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Final Inning for our Matching Gift Campaign

Autism RealityDan Olmsted, Mark Blaxill and I launched Age of Autism in November of 2007 to shed light on the man made epidemic. To support each other in what is a lonely journey.  It’s still our core mission, though many of our kids are now adults, so we share lots of life stories to support one another.  I still talk to parents of newly diagnosed toddlers. It breaks my heart. And I work hard to remember those early days.  Speaking of our launch, we're in the last inning of our fund raiser and could use a few hits to help us keep going. PLEASE consider a donation of any amount to help us reach our $10,000 matching gift goal. Paper checks to Autism Age, PO Box 110546 Trumbull CT 06611 or use safe, secure Donor Box at the link below. Thanks!

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Giving Tuesday: Who Has Given More Than Autism Families?

Thank you typeOn this "Giving Tuesday" I ask a simple question. Who has given more than autism families? Than our Age of Autism family. And most of all, than our CHILDREN themselves? We could call it "Given UP" Tuesday because we have given up so much. Milestones. Recitals. Holidays. First loves. Graduations. Vacations. Weddings. Grandchildren. Savings. Retirement. And on it goes.  But we have NOT given up, nor will we.

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I know we have changed dramatically since Dan Olmsted's death. Truth be told, we were already changing. Politics and Covid social media crackdowns hurried us along. Young families do not seek us out the way the "tough nuts and old timers" sought out Yahoo groups. Many think autism is kind of OK and everything will be just fine. Ah, youth. We have no "omerta" at Age of Autism. The journey grows tougher, more exhausting and frustrating as our kids age into adulthood. The schooling parents think is so bad today (and much of it is) will seem like the halcyon days once age 23 hits and the bus stops coming.  It's imperative to have  a voice of reality. The site that tells you that all is NOT well. If we don't, our kids' very lives will have been in vain. Ours too. And we can't have that. Please consider a donation today. Online or at Autism Age, PO Box 110546 Trumbull CT 06611. Give 'til it hurts. That's our way. XOX  Kim


Stalls Are For Horses Not Fund Raisers

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We hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and the kitchen is FINALLY clean. Our $10,000 matching gift campaign is coming to a close, and I feel a bit like a horse's ass for telling you, WE'VE  STALLED.  (Thus the photo. Get it?) Ra ba bump. This campaign is our main fund raiser and keeps us going for a full year. If you haven't donated yet, please consider doing so.

We use safe, secure Donor Box and we take checks at Autism Age PO Box 110546 Trumbull CT 06611. Donations are tax deductible per IRS rules. We also accept crypto, skyscrapers, stocks, houses, horse barns and cars!

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Grateful For Our Readers

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Happy Thanksgiving! We're grateful for your support. And happy we can still remind the world that autism is a man made epidemic that deserves so much more than lip service and white washing. Needs are growing every day as more and more children are diagnosed while the 1990s cohort catapults into adulthood. If you are so inclined to donate to our annual matching gift appeal, our cornucopia will runneth over! We use safe, secure Donor Box and accept paper checks to Autism Age, PO Box 110546 Trumbull CT 06611. EIN 47-1831987 deductible per IRS rules. Thank you.

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Safeminds Highlights Study on Autism Throughout Midlife and Beyond

Older parentsAsk any autism parent, "What's your biggest fear," and chances are they will answer, my child's life as an adult as I grow older and then die." Safeminds highlighted the study below.

New Research Examines Symptoms of Autism Throughout Midlife and Beyond

Findings Show that Those without ID Had an Accelerated Set of Challenges in Later Years

New research from the University of Wisconsin used an accelerated longitudinal design to estimate age-related trajectories over a 60-year period for a large community-based sample of individuals on the spectrum. Unlike most studies that track autism trajectories over childhood, this study describes changes in autism symptoms, behavioral functioning, and health measured over 22 years into midlife and early old age. The study analyzed if these trajectories differed between those who have intellectual disability (ID) and those who have average or above-average intelligence. The results showed that most autism symptoms improved through adulthood while health worsened. Different measures manifested different patterns, with an inverted U-shaped curve best-describing change for repetitive behavior symptoms, activities of daily living, maladaptive behaviors, and social interaction. Individuals with and without ID showed differences in their aging years. Surprisingly, while those with ID had poorer levels of functioning, the study revealed that those without ID faced an accelerating set of challenges in their aging years, including an increase in medications for physical health problems and worsening repetitive behaviors. The authors conclude that meeting the needs of the increasingly large population of adults with autism in midlife and old age requires a nuanced understanding of life course trajectories across the long stretch of adulthood and multiple domains. 

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Wuhan bioweapons coverThe Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) NOW AVAILABLE TO SHIP!

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.

 


Underestimated to Unbreaking the Silence: The Spellers Guidebook Debuts From Skyhorse

ThiSpellers books is the best week to give thanks. Back in 2021, we shared the Handley family story of letterboarding as a means to finally, blissfully, exhaustedly, explosively, gratefully communicate. Below the intro to this new book is a March, 2021 post from JB we ran with a video that will warm your heart faster than a shot of Wild Turkey bourbon.

JB's book Underestimated gave rise to the Spellers movie. And now, Skyhorse has again shown its unending support for the autism community with a new book, The Spellers Guidebook.

However we can help our kids communicate is a blessing. There are many versions of letterboarding now.  Some of our kids use AAC, from the highest tech to the simple PECS. At the end of the day, ALL that matters is that we support people with autism to communicate by ANY means.

The Spellers Guidebook by Dawnmarie Gavin and Dana Johnson with foreword by J.B. Handley

A means by which thousands, and soon millions, of people are being freed from their lives of silence.

 
The Spellers Guidebook is the first of its kind—a comprehensive guidebook that every family should take along for their Spelling journey. From the moment you first learn about spelled communication through working with a practitioner, developing fluency, and everything in between, this book serves as a blueprint to follow while you build the skills to spell openly with your child.
 
The Spellers Guidebook is informative not only for parents and caregivers but for practitioners and professionals as well.

Here's JB post from March of 2021.

UnderestimatedJB Handley and his son Jamison have written a book recounting how a method called Spelling2Communicate (not to be confused with facilitated communication) has given 18 year old Jamison a way to share his heart, his mind, his soul. Think of all of our kids who are pre-verbal - how smart they are. We know. We can see it in their receptive speech. We see it in their eyes. We also see the pleading look that says, "Help me."  Many of us have spent tens of thousands of dollars, maybe more, and devoted countless hours to our kids lives. Never satisfied with the grim prognoses of ignorant doctors and inside the box therapists, we've been ridiculed, written off and reviled for wanting MORE for our kids. What kind of more? How about the ability to ask for a chicken sandwich instead of a burger. A glass of orange juice instead of grape juice.  Communication. For Jamison and many others, Spelling2Communicate has worked. For others? Perhaps S2C or HALO from Soma have not been the best route to success. Watch the interview. We are approaching the April Fool's Month. It's time to turn our eyes from the pandemic BACK to autism and our ever growing needs. For Jamison? We say AMEN, young man. We are happy for you.  Amazon: Underestimated An Autism Miracle


Age of Autism Matching Gift Campaign is in Full Swing!

Vintage swingNote: 10,000 thanks to Laura and Richard Hayes for their annual matching gift campaign. We're entering our 17th year of publication. I can hardly believe it.  Our goal is $10,000 before November 30 and we're not quite 50% there. We use secure Donor Box and we accept checks to Autism Age, PO Box 110546, Trumbull CT 06611. EIN-47-1831987 Please consider a tax deductible donation today. Every dollar helps keep us up and running. And running. And running!


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Never Forget The Spirit of First Beginning

Autism RealityDan Olmsted, Mark Blaxill and I launched Age of Autism in November of 2007 to shed light on the man made epidemic. To support each other in what is a lonely journey.  It’s still our core mission, though many of our kids are now adults, so we share lots of life stories to support one another. That headline is one of the 5 codes of my Karate style. It means never forget what it was like to be a white belt, to be new at something, afraid, just starting out, even if you are a 3rd degree black belt, like me. I still talk to parents of newly diagnosed toddlers. It breaks my heart. And I work hard to remember those early days.  Speaking of our launch, we're in the middle of our fund raiser to help us keep going. PLEASE consider a donation of any amount to help us reach our $10,000 matching gift goal.

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X, formerly known as Twitter, has been a good vehicle for us, since Elon Musk took over. Less censorship. Less getting shut down. I like X because I can be pithy and interact with people from all perspectives and points of view. Here are a few examples from this week. Remember how cruel Jimmy Kimmel was to autism families many years ago? And again to the unvaccinated during Covid? He wanted to refuse the unvaxxed healthcare - let them die! Insufferable jerk. How about a response to Glaxo SmithKline who says you never outgrow vaccinations? Follow us and join the fun. www.twitter.com/ageofautism

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Facilitating the WHO power grab: the return of Bill Gates crony David Cameron

AF0892C5-9445-436C-A662-C30819AD2BEDIt's always a good AofA day when we have a post by John Stone in the UK.

By John Stone

The return of former British Prime Minister David Cameron to office as Foreign Secretary affirms that the main purpose of the British state is really to push vaccines. In a disturbing turn of events after a punishing weekend on the streets of London provoked by the Gazan war - which has left the country politically and socially fractured as never before - present Prime Minister Rishi Sunak decided to have a cabinet re-shuffle which almost certainly had less to do with those events than promoting the forthcoming WHO accords at the beginning of next month (but for which, of course, the weekend events were a painful and useful distraction). My guess is that Sunak did not appoint Cameron to save his own political skin (actually it made him look even more ridiculous) but rather to please Bill Gates. 

Back in June 2011 I was one of about ten protestors outside a hotel in the City of London in which David Cameron in the presence of Gates signed the British government up to become the principle funder of GAVI, the Global Vaccine Alliance - from which point, with no debate or democratic consultation the UK started to pour obscene billions of tax-payers’ money into the global vaccine industry/cartel.

One might have thought that egregious though this event was that it was somewhat incidental to the wider business of government, but in fact it turns out it was probably thematic. Dissident British MP Andrew Bridgen has told how as a new Conservative MP in 2010 he attended the first parliamentary party meeting to be addressed by Prime Minister Cameron but instead of the expected pep-talk Cameron brought with him Bill Gates, who gave Conservative MPs a lecture about his vaccine products (from 3.30)! This was not admittedly the beginning of Gates’s association with the British government as Gordon Brown - latterly a proponent of  One World Government and a WHO fundraising ambassador - had brought him in as a business consultant in 2006 (as if there was any reason Gates should have concern for the well-being of British citizens or any loyalty to them). By June 2020, in a speech largely hidden from the British electorate Boris Johnson in the company of Gates was hailing GAVI as the new NATO.

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Suggested Donation Amounts Based on Autism Prevalence

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Hello, readers. Our matching gift campaign is off and running. We had a great start.  But we've hit a mid-month slump.  I started thinking about the autism numbers over the years. How they have gotten worse and worse. What if each year was a suggested donation? We use safe, secure Donor Box and accept paper checks to Autism Age, PO Box 110546, Trumbull CT 06611. Tax deductible per IRS rules. Our EIN is 47-1831987. Thank you to Laura and  Rich Hayes for their matching gift of $10,000. This campaign keeps up running into our 18th (gulp) year.

Our goal is the original prevalence of 1 in 10,000. 

2020 - 1 in 36
2018 - 1 in 44
2016 - 1 in 54
2014 - 1 in 59
2012- 1 in 69
2010- 1 in 68
2008- 1 in 88
2006 - 1 in 110
2004 - 1 in 125
2002 - 1 in 150
1997 - 1 in 2500
1975 - 1 in 5000



In Stock And Read To Ship! The Wuhan Cover-Up And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race

7E74FE69-2674-4E8F-AABA-D394C077376FThis is why we have a"Nightmares" category. Of course, many of our stories could post there. Macabre kidding aside, Tony Lyons announced that this long awaited book is in stock and ready to ship.  Order your copy HERE.

Wuhan bioweapons coverThe Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) 

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.


Walmart Sensory Hours

Walmart sensorySo, Walmart is putting sensory hours into its stores, before the usual shopping. It feels unappreciative to trounce on this idea. Yes, it might be easier to shop  when crowds are fewer, lights are lower, etc. And accommodations are welcome. Still... you know.

By Anne Dachel

Walmart to have permanent "sensory-friendly" hours every day, everywhere in the U.S.

Autism is here to stay in ever-increasing numbers

Autism is now a universally accepted condition with ever-increasing numbers.

It makes good business sense to accommodate this growing population, and that’s exactly what Walmart is doing. ALL U.S. stories will now have “sensory-friendly” hours EVERY DAY, 8 to 10 a.m.

I fully expect that other retailers everywhere will follow suit.

Nov 7, 2023, Retail Touch Points: Walmart Brings Back Sensory-Friendly Hours to all U.S. Stores  

A retail store can be an overwhelming experience for those on the autism spectrum, so beginning Nov. 10 Walmart will create a sensory-friendly environment for two hours per day, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., in all its U.S. and Puerto Rico stores.

The program, which includes tuning display TVs to a static image, turning off the radio and lowering the lights where possible, debuted during the back-to-school season but will now continue indefinitely. Walmart said it received positive feedback from the initial program via face-to-face conversations, emails, listening sessions and social media.

“Several associates expressed the desire to continue this program all year,” said Tyler Morgan, a Walmart Store Manager in a statement. “We have associates with autism, ADHD, etc. in the store and one associate made the comment that this is the first time the company did something just for him. I know we could all use some calm during the stressful holiday season, so I hope this program can continue.”…

We can expect that the autism rate will continue to climb. No one will really care. We’ll just make everything “sensory-friendly.” It’s all we can do.

Anne Dachel is Media Editor for Age of Autism.

Wuhan bioweapons coverThe Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) 

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.


Center for Damage Control

84616652-F978-488D-AB33-69D2D1BE39DAWhere are the “pfact” checkers when you need them? Since Covid, vaccines don't prevent illness. They prevent "severe" illness.  Bait and switch in action. What the heck does "severe"  even  mean? Your child will get 25 measles spots instead of 100? The "safest" measures? What about not being obese? Not eating garbage that lowers your immune system? Exercising and getting Vitamin D? Healthy people stay  healthy. Americans take meds, get vaccinated and make few lifestyle changes.

Do you use Twitter/X? Might want to respond to the CDC for this ridiculous blanket statement. Parents and patients of all ages deserve accurate information so that they can provide informed consent. Not this cartoon lie.

www.twitter.com/cdcgov

Wuhan bioweapons coverThe Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) 

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.


American Childhood is a Minefield of Chronic Sickness

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We've been crying out for 18 years about the growing catastrophe of kids' health. Autism was what we called it. But our kids had so many comorbidities. This week, Children's Health Defense tackles this scandalous topic. We are a nation of sick children. Sick children grow into sick adults. Those who survive. Robert Kennedy, Jr. is the only candidate talking about our future. Our children. Well, not mine. Autism took my daughters out of the reproductive pool. Maybe your kids too. Look at these stats. Pediatricians should be run out of town on a rail. They have failed 100%.

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54% of US Youth are Chronically Ill* America's children are facing unprecedented epidemics! We are in a crisis

4 in 10 kid with Depression

1 in 5 kids with Obesity

1 in 5 kid with Suicidal Thoughts

1 in 6 kids with Developmental Disorders

1 in 10 kids with Anxiety

1 in 10 kids with ADHD

1 in 12 kids with Asthma

1 in 13 kids with Food Allergies

1 in 36 kids with Autism

1 in 285 kids with Cancer by Age 20

Chronic Health Conditions Among Children

Overview: A national study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2010, zeroed in on the deterioration in children’s health over time. From 1988 to 2006, there was a doubling of the prevalence of four types of chronic conditions (obesity, asthma, behavior/learning problems and “other” physical conditions), which rose from 12.8% to 26.6% of American children and youth.

