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Autism

Let us start by not relying on the words of medical "authorities" in western countries.

A clear illustration of how truly authoritative their assertions are can be seen from looking at what has happened in other countries. For example, Sugiura & Yamada (Pediatr Infect Dis J, 1991;Vol 10(3):209-13) describe what happened in Japan. Very briefly, when the MMR triple vaccine was shown to cause meningitis in 1 in 2026 recipients, not only did the Japanese health authorities recognise the causal link to this vaccine, they also discontinued its use (and also significantly, no unusually large epidemic of any of these infections followed). Not surprisingly, the incidence of vaccine-caused (and overall) meningitis plummeted (the minority who were hell-bent on getting the vaccine could still get it). So, there is a precedent of a whole major country abandoning the offending vaccine and of a recognition of the causal link between the offending vaccines and the observed reactions. Yet despite this, medical "authorities" in other countries, such as Australia, the UK and the US, continue to ignore (or not even read?) the research in published, refereed medical journals, and claim that there is only a temporal and coincidental association.

It is important to note that the only studies that have claimed to discount the link of the MMR vaccine to autism have been funded by vested interests, for example the study by MMR manufacturer Merck that was reported in January 2001 in The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal. This is a case of history repeating itself – how many times have tobacco companies published research "demonstrating" that cigarettes do not cause cancer or heart disease, etc?

Looking at the arguments in relation to the causal link

It is unfortunate that rather than simply caring to take the scientific approach of searching for and studying the published literature revealing the mechanisms for how vaccines cause the development of autism, vaccine promoters will simply follow the politician’s approach of making weak claims and reasoning to discount the link. They even deny such literature exists, presumably because they have never searched for it.

An example of this is that Dr. Eric Fombonne, from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, UK claims in a letter in Pediatrics (Pediatrics 2001;107:411-413) that the rise in the number of reported cases of autism over the past 30 years was caused by doctors adopting a broader definition of the disease and using better diagnostic tools. Whilst doctors may be more aware of autism now and as a result look for it more, the reason they are more aware of it is because it is more evident – it is now occurring at a much higher rate. Autism is not just a label. Autistic children are placed into special schools, or special extensions of existing schools, because it is so obvious, and always would have been, that their needs cannot be met in a normal classroom. Special schools for autistic children are now overflowing and greatly increasing in number. Further, it is well documented that there has been a rise in the numbers of children who are diagnosed with a host of developmental, speech and learning disorders, regardless of what you choose to call their problem. These facts should put an end to any debate over diagnostic criteria changes.

Dr. Luke Tsai, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, said that if the disease was caused by a vaccine, "we would see hundreds of thousands of kids with autism. And we don't." Well, if Dr Tsai has studied so much medicine and yet has still no concept of variations in susceptibility from one individual to another (let alone all the other factors that vary from one administration to the next), one really has to wonder what they DO learn in medical school, apart from pharmacology (i.e. which toxic concoctions interfere with which efforts of the body to defend or heal itself). Apart from that though, with autism occurring at the rate it does, there ARE at least two or three hundred thousand children in our developed countries around the world with autism! What planet does he live on?

Vaccine promoters also commit another politically motivated lapse in logic: they admit that the REACTIONS to all vaccines do occur, but say that they are only TEMPORAL and COINCIDENTAL. To our dismay, many of them seem to actually believe this nonsense which represents an insult to basic intelligence. This is because firstly, the word "reaction" itself is a word that directly implies causality. Secondly, establishing a TEMPORAL relationship is the first precondition of causality. Thirdly, why do they not even consider the significant fact that these REACTIONS never occur BEFORE and always AFTER vaccination? The magnitude of this "coincidence" is impossibility in the realm of probability calculus.

It is actually considered prudent medical practice that if a medical procedure is administered and symptoms occur afterwards, that procedure must be considered as the cause. However further to this there is plenty of information available that enables one to piece together not just that there IS a link, but how the damage occurs.

Suppose you are a parent who has never even picked up any medical literature at all on vaccination or autism.

