Anne Dachel - The Big Autism Cover-Up: How and Why the Media Is Lying to the American Public

Most journalists are intimidated by science . The consequences for a journalist in getting it wrong in covering a political issue, or a sporting event, or a business development amount to embarrassment. Getting it wrong in vaccines, and possibly being responsible for the death or disability of innocents, involves taking on more responsibility than many journalists can countenance. Even if the journalist doesnt get it wrong, in the absence of proof, he will be blamed as if he did, making him a pariah. Again, this isnt the role that journalists want for themselves.Lawrence Solomon, columnist for the National Post, former a columnist for the Globe and Mail , contributor to the Wall Street Journal and publisher of the award-winning The Next City magazine.

The mainstream media treats the peer-reviewed scientific literature as if its uncorrupted by special interests. Nothing could be further from the truth. Scientists and the institutions where they work are just as subject to corruption as Congress, the Catholic Church, and any other institution run by human beings, including the mainstream media itself.David Lewis, PhD, former senior-level research microbiologist at the US EPA Office of Research & Development

In the 1980s and 90s, US journalists examined and reported on legitimate questions about gaps in vaccine safety science, one-size-fits all vaccine policies, and conflicts of interest between Big Pharma, medical trade, and public health agencies. Although in the twenty-first century too many old guard media outlets simply reprint government and industry press releases, there is a robust public conversation about vaccination and health taking place on the Internet and parents of vaccine injured children are at the forefront of that important conversation.Barbara Loe Fisher, vaccine safety advocate

The media has been used to influence opinion at all levelsfrom the judiciary and political leaders, to the man and woman on the street. And turned on in critical moments, for example, displacing blame for vaccine failures during disease outbreaks. For those at street level in particular, its false message has failed miserably. Why? Because 33 percent of US parents with children under 18 believe vaccines cause autism. Why? Because the truth is in plain sight every day, on every street, in every school. Not because of one man or one celebrity. A measure of the integrity of the mediawhat is left of itwill be its reaction when forced to face the fact that it is a whore.Andrew Wakefield, MD

As citizens of this capitalist nation, we cannot rely on corporate-sponsored news media for the truth.Kelly Brogan, MD, Holistic Womens Health Psychiatry, New York, NY

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To my beloved husband, Richard, for his constant support.

To my children, John, Catherine, Laura and Daniel, for putting up with my hours on the computer.

To my wonderful aunt, Dolores Logan, for all the encouraging conversations.

Special recognition to the four outstanding journalists who have dared to honestly and thoroughly cover this controversy: David Kirby, Dan Olmsted, Sharyl Attkisson, and Alisyn Camerota.

Special thanks to my dear friend, Maurine Meleck for her many hours proofreading this book.

Special thanks to my dear friend, Maurine Meleck, for her many hours proofreading this book.

Contents

If you want to sell a lie, get the press to sell it for you.

Argo , 2012

The two most misguided notions held in America: Our government wouldnt really do that to us; if they did, they would tell us about it on TV.

Anonymous

Oh my God, I cannot believe we did what we did, but we did. Its the lowest point in my career, that I went along with that paper. I went along with this, we didnt report significant findings . I have great shame now when I meet families with kids with autism because I have been part of the problem . I was complicit and I went along with this . We didnt report significant findings . The higher-ups wanted to do certain things, and I went along with it.

Dr. William Thompson, August, 2014

Senior CDC scientist breaking thirteen years of silence on the CDC study that found an increased risk of autism in African American boys receiving the MMR vaccine on time compared with those receiving it later.

Foreword

Autism as a Symptom of Our Dystopia

I wanted to write this for Annes book because it has been and continues to be such an honor to know her and work with her. We have coauthored several articles, such as our first, Throwing Children into Oncoming Traffic. (2007)

Anne has been an unsung truth-teller, unrelenting in her Internet commentaries about what the media is prevaricating about from one day to the next as it relates to what autism is doing to our children. A daunting task for one human, but she has been at it now for years and has never missed a beat.

You will discern this for yourself as you read the pages of this revealing book about a seriously troubling subject that makes me often ashamed to be a physician. In our modern times, we have almost no concept of our true present, let alone our true past. Neither do we grasp our vulnerability as humans on this planet.

Let me take you back to the year 1989, when the first child with autism that I had ever laid eyes on was brought into my office by his mother. I did not know it was autism at first as I had not been taught anything about autism in medical school and had never encountered a child with autism through my residency at UCLA. I studied this four-year-old boy carefully. I could see intelligence behind his eyes but an increasingly high level of frustration was building as it was clear he was trying to communicate verbally and nothing intelligent would come from his lips, just like an old-time phone switchboard where all the wrong wires were plugged into all the wrong connections. The frustration overwhelmed him, and he lost his composure.

I remember going through textbooks later that day thinking I had just seen 1 in 10,000. I had been a board-certified pediatrician for more than two decades, and I can tell you these kids were not there at the beginning of the last quarter of the twentieth century. I saw a lot of rare and unusual disorders, but I had never seen a case of autism before that day.

Yet, HHS, the CDC, and NIMH would have us all believe that pediatricians who practiced in the seventies and eighties were not astute enough to diagnose autism, that these children and adults were among us all the time, and that we just missed all these little people who would suddenly stop talking, become incontinent, scream all day, walk on their toes, and throw themselves on the floor in supermarkets and parking lots when they werent just trying to run off without direction or purpose.