Posted on 04/22/2018 7:17:20 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Perhaps the most puzzling thing about autism and ADD is that more than a decade into this public health crisis, our best, smartest government scientists and public health officials still say they have no idea what's causing it. Scary stuff, when parents having a child today realize there's at least an estimated 1 in 150 chance their child will have an autism disorder (1 in 90 if it's a boy).
While the government has been utterly unable to stop it, or even tell us what is causing it, they say they do know one thing: it's not vaccines. But today, in an exclusive interview with CBS News, Dr. Bernadine Healy becomes the most well-known medical voice yet to counter the government on that claim.
Healy's credentials couldn't be more "mainstream." After all, she once was a top government health official as head of the National Institutes of Health. She founded the first school of public health in Ohio, and then headed both the school of public health and the school of medicine at Ohio State University. She's an internist and cardiologist. And she's a member of the Institute of Medicine, the government advisory board that tried to put the vaccine-autism controversy to rest in 2004 by saying a link was not likely.
According to Healy, when she began researching autism and vaccines she found credible published, peer-reviewed scientific studies that support the idea of an association. That seemed to counter what many of her colleagues had been saying for years. She dug a little deeper and was surprised to find that the government has not embarked upon some of the most basic research that could help answer the question of a link.
The more she dug, she says, the more she came to believe the government and medical establishment were intentionally avoiding the question because they were afraid of the answer.
Why? Healy says some in the government make the mistake of treating vaccines as an all-or-nothing proposition. The argument goes something like this: everybody gets vaccinated at the same time with the same vaccines or nobody will get vaccinated and long-gone deadly diseases will re-emerge. (When I asked about cases of brain damage resulting in autism that have been quietly compensated by the government in vaccine court over the years, one government official recently told me that "it's still better overall to get vaccinated than not to get vaccinated.")
Healy says the argument need not be framed in those terms (vaccinate or don't vaccinate). Instead, she says, we should vaccinate, but work to do it in the safest manner possible based on what we know and what we can find out.
That's what the parents of autistic children have told me as well. If we can screen children to see which ones might be more susceptible to vaccine side effects, and vaccinate them on a more personalized schedule that is safer for them, why wouldn't we? If it's safer for all children to have their vaccinations spread out, why wouldn't we? Healy says it's called "personalized medicine" and is being done in virtually all areas of medicine today with the exception of vaccines. Yet the government continues to frame the conversation in all-or-nothing, "one-size-fits-all" terms.
Lastly, Healy says the government has a long way to go to even do basic research that could get at the heart of what she believes is an open question. For example: why in the past decade hasn't the government compared the autism/ADD rate of unvaccinated children with that of vaccinated children? If the rate is the same, it tends to point away from vaccines. If the rate is markedly lower in unvaccinated children, it tends to point toward vaccines.
The government has a dataset of unvaccinated children available. It has published more than one survey of parents of undervaccinated and unvaccinated children (to find out why the parents are choosing not to vaccinate). It would seem simple to use those same families to measure their rate of autism/ADD. Also, why hasn't the government used vaccine court as a resource to ask the autism/vaccine question. There, nearly 5,000 families have self-selected as believing their children's autism was caused by vaccines. Many have expressed willingness to let their children's medical records be released and studied; but nobody in the government has been interested.
As if that's not scary enough, look down the road a little. Millions of autistic children will - in the not-too-distant future - outgrow their parents, or their parents will no longer be able to care for them. Their only option in many cases is institutionalization. Who, but a parent or family member, can and would devote the moment-by-moment attention it takes to raise an autistic child? Our nation has not, to my knowledge, begun to build these institutions, or figure out how to pay for them.
Back to the subject at hand. If the day comes that public health officials can finally tell us with reasonable certainty what is causing all the autism and ADD, and if the cause has nothing to do with vaccines, I think most people will just be relieved to know what it is and feel that we can, then, be closer to stopping it. Until then, in the minds of many, including Healy, it remains a sad, open question.
It’s true & I’m a special needs teacher. Where I teach it sure seems like a big part of it is the home environment. Lack of fathers, drugs, completely unstable home life, no books at home, no appropriate conversation to build vocabulary.......you have a messed up child. Add to that the check you can apply for when your child has an IEP. I have one family who is getting a check for at least 4 kids. They don’t work & but a new house a few years ago. I do have to add that their children are genuinely simple/ mentally retarded & the student I have is nonverbal & has genuine autism.
One 1st grade teacher at my school has 13 children under Child Protective Services. 13!!!!!!!! You have kids coming into school knowing nothing & having no socialization/home training skills.
It’s a mess & society is paying dearly in dollars & having a population that does not participate in society, but takes.