A 2011 Academic Pediatrics study “estimated 43% of U.S. 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.” Pediatric autoimmune conditions are also on the rise. Autism, ADHD, asthma and allergies have doubled since that time, with autism now one in 30 children in some regions in the U.S.

“In 2020–21, the number of students ages 3–21 who received special education services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was 7.2 million, or 15 percent of all public school students. Among students receiving special education services, the most common category of disability was specific learning disabilities (33 percent).”

Mounting evidence indicates environmental toxins such as heavy metals, pesticides and herbicides as the principal culprits, while studies link vaccines and toxic vaccine ingredients to a wide range of adverse health outcomes, including seizures, neurodevelopmental disorders and infant death. As the medical, public health, and government circles remain silent on the social and economic fallout from these toxic exposures, American children have never been so sick.

* 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health

Read more at Children's Health Defense.

Wuhan bioweapons coverThe Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) 

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.


Cynthia Nevison Advocacy in Action for Boulder

School boardAs the saying goes, "All politics is local." You might recognize Cynthia Nevison PhD's name from Safeminds research.  While we can't formally endorse her campaign, and most of us do not live in Boulder, Colorado, I think it's important to share her campaign. How often do you hear ANY local candidate talk about Special Education? One school board member CAN make a difference for students with autism and other special needs. And if you would like to support her campagin, you can do so here. Support Cynthia

Cynthia Nevison for Boulder Valley School Board

I am running for Boulder Valley School Board in District C to bring balance, reason, research, and transparency to education decisions. I support the right of parents to be informed about their children’s education and included in all decisions that affect their children’s well-being. If elected, I will work to ensure that all students enjoy a first-rate education and feel safe and respected in school.

My Platform:
1. Empower parents and families and increase transparency
2. Put student safety first
3. Improve access to special education services

Critical shortage of para-educators and special education teachers

Key points:
Provide better support for special education students
Address why the special education population is growing

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Wuhan bioweapons coverThe Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) 

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.


AofA 2023 Matching Gift Campaign Has Begun!

Thank you typeNote: 10,000 thanks to Laura and Richard Hayes for their annual matching gift campaign. We're entering our 18th year of publication. I can hardly believe it. Like Laura, I too thought we'd be "out of business" by now. Because the man made epidemic would have been acknowledged and dare I have ever hoped for it - atoned for. Not so. Our goal is $10,000 before November 30. We use secure Donor Box and we accept checks to Autism Age, PO Box 110546, Trumbull CT 06611. EIN-47-1831987


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Dear AoA Readers, what a joy it is to connect daily with those whose lives have also been impacted by "autism", a label which many of us believe to be an intentional misnomer for serious, life-altering, debilitating, often catastrophic, vaccine-induced injury. I certainly did not ever think 25+ years ago, once I made the connection between "routine" childhood vaccinations and our son's subsequent loss of skills, development of odd behaviors, and resultant profound disability, that medical "professionals" would still be administering vaccines to children.

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The Vaccine Court on Judicial Bloodletting

Vaccine Court BookBy Wayne Rohde
The Vaccine Court Substack
OCT 31, 2023

The following is a story of a federal judge who has issued opinions in favor of a few vaccine injury petitions on appeal. I will let you, the reader, decide for yourself if this is the next round of canceling those who speak up for the vaccine injured. The judge was not biased towards the vaccine injured, however, she just questioned the mechanisms in law that make it very difficult to challenge the status quo.

Judge Pauline Newman is a distinguished American jurist who served as a United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She was appointed to the Federal Circuit in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan and took senior status in 1997.

Judge Newman might be familiar to the vaccine injured with her dissenting opinions in Oliver v HHS(2017-2540) and Boatmon v HHS(2018-2333). Both cases were decided 2-1 in favor of the government, the defendant. Yet Judge Newman writes in her dissenting opinions that the petitioners brought forth compelling reasons that need to be litigated in the NVICP.

In Oliver v HHS, parents argued that the DTaP vaccine caused early onset of epilepsy and seizures. Our government using a very low powered study (Berkovic - 14 participants) that the petitioner has a SCN1A gene mutation aka Dravet Syndrome, and epilepsy and seizures was a forgone conclusion. Yet the study was not conclusive. Judge Newman dissented from the majority and stated that this case is why it needs to be litigated with medical experts in the NVICP instead of automatically being dismissed because of a gene mutation.

In Boatmon v HHS, parents argued that several vaccines given at the same time led to their child’s death or SIDS. Special Master agreed with parents and awarded compensation. Our government appealed the decision, went judge shopping at the Federal Court of Claims level, found a judge to reverse the decision. Petitioners filed an appeal with the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. It was here that our government argued their position to the 3 judge panel. In summary “if you award compensation to the petitioners, then parents will stop vaccinating their children”. Judge Newman dissented against the majority opinion to uphold the Federal Claims judge and dismiss the case.

During her tenure on the Federal Circuit, Judge Newman was known for her expertise in patent law, intellectual property, and technology-related cases. She has authored numerous influential opinions in these areas. Judge Newman has also been involved in various aspects of intellectual property law reform and has contributed significantly to the development of patent law in the United States.

In an interview at the American Bar Association conference October 13, 2023, the embattled Judge Newman has been referred to as the “great dissenter” touched on her role of the dissent as a teaching tool. “The dissent helps the student understand the balance that the court decided to reach - what philosophy, what logic, what evidence they rejected as being not probative for whatever reason, and what was accepted. Without dissent, you do not have the information because its not presented in a majority opinion”, Newman said in a recorded interview with Steven Caltrider, chair of the ABA’s Intellectual Property Law Section and chief IP counsel for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

One of the best dissenting opinions offered by a judge or jurist in a higher court such as the US Supreme Court or Federal Appellate courts, was Justice Sotomayor’s dissent in Bruesewitz v Wyeth Labs, et al. That dissent should be required reading for anyone concerned about or researching the failures of vaccine policy & law in the United States.

Now, Judge Newman has been suspended by the Court because she refuses to cooperate with a mental fitness probe. According to the complaint filed in March 2023, Judge Newman has committed “serious misconduct” by refusing to cooperate. Judge Pauline Newman is now 96 years of age. Yet those who have heard her discuss recent cases, she is more coherent that many of the 40 to 50 year old attorneys arguing in front of the panel. However, the complaint cited statements from “many different staff members describing memory loss, confusion, paranoia and angry rants.”

Newman has defended her mental capacity and sued her colleagues in DC Circuit Court to reverse a Circuit judicial decision to stop assigning her new cases. Judge Newman has offered up her own medical records by an independent neurologist to counter claims made against her.

So the question has to asked. Is this a new way to attack and remove those who speak up for and speak out against the Pharmaceutical Industry and our Federal Government’s policy of protecting the vaccine program? Or is it time for Judge Pauline Newman to step down, reflect upon her 39 years of honorably serving upon the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

Keep Learning, Keep Challenging Yourself and Always, Always Question Authority.

Wayne Rohde, author of 2 books on the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The Vaccine Court: The Dark Truth about America's Vaccine Compensation Program and The Vaccine Court 2.0.


This Week! Rise & Resist The 2nd Annual CHD Conference

Rise and resist 2023ENTER TO WIN A FREE TRIP!

CHD 2nd Annual Conference Features Cutting-Edge Topics Presented by World-Renowned Speakers. November 3-5, Savannah, Georgia.

The 2023 Children's Health Defense Conference offers the opportunity for health freedom advocates to gain knowledge and empowerment while joining forces with like-minded individuals from around the world.

In addition to taking advantage of the packed line-up of powerful presentations, attendees can also take some time to relax and unwind or explore Savannah’s myriad attractions, including its famed riverfront, expansive bridges, unique historical sites, eateries, and art galleries.

CHD’s 2nd Annual Conference will be held in Savannah Georgia at the Savannah Convention Center Nov. 3-5, 2023. Whether you are a supporter, an activist, a healthcare provider, an attorney, or someone who has been vaccine injured, join us for an opportunity to gather with like-minded individuals, meet the CHD staff and hear the latest from industry experts.

REGISTER HERE

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The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) 

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.


2023 Matching Gift Campaign is On!

Thank you typeNote: 10,000 thanks to Laura and Richard Hayes for their annual matching gift campaign. We're entering our 18th year of publication. I can hardly believe it. Like Laura, I too thought we'd be "out of business" by now. Because the man made epidemic would have been acknowledged and dare I have ever hoped for it - atoned for. Not so. Our goal is $10,000 before November 30. From Laura:

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Dear AoA Readers, what a joy it is to connect daily with those whose lives have also been impacted by "autism", a label which many of us believe to be an intentional misnomer for serious, life-altering, debilitating, often catastrophic, vaccine-induced injury. I certainly did not ever think 25+ years ago, once I made the connection between "routine" childhood vaccinations and our son's subsequent loss of skills, development of odd behaviors, and resultant profound disability, that medical "professionals" would still be administering vaccines to children.

It was my sincere, and very naive, belief at the time that once I, along with so many other parents, began sharing what happened to our children after their vaccinations that it would become front-page news, with doctors, government regulators, legislators, the media, and even remorseful vaccine-making companies screaming for an immediate moratorium on each and every vaccine until we got to the bottom of what was causing not only "autism", but the many other new disorders of childhood. How incredibly wrong I was.

Those I now refer to as "vaccine profiteers" refused to hear so much as a suggestion that vaccines were anything other than safe, effective, and needed. They banded together, and in their willful ignorance, prideful arrogance, and for many, full-fledged corruption, began to collectively and forcefully ignore, dismiss, belittle, and malign parents who reported their children's vaccine injury and vaccine death stories, which they had witnessed firsthand. Throwing caution, compassion, ethics, and morals to the wind, they proceeded to add more and more vaccines, in more and more haphazard combinations, to the childhood "vaccination schedule".

They lobbied to further restrict exemptions to vaccinations, and then went further, making laws to eliminate exemptions, and laws permitting children to make vaccination decisions for themselves without their parents' knowledge or consent, and then went yet further, making laws to punish and delicense the rare doctor willing to write a medical exemption for a patient. All the while, those who manufacture, administer, approve, recommend, promote, and mandate vaccines have remained free of accountability and liability, often getting rich, advancing in position, and gaining in power. To date, and to the best of my knowledge, not one person has been held personally liable, been personally fined, been fired, or faced so much as a day in jail for their complicitness in vaccine-induced injuries and deaths, which now affect the vast majority of the world's population, given the widespread and ever-increasing use of vaccines.

Think about that...vaccine crimes committed day in and day out...in every country, in every age group, now including babies in the womb...with no signs of slowing down or stopping...and with no worry of being prosecuted or punished, at least here in the earthly realm.

Thankfully, since 2007, the Age of Autism website has been a beacon of light to those of us whose children have been diagnosed with "autism", and to so many others, who love, work with, or care for someone with autism, whose children have suffered other forms of vaccine-induced injuries, including death, who have suffered their own vaccine injuries, and who simply want to read information that has not been censored, altered, or lied about by mainstream media, medical organizations, and our government. Kim Rossi, Managing Editor, and mother of three young-adult daughters, all diagnosed with "autism", has forged on, year after year, to keep this blog up and running. That is no small task when one is a single mother caring for and managing the intense needs of 3 dependent young adults. To that end, my husband and I are again offering a matching donation campaign to both keep AoA up and running, and to keep our fearless leader, Kim Rossi, encouraged and motivated to continue to make this forum available for those of us who read, comment, and connect here at AoA. Here are the details: $10,000 Matching Donation Campaign, beginning October 30th, ending November 30th All donations made during the above timeframe will be matched, up to $10,000 Donations can be made by check or credit card, with details at the top right on AoA's home page It would be wonderful if we could far exceed the matching amount, enabling and encouraging Kim Rossi to continue on with this important publication Please don't delay, donate today! With deep appreciation for all those who write for, read, comment on, and donate to Age of Autism, Laura Hayes https://www.ageofautism.com/exclusives.html


The Recommendations Are Not Being Heard

Dice no yes maybe“Um… Two percent of children have received the current version of the vaccine, and 40% of parents say they’re not going to get their children vaccinated. Seven percent of adults have received the current vaccine; forty percent or so say they’re not going to get vaccinated. Uh, this is…I don’t even really have words for this…I-I-I-I-I appreciate everything that, you know, the AAP is doing, that-that ACIP is doing, CDC and so forth to, to make recommendations, but the recommendations are not being heard.”  Dr. David Kimberlin, AAP

We're sharing this excerpt from the Stand for Health Freedom website about the ACIP meeting a week ago. The tide is turning ever so slightly. Keep the faith:

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The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met October 25-26, 2023, for their annual review of the childhood and adult schedules, as well as updates on changes to come.

Much of the discussion revolved around how complicated the schedule is because it’s growing so quickly. Chair Grace Lee made the comment, “I can see we’re going to need a bigger refrigerator for all the vaccines.” And Matt Daley observed, we’re “going to run into the situation where we can’t fit the schedule on one page.

Top takeaways:

  1. The schedules are now for “vaccines and other immunizing agents,” because of the addition of nirsevimab, a monoclonal antibody, aimed at preventing RSV in infants. This is an unwelcome expansion of what can go on the table.
  2. The Mpox vaccine was put on the childhood schedule, even though the vaccine is not licensed for children. It is recommended for use in at-risk adolescents at the age of 18, with acknowledgement that the recommendation could change once data from trials in 12-18-year-olds is available. The committee voted for federal purchases of the Mpox vaccine through the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program. Mpox is the second non-licensed, EUA vaccine added to the schedule. This addition is notable for School-based Health Centers (SBHCs) as well, as the addition to the schedule would trigger the ability for children to be given the drug without parental knowledge or consent.
  3. The Adult Immunization Schedule is expanding in tandem with the childhood schedule, and the drumbeat for a “Vaccines for Adults” financing program to mirror VFC sounded loudly throughout the two days.
  4. The RSV vaccine was added to both the adult and childhood schedules for pregnant mothers, but as of publication, RSV is not covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. People anticipate that it will be, but since RSV vaccines will be new to “vaccine court,” additional regulatory steps must be taken.
  5. Expect meningococcal (“meningitis”) vaccine recommendations to mutate as Pfizer’s new “pentavalent” vaccine was licensed. Though the ACIP wasn’t in lockstep yet about how to recommend three different meningococcal shots (one with five strains, one with four, and one with only one), they did all agree an update was necessary and that Pfizer’s new product should be paid for by taxpayers through VFC.
  6. Immunization manufacturers have a blank check for adding to the schedule on a rolling basis, as a new addendum has been added as a placeholder for anticipated changes or additions to the schedule. (We know the GBS vaccine for pregnant mothers is very close to the end of the pipeline.)
  7. A common talking point through many presentations were the shortcomings of “commercialization” through sales of the drugs directly from manufacturers, rather than a public health program of massive purchases and subsequent distribution. In other words, the government claims they’re better at getting people to take vaccines than the private sector is. Let’s keep an eye on where the rubber meets the road on this: Will we see an acceleration of public-private partnerships? Will the government become more of a market player as stock prices drop from their astronomical COVID heights?
  8. There was considerable discussion about the rush for the ACIP to publish recommendations after the FDA grants a new or expanded license. The 21st Century Cures Act mandates that the ACIP move along quickly, but one of the members also made a telling comment about the role of the ACIP in comparison to the practice of medicine: “No recommendation means people will have to make up what they’re going to do with no guidance.” That mentality reflects the fact that the “practice” of medicine (with the federal government at the helm) has become following directions, rather than individualized and thoughtful care.
  9. Injury claims in the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) for COVID products are at 12,233; 9,221 of which are from the jab.
  10. Saved the best updates for last: As the number of recommended shots in pregnancy increases, uptake decreases. To address that, multiple presentations cited new propaganda statistics about how safe and effective flu shots during pregnancy are.
  11. The government’s National Immunization Survey showed 7.1% of adults and 2.1% of children self-reported getting the new 2023-2024 COVID shot. These numbers are higher than reality, because the data comes from people who are willing to answer a government survey, giving a very slanted picture.

