Part 3 Mark Blaxill on the Autism Tsunami
NOTE: This is part 3 of a 5 part series running all week. Parts 1 and 2 are below. At the end of the series, we'll reorganize to run it in order. Thank you.
By Anne Dachel
For years I’ve written about something I call “the really big lie about autism.” That is the continual and baseless claim that all the autism everywhere among our children is merely the result of “better diagnosing/greater awareness/expanded definition” of a disorder that’s always been around.
Each and every time an official increase in the autism has been announced, there was always some federal official assuring the public that they weren’t sure IF THIS INCREASE represented a true increase in the number of children with autism.
Their real meaning was FROM THE LAST OFFICIAL INCREASE, but they knew that the media lackeys would spin the message to read, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A REAL INCREASE IN AUTISM.
As long as that lie works, they can all relax. Autism only requires recognition and services. Allocate more funds and life goes on.
Back in 2006 I was in Washington with two doctors visiting congressional offices. We had an appointment with the chief of staff of my representative, Dave Obey of Wisconsin. During our meeting we laid out the evidence on the increases in autism and the cost predictions.
Obey’s chief of state’s response was this: “So what’s the solution? Congressmen don’t like problems without solutions.”
The three of responded together, “We have to stop it.”
That pretty much ended our conversation. She wasn’t interested in what that would involve.
Mark Blaxill autism tsunami Part 3
Question 3: Why aren’t health officials focused on this? Why do they continue to tell us with each new rate increase that they are still not sure if more children actually have autism?
Mark: That’s a really interesting question. I think there are multiple answers.
At one level, most of the people in these jobs have relatively short career time horizons, so they’re looking for their next job. They’re in for not very long.
If they can defer dealing with tough questions for two, five, 10 years, they don’t have to worry about it anymore.
Autism parents have a much longer time horizon. Our time horizon is longer than our own lives. Our time horizon goes decades long
We’re worried about the lives of our children when we’re gone, so we are the ones carrying the message.
At some level it’s just short term, long term thinking. .
It’s a tough question to answer.
Another reason they don’t answer is they don’t have a good answer that they like.
If these increases are real, it’s an enormous problem. It’s an enormous cost to society, it’s an enormous drain on families and services.
If you’re a public health official or bureaucrat, you like to get on top of problems that create opportunities, that serve your interests, that allow you to mount a program and to be a hero and say, look at all we’re doing.
If they knew what was going on in a way that led them to a solution that they liked, they’d have it for us.
They don’t.
And because of the size of the problem, the only possible response for an official like that is to say, “Well, I’m not sure. I don’t know.”
Plead ignorance because as soon as you acknowledge that it’s real and it’s serious, that it’s monumental even in terms of the social costs, you’re obligated to address it. And they don’t have an answer that they like.
The obvious answers must be environmental causes, and there’ s no one in the scientific community that wants to take on the plausible culprits because they involve corporations, they involve the medical institution, the failures of medical policies and practices.
I try to avoid, Anne, the vaccine question because that becomes a red flag.
I have my own beliefs, but for this purpose, scientifically, I put those beliefs aside.
I think the most important thing is that we focus on the cost and the problem. This problem could have many causes, multiple causes.
All we have to do is to acknowledge that these are environmental causes and we must address them.
We must, almost urgently, immediately figure out what’s going on so we can pause it, so we can reverse it, so we can change the trend.
The act of saying we think this is a crisis and the numbers are real, and the costs are real requires you, obligates you, mandates that a leading public health official takes on that policy question.
You know, they’re all cowards or worse, and they have not chosen to stand.
Part 2
By Anne Dachel
A few years ago, the parent of a daughter with severe autism talked with me about the last IEP meeting he attended during her final year in high school.
The father asked the staff about what was next for his child. What adult programs would there be for her?
Her teachers had to admit that they didn’t know of any specific programs in the area at the same time they assured him that they were sure there would be something.
It was no big surprise for him to learn that no one is prepare for young adults with autism. His daughter was moved from one program for developmentally disabled adults to another, with none of them equipped to deal with her behavioral needs. Today social services pays a relative to babysit her all day.
This is but one tiny example of the future that Mark Blaxill talks about here.
Mark Blaxill Autism Tsunami Part 2
Question 2: How bad will things get if the autism rate increases continue at the rate they have in the past?