Vaccines are never considered to be the single cause
My son is on the spectrum because of prenatal brain damage inflicted by his birth mothers substance abuse
But anyone whose normal child suffered a severe vaccine reaction and never fully recovered - some left to suffer with autism-like behaviors ever after- will never be convinced there was no connection and it was all to coincidence
There are simply too many of us
Yes I say us because my previous son who already struggled most if his life suffered another setback after a vaccine reaction in his adolescence and lost a shining part of his personality within days
Mothers know these things
Luckily after 5 years he is making another recovery though we had adjusted to losing him and gaining a different kid
Just because there are hundreds of articles in print, doesn't prove that they are not crap. Heck, half of the published articles in "respectable" scientific journals are crap. Another kind of crap is that housewives and shoe salesmen and taxicab drivers think they are qualified to come to iron clad opinions about epidemiological research based on the writings of snake oil peddlers and modern day hedge-wizards practicing "natural" medicine without a real license.
To all
Any medicine will have some small number of people it will kill, lame or do nothing for not even cure. Even simple aspirin has people who have problems with it. My late father was one. There is no “no risk” medicine or “no risk” anything. I know that doesn’t make anyone who is or has loved a loved one in the “problem category” feel any better. The question is the benefit and the numbers that benefit worth the cost to the others. The whole medical statistics methodology world that gives the information to do the risk management is horribly broken, maybe it never was what it claimed to be capable of (I am more or less in that camp now!) Nick Taleb’s books on the challenge quantifying risk and risk management are very much worth reading.
Those of us who were adults in the early 1950’s know better
Polio is viral——what on earth do insects have to do with it”
Again,where did you get the stats showing that polio was already on the wane before the Salk vaccine was introduced?
You made the claim-—you should provide the data.
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“It was. He’s right. Many of the worst childhood diseases were on the decline.”
Polio was NOT on the decline prior to Salk.
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Probably the last generation where everyone knew someone who had polio
Yeah.
Two in my family....my brother and my daughter, who had zero contact with each other.
The vaccine industry is pure evil and run by pathological liars
Shortly after round 12 of shots, each for 2-5 different things, it was like a switch got flipped in our 3 year old son. He quit speaking altogether and his personality changed.
>>>Millions of autistic children will - in the not-too-distant future - outgrow their parents, or their parents will no longer be able to care for them. Their only option in many cases is institutionalization. Who, but a parent or family member, can and would devote the moment-by-moment attention it takes to raise an autistic child?<<<
The above is about my greatest concern in life. Once my wife and I are gone, the only person he’ll have is his sister.
I can’t believe some of the replies here. No such thing as autism? It’s the mom’s fault?
That and the belief that big-gov and $big-pharma$ have our children’s best interest in mind?
Polio was already almost gone before vaccines came in and the cases spiked.
There a lot of people that can’t comprehend that maybe some vaccines aren’t great, and maybe some do a lot of harm.
I know my thoughts on it, but it is amazing how many are brainwashed. God made me, I’ll trust that.
Psychiatry and psychology are both made up. Pill pushers and proffession perpetuators. (say that 10 times real quick). The point is, it’s a made up crap to support a billion dollar industry.
You’re right, but people will be hostile to you because they can’t fathom the alternative. The alternative is this has nothing to do with our health but is instead part of a process to ruin people, done by the same global elites hell bent on controlling us.
From the comments I’ve seen on this article, I’d say the globalists are doing a fine job of it.
I feel deeply for you FRiend. And of course, for your dear son.
The opinions are callous and ignorant. Many are as guilty of knee-jerk reactions as those on the left. Just different issues.
We've not tried to influence our daughters, but each has decided not to pursue the ridiculous number of shots per visit. Now, they have begun to not do the +70 shots. I know of many families like this.
It is no wonder, when crony capitalism substitutes for objective medical care. Once Big Pharma was not liable for the harm their "vaccines" cause, they had lots of incentive to continually increase the number and lobby to have them required.
In contrast, in Italy, where life expectancy is higher, they are increasing the number of required shots to 10, instead of our 74 and growing.
This is about as lenient as I am going to go, but for some people drugs like penicillin or aspirin are harmful. For a subset.
Yeah, the people who deny autism is real are the worst. I wouldn’t deny it considering my neighbors have a boy in his 20s who goes on temper tantrums without a perfect schedule or people telling him “no”. It’s a very real condition affecting a lot of people and there should be concern about either lessening the severity or preventing it if possible.
Perception is not the same as statistics
LOL! Agree. Right up there with kids drugged fro ADD, ADHD, AFLO, EIEIO, and so on.
WOW! So sorry. God Bless You!!! And prayers up!!!
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