    If you’re feeling gloom and doom, be uplifted by the comment made by David Kimberlin from the American Academy of Pediatrics, who was stuttering in disbelief at the low numbers of people vaccinated with the latest COVID shot and the high number of people who say they don’t plan on it for themselves or their children.

    “Um… Two percent of children have received the current version of the vaccine, and 40% of parents say they’re not going to get their children vaccinated. Seven percent of adults have received the current vaccine; forty percent or so say they’re not going to get vaccinated. Uh, this is…I don’t even really have words for this…I-I-I-I-I appreciate everything that, you know, the AAP is doing, that-that ACIP is doing, CDC and so forth to, to make recommendations, but the recommendations are not being heard.”

    Keep up the good work health freedom warriors! People are hearing our signal through the noise. We’re in the thick of it, standing shoulder to shoulder. Things are hard, but there are glimmers of hope and light shining through the darkness. It’s our job to carry that light for all to see and to stoke the fires of courage in all our hearts.

    For health freedom,

    Stand for Health Freedom


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By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“Whenever I read, listen to, or debate Bobby, I learn something new and change my mind on at least one or two issues, while vehemently disagreeing with many others. Both the agreements and disagreements stimulate my thinking and emotions, even when they make me angry or concerned. Read him and make up your own minds." —Alan Dershowitz

“The Wuhan Cover-Up will blow out of the water the international disinformation campaign by US and Chinese government officials and their bribed scientists that COVID-19 somehow magically jumped out of the Wuhan wet market. Kennedy’s book will provide the ammunition needed for us lawyers to hold them all legally accountable for this Nuremberg Crime against Humanity.” —Professor Francis A. Boyle, author of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989


US Take Action: Autism Mom Nominated to Head the National Institutes of Health

Act now!Urgent News From John Gilmore at Autism Action Network. +

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US Take Action: Autism Mom Nominated to Head the National Institutes of Health. Is that a good thing?

The United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted today to approve Dr. Monica Bertagnolli as President Biden’s permanent successor to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Now Bertagnolli must be approved by a vote of the entire Senate.  There are several questions we would like our Senators to ask Dr. Bertagnolli prior to the vote. 

Bertagnolli is a prominent cancer surgeon, and is the current head of the National Cancer Institute. She is also the mother of an adult son with autism, a fact mentioned in very few articles about her. 

The NIH is the federal government’s medical research behemoth that spends $47 billion per year and sets the parameters for almost all medical research in the US, and is the largest funder of medical research in the world.

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Sensory Holiday Train Provides Joy to More Children Than EVER EVER EVER

Sensory railroadNote: There's a fine line between being grateful for programs that allow our children to participate in every day events in a way they can handle, and sheer outrage these cheery articles never ask, "WHY?" While this is a gorgeous event run by the Railroad Museum of New England, and it’s sure to dazzle individuals of all ages, we can’t help but wonder…  Imagine train cars full of visually impaired tots to teens tap, tapping white canes as they board. Would anyone speak up? 

In the seven years it’s been running, the special outing has grown in leaps and bounds. This year, they’re adding even more space.

“It was amazing because it started as 1 car then 2 cars then 3 cars – how about we do the whole train? And now we’re at 2 full trains, 310 people a train,” said Newall.
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Connecticut Families

WTNH Connecticut: Autism-friendly holiday train adds more cars to meet growing demand

THOMASTON, Conn. (WTNH) – “When we first started Sun, Moon and Stars, we started it as supper club so families could be together in a judgement free way,” says Christine Faressa who realized the group for families affected by autism could do more, helping participants enjoy activities that neurotypical families take for granted.

So, the mom of 12-year-old Domenick partnered with the Naugatuck Railroad and the Railroad Museum of New England to create a festive, sensory-friendly excursion.

“That’s really what we’ve tried to do with Sun, Moon and Stars is build a community around these kids and my son where every event and every activity, he sees his friends,” said Faressa.

“The music is tuned down, our bell distribution from Santa is different and everyone on the train is understanding of what’s going on in the environment they’re in,” said Operations Director Orion Newall, noting that this is the only holiday train experience of its kind in all of New England.

In the seven years it’s been running, the special outing has grown in leaps and bounds. This year, they’re adding even more space.

“It was amazing because it started as 1 car then 2 cars then 3 cars – how about we do the whole train? And now we’re at 2 full trains, 310 people a train,” said Newall.

The goal is to be inclusive and to share these historic, restored trains and stations, dating back to 1881, with every child of every ability.

“The car we’re standing in right now is from 1927,” said Newall.

Let’s face it: kids love to ride trains, especially when the passengers are also Santa Claus and Rudolph.

“As I walk through the train and I talk to some of my families – so many new families, as well – it’s just the joy and appreciation and the happiness, that’s it, the smiles, we love seeing the smiles,” said Faressa who knows the need is there and plans to continue expanding this effort – and others – to keep creating those smiles.

“I’m really excited. It’s really just a joyous thing when you see the train coming down the tracks and the lights and all the things,” she says. “It’s magical, it’s Christmas magic!”

Newall hopes this idea spreads all around the country. The Sun, Moon and Stars Autism Friendly Santa Express runs the weekend after Thanksgiving.

Click here for more information.

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The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) 

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.

Vax Unvax DebutJoin us in congratulating Dr. Brian Hooker and Robert Kennedy, Jr. and the Children's Health Defense imprint on the huge news that Vax Unvax Let The Science Speak was #11 on the New York Times non-fiction best sellers list this week.  This is important because it tells those who feel they shouldn't question science, "Hey, it's OK to read, and learn and make your own decisions."  It's currently 124 on ALL of Amazon books.  Buy a copy HERE


Thimerosal: Let The Science and RFK, Jr Speak

Thimerosal RFKLet's take a trip in the wayback machine. Who remembers when Robert Kennedy, Jr. spoke at an Autism One conference, calling out Dr. Paul Offit and the use of Thimerosal in vaccinations? Most of us were gobsmacked. His book, Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury―a Known Neurotoxin―from Vaccines, published in 2015 is a clear message that he has been student of vaccine safety for  many years, and is no Johnny Come Lately. Boy howdy, since Covid, there are a LOT of them. Experts who actively ignored vaccine injury when it pertained to autism, but finally tiptoed out into the sunlight when the mRNA vaccines were pointed at their family and friends.

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Answering Offit: Kennedy is Right on Thimerosal, Offit's Conflicts of Interest Are Real

By James Lyons-Weiler, from The Kennedy Beacon

Offit's misrepresentations and misdirections are easily revealed.

In a recent opinion piece, Dr. Paul Offit, the Merck-endowed Director of Vaccine Education at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), continues in a conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., discussing the safety and efficacy of vaccines. While Dr. Offit is considered an authority in the field, it's crucial to scrutinize the evidence and arguments he presents. In this article, I provide a comprehensive, evidence-based rebuttal to Dr. Offit's claims, focusing on the science, logic, and reason that should underpin any discussion about vaccine safety.

Offit’s Logical Fallacies vs. Kennedy’s Call for Comprehensive Research

Dr. Offit's commentary, while persuasive to some, employs several logical fallacies that need to be addressed. For instance, he often resorts to ad hominem attacks, dismissing those who question vaccine safety as "anti-vaccine," rather than addressing the scientific concerns they raise. This tactic serves to undermine the credibility of his opponents without actually engaging with their arguments, a classic example of the ad hominem fallacy.

The need for more comprehensive research is not a fringe opinion but a scientific necessity. A study published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health highlights the limitations of existing research on thimerosal, calling for more thorough studies to understand its pharmacokinetics and toxicology. Another study in BMC Immunology emphasizes the need to study the interactions between risk factors for serious adverse events and vaccine doses, types, and co-administration—areas that have been insufficiently studied.

Offit also frequently cites “the consensus” as somehow being above scrutiny when vaccine safety is on center stage. Citing consensus among medical organizations does not provide definitive proof of universal nor sufficient vaccine safety. While consensus is important, it should not replace rigorous, unbiased scientific investigation. Science progresses by questioning established norms, and the field of vaccine safety should be no exception.

Furthermore, Dr. Offit employs a strawman argument, misrepresenting the positions of those who question vaccine safety to make them easier to refute. In this case, his strawman is created by labeling those who question vaccine safety as "anti-vaccine." This is a gross oversimplification of the nuanced concerns many people have - and ignoring them won’t make them go away. There are many who fully support vaccination but are calling for more rigorous studies to ensure that vaccines are as safe as they can be, especially for vulnerable populations. Labeling them as "anti-vaccine" serves only to shut down meaningful dialogue.

Dr. Offit uses the slippery slope fallacy, suggesting that questioning the safety of vaccines could lead to widespread disease outbreaks. Concern over vaccine safety does not necessarily mean wholescale abandonment of vaccination. But Offit’s concern does not mean that somehow all vaccines are equally safe or effective for all individuals, nor does it mean that the public shouldn't scrutinize new or existing vaccines for safety and efficacy. One cannot effectively replace rigorous data with fear.

While Dr. Offit is considered by many to be an authority in the field of vaccinology, his arguments often rely on logical fallacies rather than robust scientific evidence. These tactics may serve to sway public opinion, but they do little to advance a nuanced, evidence-based discussion on vaccine safety.

Thimerosal and Its Understated Risks

One of the most significant concerns regarding vaccine safety is the use of thimerosal, a mercury-containing compound included in multi-dose vials.

Dr. Offit asserts that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in some vaccines, is safe and does not contribute to adverse health outcomes. However, this claim overlooks a body of evidence suggesting otherwise.

Vaccine-Derived Inorganic Mercury Accumulation in the Brain[p2a-tag] 

A major point of concern is the accumulation of inorganic mercury in the brain, as indicated by a study involving monkeys exposed to methyl and ethyl mercury (See: Burbacher et al., Environ Health Perspect. 2005 Aug; 113(8): 1015–1021.PubMed: PMC1280342). While the clearance rate for inorganic mercury from methyl mercury could be estimated, the same could not be said for inorganic mercury derived from thimerosal, implying potential accumulation and long-term risks.

Contrary to Dr. Offit's assertion that ethylmercury (the type of mercury in thimerosal) is less toxic and is eliminated from the body more quickly than methylmercury, the study shows that inorganic mercury levels in the brain remained flat over time for monkeys exposed to thimerosal. This flat line suggests potential accumulation under repeated dosing, a finding that was not observed in monkeys exposed to methylmercury.

Read the rest of  Answering Offit: Kennedy is Right on Thimerosal,

Offit's Conflicts of Interest Are Real at The Kennedy Beacon

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The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) 

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.

Vax Unvax DebutJoin us in congratulating Dr. Brian Hooker and Robert Kennedy, Jr. and the Children's Health Defense imprint on the huge news that Vax Unvax Let The Science Speak was #11 on the New York Times non-fiction best sellers list this week.  This is important because it tells those who feel they shouldn't question science, "Hey, it's OK to read, and learn and make your own decisions."  It's currently 124 on ALL of Amazon books.  Buy a copy HERE




World War None

Flag heartWith our new five day publishing schedule, our Thursday post stays at the top of the site for 2 days, until Cathy's Sunday post runs. I try to plan accordingly, with a broad topic. Cathy often uses music to illustrate (orchestrate?) her posts, and I'm borrowing from her today. I listen to Sirius XM throughout the day. Yesterday, I heard a Frank Sinatra tune from 1980 called World War None, part of the Trilogy series from "The Future." Here we are, 43 years later.  The song struck me as the perfect post for these tumultuous days. Take a listen, or read the lyrics. See you Sunday.

World War None!
Frank Sinatra

Where I live in the desert, it's so peaceful and warm 
And the cares of the world drift by, like clouds reflected in a quiet pool 
But there always comes a time, when a man has to think of the future 
(War, war, war) Has to think of his children (war, war, war) 
And the world they will live in (war, war, war, war)

I'm not sure if I can do anything to help them, but I can try, I can try 
Time to build us a fire, seven hundred feet high 
We can fashion a fire (fire) that will reach the sky (reach the sky) 
We can feed the flames with the unkind deeds we've done (with the fire) 
'Cause we've got to get ready, for World War None

(In a struggle for gold) 
(We'll be thrown in the fire) 
(With the lies we've told) 
All our false suspicions we can burn them one by one 
That will help us get ready for World War None

(A little love is more effective than a rifle) 
(A little faith will take you further than it can) 
(The rule to follow is the one forever spoken) 
(They haven't got the truth on their lips) 
Keep on feeding the fire, till the fire is hot 
With those un-neighborly feelings we deny we've got 
Keep on trying for peace, until that peace is won 
Then you're practically ready for World War None

(A whispered word of trust is louder than a huggle) 
(An olive branch is so much stronger than a sword) 
(And the bombs that can't replace the stained glass window) 
For which we should thank the good Lord, thank the good Lord) 
(Thank you, thank you, thank you)

If we cherish our fire (if we cherish our fire) 
It could possibly be (it could possibly be) 
Bright enough to be seen, (bright enough to be seen) 
Far across the sea (far across the sea) 
When those other countries (when those other countries) 
See what we have done (what we've done) 
Maybe they'll help us get ready (get ready, get ready)

For World War None 
(World War None)


Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. To Run as Independent

2024 electionNote: Yesterday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced his intention to run for President as an Independent Candidate, not a Democrat. It must be agony to leave the party his family built over 7 decades. Much of his family has turned on him. In his speech, he said:

I haven’t made this decision lightly. It is painful for me to let go of the party of my uncles, my father, of my grandfather and of both of my great-grandfathers — John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald, Boston’s first Irish Catholic mayor, and Patrick Kennedy, a Boston ward boss, who together, launched my family’s political dynasty more than a century ago.

But MY sacrifice is nothing compared to the risk our founding fathers took when they signed the Declaration of Independence 247 years ago right over there.

THEY knew that if their revolution failed, every last one of them would be hanged. They chose to place everything on the line.

The media calls him all manner of names, "anti-vaxxer" being the one they think is the most effective way of branding him a lunatic. Do you think his positions are the best choice for the AUTISM VACCINE EPIDEMIC COMMUNITY?  AofA readers come from all walks of life and political persuasions. We aren't monolithic nor need we be. So which candidate might give us an ounce of support?

Kennedy has bona fides: he launched Children's Health Defense from the World Mercury Project. CHD is a juggernaut covering dozens of issues with a long reach into legal battles to affect change. But our main issue is and has always been AUTISM and the man-made epidemic. Feel free to share your thoughts, pro- con- whatever you want.  Learn more about his campaign at Kennedy24.com.  The video of his speech is below - at least as long as YouTube "allows" it. Censorship is a huge problem that Kennedy plans to tackle.

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From Kennedy's Substack:

Today, I Declared Myself an Independent Candidate for President
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Oct 9, 2023

Today, I declared myself an independent candidate for President of the United States of America.

And more than that, I joined my voice with all the people who are fed up and all the people who are hopeful, to make a new Declaration of Independence for our entire nation.

Today, I declared my independence from the corporations that have hijacked our government to milk us for profit.

I declared independence from Wall Street, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Ag, the military contractors, and their lobbyists who now outnumber members of Congress 20 to 1.

I declared independence from the mercenary media that forever urges us to hate our neighbors and fear our friends.

I declared independence from the cynical elites who betray our hope and amplify our divisions.

And finally, I declared independence from the two political parties and the corrupt interests that dominate them, and the entire rigged system of rancor and rage, corruption and lies, that has turned government officials into indentured servants of their corporate bosses. If left unchecked, they will commoditize our air, water, food, labor, and children, and turn the American Dream into desperation and dust.