Mark: It’ll get really bad. We know that. I like to say that before 1930, the rate of autism in the world was effectively zero.
Then Leo Kanner discovered it in a handful of children who were born in the 1930s. He wrote his paper in 1943 after seeing a bunch of children who were unlike any other group he’d ever seen before.
He was the world’s leading expert in child psychiatry. For many years thereafter, in the U.S. at least, the rates were really low, one in 10,000.
Then they began to tick up a little bit in the 70s and 80s, but in the late 90s they went vertical. We haven’t seen the plateau in that curve.
The latest numbers we have are something like three percent in American children. There are numbers that are even higher than that in some places.
What that means is, if you were born in 1930, you’d be 90 today. … So there are people who are alive today who were around when there was no autism. The first cases of autism, some of them are still alive. I have met a couple of them, but they are vanishingly rare.
So we have no system for elderly adults with autism whose parents are no longer with us.
We have been struggling all over the world in special education programs to deal with the onslaught of children.
What we have not dealt with is the tsunami of autistic adults who are now starting to age out of the school system, who will flood into an unprepared services infrastructure.
There is no infrastructure for autistic adults without parents. They’ll require residential services; they’ll require day programming services. We will lose their productivity in the population. In some cases, a few of the higher functioning adults will do productive work, so I don’t want to minimize that, but in large measure, these will be unemployed human beings who will be a weight on the economy.
Those costs have not yet ever been seen, they’ve not ever been paid for, and we are nowhere close to equipped to deal with it.
We are just now dealing with autistic young people in their 20s. My daughter is 25 years old. She was born in 1995 just as the rates were being to increase, and there are no services for her. There are no programs for young autistic adults.
I’m involved in an autism center. We have just started. I’m the chief financial officer. We’ve just initiated a program for autistic adults, because there are none.
There are programs for intellectually disabled people, but not [for] the unique problems of people with autism. We’re not prepared.
Even then, most of the young people, if they’re young adults, their parents are in their 60s, 70s. They’re still going. They’re still taking care of their children.
One of my working titles for this paper was Autism Will Cost a Trillion Dollars When I Die. We’re looking at numbers in the hundreds of billions. They’re not small.
We’re going to see this tsunami hit. Most of the cost will be in young adults, and there will be no safety net because the parents are by and large, the safety net.
We’ll be gone. There may be siblings, there may be relatives, but this is going to be a bleak scenario when we have literally millions of adults who are not for whom we’re not currently prepared to provide services. They will be increasing in large numbers.
PART 1
Mark Blaxill Autism Tsunami Part 1
Question 1: Tell us about your study, Autism Tsunami: the Impact of Rising Prevalence on the Societal Cost of Autism in the United States. What motivated you and the other authors to look into the future impact of autism?
Mark: My motivation has been 20 years long. (Inaudible)…and it was pretty obvious for too long, the numbers were exploding.
California and everywhere you looked, the numbers were going up, and that invalidated the orthodox story line.
(Inaudible) Mark dismissed the official claims of better diagnosing/diagnostic substitution.
And we’ve known that for a long time, Anne.
I first started writing about that in 2001, 2003, in that area. I started writing in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders when they started trying to blame it on diagnostic substitution.
It was obvious that the work that they were doing …(inaudible)
I wrote to them. I got some colleagues to write. …
The authors that argued that it was diagnostic substitution had to retract their findings because it was obvious that they were arithmetically wrong.
The rate of autism was going up, and the rate of intellectual disability was not declining.
Then I wrote a paper that was published in 2004, What’s going on? The question of time trends in autism.
I argued that the rates were going up and it was real, all over the world, particularly in the United States and the UK.
I know you focus very heavily on the United States and the UK both of which have rates that are going up.
And then I kept writing about it.
I wrote a book called The Age of Autism.
I wrote another book called Denial, both with Dan Olmsted.
One in 2010 and another in 2017.
You’re kind of screaming at the universe, please pay attention. This is a crisis.
Anne, you do this every day. I do this in longer cycle projects. We’re doing much of the same work.
One thing that happened is that Cindy Nevison, whom I’ve gotten to know pretty well, and she’s doing very good work. …on the environmental causes of autism.
