FOREWORD
As we approach the beginning of 2021, the autism epidemic rages on unhindered and unnoticed by the federal government. In the early 1980s, the incidence of autism was about one in ten thousand. Now, it is one in forty-five, and continuing to grow at an exponential pace. I was first exposed to the autism epidemic in the late 2000s and heard recurring accounts of children regressing into the condition following one or more of their infant vaccines. To respond to this tragedy that so many families were and still are facing, I formed Focus Autism in 2009.
The controversies surrounding the cause of the autism epidemic are many, and the US governments response is woeful at best. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to deny any relationship between autism and infant vaccines, despite the mountain of evidence supporting the theory. The revelations of Dr. William Thompson, epidemiologist at the CDC, add substantially to this evidence. Early in 2014, Brian Hooker revealed to me that he was in discussions with a CDC whistleblower and that the whistleblower was revealing a consistent pattern of corruption in the CDCs Immunization Safety Office.
What we suspected all along was now being confirmed by an insider. Covering up an autism epidemic and its causes is no trivial thing. The ramifications are astounding: the more than one million children in the United States alone now affected by the epidemic, the hundreds of billions of dollars it will require to take care of these children, not to mention five thousand vaccine injury cases in the U S governments Vaccine Court that were denied justice due to the cover-up.
And then there are the scientific careers that were laid waste for those brave souls who dared to enter this research area with an open mind. The term Wakefielded is now synonymous with being scientifically discredited, fileted by the press, and ostracized by ones own countrymen. Dr. Judy Mikovits was actually thrown in jail over her important work on the presence of retrovirus particles in vaccines. Likewise, Brandy Vaughn is constantly haunted by surveillance from the pharmaceutical industry, where she was once employed, simply because she has spoken publicly regarding the lack of appropriate testing for vaccines.
The impact that autism has on families is tremendous. Having a child with autism will clean out your bank account, ruin your marriage, and put a huge strain on any other children in the family. Adding insult to injury, the autism epidemic and genetic susceptibility to vaccine injury have led to many families having more than one child on the autism spectrum. And autism isnt Rain Man . This misconception is laughable to any parent of an affected child. Rain Man portrayed a very high-functioning young man with autismthis is nowhere close to the norm.
Children with low-functioning autism may or may not have the ability to speak, many are not toilet trained, and more are haunted by constant pain, head pain, gut pain, and joint and muscle pain.