I declared my independence from these corrupting powers because they are incompatible with the inalienable rights that our original Declaration of Independence invoked in 1776: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

How can we guard life when for-profit corporations have captured the public agencies that are supposed to protect us? How can we enjoy liberty when a surveillance state seeks to hide the truth and quash dissent to preserve its power? And how can we pursue happiness when our nation's families are imprisoned by debt and hunger and jobs that will never pay the bills?

And so today I declared my independence from the tyranny of corruption which robs us of affordable lives, belief in our future, and respect for one another. And to do that, I had to declare my independence from the Democratic Party and independence from all parties.

Read his full speech yesterday at https://robertfkennedyjr.substack.com/p/kennedy-independent-presidential-candidate

 

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The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) 

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.

Vax Unvax DebutJoin us in congratulating Dr. Brian Hooker and Robert Kennedy, Jr. and the Children's Health Defense imprint on the huge news that Vax Unvax Let The Science Speak was #11 on the New York Times non-fiction best sellers list this week.  This is important because it tells those who feel they shouldn't question science, "Hey, it's OK to read, and learn and make your own decisions."  It's currently 124 on ALL of Amazon books.  Buy a copy HERE


2:20pm

Emergency alertYesterday FEMA ran a gigantic wireless emergency system test in the USA at 2:20pm Eastern Daylight Time. There was a buzz in social media about all manner of horrible outcomes including a Zombie apocalypse that might have been predicted by The Simpsons decades ago.

Turn your devices off!
Place them in the microwave!
Get a Faraday bag! (Fendi's cousin???)

I WAS SCARED TO DEATH!!! I turned off my devices in the house and took my daughter for a walk. I contacted my girls' program managers asking them to turn everything off. Why? For the scariest reason of all, at least in my world. AUTISM.

My daughters (likely your kids too) hate fire alarms (stay away from Congress, kids!) buzzers, loud noises, sirens, anything that startles their systems and hurts their ears. The FEMA test was a sensory nightmare for those with autism. There were announcements for domestic abuse victims who might have hidden phones for protection. That made sense to me. But nothing for our community. I should have sent my OWN alert to our readers on the third. I didn't think of it. I apologize.  Did the alert bother anyone in your household?

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The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) 

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.

Vax Unvax DebutJoin us in congratulating Dr. Brian Hooker and Robert Kennedy, Jr. and the Children's Health Defense imprint on the huge news that Vax Unvax Let The Science Speak was #11 on the New York Times non-fiction best sellers list this week.  This is important because it tells those who feel they shouldn't question science, "Hey, it's OK to read, and learn and make your own decisions."  It's currently 124 on ALL of Amazon books.  Buy a copy HERE


The Dentist and The Red Nose in 2024

Misfit toysWho are you?
Well, actually, I am a dentist.
A dentist?
Well, I want to be someday. Right now, I'm just an elf.
But I don't need anybody. I'm... I'm independent.
Yeah? Me, too. I'm whatever you said. Independent.
Hey, what do you say we both be independent together, huh?
You wouldn't mind my red nose?Not if you don't mind me being a dentist.
It's a deal.
We're a couple of misfits. We're a couple of misfits.
What's the matter with misfits? That's where we fit in.

The Island of Misfit Toys from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer has always resonated with me, when I think of our kids with autism. Even Among Misfits, We're Misfits was the title of a HuffPo I wrote, long deleted from their site because I  must have mentioned vaccines. The classic Rankin and Bass stop action TV show popped into my mind immediately this weekend when I heard that Robert Kennedy, Jr. is going to make an announcement on October 9, in the nation’s cradle of liberty, Philadelphia. The city of brotherly love.

Breaking News: Kennedy Likely to Run as an Independent (updated) American Values2024 super PAC applauds the likely move

His party has no love for him and no place for him. It appears that he is going to run not as a Democrat, but as, to quote Hermey the dentist from Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer, an In-Dee-Pen-Dent. Our readers come from all walks of life, and cross the range of political beliefs. We respect that. And we do not endorse candidates. No President has lived up to promises to the autism community. Few have bothered with us at all. Hardliners in both parties are unlikely to cross party lines vote for the “other” party. The primary process also poses a barrier. But, if a candidate who can draw from both parties runs as an Independent, it might help resolve feelings of party “betrayal.” What are your thoughts? And who will have the red nose on the ticket?

https://youtu.be/c5j-g1TJ0YE?si=EKhL6_UD3G8DDPTr

Who are you?
Well, actually, I am a dentist.
A dentist?
Well, I want to be someday. Right now, I'm just an elf.
But I don't need anybody. I'm... I'm independent.
Yeah? Me, too. I'm whatever you said. Independent.
Hey, what do you say we both be independent together, huh?
You wouldn't mind my red nose?Not if you don't mind me being a dentist.
It's a deal.
We're a couple of misfits. We're a couple of misfits.
What's the matter with misfits? That's where we fit in.

 

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The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) 

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.

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Have You Heard of the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act?

Money puzzleNote: Not all of the government is in turmoil and partisan gridlock. I subscribe to the The Arc's newsletter and learned about a bill that would have a direct impact on much of the 18 and up autism community. It's called the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act. For many SSI is their sole income. Group homes use the money to run their programs. Families charge rent and provide food and clothing basics with the money. The ceiling payment is $914 a month.  Think about living on $10,968 a year. Anywhere in the United States, let alone the expensive areas. The savings limit for an individual is $2000. To rent an apartment, landlords typically require 1st month's rent, and 2 security deposits. The average cost of a 1 bedroom apartment is $1700. And a disabled adult really needs TWO bedrooms, one for a caretaker. $1,700 x 3 months is $5,100 just to move in. Impossible. And that's just rent. Read more and share your family's experience below.

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From The ARC:

Each year, tens of thousands of people have their Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits reduced, suspended, or permanently revoked because of SSI rules that have not been updated in over 30 years.

In some cases, asset and income rules prevent people from taking new jobs, getting married, or saving for their future.

These outdated rules must be changed to improve the lives of SSI recipients, including millions of people with disabilities and their families. Read nore at the link above.

From the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities

On Tuesday, September 12, the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act was introduced by Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Representatives Brian Higgins (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA).

This bill makes long-overdue reforms to the SSI program that would empower millions of people with disabilities to earn and save more money for their futures.

The Case for Updating SSI Asset Limits

Raising or Eliminating Limits Would Reduce Administrative Burdens Without Dramatically Increasing Enrollment

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for low-income elderly and disabled people has the strictest savings limits of any federal program. Eligibility is limited to people who have only $2,000 (or $3,000 for couples). This is not enough for beneficiaries to weather an emergency, let alone provide stability or save for the future. Administering the resource limit, often referred to as an asset test, is burdensome for both Social Security Administration (SSA) staff and for claimants. Policymakers should increase or even eliminate SSI’s resource limit amid growing bipartisan support to do so. Read more at the link above.

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The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) 

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.

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The Defender Calls CDC RSV Vaccine Decision "Risky Strategy"

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99.9% of expectant mothers want to protect their babies. They will go to the ends of the earth to do right by their growing fetus. And they trust their doctor. 30 years ago, pregnancy meant austerity. No caffeine. No aspirin. No OTC allergy medications. No wine. No beer. Not even a sip of champagne on New Year's Eve. What a difference three decades makes.  Thalidomide. decades before, taught us nothing. The Defender describes the roulette wheel that this decision by CDC spins.

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Risky Strategy’: CDC Signs Off on Pfizer RSV Vaccine for Pregnant Women to Protect Newborns

Cardiologist Peter McCullough, M.D., M.P.H., told The Defender, “Vaccination of the mother for passive immunization of the infant is an unnecessary and risky strategy that will undoubtedly lead to fetal loss or premature deliveries when deployed on a large scale.”

By 

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

An advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week recommended a new vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) — the first such vaccine for pregnant women designed to target newborns, NBC News reported.

In an 11-1 vote on Friday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) endorsed Pfizer’s Abrysvo. The vote was followed by a formal recommendation by CDC Director Mandy Cohen, completing the final regulatory step before distribution of the vaccine to the public can begin.

Cohen praised the new vaccine, calling it “another new tool we can use this fall and winter to help protect lives.” Cohen encouraged parents to talk to their doctors about “how to protect their little ones against serious RSV illness.”

But doctors who spoke to The Defender took a different view. Cardiologist Peter McCullough, M.D., M.P.H. said:

“Vaccination of the mother for passive immunization of the infant is an unnecessary and risky strategy that will undoubtedly lead to fetal loss or premature deliveries when deployed on a large scale.

“As a clinician, my greatest concern with any vaccination in pregnancy is provocation of fever, which is one of the most common determinants of preterm labor and in some cases fetal loss or premature delivery.”

The CDC’s formal approval of Abrysvo comes just weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the vaccine.

Abrysvo will be administered to pregnant women during the third trimester of pregnancy, Reuters reported. According to ACIP members, vaccination late in pregnancy “is likely to reduce a possible risk of preterm births and complications that might arise from taking it earlier.”

According to NBC News, “The single-dose shot … spurs the production of antibodies in the mother that transfer through the placenta.” Referencing clinical trial data published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), NBC News said Abrysvo’s “protection lasts through their first six months.”

According to Reuters, ACIP member Dr. Katherine Poehling, a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, said, “RSV throughout my career has been a difficult disease with just supportive care treatment because there have been no options so today is an exciting day.”

STAT News quoted Luis Jodar, Pfizer’s chief medical affairs officer for vaccines/antivirals and evidence generation, who said, “Today’s ACIP recommendation for maternal immunization with Abrysvo reinforces the wide-ranging impact vaccines can have, including helping protect infants immediately at birth from the potentially severe and life-threatening complications that can develop from RSV.”

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rsv-vaccine-babies-pregnant-women/?utm_id=20230925

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rsv-vaccine-babie

Wuhan bioweapons cover

The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Children’s Health Defense) 

“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency.

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The Aptly Named Defender on FDA Approval of Covid Vaccines for Infants

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News on most every outlet yesterday presented a positive spin that the CDC had approved the Fall 2023 Covid vaccine for babies and children. What does the average person know or think about it? Exactly what they are presented. For parents who have not been cast into the rabbit hole of vaccine marketing, liability protection and the industry capture of the pharmaceutical industry, the headlines will seem neutral or reassuring. Thank God for Children's Health DEFENSE and The Defender. Their headline and article shares the heartbreaking reality.

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‘Unconscionable’: FDA Approves New COVID Vaccines — Even for Infants as Young as 6 Months — Based on Minimal Data or Testing

By

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday approved updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, paving the way for their approval by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is meeting today to vote on whether to recommend the two vaccines, CNBC reported. Following ACIP’s vote, CDC Director Mandy Cohen is “likely” to approve its recommendation, Endpoints News reported, opening the door for the vaccines’ public availability.

The vaccines received FDA approval for people ages 12 and up, and Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for children from 6 months to 11 years. Ages 5 and over will be eligible to receive a single dose, previously vaccinated children between 6 months and 4 years of age will receive one or two doses, while unvaccinated children in the same age group will be eligible for two Moderna doses or three Pfizer-BioNTech doses.

According to the FDA, the new vaccines are “formulated to more closely target currently circulating variants and to provide better protection against serious consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death.”

However, the vaccines target the XBB.1.5 variant, which “is declining in the U.S.,” according to CNBC, citing CDC data.

Linda Wastila, Ph.D., professor of geriatric pharmacotherapy at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and director of research for the Peter Lamy Center for Drug Therapy and Aging, accused the FDA of acting unethically.

Wastila told The Defender:

“It is unethical to continue to approve and authorize mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 when the pandemic has disappeared. It is unethical to promote these boosters as safe and effective when it is clear they are not, and the government is ignoring evidence that the vaccines can provide considerable harm.

“The fact that these vaccines were authorized for children when a public health emergency no longer exists is unconscionable.”

Dr. Pierre Kory, president and chief medical officer of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), said, ”It is unconscionable that the government can recommend this booster for 6-month-olds when the FDA has no data on how children might be affected.”

In a separate statement, the FLCCC said, “By leveraging the unnecessary Emergency Use Authorization … the FDA is pushing forward with an experimental vaccine booster based on limited safety and efficacy data.”

“There is no need to vaccinate healthy children for COVID-19,” Kory said. “To give them an untested booster goes against everything we are trained to do as physicians.”  READ MORE HERE.

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We Need Some Answers

Vaccine piperNote: Yesterday, ACIP recommended that infants as young as 6 months old, toddlers and children receive the Covid vaccine this Fall. And parents will comply, thinking they are doing right by their children. As did so many of us. ‘Unconscionable’: FDA Approves New COVID Vaccines — Even for Infants as Young as 6 Months — Based on Minimal Data or Testing

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By  Richard Moskowitz, MD

Those of you who know me or are familiar with my work know that I’ve been questioning the scientific basis of vaccinations for over forty years,1 and that my concerns about them go beyond the side effects of this or that vaccine to the nature of the vaccination process per se.   In short, I am that rare case of an honest-to-God “anti-vaxxer,” unlike the vast majority of those unjustly ridiculed and dismissed with that label, the parents of vaccine-injured children, whose only mistake was to have done exactly what they were told, and suffered the devastating consequences of it ever since: “ex-vaxxers” would be a more appropriate term for them. 

My way of supporting their cause and seeking redress for all they’ve suffered revolves around the contentious issue of scientific truth, based on my 53 years of experience as a family doctor, and amply supported by articles in the medical literature,2 albeit largely unread and ignored.  I am far from claiming that what I’ve come to believe is the complete and final truth about them; but I do think that such views deserve serious consideration, rather than the censorship and ridicule that they commonly receive.  So I will begin by summarizing my findings here.

The idea of vaccinating sounds attractive, as a way of preventing large populations from coming down with and suffering from acute infectious diseases, especially the most serious ones like smallpox, diphtheria, and polio, which have killed or maimed large numbers of people who came down with them.  But we now have so many vaccines and use them routinely for so many diseases, that we no longer give much thought to the natural process of coming down with and recovering from them, seemingly unaware of its decisive importance for our general health.  Almost all of them represent acute illnesses of short duration, involving fever and a host of immune mechanisms acting in concert, until the offending foreign organism is inactivated and expelled from the body, an all-important result that cannot be achieved by any one of them operating independently.  

The natural immunity thus achieved is first of all specific, in the familiar sense of protecting the patient against future outbreaks of the same disease, just as vaccines claim to do.  Less obvious but even more valuable is its nonspecific effect of priming the immune system to respond acutely, vigorously, and in concerted fashion to whatever other infections we are exposed to in the future.  That might not seem so important, were it not for research that most people don’t know about, showing that those who come down with and recover from measles, mumps, chickenpox, influenza, and other common acute diseases of childhood are much less likely to develop chronic, autoimmune diseases and cancer later in life than those who do not, in proportion to the number of such ailments successfully recovered from.3   

If true, that statistic means that vaccinating is not the way to develop a healthy immune system, and that we’re much better off learning how to be sick than vaccinating everybody against everything simply because we have the technology to make it happen. 

In contrast, whatever good vaccines achieve depends solely on producing specific antibodies in significant quantities over long periods of time, bypassing and indeed dysregulating all the other mechanisms it was meant to collaborate with,4 and thus falling far short of duplicating the natural immunity that good health requires.  When a vaccine is injected intramuscularly, there is a brief inflammatory reaction at the injection site, but no overt illness, and thus no reliable mechanism or pathway for getting rid of it.  

After 14 days or so, yes, there probably will be measurable titers of specific antibodies in the blood; and, yes, the recipients of many though not all vaccines will be somewhat less likely to come down with the corresponding disease, at least in the near future, than they were before.  But without the acute illness, there is no activation of the cellular system, no mobilization of phagocytes, cytokines, or serum complement, no priming of the immune mechanism as a whole, no improvement in the general health, no encrypted memory of the infection, and again, no means of expelling the invading viruses, bacteria, or bioengineered fragments derived from them.