She and I got together with a guy named Walter Zahorodny, who is the CDC’s man in New Jersey. And New Jersey has been reporting some of the highest rates of autism.
Walter, in his own way, is saying the same thing.
So we started writing a paper that was published in 2018. The three of us were co-authors.
I had been looking at the California numbers way back since 2001, some of the early days. Cindy had started looking at more recent numbers. We compiled our databases.
We got this article published that said, you know these rates are exploding and they’re real.
By the time we’re doing that in 2018, that’s 20 years after I first started looking. The numbers are scarily higher, and to your point, the increases have not slowed, if anything they look like they’re growing more rapidly. …
Cynthia and I wrote another paper called Diagnostic Substitution, again showing that there’s no case that the increases are due to substitutes of intellectual disability.
When they published the California paper in 2018, which surprised me honestly, I was surprised because it goes against the orthodox narrative.
Good for the journal. They’ve been a pleasure to deal with because they’re interested in good evidence and good science, and we’ve tried to write it very rigorously.
As soon as that paper in 2018, I wrote the idea to Cindy and some others—hey, let’s do a cost of disease paper, because there is a literature on the cost of disease.
Most and almost all of it, until very recently, almost all it has assumed that the rates of autism prevalence are constant, which is a spectacular error.
First of all, they tend the latest numbers so they underestimate the cost of autism in children, and then they assume that whatever rates we’re observing in children, we’re observing in the elderly. So they will assign all those costs, and they’ll put a model together that’ll say, this is the cost of autism in elderly.
And they’ll add all that up, and they’ll come up with a number that’s too high for the total cost, but that underestimates the cost in children and dramatically overstates—makes up fansome numbers for cost in the elderly that don’t exist.
So that’s an error, foundational error in most cost of disease study, and we sought to correct that. That was the idea.
Part 2 follows tomorrow.
Angus;
I am copying and pasting and putting this in my email drafts section.
Saving that comment.
Good for Kim!.
Posted by: benedetta | August 05, 2021 at 04:50 PM
Hello. I sent Jill info that she requested via email. She has attacked our work recently on Twitter and I see no reason for any of us to engage her further. You can find her on Twitter and elsewhere. Thanks. Kim
Posted by: Kim regarding follow up | August 05, 2021 at 01:06 PM
"No one wants to talk about the staggering growth in autism for fear this admission will embolden your hyper-dangerous anti-scientific juvenile nonsense."
That is a terrible, terrible reason to pretend that there is not a large and growing health crisis in this country, one with costs that would be daunting to cover, **even if we planned for them,** which, as a country, we are not.
Pretending that children are not affected by autism spectrum disorders at a growing rate is ludicrous. Giving as a reason the idea that some people would choose not to comply with a vaccine schedule that is already considerably larger than what was deemed totally fine in my childhood... That's like not saving for retirement because it might make somebody bring up the concept of inflation and maybe talk about theories behind it, not all of which you'd agree with.
Posted by: TOB | August 05, 2021 at 12:50 PM
@Jill Escher
When your research project quits taking funding from Fauci's NIH, I might consider listening to your unscientific opinion.
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | August 05, 2021 at 11:09 AM
Jill Escher
Let me enhance what John Stone said.
Parents have noticed vaccine injuries.
A great number of parents are saying they saw, witness, finally recognized: vaccine injuries.
Injuries as in drop the y and add the ies, making it plural.
And after they finally catch on, they feel very foolish about being so very slow to see/understand these were vaccine injuries.
Posted by: Benedetta | August 05, 2021 at 11:06 AM
HI Jill,
I try and remember that random commenters here often are dealing with the same type of unique challenges caring for their loved ones that so many of us share. Still, it would be nice if random commenters also realized that many people here also have challenges and that it is possible to express a contrary opinion without using derogatory/negative phrases. Perhaps this is becoming a lost art? But one that imo is based in kindness and should be bought back.
Here are some facts.
1.The CDC lists encephalitis as a vaccine table injury.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/d/injury-table.pdf
2. Encephalitis can damage the brain ( including speech centers.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/encephalitis/complications/
3.Encephalitis can lead to autism.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6598425/
At least 69% of individuals with a diagnosis of ASD have been known to have neuroinflammation or encephalitis (6). Specifically, the so-called “anti-brain autoantibody” may damage fetal or children’s brain cells, eventually leading to children falling into an autistic or regressive state. Such brain-reactive antibodies causing autistic symptoms may elucidate the exploration of autism’s etiology and suggest practical anti-inflammatory management protocols for children with ASD
Hard to see where the science, at least in some cases, is lacking given the obvious connections?
