annie BOOM!
@Dude Levi Quackenboss said in his blog that the year thimerosal was removed from childhood vaccines is the year that universal flu shots for pregnant women and babies 6 months and older were recommended, and that the majority of flu shots contain thimerosal. The pro vax camp likes to screech that removing thimerosal didn't impact autism rates, but that's very disingenuous.
Posted by: goldenchameleon | May 14, 2020 at 04:14 PM
Oh "Fishy Language" or was it ""fishy legal language" yeah that is the quote of the century! It Will never be forgot. Nope never!
It is like watching a prisoner of war, put on a vide forced to say how decent, and good the enemy is, and just how evil their America really is. LOL.
Posted by: Benedetta | May 14, 2020 at 04:10 PM
Dude
No it didn’t but the nature of the condition changed
https://www.ageofautism.com/2017/10/autism-and-the-mark-of-thimerosal-a-hypothesis.html
Posted by: John Stone | May 14, 2020 at 03:52 PM
Do any of you know if the rate of increase in autism rates decreased after thimerosol was removed?
Posted by: dude | May 14, 2020 at 02:47 PM
Per:
"There is not a single word of truth in these comments .. such as .. "1 in 59 children have autism" .. "finding the disorder sooner could be a "game changer" .. Gupta's "it could be" .. not one word … NONE .. ZERO .. NADA .. and the truly discouraging thing is BOTH Camerota and Gupta KNOW IT."
The rate jumped according to this article:
Autism Rate Jumps to 1 in 36 Children, 1 in 28 Boys
https://www.askdrsears.com/topics/autism/autism-rate-jumps-1-36-children-1-28-boys
Autism Affecting Up to 1 in 36 Children in America
https://thevaccinereaction.org/2019/07/autism-affecting-up-to-1-in-36-children-in-america/
Using the US Department of Education and the US Social Security (SSI) figures, autism is on the upswing on a year to year basis. It has been climbing since I started this documentation in the late 1990's to the present. This is an autism epidemic due to environmental factors and as we know there is no such thing as a "genetic epidemic" as some people would like to say. As one of our founding fathers, John Adams said:
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
Raymond Gallup
Posted by: Raymond Gallup | May 14, 2020 at 02:16 PM
With vaccine hesitancy a top ten WHO public health threat, and the claim that vaccines have nothing to do with autism, doesn’t it stand to reason that we would see a cohort of completely unvaccinated, severely autistic children?
Posted by: annie | May 14, 2020 at 12:55 PM
Not surprised about Gupta but extremely sad and disappointed in Camerota.
Posted by: 4Bobby | May 14, 2020 at 10:27 AM
"In her opening statement Camerota incorrectly stated, “One in 59 children has autism.” She told viewers that finding the disorder sooner could be “a game changer.” Gupta replied, “It could be.”
There is not a single word of truth in these comments .. such as .. "1 in 59 children have autism" .. "finding the disorder sooner could be a "game changer" .. Gupta's "it could be" .. not one word … NONE .. ZERO .. NADA .. and the truly discouraging thing is BOTH Camerota and Gupta KNOW IT.
As Anne reminds us … at one time .. 10 years ago … both Camerota and Gupta had serious questions whether vaccines were playing a huge roll in CAUSING autism .. so much so Gupta was "worried about his own two daughters with the standard one-size-fits every child vaccine schedule. Apparently that was then .. and .. today NEITHER dares question to safety of that very same child vaccine schedule which has become even more questionable.
Anne writes: "Dr. Gupta said that around 30 percent of children on the spectrum start out as normally developing kids and around age two lose learned skills and regressed into autism .. at 14 months those children were meeting their developmental milestones."
As Dr Gupta also "well knows" by 14 months those normally developing kids have received 3 doses of HEP B … 4 doses of DPT … 4 doses of pneumococcal .. 3 doses of rota-virus .. MMR .. FLU … HEP A .. Menningococal vaccines.
Yeah I know … CORRELLATION DOES NOT EQUAL/MEAN CAUSATION .. just because these perfectly healthy children have received the full schedule of vaccines during that critical time when they start losing their developing skills .. DOES NOT MEAN VACCINES CAUSE IT. GOT IT?
I mean it's not the same as today Covid which is CAUSING a new pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome that is CAUSING children to die and the hospitalization of 85 others .. this "new syndrome" is now being identified in other states after having been alerted by NY public health agencies. They know Covid is causing new syndrome because ALL CHILDREN SO FAR HAVE BEEN EITHER POSITIVE FOR COVID OR SHOWN ANTI-BODDIES FROM PRIOR EXPOSURES.
THE "CORRELLATION WITH COVID PROVE IT CAUSATION. THE CORRELATION OF MULTIPLE VACCINES WITH AUTISM DOES NOT PROVE CAUSATION. I THINK I GOT IT NOW …
Posted by: Bob Moffit | May 14, 2020 at 09:14 AM
The media also ignore the fact that the majority of those on the spectrum will need years of special education, speech and occupational therapy, and services and supports as adults. They completely ignore the challenges of aggression and self-injury the frequently come with severe autism. They completely ignore co-morbid conditions such as gastrointestinal problems and epilepsy.
The complications of the autism epidemic extend far beyond vaccination. Yes, we need to reduce vaccination (I personally prefer vax by choice not mandate) but we also need better treatments, therapies, and cure for those who want a cure.
Posted by: Aimee Doyle | May 14, 2020 at 08:00 AM