To start with you might know only that vaccines do SOMETHING to the immune system. Then you observe that after a vaccination your child develops a condition that clearly involves an immune disorder - you can see this because when the child eats certain foods his behaviour goes particularly abnormal.

Then you communicate with other parents of autistic children and lo and behold, they have observed the same temporal link. A statistical probability then forms. If you read that more than one in 175 of all children in the UK ("Telegraph", 18 Feb, 2000), and similar in other "developed" countries with high vaccination compliance, suffer autism, but not in developing countries, which have low vaccination compliance, you see a statistical link on a larger scale. (Notably, a similar pattern of confinement to developed countries occurs with cancer, leukaemia, asthma and other modern scourges of children.)

Then you learn what is in vaccines - .01-.025% each of formaldehyde, mercury (or substitute #6-pheno-oxyethanol, a protoplasmic poison), aluminium, paint thinner, coolant, anti-freeze, dye, detergent phenols, solvent, borax, disinfectant, MSG, glycerol, sulfite & phosphate compounds, polysorbate 80/20, sorbitol, polyribosylribitol, betapropiolactone, Amphotericin B and other chemicals, plus hydrolized gelatin, casein, dead animal tissue and blood (e.g. cow, chick embryo, monkey, sheep, pig, dog, etc), aborted human foetus cells, mutated (more virulent) human viruses, contaminant animal viruses (e.g. SV40, which causes cancer in humans), bacteria, bacterial endotoxins, antibiotics, yeast & animal, bacterial and viral DNA (which when injected can be incorporated into the recipient DNA).

You reasonably conclude that perhaps it is not enormously healthy for your child to be injected with this big mixture of poisons, and it just MIGHT cause some damage to the immune system?

Then you might go further and look at what these poisons are documented to do. You might start with the first one on the list - formaldehyde. You ask Poisons Information or the National Research Council what its potential effects are and they give you this list:

Eye; nasal; throat and pulmonary irritation; acidosis; acute sense of smell; alters tissue proteins; anaemia; antibodies formation; apathy; blindness; blood in urine; blurred vision; body aches; bronchial spasms; bronchitis; burns nasal and throat; cardiac impairment; palpitations and arrhythmias; central nervous system depression; changes in higher cognitive functions; chemical sensitivity; chest pains and tightness; chronic vaginitis; colds; coma; conjunctivitis; constipation; convulsions; corneal erosion; cough; death; destruction of red blood cells; depression; dermatitis; diarrhoea; difficulty concentrating; disorientation; dizziness; ear aches; eczema; emotional upsets; ethmoid polyps; fatigue; fecula bleeding; foetal asphyxiation (and they say they don’t know what could cause SIDS?); flu-like or cold like illness; frequent urination with pain; gastritis; gastrointestinal inflammation; headaches; haemolytic anaemia; haemolytic haematuria; hoarseness; hyperactive airway disease; hyperactivity; hypomenstrual syndrome; immune system sensitiser; impaired (short) attention span; impaired capacity to attain attention; inability or difficulty swallowing; inability to recall words and names; inconsistent IQ profiles; inflammatory diseases of the reproductive organs; intestinal pain; intrinsic asthma; irritability; jaundice; joint pain; aches and swelling; kidney pain; laryngeal spasm; loss of memory; loss of sense of smell; loss of taste; malaise; menstrual and testicular pain; menstrual irregularities; metallic taste; muscle spasms and cramps; nasal congestions; crusting and mucosae inflammation; nausea; nosebleeds; numbness and tingling of the forearms and finger tips; pale, clammy skin; partial laryngeal paralysis; pneumonia; post nasal drip; pulmonary oedema; reduced body temperature; retarded speech pattern; ringing or tingling in the ear; schizophrenic-type symptoms; sensitivity to sound; shock; short term memory loss; shortness of breath; skin lesions; sneezing; sore throat; spacey feeling; speaking difficulty; sterility; swollen glands; tearing; thirst; tracheitis; tracheobronchitis; vertigo; vomiting blood; vomiting; wheezing.