All the best
Hera
Posted by: Hera | August 05, 2021 at 11:04 AM
"dangerous anti-scientific"
Um
30 Solid Scientific Studies That Prove Vaccines Cause Autism
Cause Autism
Date: July 26, 2017
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1. Hepatitis B Vaccination of Male Neonates and Autism
Annals of Epidemiology, September 2009
CM Gallagher, MS Goodman, Stony Brook University Medical Center
Boys vaccinated as neonates had threefold greater odds for autism diagnosis compared to boys never vaccinated or vaccinated after the first month of life.
2. Porphyrinuria in childhood autistic disorder: Implications for environmental toxicity
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 2006
Robert Natafa, et al, Laboratoire Philippe Auguste, Paris, France
These data implicate environmental toxicity in childhood autistic disorder.
3. Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes—A review
Journal of Immunotoxicology, January-March 2011
Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD
Autism could result from more than one cause, with different manifestations in different individuals that share common symptoms. Documented causes of autism include genetic mutations and/or deletions, viral infections, and encephalitis following vaccination.
4. Uncoupling of ATP-mediated Calcium Signaling and Dysregulated IL-6 Secretion in Dendritic Cells by Nanomolar Thimerosal
Environmental Health Perspectives, July 2006.
Samuel R. Goth, Ruth A. Chu Jeffrey P. Gregg
This study demonstrates that very low-levels of Thimerosal can contribute to immune system disregulation.
5. Gender-selective toxicity of thimerosal
Exp Toxicol Pathol. 2009 Mar;61(2):133-6. Epub 2008 Sep 3.
Branch DR, Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto
A recent report shows a correlation of the historical use of thimerosal in therapeutic immunizations with the subsequent development of autism; however, this association remains controversial. Autism occurs approximately four times more frequently in males compared to females; thus, studies of thimerosal toxicity should take into consideration gender-selective effects. The present study was originally undertaken to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of thimersosal in male and female CD1 mice. However, during the limited MTD studies, it became apparent that thimerosal has a differential MTD that depends on whether the mouse is male or female.
6. Comparison of Blood and Brain Mercury Levels in Infant monkeys exposed to Vaccines Containing Thimerosal
Environmental Health Perspectives, Aug 2005.
Thomas Burbacher, PhD, University of Washington
This study demonstrates clearly and unequivocally that ethyl mercury, the kind of mercury found in vaccines, not only ends up in the brain, but leaves double the amount of inorganic mercury as methyl mercury, the kind of mercury found in fish. This work is groundbreaking because little is known about ethyl mercury, and many health authorities have asserted that the mercury found in vaccines is the “safe kind.” This study also delivers a strong rebuke of the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation in 2004 to no longer pursue the mercury-autism connection.
7. Increases in the number of reactive glia in the visual cortex of Macaca fascicularis following subclinical long-term methyl mercury exposure
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 1994
Charleston JS et al, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
The identities of the reactive glial cells and the implications for the long-term function and survivability of the neurons due to changes in the glial population following subclinical long-term exposure to mercury are discussed.
8. Neuroglial Activation and Neuroinflammation in the Brain of Patients with Autism
Annals of Neurology, Feb 2005.
Diana L. Vargas, MD [Johns Hopkins University]
This study, performed independently and using a different methodology than Dr. Herbert (see above) reached the same conclusion: the brains of autistic children are suffering from inflammation.
9. Autism: A Brain Disorder, or a Disorder That Affects the Brain?
Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 2005
Martha R. Herbert M.D., Ph.D., Harvard University
Autism is defined behaviorally, as a syndrome of abnormalities involving language, social reciprocity and hyperfocus or reduced behavioral flexibility. It is clearly heterogeneous, and it can be accompanied by unusual talents as well as by impairments, but its underlying biological and genetic basis in unknown. Autism has been modeled as a brain-based, strongly genetic disorder, but emerging findings and hypotheses support a broader model of the condition as a genetically influenced and systemic.