Indeed, where the vaccine goes, how it persuades the antibody-producing cells to continue doing their work over extended periods of time, as it was designed to do, and what price we have to pay for these antibodies and the partial, temporary semblance of immunity that they provide, are questions that it seems we're not supposed to ask, can expect haughty contempt or righteous indignation when we do, and haven't been convincingly or usefully answered in any way that helps the public understand.

What continues to haunt me about the vaccination process is the obvious fact that, unlike the diseases it is supposed to prevent, vaccination is and must be a chronic phenomenon, that its intended result of achieving continuous antibody synthesis for months and years afterward would seem to require either the vaccine substance itself or at least the information that it conveys to remain active inside the body for at least that long.  It’s worth asking how such long-term carrier states might be achieved, and what effect they might have on the health of vaccine recipients; but for now I’ll just say that it’s dangerously misleading, if not the exact opposite of the truth, to claim that vaccines render us immune to acute diseases, if in fact they drive the invading organisms or toxic derivatives of them deep into our vital organs and cause us to harbor them chronically if not permanently instead. 

In the early years of my practice, I shied away from vaccinating routinely, based on a gut feeling that I couldn’t explain; and the analysis I’ve just offered took shape during a sabbatical year of revisiting the basic immunology that was glossed over in med school.  But it didn’t really hit home or make sense for me until I began seeing a lot of chronically ill children in my practice.5  With so many vaccines being given, several of them simultaneously at the same visit, years went by without implicating a specific vaccine or component before it dawned on me that the vaccination process itself might be the culprit.  

What first made me think of it was seeing so many kids given vaccines on the approved schedule who were reacting nonspecifically, by developing a more intense or prolonged version of whatever chronic diseases they were already bothered by.  Even then, I didn’t see any uniform pattern, because the children reacted in a manner that was uniquely characteristic of them, just as you’d expect.  Eventually I discovered that any vaccine would do, and that several different ones would have the same effect for that child, while their diseases ran the whole gamut of pediatric practice, affected kids who weren’t vaccinated, and could be brought on by environmental toxins and pollutants as well.    

Equally confusing was the tendency of chronic diseases to wax and wane idiosyncratically, rather than on any preformed or regular schedule; and although treatment with pharmaceuticals often relieved their symptoms, the children remained perceptibly ill.  But if the children recovered to the point of feeling well and essentially symptom-free for at least several months, which usually required gentler forms of treatment, their old disease would recur promptly and dramatically after their next vaccination, whatever it was, such that the causal link became obvious to everyone.  

That was the turning point, the breakthrough I was looking for.  Over the years, using ultradilute homeopathic medicines, I had the good fortune to witness dozens  and ultimately hundreds of such cases, consistently enough to be the rule, not the exception, all exhibiting the same pattern, yet in a manner uniquely their own, no matter which vaccine was given, which disease they manifested, or how severely they suffered from it.  Like this 18-year-old girl, plagued with bedwetting and obsessive-compulsive behavior in elementary school, who overcame both complaints and remained essentially symptom-free for more than 10 years.  Even so, her old illness came back full force within a week after receiving the MMR booster her college required for admission.  Fortunately, she recovered, using the same medicine as before, and remained well thereafter, but newly resolved to avoid further shots.

In short, my years of clinical experience leave little doubt in my mind that all vaccines, whatever the benefits ascribed to them, are regularly and significantly implicated in initiating, exacerbating, and reactivating the innumerable chronic diseases of our time. If that’s true, then subjecting whole populations to repeated doses of more and more of them must be adding continuously and exponentially to the crushing burden of chronic diseases that we already bear, as the dominant public health threat of recent decades, and not as rare coincidences, aberrations, or side effects, but as a built-in feature of their design.

Gripped by the urgency of that realization, and unnerved by our obstinate unwillingness to take it seriously, I began combing through the scientific literature, and soon uncovered a substantial body of reputable, published research along the same lines,6 albeit ignored by most practicing physicians, because it directly contradicts what we are authoritatively taught, fondly believe, and seldom bother to question.  One study found that the risk of serious reactions to childhood vaccines was directly proportional to the number of vaccines given simultaneously at the same visit,7 and another showed a risk similarly proportional to the total number given over a period of years.8   In both cases, the main causal factor was the total vaccine load, a quantity that again points to the vaccination process itself, rather than any particular vaccine. 

On the other hand, with the specific effects of each individual vaccine still largely hidden from view, and the generic effects of the vaccination process rarely taken into account, it is easy to understand why doctors see no reason to resist the industry’s agenda of vaccinating everyone and piling on as many new vaccines as they see fit.  Yet investigating their safety would require nothing more elaborate than comparing the all-cause morbidity and mortality, the overall rate of death and chronic disease, in carefully-matched cohorts of vaccinated and unvaccinated people of all ages.  

It boggles the mind that our nation, which yields to none in its professed commitment to science, has never seen fit to undertake such a simple and obvious study, even though if not precisely because it could resolve the issue once and for all.  At the very least, if they prove to be as safe as we’ve been led to believe, it would effectively silence nay-sayers like me.   The trick will be to find someone reputable to run the study who is totally independent of the CDC and the drug industry who pays their bills.

The COVID phenomenon and its aftermath have both dramatized and heightened that threat as never before, by devising a whole new version of it and imposing it on the present as well as future generations.  Declaring a global emergency and locking down large populations in response to it have resulted in vaccinating most of the world in the midst of the disease, for the first ever, rather than just trying to prevent it in the future. 

Even when it turned out that the new vaccines didn’t prevent transmission, but only lessened the severity of the disease for a few months, the lockdown, by prolonging the outbreak, allowed the highly mutable virus to generate a sequence of variants, for the ingenious mRNA technology to devise a customized  new vaccine for each one.  Now that the virus has become endemic, yet more boosters will be required more or less on schedule and quite possibly mandated for the future, despite lacking even the modest benefit of traditional vaccines, not to mention posing brand-new threats, like the mRNA sequence becoming permanently incorporated in the host’s DNA,9 and some of the spike protein produced by it continuing to circulate in the blood and damaging various organs for as long as the mRNA sequence continues doing its job.10  

These extraordinary new impositions exemplify what Naomi Klein has called “disaster capitalism,” namely, “orchestrated raids on the public sphere in the wake of catastrophic events [repurposed] as exciting market opportunities.”11                    

For all of these reasons, it is more urgent than ever for the scientific community to investigate the all-cause morbidity and mortality of vaccinated and unvaccinated subpopulations in a manner and venue that is transparent and certifiably independent of the pharmaceutical industry, so that the general public will accept their results, whatever they may be.  

Until then, I propose that vaccines simply be made optional, that is, available on request, without mandating them or penalizing those who don’t want them, so that, once these studies are completed, we can finally have the public discussion and debate that we should have been having all along, à propos of Schopenhauer’s word to the wise,

The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what no one has yet thought, about that which everyone sees.12                                            

Notes.

1. “The Case against Immunizations,” Journal of the American   Institute of Homeopathy 76:7, March, 1983.

2. Moskowitz, Vaccines: a Reappraisal, Skyhorse, New York, 2017, Chapters 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, passim.

3. Cf., for example, Albonico, H., et al., “Febrile Infectious Childhood Diseases in the History of Cancer Patients and Matched Controls,” Medical Hypotheses 51:315, 1998.

4. Cf. for example, Profs. Lucija Tomljenovic and Chris Shaw, "Aluminum Vaccine Adjuvants: Are They Safe?" Current Medicinal Chemistry 18:2630, 2011.

5. Moskowitz, 2017, op. cit., Chapter 4, pp. 57-69.

6. Ibid., vide supra, note 2.

7. Miller, N., and Goldman, G., "Relative Trends in Hospitalizations and Mortality among Infants by the Number of Vaccine Doses and Age, Based on the VAERS Reporting System, 1990-2010," Human Experimental Toxicology 31:1012, 2012.

8. Glanz, J., et al., "A Population-Based Cohort Study of Under-Vaccination in 8 Managed-Care Organizations across the United States," JAMA Pediatrics 167:284, 2013.

9. Aidén, M., et al., "Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine in Vitro in Human Liver Cell Line," Current Issues in Molecular Biology 44:115, February 25, 2022. 

10.  Cf. Dr. Byram Bridle, Interview with Alex Pierson, "See More Rocks," You Tube,  May 30, 2021.

11.  Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, Henry Holt, 2007, p. 6.  

12.  Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga und Paralipomena, 1851, 76.

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U of Utah Whistleblower Case Ends But Questions Remain


 WHISTLEBLOWER’S DECADE-LONG LEGAL BATTLE AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ENDS, BUT QUESTIONS REMAIN ABOUT SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT

The 10-year legal battle between whistleblower and former University of Utah researcher, Dr. Judith Pinborough Zimmerman, and the University of Utah has finally ended, after two jury verdicts against the University in two different courts amounting to over $1 million in judgments against the University.  On August 4, 2023, Third District Court Judge Patrick Corum entered final judgment on the second case — an October 2021 jury verdict in favor of Dr. Zimmerman for the University’s breach of contract, based on its violation of its own research misconduct policies. The court awarded the jury’s verdict of $760,000 in damages, plus $172,815.75 in attorneys’ fees, and costs.  The University did not appeal the final judgment of either case.

As a public health manager at the Utah Department of Health and later as an assistant research professor at the University, Dr. Zimmerman wrote and was awarded a multi-year multi-million-dollar grant awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (CDC) to collect data regarding children with autism in Utah, from 2002 to 2013.  Dr. Zimmerman was the principal investigator on the grant, responsible for ensuring the rules governing it were adhered to by the University researchers.

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Donate $5 To Help Healthy Connecticut Children ATTEND SCHOOL

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This call to action is from Kevin Barry, Lindy Urso and Jim Mermigis' legal team fighting to bring back the religious exemption, first in Connecticut, where I live, then across the nation. Healthy American children have been the denied the right to attend school because of vaccination status. This is a STATE LEVEL case, not to be confused with others' NATIONAL efforts. Kevin and Jim have helped college students attend classes and workers earn a living during Covid. One student at a time is how we end mandates Please  share. And consider a donation - $5 (or more!) from every AofAer adds up fast. Thanks.  DONATE  KIM

9/8/23 UPDATE: HELP DEFEAT PHARMA'S WAR ON RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS

SUPPORT THE MOST IMPORTANT ONGOING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY CASE IN THE COUNTRY!

HELP DEFEAT PHARMA’S WAR ON RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS

CT FIRST, THEN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY.

CASE HISTORY:

  • CT repealed the religious exemption to vaccination in April 2021.
  • In September, 2022, our case defeated the CT Attorney General’s motion to dismiss (the other CT legal challenge was dismissed). Support THIS case -- the one which defeated the motion to dismiss!).
  • The CT Attorney General’s office appealed their loss to the CT Supreme Court, delaying justice for more than a year.
  • Our CT Supreme Court hearing is fast approaching - in October 2023.
  • The CT Attorney General’s office argues that both free exercise of religion and the right to education are not “substantial claims”.

Our legal team has been working on this for more than three years; we need your support!

When we WIN at the Connecticut Supreme Court,

Our case gets sent back to the trial court in Stamford, CT.

This would be the first time a religious exemption repeal could be defeated in the courts – which would be historic news for the entire country.  Over time, winning this case could send tens of thousands of children nationwide back to school!

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AUTISM: The Genetic Epidemic

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Parents with bad genes; the new "refrigerator moms and dads"

I found an annoying article published in Autism Parenting on September 4th.  The title got right to the point: IS AUTISM HEREDITARY?”

Answer: Of course. Next question.

And in the updated version of the “Refrigerator Mom” being blamed for autism in the 20th century, today in the 21st century,it’s the parents with the BAD GENES.

Can You Inherit Autism?

The simple answer is “yes,” autism spectrum disorder can be inherited. However, that doesn’t mean everyone with autism spectrum disorder inherited it. 

There’s no definitive cause for autism spectrum disorders. Still, research from around the globe has found developmental, genetic, and environmental factors are connected to autism spectrum disorders.

Dr. Daniel Geschwind is a professor of human genetics, neurology, and psychiatry at UCLA. During a recent interview, he cited a study published in Jama that identified 80% of autism spectrum disorder cases are likely caused by genetic factors passed through DNA. 

To return to the main question of “Is autism hereditary,” that means while not all autism spectrum disorders are inherited, a vast majority of them likely are hereditary.

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Remember What Happened to Laborers and Workers During Covid

7C0FD381-7F7B-4C1F-A813-E81E32396B2BYesterday, I got an email from the Biden campaign touting respect and admiration for American workers on Labor Day.  Laudable. Had I been sipping a holiday beer (Bud Light or Corona?) I'd have spat it out in laughter. How many Americans were forced out of work because they made a personal choice for their own body? How many Americans were turned down for jobs because they had not complied? (I know one very well, she looks just like me and is just as unruly.) NPR ran an article
Labor Day is now a key to Election Day for Democrats and Republicans alike.  Covid showed us that often there isn't much difference. And we could be facing another round of edicts and mandates. A couple of reminders during this election season that neither party has protected the right to bodily medical choice:

Court blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for US gov’t workers
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been blocked by a federal appeals court.

Trump says 'everybody wanted' COVID-19 vaccines when he was president, despite the fact that millions of his supporters rejected them

Trump about Operation Warp Speed:  In order to achieve this goal, we harnessed the full power of government, the genius of American scientists, and the might of American industry to save millions and millions of lives all over the world. We’re just days away from authorization from the FDA, and we’re pushing them hard, at which point we will immediately begin mass distribution.

President Biden encouraging Americans to get vaccinated in a kindly, grandfatherly, paternalistic way: For unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death — if you’re unvaccinated — for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm.

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From Skyhorse Publishing

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The War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic

#1 Seller in Forensic Medicine

By Pierre Kory Dr. (Author), Jenna McCarthy (Author)

Big Pharma and health agencies cry, “Don’t take ivermectin!” A media storm follows. Why then, does the science say the opposite?” Ivermectin is a dirty word in the media. It doesn’t work. It’s a deadly horse dewormer. Prescribe or promote it and you’ll be called a right-wing quack, be banned from social media, or lose your license to practice medicine. And yet, entire countries wiped out the virus with it, and more than ninety-five studies now show it to be unequivocally effective in preventing and treating Covid-19. If it didn’t work, why was there a coordinated global campaign to cancel it? What’s the truth about this decades-old, Nobel Prize-winning medication? The War on Ivermectin is the personal and professional narrative of Dr. Pierre Kory and his crusade to recommend a safe, inexpensive, generic medicine as the key to ending the pandemic.


Vax Unvax Book Cover Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak (Children’s Health Defense) Hardcover – Illustrated, August 15, 2023 by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Author), Brian Hooker (Author)

The Studies the CDC Refuses to Do

This book is based on over one hundred studies in the peer-reviewed literature that consider vaccinated versus unvaccinated populations. Each study is analyzed, and health differences among infants, children, and adults who have been vaccinated and those who have not are presented and put in context. Readers will find information on:

The infant/child vaccination schedule
Thimerosal in vaccines
Live virus vaccines
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine
Vaccination and Gulf War illness
Influenza (flu) vaccines
Hepatitis B vaccination
The COVID-19 vaccine
Vaccines during pregnancy

Given the massive push to vaccinate the entire global population, this book is timely and necessary for individuals to make informed choices for themselves and their families.


We Know From Labor

Parents do The WorkHappy Labor Day. The holiday recognizes paid, organized labor. Most of us are neither.  But our work for our kids is so important. I guess that why we do it for no pay, for sacrificed careers, for 401Ks that are barely .401Ks. Autism might deplete your bank account, but what deeper love is there, than the love we show our children, even when it's nearly impossible to maintain?  Don't quit, friends. Call on any of us for help when you are drained to exhaustion. Our work is sacred. No one cares for our kids as we do. They never will. Happy Labor Day. WE SEE YOU.  We are you. 