Then you investigate mercury…

Aphthous, stomatitis, catarrhal gingivitis, nausea, liquid stools, pain, liver disorder, injury to the cardiovascular system and hematopoietic system, deafness, ataxia, headache, paresthesia of the tongue, lips, fingers and toes, other non-specific dysfunctions, metallic taste, slight gastrointestinal disturbances, excessive flatus, diarrhoea, chorea, athetosis, tremors, convulsions, pain and numbness in the extremities, nephritis, salivation, loosening of the teeth, blue line on the gums, anxiety, mental depression, insomnia, hallucinations or central nervous system effects. Exposure may also cause irritation of the eyes, mucous membranes and upper respiratory tract. Acute poisoning may cause gastrointestinal irritation, renal failure, fine tremors of extended hands, loss of side vision, slight loss of coordination in the eyes, speech, writing and gait, inability to stand or carry out voluntary movements, occasional muscle atrophy and flexure contractures, generalized myoclonic movements, difficulty understanding ordinary speech, irritability and bad temper progressing to mania, stupor, coma, mental retardation in children, skin irritation, blisters or dermatitis. Exposure may be fatal.

Well how about that? These ingredients cause exactly the type of damage that your child is suffering. Even these two ingredients, let alone the rest, cause sensitisation to the immune system for example, and your child, since the vaccination, is sensitive to certain foods, which intensify his autistic behaviour.

You learn about Dr Wakefield's, Professor O'Leary's and others’ research where they are developing an understanding of the damage the vaccines can do to the gastrointestinal system, and how this is intricately linked to the condition. You quite likely note that your own son has been suffering tummy problems at the same time (if the autism developed by that mechanism, and not from encephalitis), and again only since that vaccination. You remember how after his vaccines in his first year he started getting several bacterial, particularly ear infections, and was frequently on antibiotics, which you know could have increased the susceptibility of his gastrointestinal system before the 12-15 month MMR and Hib or 18 month DPT. You recognise the typical pattern.

You may also read about another prominent autism researcher called VK Singh. In a study published in 2002 (J Biomed Sci 2002 Jul-Aug;9(4):359-64), in 75, i.e. 60%, of 125 autistic children studied, and none of the normal controls, an unusual MMR antibody was present, and in 90% of those 75, MBP (myelin basic protein) autoantibody was also detected. This shows that not only is there a strong link to the MMR vaccine, with an inappropriate antibody response to that vaccine (specifically the measles component thereof) in such a large proportion of autism cases, but also that there is an autoimmunity process occurring in the pathogenesis of autism, and that this is related in many or most cases to that vaccine.

You might even ask on parents’ email lists if any have unvaccinated children that have developed autism, and find these cases to be very rare. In each such case we ourselves have been able to find, there was another clearly identifiable immune assault. Occasionally the immune assault was only to the mother, in the form of a rubella or MMR booster prior to conception, but these children have not been severe, difficult to treat cases. We have found NO case of an unvaccinated child that began life with normal development and then out of the blue, in the absence of any medical procedure, regressed into any kind of autism, even mild.

Then you discover, and read, whole books that are compilations of a huge amount of medical research on vaccination and behavioural disorders (including autism), each research study they reference establishing a link that makes up one or more pieces of the jigsaw. These books include Dr Viera Scheibner's "Behavioural Problems in Childhood - The Link to Vaccination", Greg Wilson's "Vaccination and Behavioral Disorders - A Review of the Controversy", Harris Coulter's "Vaccination: Social Violence and Criminality, The Assault on the American Brain", Karen Seroussi’s "Unraveling the Mystery of Autism". The first two of these books document over 500 relevant medical papers between them.

To summarise an analysis of whether or not there is a causal link, the following are Sir Austin Bradford Hill’s (Proc Roy Soc Med 1965) primary criteria for establishing a causal link, and all are satisfied when we study the relationship of vaccination to autism:

·     Strength of the association - which we have very strongly, particularly since we see double hits, and the very large proportion of cases where the autism was very obvious and immediate from the very moment the vaccine was given. Looking at the bigger picture also, the first generation affected to any measurable degree was the first one mass vaccinated.