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Activation of Methionine Synthase by Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 and Dopamine: a Target for Neurodevelopmental Toxins and Thimerosal
Molecular Psychiatry, July 2004.
Richard C. Deth, PhD [Northeastern University]
This study demonstrates how Thimerosal inhibits methylation, a central driver of cellular communication and development.
11. Validation of the Phenomenon of Autistic Regression Using Home Videotapes
Archives of General Psychiatry, 2005
Emily Werner, PhD; Geraldine Dawson, PhD, University of Washington
Conclusion This study validates the existence of early autistic regression.
12. Blood Levels of Mercury Are Related to Diagnosis of Autism: A Reanalysis of an Important Data Set
Journal of Child Neurology, 2007
M. Catherine DeSoto, PhD, Robert T. Hitlan, PhD -Department of Psychology, University of Northern Iowa
Excerpt: “We have reanalyzed the data set originally reported by Ip et al. in 2004 and have found that the original p value was in error and that a significant relation does exist between the blood levels of mercury and diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder. Moreover, the hair sample analysis results offer some support for the idea that persons with autism may be less efficient and more variable at eliminating mercury from the blood.”
13. Developmental Regression and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Child With Autism
Journal of Child Neurology, February 2006
Jon S. Poling, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Excerpt: “Children who have (mitochondrial-related) dysfunctional cellular energy metabolism might be more prone to undergo autistic regression between 18 and 30 months of age if they also have infections or immunizations at the same time.”
14. Oxidative Stress in Autism: Elevated Cerebellar 3-nitrotyrosine Levels
American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2008
Elizabeth M. Sajdel-Sulkowska, – Dept of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Excerpt: The preliminary data suggest a need for more extensive studies of oxidative stress, its relationship to the environmental factors and its possible attenuation by antioxidants in autism.”
15. Large Brains in Autism: The Challenge of Pervasive Abnormality
The Neuroscientist, 2005.
Martha Herbert, MD, PhD, Harvard University
This study helps refute the notion that the brains of autistic children are simply wired differently and notes, “neuroinflammation appears to be present in autistic brain tissue from childhood through adulthood.” Dr. Herbert suggests that chronic disease or an external environmental source (like heavy metals) may be causing the inflammation.
16. Evidence of Toxicity, Oxidative Stress, and Neuronal Insult in Autism
Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Nov-Dec 2006.
Janet Kern, Anne Jones, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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“This article discusses the evidence for the case that some children with autism may become autistic from neuronal cell death or brain damage sometime after birth as result of insult; and addresses the hypotheses that toxicity and oxidative stress may be a cause of neuronal insult in autism… the article discusses what may be happening over the course of development and the multiple factors that may interplay and make these children more vulnerable to toxicity, oxidative stress, and neuronal insult.”
17. Oxidative Stress in Autism
Pathophysiology, 2006.
Abha Chauhan, Ved Chauhan
This study provides a helpful overview of the growing evidence supporting the link between oxidative stress and autism.
18. Thimerosal Neurotoxicity is Associated with Glutathione Depletion: Protection with Glutathione Precursors
Neurotoxicology, Jan 2005.
S. Jill James, PhD, University of Arkansas
This recent study demonstrates that Thimerosal lowers or inhibits the body’s ability to produce Glutathione, an antioxidant and the body’s primary cellular-level defense against mercury.
c1c85c18_medium_aluminum_thimerosol19. Aluminum adjuvant linked to gulf war illness induces motor neuron death in mice
Neuromolecular Medicine, 2007
Christopher Shaw, Ph.D., Department of Ophthalmology and Program in Neuroscience, University of British Columbia
This study demonstrates the extreme toxicity of the aluminum adjuvant used as a preservative in vaccines.
20. Environmental mercury release, special education rates, and autism disorder: an ecological study of Texas
Health & Place, 2006
Raymond F. Palmer, University of Texas Health Science Center
This study demonstrated the correlation between environmental mercury and autism rates in Texas.
21. Autism Spectrum Disorders in Relation to Distribution of Hazardous Air Pollutants in the SF Bay Area
Environmental Health Perspectives, September, 2006
Gayle Windham, Div. of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control, California Department of Health Services
Excerpt: “Our results suggest a potential association between autism and estimated metal concentrations, and possibly solvents, in ambient air around the birth residence.”