Love, 

Kim


Weight Loss Drugs and Children: From Children's Health Defense

American fat kidThe age of autism is so much more than the diagnosis.  The age of autism ushered in an age where children, from the womb to adulthood, have been cast to the pharmaceutical industry. Parents always want what's best for their children. And we trust(ed) the men and women in the white coats. I watch "Mom" lists on social media and see the change in parenting. Moms still want good things for their kids.  Perhaps more than ever. They want kids who excel and yet, at the same time, feel less stress, less competition, less discomfort.  I've heard it called "lawnmower" parenting. Rather than hover like a helicopter, last generation's parenting, they clear the path in front of their kids to make life easier.  They've been carefully taught that childhood "success" often comes from a bottle of pills to change what was once considered normal behavior, or a vaccine vial to prevent an illness that was once cured by bed rest and calamine lotion. Life is frenetic, and one can hardly blame overwhelmed, anxious parents (themselves the Prozac generation) for wanting a quick solution, especially when promised by their pediatrician, whom they trust(ed.)

Meanwhile, a healthy childhood has been all but lost as chronic illness, which should worry parents, is now as accepted as hair color (but not gender, let's not get started down that path though. And yes, there's a drug for that.) So is it any wonder that as the new miracle weight loss drugs get more and more attention, soon children will be taking them? Children's Health Defense ran a frightening post about the possible effects of pediatric weight loss drug use. There are no studies showing long term affects, and it's damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead.

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Weight Loss Drugs for Kids: A ‘Minefield of Health and Emotional Problems,’ Researchers Warn

A group of researchers at the University of California, Irvine, said young people’s exposure to weight loss drugs on social media, combined with teens’ proclivities toward risk-taking and the coming availability of the drugs in oral form will “create a perfect storm” for potential abuse.

By 

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

The use of popular weight loss drugs to treat childhood obesity may have serious unintended negative consequences for children, according to a group of researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), UCI News reported.

In an article, which will be published in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, the researchers outlined the likely dangers of more widespread use among children of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) — the drug class that includes blockbuster drugs Wegovy and Ozempic, among others.

The researchers warned against the unknown effects of prescribing the drugs to children, given the “dearth of research” on these drugs in children and adolescents and the likelihood that the drugs would be prescribed for long-term use.

The article includes a call to action for better research on the drugs’ effects on the pediatric population and oversight to mitigate threats to pediatric health.

High-profile research touting the success of the injectable drugs for treating childhood diabetes and promoting weight loss, along with the likelihood that the drugs will soon be available in oral form, makes it “inevitable” that more children and adolescents will be taking them, according to the UCI researchers.

Doctors will be more likely to prescribe the drugs, particularly among populations with high obesity and low fitness levels, and more children and teens may find ways to access and abuse the drugs on their own.  READ MORE:

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/weight-loss-drugs-kids-health-emotional-problems/


Vax Unvax Book Cover Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak (Children’s Health Defense) Hardcover – Illustrated, August 15, 2023 by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Author), Brian Hooker (Author)


How Long? How Long Must We Sing This Song?

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My Facebook memory from 2009.  How long must we sing this song? Here's what CDC counsels to "pregnant people" in 2023:

That post appeared in my Facebook memories over the weekend. Here we are, 14 years later, and CDC is recommending even more pre-natal vaccinations for pregnant… people. 


https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pregnancy/vacc-safety.html

Vaccines help protect pregnant people and babies against serious diseases

Pregnant people share everything with their babies. That means when a pregnant person gets vaccines, she isn’t just protecting herself— they are giving the baby some early protection too.

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Andrew Wakefield Was the "OG" Protecting Children And He Was Right, All Along

We're with AndyWe are so pleased to share this Substack article from Dr. Tess Lawrie.  Dr. Andrew Wakefield has been a friend of Age of Autism since our inception. His work, mentioned in Mothering Magazine more than 20 years ago, started many of us thinking, worrying, and learning.  He has never turned his back on our kids. The Johnnie Come latelys (and we do appreciate them) can thank Andrew J. Wakefield for paving the road OUT of hell.

Thank you to Laura Hayes for sharing this article with me.

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By Tess Lawrie

Dr Andrew Wakefield was right all along

His research on vaccine harms was "just the beginning". Was an "ethically challenged man" recruited to keep him quiet?


Do you believe in coincidences?

Last month I received an email from Mrs Bridget Wakefield, Dr Andrew Wakefield’s mother. It turned out she lives in Bath, my hometown, birthplace of a Better Way and just a stone’s throw from the World Council for Health offices! She asked whether we could meet.

There were all sorts of things going round in my head as I set off on foot to find Mrs Wakefield. Who was she? What did she want from me? How had she weathered the longstanding and relentless demonisation of her son I wondered?

A spritely though frail Mrs Wakefield greeted me with a warm smile. We fell into easy conversation right away and I learned that she is now 93 years old, a former doctor, a mother of five, and a grandmother. In her working years, Bridget used her maiden name and was know as Dr Bridget Matthews when she was practicing as a general practitioner in Bath and the surrounding county of Gloucestershire. Bath was Bridget’s hometown and she felt lucky to be appointed to a single handed practice at the Royal Crescent as a young GP. With her wealth of medical experience, we discussed what being a GP meant in the “old days”. Very hands on, Bridget had especially enjoyed doing home visits and home deliveries, which was commonplace not so long ago.

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Neil Z. Miller: An Association Between Childhood Vaccines and Mortality

Science post imageAn Association Between Childhood Vaccines and Mortality

by Neil Z. Miller

In 2011, Dr. Gary Goldman and I published a study demonstrating that among the most highly developed nations, those that require the most vaccines for their infants tend to have the worst infant mortality rates. Ten years later, Dr. Elizabeth Bailey, a professor at Brigham Young University, and several students associated with her Bioinformatics Capstone course read our study and found it "troublesome that this manuscript is in the top 5% of all research outputs." They conducted their own study to refute our paper, and posted it on the medXriv preprint server.

[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/pdf]

[https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.03.21263082v4]

A few months later, I was contacted by the editor of a major medical journal inviting me to review a manuscript that "makes statements in contradiction to work you have previously published." Apparently, our critics at BYU submitted their paper to this journal to have it peer-reviewed and published.

The Bailey paper contained many flaws, which were thoroughly discussed in my review. Ultimately, their manuscript was withdrawn from the journal and not published. However, the preprint containing false claims made against our paper was never removed from public accessibility. This incentivized Gary and I to defend our paper within the medical literature and further investigate potential associations between vaccines required during infancy and infant mortality rates.

Using updated 2019 data, we corroborated the significant positive correlation demonstrated in our 2011 paper. This new study was published in February of this year.

[https://www.cureus.com/articles/134233-reaffirming-a-positive-correlation-between-number-of-vaccine-doses-and-infant-mortality-rates-a-response-to-critics#!/]

Neonatal vaccines

Many nations require hepatitis B and/or BCG (bacille Calmette-Guerin) vaccines (for tuberculosis) to be given to newborns as soon as possible following birth. In most nations, more than half of all infant deaths occur during the neonatal period (the first 28 days of life). Therefore, after our second paper was published, we decided to broaden our analyses to explore potential relationships between the number of neonatal vaccine doses required by nations and their neonatal mortality rates, infant mortality rates, and under age five mortality rates.

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An Anti-Vaxxer’s Sad Lament

126DF29A-505B-4BB4-A2AD-483BF281C2C2Note: Dr. Moskowitz has a request for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and President Biden. The depth and breadth of our contributing writers always makes me proud. 

By Richard Moskowitz, M. D.

Those of you who know me or are familiar with my work know that I’ve been questioning the scientific basis of vaccinations for over forty years,1 and that my concerns about them go beyond the side effects of this or that vaccine to the nature of the vaccination process per se.   In short, I am that rare case of an honest-to-God “anti-vaxxer,” unlike the vast majority of those unjustly stigmatized with that label, such as the parents of vaccine-injured children, whose only mistake was to have done exactly what they were told, and suffered the devastating consequences of it: “ex-vaxxers” would be a more appropriate term for them.                                                                                       

While I’ve always felt for them and advocated for their cause, my problem with vaccines goes beyond the moral and political duty of redressing the harm that they suffered, to the issue of scientific truth, based on 50+ years of experience as a family doctor, and amply supported by articles in the medical literature, albeit largely unread and ignored.2  I am far from claiming that what I’ve come to believe about them is the complete and final truth; but I do think such views deserve serious consideration, rather than the ridicule and censorship that they commonly receive.  So I will begin by summarizing my findings here.

The idea of vaccinating sounds attractive, as a way of preventing large populations from coming down with and suffering from acute infectious diseases, especially the most serious ones like smallpox, diphtheria, and polio, which have killed or maimed so many people who came down with them.  But vaccines are now so numerous and widely used, even for the common diseases of childhood, that we seldom remember or think to compare how they act with the natural process of coming down with and recovering from the natural diseases, which are acute phenomena of relatively short duration, involving fever and a collaborative effort of various immune mechanisms, and culminating in the expulsion of the offending foreign organism from the body.  This result cannot be achieved by any one of these mechanisms operating independently of the others.  The natural immunity that results from it is specific, in the familiar sense of protecting the patient against future outbreaks of the same disease, just as vaccines claim to do.  Less obvious but even more important is its nonspecific effect, priming the immune system to respond acutely, vigorously, and in concerted fashion to whatever other infections we are exposed to in the future.  That wouldn’t seem like that big of a deal, except for research that few doctors or patients are aware of, showing that those who come down with and recover from measles, mumps, chickenpox, influenza, and other common acute diseases of childhood are much less likely to develop chronic, autoimmune diseases and cancer later in life than those who are merely vaccinated against them.3  If true, that tells us that vaccinating is not the way to develop a healthy immune system; and we’re much better off learning how to get sick than vaccinating everybody against everything simply because we have the technical know-how to do so.

In contrast, whatever good vaccines may accomplish depends on one thing only, producing specific antibodies in significant quantities over long periods of time, bypassing if not dysregulating all the other collaborative mechanisms. It thus necessarily falls far short of duplicating the natural immunity that good health depends on.  When a vaccine is injected intramuscularly, there is a brief inflammatory reaction at the injection site, but no local sensitization of the nasopharynx and its epithelium, no co-ordinated mobilization of phagocytes, cytokines, and serum complement, no overt illness, and thus, above all, no reliable mechanism or pathway for getting rid of it.  After 14 days or so, yes, there are likely to be measurable titers of specific antibodies in the blood; and, yes, the recipients of many though not all vaccines will be somewhat less likely to come down with the corresponding acute disease, at least in the near future, than they were before.  But without the acute illness, there is no concerted activation of the cellular system, no priming of the immune mechanism as a whole, no improvement in the general health, no encrypted memory of the infection, and again, no means of expelling the invading viruses, bacteria, or bioengineered fragments derived from them.

Where the vaccine actually goes, how it persuades the antibody-producing cells to continue doing their work over extended periods of time, as it was designed to do, and what price we have to pay for these antibodies and the partial, temporary semblance of immunity that they provide, are questions that it seems we're not supposed to ask, can expect haughty contempt or righteous indignation if we do, and haven't been convincingly answered in any way that helps the public to understand.

What continues to haunt me about the vaccination process is the obvious fact that, unlike the diseases it is supposed to prevent, vaccination is and must be a chronic phenomenon, in that its intended result of achieving continuous antibody synthesis for months and years afterward would seem to require that either the vaccine substance itself or at the information that it conveys remain active inside the body for at least that long.  It’s worth asking how such long-term carrier states might be achieved, and what effect they might have on the health of vaccine recipients; but for now I’ll just add that it’s dangerously misleading, if not the exact opposite of the truth, to claim that vaccines render us immune to acute diseases, if in fact they merely drive the invading organisms or toxic derivatives of them deep into our vital organs and cause us to harbor them chronically if not permanently instead.

My reluctance to vaccinate originated with a gut feeling that I couldn’t explain, while the hypothesis formulated above was the logical conclusion of a sabbatical year of visiting the immunology that I was never taught in med school.  But it didn’t really come alive for me until I began seeing a lot of chronically sick children in my practice.4  With so many vaccines being given, several of them even simultaneously at the same visit, it was practically impossible to identify a specific vaccine or component as the culprit, as doctors are trained to do; and it didn’t immediately occur to me to think about the vaccination process itself.  There are a lot of reasons why that link was difficult to see even when I looked for it.

What started me thinking about it was seeing so many kids given vaccines on the approved schedule who were reacting nonspecifically to them, by developing a more intense or prolonged version of whatever chronic diseases they were already bothered by.  What still threw me off, even then, was that they all reacted in a characteristic manner that was peculiar to them, no matter which vaccine was given, which disease they had, or how severely they suffered from it.  Eventually I discovered that any vaccine would do, and that several different ones would have the same effect for that child, while the diseases involved ran the whole gamut of pediatric practice, might also attack the unvaccinated, and be brought on by environmental toxins and pollutants as well.                                                                                                                                                      

Another source of confusion was simply that chronic diseases tend to wax and wane idiosyncratically, not on any preformed or regular schedule.  The only way to see the causal role of vaccines was to treat the children with herbs, acupuncture, or homeopathy until they recovered and were essentially symptom-free for several months. Then and only then, consistently enough to be the rule, their old disease pattern would recur promptly and dramatically after their next vaccination, whatever it was, such that its causal role became obvious to the parents and anyone else paying attention.  Suppressing the main symptoms with pharmaceutical drugs didn’t clean the slate sufficiently to achieve that clarity.

With the specific effects of each individual vaccine thus essentially hidden, and doctors distracted from considering the generic effect of the vaccination process, they readily fall into line with the industry’s agenda of piling on as many vaccines as we see fit. Yet investigating the safety of vaccinating against everything, of the process itself, would require nothing more elaborate than comparing the all-cause morbidity and mortality, the overall rate of death and chronic disease, in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations.  The public surely deserves to be told, if only to discredit nay-sayers like me, why our nation, which yields to none in its professed commitment to science, has never seen fit to undertake such an obvious study, even though if not precisely because it could resolve the issue once and for all.                                                                        

To summarize, then, my clinical experience strongly suggests that all vaccines, whatever benefits may be ascribed to them, are regularly and significantly implicated in initiating, exacerbating, and reactivating the innumerable chronic diseases of our time. If that much is true, it follows as night from day that subjecting whole populations to repeated doses of more and more of them, with no end in sight, is adding continuously and exponentially to the crushing burden of chronic diseases that we already bear, not as rare coincidences, aberrations, or side effects, but as a built-in feature of their design.