·     Consistency - the relationship observed repeatedly and independently in different circumstances, which it has been

·     Temporal relationship - vaccination must precede the development of autism, and it does (or, in very rare cases, another immunological assault does). Further, a look at the two graphs on this site shows a very clear temporal association between vaccine administration and autism: Japan: autism rise & fall with vaccinations.

·     Biological gradient - i.e. the more vaccine types and doses given the higher the incidence, which we have. We have also now reached the third generation vaccinated, the children in each one being weaker, and hence more susceptible than the previous. Another example of the gradient is that Sweden was the first to introduce two doses of measles vaccine and has become the country with the highest incidence of coeliac disease.

·     Biological plausibility - vaccines do contain substances which, particularly when injected, are capable of causing the damage observed.

·     Analogy - with no more evidence than this, Modlin in 1997 implicated without dispute the measles vaccine and wild measles in the development of SSPE, based on the detection of the vaccine strain and wild virus in the brain. (By the way, he found the onset was faster with the vaccine strain).

·     Coherence – the cause and effect interpretation does not conflict with what is known about the natural history and biology of the disease.

·     Experimental – where removal of the suggested cause, vaccination, removes the effect. We are yet to see this "experiment" performed by any country for the obvious reasons of the vested interests that stand in the way, so this test cannot be done on a large scale. What we can see is the normal healthy behaviour in almost all children who are unvaccinated, including those born to vaccinated parents. Even when there are autistic tendencies, they are mild and easy to treat.

By now we have the situation that if this were put to trial in a fair court, the verdict would be "Guilty beyond all reasonable doubt." If courts required further proof than this before they came to a verdict with traditional "garden-variety" criminals, our jails would be empty and murderers would be running around loose on the streets. Of course unfortunately for "common" murderers their activities are not protected by a multi-trillion dollar industry. If you think that our governments put child safety first and would not withhold such vital information, see this article which shows that the CDC Knew of the Potential Link between Vaccines and Autism right back in 2000.

5. So what then IS the solution to this problem? Seeing the solution requires an understanding of the whole vaccination issue. This requires a decent amount of research, if all that we have believed or assumed about vaccination up to this point is what the medical establishment has told us.

Before doing any such research, parents could be concerned that if they do not vaccinate, their children could catch these infectious diseases, and die or suffer permanent injuries as a result.

However once parents do more research they come to realise that this concern is invalid in two respects:

1) It assumes that vaccines prevent diseases. Research reveals that the actual effect of vaccines is actually sensitisation, the word "sensitisation" even specifically used in medical journals in describing the effect. "Sensitisation" means that the recipient is made MORE, not less sensitive, i.e. more, not less susceptible to contracting the infection and more vulnerable to it, increasing the chance of developing complications. As a result, only the vaccinated can develop the new so-called "atypical" forms of these diseases, which are more serious than the typical, traditional forms. It is also the vaccinated who start outbreaks, and there have even been outbreaks in fully vaccinated communities, and in almost fully vaccinated communities where the few that were unvaccinated did not even contract the infection. Further, in contrast to the unvaccinated, the vaccinated can contract an infection (that they are supposed to be vaccinated "against") not just once (after which one should be immune), but several times. So rather than causing immunity to develop, the vaccine can prevent immunity from developing even after it is contracted naturally. Indeed it appears that the vaccines are keeping these infections with us, when otherwise they may have died out long ago, as significantly they had almost done before the vaccines were introduced.

The reason for the assumption that vaccines prevent diseases, is simply very effective marketing from the pharmaceutical industry, and its takeover, through the provision of funds, of the entire medical training system and of medical research.

Apart from all this, once someone can see, from the observation of vaccines causing autism for example, that vaccines are an immunological assault on the immune system, it can been seen to be quite a nonsensical belief that such an assault could actually be beneficial to the immune system (i.e. help it prevent suffering from an illness). For an assault to be beneficial is a complete contradiction in terms, even before one comes to understand the details of the flaws with the traditional immunology theory.