22. A Case Series of Children with Apparent Mercury Toxic Encephalopathies Manifesting with Clinical Symptoms of Regressive Autistic Disorder
Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, 2007
David A. Geier, Mark R. Geier
This study reviewed the case histories and medical profiles of nine autistic children and concluded that eight of the nine children were mercury toxic and this toxicity manifested itself in a manner consistent with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
23. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and blood mercury level: a case-control study in chinese children
Neuropediatrics, August 2006 – P.R. Kong
Excerpt: “There was significant difference in blood mercury levels between cases and controls, which persists after adjustment for age, gender and parental occupational status. The geometric mean blood mercury level was also significantly higher in children with inattentive and combined subtypes of ADHD. High blood mercury level was associated with ADHD. Whether the relationship is causal requires further studies.”
24. The Changing Prevalence of Autism In California
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, April 2003
Mark F. Blaxill, David S. Baskin, and Walter O. Spitzer
This study helps to refute the supposition made by some researchers that autism’s epidemic may only be due to “diagnostic substitution”.
25. Mitochondrial Energy-Deficient Endophenotype in Autism
American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2008
J. Jay Gargus and Faiqa Imtiaz, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine,
While evidence points to a multigenic etiology of most autism, the pathophysiology of the disorder has yet to be defined and the underlying genes and biochemical pathways they subserve remain unknown.
26. Bridging from Cells to Cognition in Autism Pathophysiology: Biological Pathways to Defective Brain Function and Plasticity
American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2008
Matthew P. Anderson, Brian S. Hooker and Martha R. Herbert, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
We review evidence to support a model where the disease process underlying autism may begin when an in utero or early postnatal environmental, infectious, seizure, or autoimmune insult triggers an immune response that increases reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in the brain that leads to DNA damage (nuclear and mitochondrial) and metabolic enzyme blockade and that these inflammatory and oxidative stressors persist beyond early development (with potential further exacerbations), producing ongoing functional consequences.
27. Heavy-Metal Toxicity—With Emphasis on Mercury6a00d8357f3f2969e201910500b06b970c
John Neustadt, ND, and Steve Pieczenik, MD, PhD
Conclusion: Metals are ubiquitous in our environment, and exposure to them is inevitable. However, not all people accumulate toxic levels of metals or exhibit symptoms of metal toxicity, suggesting that genetics play a role in their potential to damage health.
28. Evidence of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autism and Implications for Treatment
American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Daniel A. Rossignol, J. Jeffrey Bradstreet
MtD and oxidative stress may also explain the high male to female ratio found in autism due to increased male vulnerability to these dysfunctions.
29. Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalence
Health & Place, 2008
Raymond F. Palmer et al, University of Texas Health Science Center
This study should be viewed as hypothesis-generating – a first step in examining the potential role of environmental mercury and childhood developmental disorders. Nothing is known about specific exposure routes, dosage, timing, and individual susceptibility. We suspect that persistent low-dose exposures to various environmental toxicants, including mercury, that occur during critical windows of neural development among genetically susceptible children (with a diminished capacity for metabolizing accumulated toxicants) may increase the risk for developmental disorders such as autism.
30. Epidemiology of autism spectrum disorder in Portugal: prevalence, clinical characterization, and medical conditions
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2007
Guiomar Oliveira MD PhD et al, Centro de Desenvolvimento da Criança, Hospital Pediátrico de Coimbra; Assunção Ataíde BSc, Direcção Regional de Educação do Centro Coimbra;
The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and identify its clinical characterization, and medical conditions in a paediatric population in Portugal.
https://greenhealthtruth.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/30-solid-scientific-studies-that-prove-vaccines-cause-autism/
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Posted by: Angus Files | August 05, 2021 at 10:28 AM
Um Hello Jill
This answer does not preclude the possibility that Mark may want to reply. First of all I note your immediate resort to sarcasm but the main problem is that neither you nor the CDC or NIH have any other tenable theory explaining the rise in autism while many parents have seen their children hurt by vaccines only to be mocked by ignorant bullies like you the CDC and the NIH. You are not doing science although now there are many successful protocols for gaslighting vaccine critics.
Posted by: John Stone | August 05, 2021 at 07:17 AM
The end goal of course is to go door to door with the covid vaccines followed by other vaccines that will allow you to participate in American society. Watch our for those Fauci armbands.
