One of the most powerful statements during the 2024 election (other than “Fight! Fight! Fight!”) was Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s line that Americans have to start loving our kids more than we hate each other. A million MAHA moms crossed the political aisle to vote for Donald Trump because of that line. That act of trust paid off for them last Friday, when the CDC announced a first-of-its-kind study to study the links between autism and vaccines.
This is the study that the mainstream medical and scientific community has been terrified of for years. Everyone knows the truth by now. Anyone who tells you that vaccines do not cause autism is either lying or works for the pharmaceutical industry.
No one in America had ever heard of “autism” when the movie “Rain Man” came out in the 1980s. Today, there’s at least one child with autism in every classroom in America. Something is causing this.
If you’re reading this, we would bet “dollars to donuts” that you either have an autistic child or you know a family that has one.
If you’re a vaccine fanatic who believes that these shots are miracle cures that prevent all sorts of diseases, you should welcome this new study from the CDC. After all, it will prove that you’re correct and vaccines don’t cause autism, right? Once the miracle vaccines have been eliminated as a potential cause, we can do like OJ Simpson and try to find the real culprits!
But it’s the vaccines. And everyone knows it.
The CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealed the forthcoming study in a joint statement on Friday. Other than President Donald J. Trump and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), very few politicians have had the courage to take on Big Pharma by calling for a scientific study of this nature.
Reuters, a purported “news” agency that receives CIA funding through USAID, reports that it is too dangerous to risk studying possible links between vaccines and autism. Huh? Their argument is that conducting such a study will “risk validating conspiracy theories” about vaccines. Suddenly concerned about how taxpayer money is spent, Reuters reports that there is no new evidence to suggest a link between vaccines and autism.
No new evidence? Have you been to an autism conference lately? If you go to one, a majority of the parents will tell you an eerily similar story. That story goes like this.
They had a baby and everything was going perfectly fine for the first weeks or months. The baby was chatty, happy, inquisitive—the little bundle of joy that every new baby is. They might have even been potty trained and learning their alphabet. Then, the parents took their baby in for an MMR or DTAP shot and everything changed.
Every one of those stories is “evidence,” no matter how much Reuters or Mitch McConnell want to scream at us to leave the poor pharmaceutical giants alone.
If anecdotal evidence from parents isn’t enough to convince people, how about the study that was published in January? Researchers in Florida studied 47,155 nine-year-old kids in the Florida Medicaid program.
They found that children who had one vaccine visit as a baby were 1.7 times more likely to have autism than an unvaccinated child. Kids who received 11 or more vaccines were 4.4 times as likely to have autism. Children on the vaccine schedule were also 212% more likely to have ADHD, learning disorders, brain inflammation, and epilepsy/seizures.
No one is suggesting that the vaccines are the only cause of autism. But the evidence suggests that about 80% of cases are linked to vaccines. The other 20% are caused by something else and we’re not sure what that is. Seed oils in baby food? Fluoride in the water?
Instead of freaking out about the CDC conducting an actual study on vaccine and autism links, we should all be rejoicing. If those of us on the “anti-vaxxer” side of this issue are wrong, then we’ll have more information from the study and we can see if it’s something else. That’s how real science is supposed to work.
We should all be thrilled that the government is going to responsibly spend our tax dollars on real science for once, instead of wasting it on fake problems like global warming.
The Florida autism study, if you’d like to read it yourself, is published in the journal Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law.