There is an oft-heard claim that when parents in the UK stopped vaccinating their babies with the DPT vaccine after the first media reports of brain damage caused by this vaccine in 1975, there was a huge epidemic of whooping cough, and many deaths. However in reality, whooping cough is a 3 to 4 year cyclic disease, and when this decline in vaccine compliance occurred whooping cough incidence remained at an all time low for the longest recorded interepidemic period. The overall infant mortality rate also plummeted, being also the lowest on record for an epidemic when the next epidemic came around.

The same happened in Japan after 1975 when the vaccination age was lifted to 2 years; Japan zoomed from a much higher rate (17th place) to the lowest infant mortality rate (1st place) in the world (LA Times, March 1,1990).

In contrast to this, after the US mandated the DPT vaccine in 1978 there was a documented 300% sustained increase in the reported cases of whooping cough, and it is still rising, to the point that, with mandatory vaccination in most states and 5 doses of the vaccine, it now occurs at a far higher rate than before the introduction of the vaccine (see Sutter, R.W., and Cochi, S.L., 1992. Pertussis hospitalisations and mortality in the United States, 1985-1988. J Amer Med Ass;267(3):386-390). Indeed, despite the overall far superior living standards in other respects - better housing, clean water, nutrition, etc, the US infant mortality rates rival those of the third world. Significantly it went from 6^th place in the world in the early fifties before mass vaccination started to 20^th place by 1990, and it has since dropped several ranks further (down to 26^th place a few years ago). Similarly, measles had virtually disappeared in Europe, UNTIL vaccination began, after which it rose again. Sadly, it seems that almost whatever the vaccine promoters say, you can simply change their claim to say the exact opposite, and then you will know the truth. With the few times that what they say is true, they are giving only part of the story, which is misleading because people then make false assumptions about the rest.

2) The other respect in which the above claim is invalid is that even if vaccines DID prevent infectious diseases, these are not life-threatening diseases that are untreatable.

They may be untreatable by the medical establishment, but that is because, with its very heavy ties with an industry that markets poisonous substances as bringers of health, it is unable to get away from this obsession of interfering with the immune system (usually by such administrations), instead of supporting it. It is important to understand that the immune system is designed to do a job, and is quite capable of doing so – the complexities of this inbuilt intelligence developed, as it did in other animals, long before Homo Sapiens even began to evolve. Thanks to the damaging effect of the vaccines their mothers had, weakening the transplacentally transmitted immunity, young infants are now susceptible to whooping cough, which is dangerous (only) under 6 months, but even then it is still treatable. Any deaths represent the damage done and bad management by medical establishment (illustrated clearly in MJA March 1998); they are not curses of nature. It is natural to survive.

In fact properly supported (and ideally at the age of childhood, as nature intended, not infanthood), the exercise of dealing with childhood infections such as measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and chicken pox, has been documented in medical literature to be beneficial– it primes and matures the immune system, lowering the risk of serious diseases such as cancer in later life (Lancet, 1985, Cancer 1966), and asthma (Lancet 1996, 1999). It has also been seen to help the development of the brain - often evident in such things as children’s drawings before and after they go through the infections. The name "measles" itself is an old Sanskrit word meaning "visitation by a goddess". The recognition of these benefits has even manifested in a tradition of measles (etc) parties, to which parents bring their children deliberately to be exposed to the child with the infection, in order to enable them to gain these benefits as well as immunity for later life, when it is far more unpleasant to go through. So even if the vaccine WERE effective, it is inappropriate to be even trying to prevent these infections anyway. Children will only get them if and when they need them, and once they have them they only need to be properly managed.

When the immune system fails to do its job, it is not because it is inherently incapable of overcoming the infection, but because we have denied it the resources that it needs, or interfered with its activity. All the resources it needs are…

• a sufficient nutritional status (not really a problem in developed countries today, though many people would do better if their levels of these, particularly Vitamin C, were higher),
• plenty of clean water, and
• energy through sufficient rest.