The TWO 95% effective covid vaccines seem to last only a few months before they break down so they are now adding a THIRD dose of something that is not working to fight off the mystery variants.
The quickly found the new variant was affecting children more as that is their next market for the vaccine. Have not heard a word on the 2021 back to school FLU shot but I would guess they have not eliminated that program.
Thanks for all you do Mark.
Posted by: Still with Trump | August 05, 2021 at 05:57 AM
Um hello Mark and fellow vaccine blamers… you are conveniently leaving out the most important explanation for political and scientific inaction. No sane politician or researcher wants to fuel your ludicrous antivaxx conspiracy theories. No one wants to talk about the staggering growth in autism for fear this admission will embolden your hyper-dangerous anti-scientific juvenile nonsense. They are wrong to ignore the overwhelming evidence for the autism epidemic, sure, but given the potential cost to public health I can hardly blame them.
Posted by: Jill Escher | August 05, 2021 at 02:18 AM
I have said this before; but Since WWI the Appalachian region vaccinated it's school children probably every years for typhoid.
Cheaper than education and government intervention on the proper way to dispose of human waste.
The result was probably the first glimpse of what it looks like to have a high number of injuries from vaccines. Autism yes, but depression, auto immune diseases, mental illness, laziness, the inability to care about getting up and bettering yourself. No, not every one, but high enough numbers to make a region poor.
I give you again. The life and times of Harry Caudill.
Caudill served in World War II as a private in the U.S. Army and was elected three times as to the Kentucky State House of Representatives. He was a lawyer, a writer, He taught in the History Department at the University of Kentucky from 1976 to 1984.
A common theme explored in many of Caudill's writings is the historic underdevelopment of the Appalachian region (particularly his own home area of southeastern Kentucky). In several of his books (most prominently Night Comes to the Cumberlands, 1962) and many of his published articles, he probes the historical poverty (no not historical just never came along with the rest of the nation starting in the early 1900s --After WWI) of the region, which he attributes in large part to the rapacious policies of the coal mining industries active in the region, as well as their backers: bankers of the northeastern United States. He notes that such interests most often had their headquarters not in Appalachia but in the Northeast or Midwest, and thus failed to properly reinvest their sizable profits in the Appalachian region. Following publication of Night Comes to the Cumberlands, President John F. Kennedy appointed a commission to investigate conditions in the region and subsequently more than $15 billion in aid was invested in the region over twenty-five years.
HERE IS A THOUGHT -- Maybe John F. Kennedy figured the problem out caused by vaccine injuries and the federal agencies all meet back then and decided to do him on the grassy knoll in Texas? Far fetch? Sigh ! At this point in time? Seeing the crazy stuff going on?
In his later years he became an active opponent of the rapidly growing practice of strip mining as practiced by companies working in Appalachia, which he believed was causing irreparable harm to the land and its people. He published articles in many magazines in addition to speaking out about the subject. Caudill pointed out that strip mining could be done responsibly as in England, Germany, and Czechoslovakia where topsoil, subsoil, and rocks are removed separately and placed back in layers in their original order.
Here we go - another crazy Gates guy!
Caudill became interested in the work of William Shockley, a scientist with controversial eugenicist stances at Stanford University in California. Caudill came to believe in Shockley's theory of "dysgenics," the argument that unintelligent people weaken the genes of a "race" over time. He felt that "genetic decline" in Eastern Kentucky contributed to issues of poverty. "The slobs continue to multiply," Caudill wrote in a 1975 letter to Time magazine. The editors of Time rejected Caudill's letter.
Yeah and then promptly made sure they had a good solid contract with cartoonist for "Little Abner"
He also produced several volumes of folklore and oral history, which he collected himself from residents of the area centering on Letcher County and Harlan County, Kentucky. One of those oral history interviews in 1941 of a man who would have been about 90 years old, was the basis for the 1995 movie, Pharaoh's Army, starring Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, and Kris Kristofferson.
Caudill killed himself with a gunshot to the head in 1990, faced with an advancing case of Parkinson's disease. He is buried in Battle Grove Cemetery, Cynthiana, Kentucky
What do you all think -- Parkinson related to a vaccine injury -- I think so. Sure is hooked up with aluminum that is for sure.