Gripped by the urgency of that realization, and unnerved by our obstinate inability and unwillingness to recognize it, I began combing through the scientific literature, and uncovered a substantial body of reputable, published research along the same lines,5 studies ignored by most practicing physicians, because they directly contradict what we are authoritatively taught, fondly believe, and seldom bother to question.                                                                                                                                       

Since well before the COVID, thinking it a scientific and moral issue of vital importance, I began emailing leading progressive legislators, pointing out that simply ending the mandates would significantly improve the health of the nation; but not one ever acknowledged even receiving them.  During the 2016 Presidential election season, the drug companies launched a campaign to convince the blue states to eliminate their philosophical and personal-belief exemptions from the vaccines they were requiring, especially measles, because of a few modest outbreaks of the disease that belied the CDC’s claim to have eliminated it from the country. I reached out to Bernie Sanders, because he’d been railing against the greed and corruption of the drug industry for decades; but his office never wrote back, and in one campaign speech after another he echoed the official CDC line, blaming the unvaccinated for spreading the disease, and thus putting their fellow-citizens at risk.6   Similar attempts to inform Liz Warren, AOC, and a few others also failed, leaving me to own up to the fact that vaccination had become essentially a sacred cow, beyond question or doubt, for the public at large.  Nor could I blame them entirely, since their only mistake was having trusted the medical profession and the CDC to tell us the truth about matters of health that they presumably understand better than anyone.                                                                                                                         

By 2019, as the outbreaks continued, editorials in the New York Times and other mainstream media were openly castigating “anti-vaxxers,”7 with Congressman Adam Schiff, an avowed champion of civil rights, explicitly ordering Facebook and Google to suppress all content questioning the vaccine mandates as “disinformation,” and thus violating the First Amendment in the name of a public health emergency that he was doing his level best to create, with every righteous intention, to be sure.8

With the COVID pandemic in 2020, the censorship looked to become permanent, as the economy and almost all daily activities were locked down, against the advice of leading epidemiologists.9  In 2021, when the vaccines finally became available,  the whole population was threatened with loss of jobs and forbidden to travel for refusing them, as the unvaccinated were blamed once again for spreading the virus, even though the vaccine was later admitted to be ineffective in preventing it.10   Meanwhile, Biden had become President, and the Democrats, abandoning their concern for civil rights in the teeth of the emergency, enforced the mandate more strictly than the Republicans, and did everything possible to discredit the “anti-vaxxers” who resisted or even doubted the need for it, and to silence or punish those who dared to question its safety or tried to publicize its adverse effects.                                                   In addition to the growing number of doctors who began speaking out against these policies, a number of actors, writers, and politicians, mostly conservative Republicans and libertarians who detested the Biden Administration and government interventions of any kind, were raising their voices as well.  One of the leading dissidents was Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who carries on the name and legacy of his still prominent family, especially his uncle, a beloved former President, and his father, who was also assassinated while running for President himself.  A successful environmental lawyer who won major judgments against polluters and the government agencies colluding with them, this younger Kennedy also created and led a nonprofit public-interest group, Children’s Health Defense, which publicizes current health issues, including how the drug industry deceives the public about vaccines, and ends up controlling the government agencies meant to regulate them.11  In short, he sounded like a classic New Deal Democrat, championing many of the same values that led me to study and write about this issue in the first place.  For all of these reasons, he became a hero to me and so many others, for taking on these powerful interests and exposing them with passion and eloquence, not least for doing so as a Democrat, at a time when most mainstream Democrats and party leaders were either clueless about the dangers of vaccines, reluctant to speak out against them, or committed to the pro-vaccine agenda now prevailing because their GOP opponents had begun to attack it, largely on libertarian grounds.  In the run-up to the 2024 Presidential election, when he announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination, RFK Jr. soon attracted a huge following from among the growing multitudes harmed by vaccines, or disenchanted with the censorship and emergency measures imposed under the pandemic. In particular, for the minority of liberal and progressive Democrats like myself who felt the same way, he seemed like our only hope of bringing the vaccine issue into the mainstream of political discourse, as the signature and indeed winning issue for the left that I’ve always thought it was, and now more than ever.                                                                                                     

But even at this early stage in the campaign, with the Democratic Convention still a year away, it is already clear that he cannot possibly win the nomination, because the party leadership and their activists at the state and district level are firmly committed to defeating him by any means necessary, so that there is no realistic possibility that he will succeed in bringing the vaccine issue front and center before the electorate and the general public at this time.  If that is true, then the only possible result of his candidacy going forward will be to dissuade the 20% of normally Democratic voters who now support him from voting for Biden, the presumptive nominee, and thus quite possibly help to re-elect Trump, who has explicitly and for once truthfully pledged to end our already frail democratic experiment once and for all.  Preventing that result, at once too horrible to contemplate yet suddenly within reach, must take precedence over the vanishingly unlikely prospect that Kennedy will be allowed to represent the party, when it refuses even to give him the same Secret Service protection it has always allowed its sworn enemies.  It saddens me to have to say this, since it will also mean weakening and burying yet again the cause that I’ve spent the last forty years trying to publicize.  So this is my plea to RFK Jr., which I can only hope he’ll take to heart:

Please arrange a private meeting with Joe Biden and other Democratic leaders, and announce your intention to suspend your candidacy for the sake of party unity against Trump.

Please ask them to give serious attention to your work at Children’s Health Defense, exposing the malfeasance of the vaccine manufacturers in corrupting the CDC and other government agencies that were created to regulate and restrain them.

Please promise to be a loyal Democrat, to work hard to help re-elect Biden or the party nominee, whoever it turns out to be.

And this is my plea to President Biden and the Democratic Party leaders, which I hope they will heed as well:

Please listen carefully to what RFK Jr. and various doctors and scientists have to say about the dangers of vaccines and the successful tactics of the CDC and

other agencies to keep them hidden from the public.

Please appoint him to the Platform Committee, to make use of his research and expertise about vaccines and public health to help formulate party policy about

these important issues.

Thank you.

Respectfully submitted

Richard Moskowitz, M. D.

  1. Moskowitz, R., “The Case against Immunizations,” Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy 76:7, March 1983.
  1. Moskowitz, Vaccines: a Reappraisal, Skyhorse, New York, 2017, Chapters 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, passim.
  1. , for example, Albonico, H., et al., “Febrile Infectious Childhood Diseases in the History of Cancer Patients and Matched Controls,” Medical Hypotheses 51:315, 1998.
  1. Moskowitz, 2017, cit., Chapter 4, pp. 57-69.
  1. Vide supra, note 1.
  1. Pollack, H., “All Our Politicians Should Join to End the Dangerous Anti-Vaccination Madness,” Washington Post, February 4, 2015.
  1. “How to Inoculate against Anti-Vaxxers,” Editorial, New York Times,   January 20, 2019.
  1. Rodrigo, C., “Schiff Calls out Facebook, Google over Anti-Vaccination Information,” The Hill, February 14, 2019.
  1. , for example, “Perspectives on the Pandemic: a Conversation with Dr. Knut Wittkowski,” The Press and the Public Project, thepressandthepublic.com, April 2, 2020; Prof. David Katz, “Is Our Fight against Coronavirus Worse than the Disease?,” New York Times, March 20, 2020; and Michael Osterholm, M.D., “Facing COVID-19 Reality: a National Lockdown Is No Cure,” Washington Post, March 21, 2020.
  1. President Biden, the White House, September 9, 2021: “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated . . . ,” vs. Rochelle Walensky, M.D., CNN Interview with Wolf Blitzer, You Tube, August 8, 2021.
  1. , for example, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., “Gates’ Globalist Vaccine Agenda: a Win-Win for Big Pharma and Mandatory Vaccination,” childrenshealthdefense.org, April 9, 2020.

### From Skyhorse Publishing

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The War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic

#1 Seller in Forensic Medicine

By Pierre Kory Dr. (Author), Jenna McCarthy (Author)

Big Pharma and health agencies cry, “Don’t take ivermectin!” A media storm follows. Why then, does the science say the opposite?” Ivermectin is a dirty word in the media. It doesn’t work. It’s a deadly horse dewormer. Prescribe or promote it and you’ll be called a right-wing quack, be banned from social media, or lose your license to practice medicine. And yet, entire countries wiped out the virus with it, and more than ninety-five studies now show it to be unequivocally effective in preventing and treating Covid-19. If it didn’t work, why was there a coordinated global campaign to cancel it? What’s the truth about this decades-old, Nobel Prize-winning medication? The War on Ivermectin is the personal and professional narrative of Dr. Pierre Kory and his crusade to recommend a safe, inexpensive, generic medicine as the key to ending the pandemic.


Vax Unvax Book Cover Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak (Children’s Health Defense) Hardcover – Illustrated, August 15, 2023 by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Author), Brian Hooker (Author)

Based on over one hundred studies in the peer-reviewed literature that consider vaccinated versus unvaccinated populations. Each of these studies is analyzed and put in context of the difference in health outcomes of vaccinated versus unvaccinated infants, children, and adults. Given the massive push to vaccinate the entire global population, this book is timely and necessary for individuals to make informed choices for themselves and their families.


MAPS Conference For Doctors Who Want to Help Children With Special Needs

MAPS Fall ConferenceIn 2023, the Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs is training medical professionals to provide care, value and respect in treatment. Ask your medical provider to consider attending the Fall conference.  What could be more important? Share with your pediatrician, ask him or her if they think they have enough resources to help their flood of chronically ill young patients. Most will say, "no." The question is, how many are willing to go this extra mile? Ask and keep asking.  The conference is coming up fast. Even if it's too late to attend, you can share the info with your provider. Start the conversation. And keep talking.

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Medical professionals who attend the MAPS functional and translational medicine conferences will get an opportunity to avail world-class special needs education during our 3 day event. This CME conference will help prepare health professionals to effectively treat their patients suffering from neurodevelopmental disorders. Health conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), cerebral palsy, Lyme Disease, Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) and many more will be discussed over the course of the conference. Attendees will learn all about the latest developments in medical research and technology that could help them provide better care to special needs children and their families.

Learn more here.

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By Pierre Kory Dr. (Author), Jenna McCarthy (Author)

Big Pharma and health agencies cry, “Don’t take ivermectin!” A media storm follows. Why then, does the science say the opposite?” Ivermectin is a dirty word in the media. It doesn’t work. It’s a deadly horse dewormer. Prescribe or promote it and you’ll be called a right-wing quack, be banned from social media, or lose your license to practice medicine. And yet, entire countries wiped out the virus with it, and more than ninety-five studies now show it to be unequivocally effective in preventing and treating Covid-19. If it didn’t work, why was there a coordinated global campaign to cancel it? What’s the truth about this decades-old, Nobel Prize-winning medication? The War on Ivermectin is the personal and professional narrative of Dr. Pierre Kory and his crusade to recommend a safe, inexpensive, generic medicine as the key to ending the pandemic.


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Based on over one hundred studies in the peer-reviewed literature that consider vaccinated versus unvaccinated populations. Each of these studies is analyzed and put in context of the difference in health outcomes of vaccinated versus unvaccinated infants, children, and adults. Given the massive push to vaccinate the entire global population, this book is timely and necessary for individuals to make informed choices for themselves and their families.

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Bright Early Mornings Just Got A Bit Dimmer

Bob Moffitt
AofA regulars will recall that our first comment almost every day came from Bob Moffitt.  His last comment was on March 21, 2022, after an illness. Bob's wife Barbara broke the sad news that he passed away on Friday. I so appreciated his keen insights and loving care for his family. Always. Rest in peace, Bob. I know St. Peter "approved" you right away. My condolences to the family.

Kim


Vax-Unvax Let The Science Speak

Vax Unvax Book CoverNote:  Join us in congratulating Dr. Hooker and Robert Kennedy, Jr. on their forthcoming book, available NOW from Skyhorse Publishing. The post below is from Children's Health Defense. As ever, Age of Autism does not endorse political candidates for any office.

By Dr. Brian Hooker

Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak’ — Why RFK Jr. and I Wrote This Book

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has never compared the health outcomes of vaccinated children to completely unvaccinated children, and the agency won’t give independent researchers access to government data to complete such a study. In “Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brian S. Hooker, Ph.D., provide a compendium of more than 70 studies comparing health outcomes of vaccinated versus unvaccinated adults and children.

In May 2017, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was invited to meet with Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Accompanying Kennedy to the meeting were Del Bigtree, Informed Consent Action Network founder, attorney Aaron Siri and Lyn Redwood, R.N., MSN, president emerita of Children’s Health Defense (CHD).

Several other U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials in the executive offices of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) accompanied Collins and Fauci.

For many years, Kennedy — CHD founder and chairman on leave — and many others had pointed out that HHS had not completed inert placebo-controlled vaccine safety trials to validate the inoculations given as a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommended child and adolescent immunization schedule.

This type of comparative trial is the gold standard in evaluating the safety of all types of pharmaceutical products.

When Kennedy asked Fauci to produce just one placebo-controlled study regarding the 16 vaccines comprising the vaccination schedule, Fauci made quite a commotion, rifling through a series of Redweld file folders rolled in on a cart from the NIH archives.

Finally, in what appeared to be feigned exasperation, Fauci gave up and said he would send the studies in question to the meeting participants.

Of course, he never did.

Both Kennedy and Bigtree gave the HHS many opportunities to produce placebo-controlled studies evaluating childhood vaccine safety — but the agency never produced the studies.

Kennedy asked for them directly in a series of emails to Collins finally to be rebuffed in a curt and dismissive letter from Collins, sent in August 2017. So sweeping was the commitment against placebo-controlled trials for vaccine safety that six additional NIH officials signed the letter, which was also sent to Jared Kushner, senior adviser to then-President Donald Trump.

The NIH officials seemed proud of their commitment to sweeping vaccine safety issues under the rug.

Bigtree also sent a letter to HHS asking for placebo-controlled vaccine safety studies and the biennial reports required by Congress regarding improvements in vaccine safety according to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.

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After being similarly rebuffed by the agency, Bigtree submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for the latter information. After suing HHS in Federal Court, in a case represented by Kennedy and Siri, Bigtree finally received the concession on June 27, 2018:

“The [Department]’s searches for records did not locate any records responsive to your request. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Immediate Office of the Secretary (IOS) conducted a thorough search of its document tracking systems.

“The Department also conducted a comprehensive review of all relevant indexes of HHS Secretarial Correspondence records maintained at Federal Records Centers that remain in the custody of HHS.

“These searches did not locate records responsive to your request, or indications that records responsive to your request and in the custody of HHS are located at Federal Records Centers.”

Kennedy didn’t stop there, however. In 2019, he reached out to me in an effort to search the scientific and medical literature for any published research study where the health outcomes of vaccinated individuals were compared to those of unvaccinated individuals.

For each study identified, we assembled easy-to-understand graphics with key quotes taken directly from the publication.

Kennedy wanted the studies to speak for themselves with minimal commentary. He posted the results of this work on his Instagram account in real time. Over a nearly two-year period, we highlighted more than 70 studies, including some that intentionally made the comparison and some in which the comparison was unintentional.

After Kennedy was de-platformed from Instagram in 2021, we realized that what we had assembled was an important compendium of information that needed to be shared in book form.

An additional 30 studies were found through the COVID-19 era and the book “Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak” will be released Aug. 29 by Skyhorse Publishing. Click here to order your copy today.

This book is important for laypersons, practitioners, scientists and others to get an overview of studies where actual unvaccinated cohorts are used as control groups.

Most of the studies featured in the book are indexed in PubMed, the NIH National Library of Medicine. These are the studies that the CDC refused to do.

The CDC has the ability to compare vaccinated versus unvaccinated children with its private database, the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD). The VSD consists of records from more than 10 million individuals, including 2 million children — a portion of whom are unvaccinated.

Yet the CDC has never compared the health outcomes of vaccinated children to completely unvaccinated children — and the agency won’t give independent researchers access to the VSD to complete such a study.

That is why Kennedy and I produced this compendium of studies — to expose to the public the real science behind the vaccination schedule, including the COVID-19 vaccine.

The Defender on occasion posts content related to Children’s Health Defense’s nonprofit mission that features Mr. Kennedy’s views on the issues CHD and The Defender regularly cover. In keeping with Federal Election Commission rules, this content does not represent an endorsement of Mr. Kennedy, who is on leave from CHD and is seeking the Democratic nomination for president of the U.S.


Health Freedom Defense Fund on Nike’s Motion to Dismiss: DENIED

ChoiceNike’s Motion to Dismiss: DENIED

A United States District Court denied Nike, Inc.’s Motion to Dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by former Nike employees and supported by Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF). In KERKERING, et al. vs. NIKE, INC., the plaintiffs assert that Nike violated their Constitutionally-protected religious freedoms by denying accommodation of their sincerely held religious beliefs against the Covid-19 vaccination.

One of the plaintiffs further asserts a claim of battery against Nike as the company repeatedly refused her request for a religious accommodation and coerced her into submitting to the Covid vaccination to save her job, only to suffer debilitating side effects from the injection. 

The denial of Nike’s Motion to Dismiss means that the case will now move forward with depositions, discovery, and litigation a development the plaintiffs and HFDF celebrate.

