Pick your Proof: Vaccines Cause Autism (Origin, Studies, Package Inserts, Scandals, Testimonies)

by Stephen Halbrook

I was recently sent this link to a study “disproving” a link between vaccines and autism. The problem is that pro-vaccine data has a history of being manipulated, with a notorious example being the redefinition of polio after polio campaigns began, making the vaccine look effective. As such, it would be foolish to unquestionably take pro-vaccine proponents at their word.

And so from the outset, this study has questionable credibility.

Indeed, any study can be manipulated. Who funded the research? Follow the money. This particular study is funded by the CDC (p. 561), which is paid by Big Pharma. Note, for example, the vaccine companies Sanofi, Merck, Pfizer, and GlaxSmithKline being official “corporate donors and partners” to the CDC Foundation.

This study relies on Paul Offit, a vaccine inventor who gets rich on vaccines. He has been rightly nicknamed “Dr. Profit.” He is a reference in the endnotes, and the end reads: “We thank Dr Paul Offit for his assistance in determining the antibodystimulating protein and polysaccharide content of specific vaccines” (p. 567).

This study makes this preposterous statement (that footnotes work co-authored by Offit), immediately destroying its credibility:

Beginning at birth, an infant is exposed to hundreds of viruses and other antigens, and it has been estimated that an infant theoretically could respond to thousands of vaccines at once.

Frank DeStefano, Cristofer S. Price, and Eric S. Weintraub, “Increasing Exposure to Antibody-Stimulating Proteins and Polysaccharides in Vaccines Is Not Associated with Risk of Autism” The Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 163, no. 2, 2013 (Submitted for publication Sep 26, 2012; last revision received Dec 26, 2012; accepted Feb 1, 2013), 567.

Now, I can get together with any “experts” of my choosing and conduct a study proving there are pink unicorns on Mars. Studies are too often tools of gaslighting and marketing. Pro-vaccine studies have zero credibility; they suffer from conflicts of interest and deny what reality so clearly demonstrates — countless testimonies of injuries and deaths suffered by vaccines.

No matter how we slice it, vaccines cause autism. Here are 5 proofs:

1) Origin

The use of mercury in vaccines began in the 1930s. As the World Health Organization notes:

Thiomersal is a compound containing ethyl mercury used to prevent bacterial and fungal growth in inactivated (in which the virus has been killed) vaccines presented in multi-dose vials. It is also used during vaccine production, both to inactivate certain organisms and toxins and to help maintain a sterile production line. Thiomersal has been used since the 1930s in the manufacture of some vaccines and other medicinal products.
World Health Organization, “Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals,” October 2011. Retrieved January 23, 2020, from https://www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/thiomersal_questions_and_answers/en/

Shortly after mercury began to be used in certain vaccines, Leo Kanner — a world leading psychiatrist — noticed a new condition which would be called autism. In 1956 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Leon Eisenberg writes,

Early infantile autism was first described by Kanner in 1943 on the basis of 11 cases whose features were sufficiently unique to constitute a new and previously unreported clinical syndrome.
Leon Eisenberg, “The Autistic Child in Adolescence,” American Journal of Psychiatry. 1956 Feb;112(8):607-12 (Library of the History of Autism Research, Behaviorism & Psychiatry). Retrieved January 23, 2020, from http://neurodiversity.com/library_eisenberg_1956.html

Here’s what Kanner himself states in 1943:

Since 1938, there have come to our attention a number of children whose condition differs so markedly and uniquely from anything reported so far, that each case merits – and, I hope, will eventually receive – a detailed consideration of its fascinating peculiarities.
Leo Kanner, “Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact,” Nervous Child 2:217-50, 1943. (Library of the History of Autism Research, Behaviorism & Psychiatry). Retrieved January 23, 2020, from http://neurodiversity.com/library_kanner_1943.html

And so as we can see, the autism epidemic began after the use of mercury in vaccines. The condition of autism would surely have been recorded long ago by doctors and workers in mental hospitals had the condition existed previously.

From this fact alone, one cannot honestly deny the possibility that vaccines with mercury cause autism. (Of course, that is not to say that this is the only modern vaccine ingredient to cause this condition.)

2) Tons of Studies and Research

Ginger Taylor, MS, has accumulated a large number of research papers (157) — most of which are studies — supporting the vaccine/autism connection. She writes:

Mainstream research has found that vaccines and their ingredients can cause the underlying medical conditions that committed physicians and researchers are commonly finding in children who have been given an autism diagnosis. These conditions include gastrointestinal damage, immune system impairment, chronic infections, mitochondrial disorders, autoimmune conditions, neurological regression, glial cell activation, interleukin-6 secretion dysregulation, brain inflammation, damage to the blood–brain barrier, seizures, synaptic dysfunction, dendritic cell dysfunction, mercury poisoning, aluminum toxicity, gene activation and alteration, glutathione depletion, impaired methylation, oxidative stress, impaired thioredoxin regulation, mineral deficiencies, impairment of the opioid system, endocrine dysfunction, cellular apoptosis, and other disorders.

See 157 Research Papers Supporting Vaccine/Autism Causation here.

3) Vaccine package inserts

Vaccine package inserts are provided from the vaccine manufacturers themselves. They list some possible side effects of vaccines. Doctors should show you these before vaccinating you, but they normally don’t. They probably don’t bother to even read them.

Autism is very explicitly mentioned as a side effect in:

Of course, explicitly spelling out autism in package inserts is not necessary to connect vaccines with autism. Autism is brain damage (encephalopathy) caused by brain inflammation (encephalitis). Even Johns Hopkins Medicine has a piece titled “Brain Inflammation A Hallmark Of Autism, Large-Scale Analysis Shows.”

Therefore, package inserts that list these conditions (encephalopathy and/or encephalitis) also connect vaccines with autism. A few examples:

4) Scandals/whistleblowers

The recorded confession of CDC Senior Epidemiologist William Thompson that findings linking Merck’s MMR vaccine to an explosion in autism among African American boys (under 3) were suppressed.

(Hear the confessions in their entirety here.)

Findings of expert Dr. Andrew Zimmerman suppressed by government

Reliance on a man (Paul Thorson) who would become a wanted criminal for autism data, as well as the Simpsonwood Scandal. (More about Thorson and Simpsonwood here.)