Posted by: Benedetta | August 04, 2021 at 09:13 PM
If new parents were shown the VAERS data via medalerts.org looking up who died following vaccines -- just any vaccines -- in the last year and they saw babies dying within the same or next two days of vaccines -- and they found out there is zero zip nada liability for those who make and administer vaccines -- they would run from pediatricians! But they are not shown this and it should make us all angry to see this continue to happen!
Posted by: lorim | August 04, 2021 at 04:34 PM
Bob Moffit, that sentence, "....................................you’re obligated to address it......................" jumped off the page to me as well. Its not quite the Pottery Barn Rule--If You Break It, You Own It--a variation of which Collin Powell is reported to have said.
Our Pottery Barn Rule is thus: You Broke Our Children; You're Obligated to Address It. You started braking the pottery in the barn in 1986. Thats a lot of broken pottery that we call our children. Of course, "................... there’ s no one in the scientific community that wants to take on the plausible culprits because they involve corporations, they involve the medical institution, the failures of medical policies and practices." The Colossal failure of Government which proves it is incapable of self-correction.
It is this landscape that makes worst of all options--anarchism--look appealing.
Posted by: michael | August 04, 2021 at 04:14 PM
Best of it is that anyone that doesnt vaccinate now I would guess the majority had been vaccinators before and had a bad vaccine experience(wash your mouth out)..From there you end up with like us half the family vaccinated and the other half not.Do you see me promoting vaccines I wonder why not..
The fascists' under the guise of socialisms' in Scotland, undermining the roll of the parent again..again again ...
Covid: Children aged 16 and 17 will start getting vaccinated in Scotland on Friday
Nicola Sturgeon said the programme to vaccinate 16-17 year olds will be begin in Scotland within days - and welcomed news the government's expert panel is considering jabs for younger teenagers
^Officials close to the programme said that under current UK guidance, if a child is able to understand the risks and benefits of any medical treatment then they can legally give consent without their parents’ say-so.The child or young person’s consent is considered the most appropriate consent, even if a parent disagrees."
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/covid-children-aged-16-17-24688009
Pharma For Prison
MMR RIP
Posted by: Angus Files | August 04, 2021 at 03:02 PM
"'Stop the Shot': Watch live town hall exposing dangers of COVID vaccines
Dr. Peter McCullough among prominent experts countering media narrative"
https://www.wnd.com/2021/08/4935515/
Watch today at noon Eastern time.
"LifeSiteNews said breaking information will be presented by the lead attorney in the lawsuit against the Biden administration's Health and Human Services Department regarding its Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, known as VAERS, for allegedly underreporting deaths and injuries.
The presentation will include an update on a Centers for Disease Control whistleblower affidavit that indicates more than 45,000 deaths have resulted from COVID-19 vaccines.
Viewers also will hear about previously undisclosed data from both clinical trials and subsequent additional studies on the COVID vaccines related to serious long-term impacts on fertility in both men and women."
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | August 04, 2021 at 10:49 AM
@Bob Moffit
Spot on.
Posted by: Emmaphiladelphia | August 04, 2021 at 10:15 AM
DEDADES OF PUBLIC HEALTH "DELAY, DENY, DIE" STRATEGY
DELAY: "If they can defer dealing with tough questions for two, five, 10 years, they don’t have to worry about it anymore."
DENY: "Plead ignorance because as soon as you acknowledge that it’s real and it’s serious, that it’s monumental even in terms of the social costs, you’re obligated to address it. And they don’t have an answer that they like."
DIE? THEY OR WE DIE.
Mark: "I try to avoid, Anne, the vaccine question because that becomes a red flag …
We must, almost urgently, immediately figure out what’s going on so we can pause it, so we can reverse it, so we can change the trend."
Sorry but I feel compelled to ask … how is it possible to "immediately figure out what's going on" if that damn "red flag vaccine question" remains unresolved? Why not prioritize demands for truly scientific independent study of vaccine v. unvaccinated populations to ascertain once and for all time autism is far more prevalent in vaccinated population??? After all .. we have the data, resources, urgency of purpose … THEY LACK ONLY THE WILL TO PROVE THEIR VACCINES ARE AS SAFE AND EFFECTIVE AS THEY INSIST THEY ARE.
Posted by: Bob Moffit | August 04, 2021 at 08:24 AM