“Obviously, Nike would have liked to make this case go away, for itself and for the rest of corporate America, as both brazenly disregarded the American ideals codified in our Constitution by violating employees’ rights to privacy, bodily autonomy and religious freedom. HFDF hopes that by holding Nike accountable, this case will reverse corporate America’s recent intrusions into the private medical lives of employees,” said HFDF president, Leslie Manookian.

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Chelsea's New Beginning Book Series From Daniel Austin

Chelsea's new beginning bookNote: The headline is about Daniel  Austin's first book Chelsea's New Beginning in a series he's writing. Daniel, himself diagnosed with autism, found AofA through Laura Hayes, so he could share his family's autism journey. Please join us in welcoming him to the family. Kim

By Daniel Austin

My story is one of millions of similar stories, but I intend for it to reach multitude of families far and wide, because this is something that our culture needs to take seriously. People with stories like mine are often brushed off and shut down, but this is far more important than most of the other issues we are facing in this country. I would at least put it right up there with abortion and gender confusion - those two issues are very important, I would say much more important than most of the other issues addressed by conservative platforms, but the reality behind vaccines and what they actually do needs to be far more talked about than it really is.  Vaccine-injury is one of the few areas in which the people suffering from it are really not allowed to have a voice.

I am one of four children diagnosed with autism in my family, or to put in more accurate terms, vaccine-injured.  I was not born this way, and neither were my other siblings.  I am the second-oldest, and my older sister and I are at least lucky enough to be considered high-functioning.  My two younger brothers are on the severe spectrum - they were born in 1990 and 1991, which was after the childhood vaccine schedule doubled. My brother Joshua is unable to live a normal life and interact with people in a normal way, and he’s out of touch with reality, and Jeremy cannot speak or communicate with other people, but he is also prone to fits of anger and self-harm. I have two younger, unvaccinated siblings, and they are both healthy and normal.

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Explaining Children's Health Defense To Jack Schlossberg

Spalding Caddyshack TwitterUpdate: Today, the NY Post reports on a tirade by Jack Schlossberg about restaurants and dinner. Maybe he lost his appetite after disparaging his cousin RFK, Jr.? Check out the video to this strange store at the link below.  Katie's Monday post follows. It's a pip!

JFK’s grandson rants about restaurants: ‘You have to read to get your food?’

Note: Katie Wright lets Robert Kennedy Jr.'s his cousin (who should be twice removed) Jack Schlossberg know just how she feels, as she educates him about his Uncle's  Children's Health Defense (he is on leave during his Presidential campaign), which Jack dismissively calls, along with his run for office, a "vanity project." Speaking of vanity, if I were Schlossberg, I'd steer clear of shiny puddles. Of course HuffPo, which once published my work and so many of David Kirby's science based looks at vaccine safety is proud to put this drivel out. Not sure why, but after reading this post, I have a strong image of Spalding from Caddyshack.

JFK's Grandson Calls Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Campaign An 'Embarrassment'

By Katie Wright

There he was, Jack Schlossberg, sitting in his car angrily and pedantically lecturing the viewer about how terrible a presidential candidate his uncle, Bobby Kennedy is. Instead, Schlossberg vigorously endorsed our current president, Joe Biden. Schlossberg so arrogant and insufferable in his delivery. This thirty year old man was so certain of his position based on his vast and extremely rarified years on the planet? For a second or two I was nauseous.

It is no exaggeration to say Jack Schlossberg may be among the most privileged human beings on planet earth. His mother, Caroline Kennedy is worth, roughly, half a billion dollars. Caroline’s mother, Jackie Kennedy-Onassis had an excellent divorce settlement and then invested her fortune wisely. Caroline is her mother’s sole heir.

Two older sisters and a sculptor/ artist Dad round out Jack’s nearly perfect family. Unlike his uncle, Jack has been fortunate to live a trauma free, orderly life filled with guidance and love from his older sisters and ever-present parents. Jack and his family blessed are with good health. They enjoy traveling all over the world., probably on a private plane They family owns approximately six residences and enjoys exotic vacations. Because his mother is Caroline Kennedy, Jack has been able to make the acquaintance of the most powerful and influential people all over the world.

Schlossberg is 30 years old. He is a double Harvard legacy like his mom and grandfather. Other than attending Harvard undergrad and law school he has had no meaningful career. He is single and freely travels the world engaging in his favorite adventure sports with friends.

 Jack seems ten years younger than his chronological age on his Instagram page. He’s more reminiscent of a high school kid than a thirty-year-old man. Schlossberg enjoys posting shirtless selfies, expresses wonderment at daylight saving time and extols the virtuoso talent of Lady Gaga!! Jack’s life is not all a bed of roses, however. Schlossberg bemoans how irritating it is for him to go out to eat so frequently. He doesn’t like menus or the choices available at restaurants. Yes, we all have our crosses to bear, Jack.

Before Harvard, Jack lived with his mother in Tokyo while she served as the ambassador to Japan. It is a plum ambassadorship for political favorites of the president. In Tokyo, Jack lived an ultra luxury lifestyle, akin to royalty. He also benefitted by meeting all the most important people in Asia.

Jack states angrily at his cell phone camera: “I have no idea why anyone would want to vote for this man (his uncle). It is just a vanity project!” Ahhhh….says the the man with the shirtless selfies.

So let me tell you about Children’s Health Defense, which Jack referred to as a “vanity project,” the springboard of RFJ, Jr.’s campaign.  It is an organization founded by parents of severely autistic people. Our kids must be watched every second of the day. Most are sick with IBD, epilepsy and or autoimmune problems. We don’t go on family vacations. Or if we can afford a vacation one parent stays home with autistic child and the other parent takes the other child or children.

The siblings of autistic kids often struggle with PTSD and depression. Watching a sibling scream, bang his hand or engage in self injurious manner (often involving blood as hair is ripped from the head) is traumatizing, even if such behavior becomes familiar. There have never been birthday parties or graduation parties at our home. The behavior of the autistic sibling too much of a wild card and or he is intolerable of noise and change.

Sounds like fun, right Jack? I bet you cannot wait to sign up to help us??? Well, your uncle did!

The vast majority of our kids developed typically as babies and toddlers. They met or exceeded all the milestones. My older son was crawling, talking, running, making sentences, engaging in pretend play, right on schedule….Then, our toddlers experienced catastrophic adverse vaccine reaction that that caused varying degrees of global brain damage.

While this was happening RFJ, Jr. was at the helm of his non-profit “Riverkeepers,” helping to clean America’s lakes and waterways. RFJ, Jr. was working hard on getting mercury out of fish. At this time autism moms approached him about our brain damaged kids, all injected with vaccines containing mercury. Ethyl or methyl, it makes no difference, some kids able to excrete it and some cannot. Ours cannot.

While a spoiled rich brat harangues us from Tesla (on the way back from a private plane no doubt!) about how great Biden is we all laughed. We laughed at his immaturity, his misplaced self-righteousness and his faith in a hopelessly corrupt president.

The Biden administration oversaw the biggest violation of American’s First Amendment Rights ever… He censored and deplatformed tens of thousands of Americans for expressing an opinion about his misguided and cruel Covid polices. Under Biden’s direction, the FBI spied on 278,000 Americans without a warrant, whose only crime was to share their adverse vaccine reaction story or question the efficacy of the Covid vaccine. The judge currently hearing a lawsuit against the Biden administration said that their “efforts at mass censorship just might be the biggest government violation of the First Amendment- ever.”

All Jack’s uncle wants is an open debate of these important issues. Lives are being needlessly destroyed. We should not have to settle for lousy vaccine safety and compromised public institutions. After some years in public service, masses of NIH and CDC personnel go right to work for pharma for triple their government salary. The conflicts of interest are extraordinary.

Right now Jack is celebrating passing his Bar exam. He is on an exciting international vacation (natch!!) with his mother, now the Ambassador to Australia. Caroline and Jack are exploring the Solomon Islands. In pictures released to the media, Jack and his Mom walk along a strikingly beautiful beach wearing leis around their necks. Who knows what wonderful adventure is next in store in the charmed life of Jack Schlossberg??

Speaking for myself, I have heard enough political rants from  this privileged and pompous young man to last a lifetime.

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The War On Ivermectin Yellow Cover
The War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic

#1 Seller in Forensic Medicine

By Pierre Kory Dr. (Author), Jenna McCarthy (Author)

Big Pharma and health agencies cry, “Don’t take ivermectin!” A media storm follows. Why then, does the science say the opposite?” Ivermectin is a dirty word in the media. It doesn’t work. It’s a deadly horse dewormer. Prescribe or promote it and you’ll be called a right-wing quack, be banned from social media, or lose your license to practice medicine. And yet, entire countries wiped out the virus with it, and more than ninety-five studies now show it to be unequivocally effective in preventing and treating Covid-19. If it didn’t work, why was there a coordinated global campaign to cancel it? What’s the truth about this decades-old, Nobel Prize-winning medication? The War on Ivermectin is the personal and professional narrative of Dr. Pierre Kory and his crusade to recommend a safe, inexpensive, generic medicine as the key to ending the pandemic.


Vax Unvax Book Cover Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak (Children’s Health Defense) Hardcover – Illustrated, August 15, 2023 by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Author), Brian Hooker (Author)

Based on over one hundred studies in the peer-reviewed literature that consider vaccinated versus unvaccinated populations. Each of these studies is analyzed and put in context of the difference in health outcomes of vaccinated versus unvaccinated infants, children, and adults. Given the massive push to vaccinate the entire global population, this book is timely and necessary for individuals to make informed choices for themselves and their families.


Rise, Resist & Register Today for the Children's Health Defense Conference!

2023-conference-rise-resist-bobby-mary-featured-800x417CHD’s 2nd Annual Conference will be held in Savannah Georgia at the Savannah Convention Center Nov. 3-5, 2023. Whether you are a supporter, an activist, a healthcare provider, an attorney, or someone who has been vaccine injured, join us for an opportunity to gather with like-minded individuals, meet the CHD staff and hear the latest from industry experts.

REGISTER HERE

Meet Our Speakers

You’ll get to spend time with more than twenty notable speakers, including CHD’s own Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chairman on leave, Mary Holland, J.D., president on leave, the CHD team and more!

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Meet Charlie: A Boy With Autism Born in 1951

Mom & Charlie 3(1)Note: Thank you to Laura Hayes for connecting us with Carla Howell, whose brother Charlie, born in 1951, had autism. Our focus is often autism from the 1990s forward. But our genesis was The Age of Autism book Dan Olmsted & Mark Blaxill wrote about the beginning of the first diagnosed cases of autism. Carla's story likely resonates with many in their later years, who have, or had a sibling with special needs.  She wrote a lovely, haunting song called What's Inside Your Head as a tribute to her brother's life. You can find it here. Please join us in welcoming her to the AofA family. Kim

By Carla Howell

The story of my brother Charlie, born in 1951, is quite different from most I’ve heard from families with an autistic child. I have only sketchy information about his early life as I didn't meet him until I was 35 years old. Much of what I know came second or third hand, so I can’t be certain that it’s accurate.

From what I was told, my parents had not acknowledged that there was something wrong with Charlie. So when he was just under three years old and my mother was pregnant with their next child, my grandmother sent my parents on a vacation. While they were gone, she got Charlie diagnosed. He had autism, which was rare in those days. Most people hadn’t heard of it.

At some point thereafter, my parents put him in a private care program run by a woman who later became terminally ill and had to close her business. I don't know if he boarded with her or if it was a day program of some kind. Around the time I was born, they put him in a state institution in our then-home state of Michigan because my parents were afraid that he would hurt my brother or me.

When my mother visited Charlie there, he would get agitated, and the doctors advised her to stop coming. As one who held doctors in high esteem, she obeyed, and that was the end of her direct contact with her son.

We moved to Pittsburgh in 1960. I remember my father taking trips to Detroit to visit Charlie and bringing him gifts. But eventually, Charlie quit recognizing him, so my father eventually quit visiting him as well. 

My parents said that, as a little one, Charlie was quite good at identifying the make of cars he would see when they were driving around. It was one of the few things I grew up knowing about my brother.

When I tried to ask my mother questions about him, she was always willing to answer. But I could feel her discomfort to such a degree that I'd forget my questions. So I'd give up, again, and remain in mystery about my brother. My experience asking my father questions was similar.

I often struggled to explain why I had a brother whom I’d never met. I feared people would think poorly of my parents for abandoning their son. In truth, they were extremely loving people who were caught up in a time when parents were given bad advice about how to handle a child with a developmental disability, which at the time was considered to be a form of mental illness (like Rosemary Kennedy who was given a lobotomy). I know that their loss of Charlie was a life-long wound for which they both suffered immensely. I can only imagine what they went through before I arrived.

I often thought of trying to meet Charlie but didn’t for fear of upsetting my mother.

Then in 1987, she was diagnosed with cancer. One day, as she laid on her deathbed, she suddenly Charlie and Carla 1990awoke. In desperation, she mumbled something about Charlie. I took it to mean she was concerned about his future, so I assured her we would take care of him. She seemed to be relieved and fell back asleep.

That prompted me to finally look him up and visit him in Michigan. I expected to see a man in a rubber room curled up in an embryotic position in some horrific institution. But he had been moved to residential adult care. And although he had only a handful of words at his disposal, Charlie was far higher-functioning than I imagined. We bonded immediately. 

I eventually became his legal guardian. My sister and I considered moving him to Massachusetts where we both lived at the time. But after having a friend in the business evaluate his situation, we decided that it was a relatively good one. The management was very nice and seemed to really like him. Plus, he was in a program doing piecemeal work where he was doing well. So we decided to keep him in Michigan.

In 2001, Charlie passed away at age 50. I look back on his very limited life with sadness but also with gratitude that I got to meet him and make him part of my life.

I wrote the song What’s Inside Your Head for his memorial service. I share it in the hope that it will be soothing for people with autistic loved ones.

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Carla Howell has had a passion for medical freedom since 1993. With a background in tech, marketing and management, she became politically active in 1996. She ran for office three times from 1998- 2002 and headed three statewide tax-cut ballot initiatives in Massachusetts from 2002-2010. She served as Political Director and Executive Director for the Libertarian National Committee and was Communications Director for the 2020 Jo Jorgensen for President campaign. In recent years, she has been releasing liberty-themed songs that she composed and recorded. She leads candidate training workshops and speaks publicly about liberty issues. She also volunteers for the Virginia Medical Freedom Alliance, which advocates for parents being fully informed and having choice as to whether to vaccinate their children.

### From Skyhorse Publishing

The War On Ivermectin Yellow Cover
The War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic

#1 Seller in Forensic Medicine

By Pierre Kory Dr. (Author), Jenna McCarthy (Author)

Big Pharma and health agencies cry, “Don’t take ivermectin!” A media storm follows. Why then, does the science say the opposite?” Ivermectin is a dirty word in the media. It doesn’t work. It’s a deadly horse dewormer. Prescribe or promote it and you’ll be called a right-wing quack, be banned from social media, or lose your license to practice medicine. And yet, entire countries wiped out the virus with it, and more than ninety-five studies now show it to be unequivocally effective in preventing and treating Covid-19. If it didn’t work, why was there a coordinated global campaign to cancel it? What’s the truth about this decades-old, Nobel Prize-winning medication? The War on Ivermectin is the personal and professional narrative of Dr. Pierre Kory and his crusade to recommend a safe, inexpensive, generic medicine as the key to ending the pandemic.


Vax Unvax Book Cover Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak (Children’s Health Defense) Hardcover – Illustrated, August 15, 2023 by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Author), Brian Hooker (Author)

Based on over one hundred studies in the peer-reviewed literature that consider vaccinated versus unvaccinated populations. Each of these studies is analyzed and put in context of the difference in health outcomes of vaccinated versus unvaccinated infants, children, and adults. Given the massive push to vaccinate the entire global population, this book is timely and necessary for individuals to make informed choices for themselves and their families.