How can I be so sure that vaccines cause autism? I asked the ONE question that no autism researcher has EVER asked.
I asked parents when they first noticed ASD behaviors in their child relative to the time of the NEAREST vaccination visit. The results were stunning.
Executive summary
If vaccines aren’t triggering autism, then the number of times a parent notices autistic behaviors BEFORE a wellness visit where a vaccine is given should be comparable to the number of times AFTER the visit.
I asked 642 parents who had previously reported having an autistic child in previous surveys to fill out my survey. I received 308 responses.
66 parents reported first seeing autistic behaviors within a month AFTER a vaccine appointment.
0 parents reported first seeing autistic behaviors within a month BEFORE a vaccine appointment.
This is stunning. It is highly unlikely you’ll get a disparity like this if vaccines aren’t triggering autism. It’s about the same as the chance of throwing a fair coin 65 times and getting all heads: 1 chance in 3e19 which is about as “close to impossible” as you will ever find in nature.
But the more stunning thing is that no autism researcher in the world has ever even thought to ask such a question. Ever. No do they want to know either (I was told they don’t want to lose their NIH grant if they acknowledged this).
In nearly 100 years, there are no papers in the scientific literature that have ever looked at this. Zero. Zip. Nada.
If I’m wrong and autism is simply a random event no affected by vaccination, nearly every pediatrician in the world should have roughly even stats for # cases within 1 month before a vaccine appointment vs. 1 month after a vaccine appointment.
It is easy for ANYONE to prove I am wrong with one phone call.
Just call one pediatrician and get the stats for parents observing an overnight transition from normal to autistic. If the “after” and “before” numbers are comparable, I’m wrong.
When we combine this survey data with existing data from pediatric clinics (confirming that parents first notice autistic behaviors AFTER the shot and that for clinics that do not vaccinate from birth, there are no cases of autism), the link between vaccination and autism is undeniable.
My survey results
The survey.
Here’s the key question:
Survey results (record level).
Here’s a chart of the responses. The survey had 4 categories of responses for BEFORE and AFTER. But only the AFTER responses were all fully populated. The BEFORE responses of <1 month and earlier all had NO responses.
For all the categories combined for <1 month before:after, the odds ratio was 0:66. That’s really stunning. That’s extremely unlikely to happen by chance.
There were 0 responses for all the categories prior to one month (so they are missing from the chart below).
Odds for the other categories were:
day before:after 0:22
week before:after 0:42
month before:after 0:66
For all responses (including the sometime before:sometime after), the before:after odds were 12:196 which is 1:16 odds. That’s very significant. A 1:2 odds is a sign of a causal relationship.
The OR is 169 (95% CI 10.4 - 2747) p=.0003 and z-statistic of 3.6. This is comparing odds of an ASD symptom observation within 1 month after the shot (66:242) vs. odds of an observation within 1 month before the shot (0:308).
In short, this didn’t happen by chance. It’s a huge effect.
Surveys on Facebook autism support groups
I’ve been told that it is absolutely forbidden to do a survey like this on any Facebook support group. I tried to do such a survey and they wouldn’t even let me into the group. My membership request is still “pending.”
These groups will all kick you out if you go against “the science.”
Your survey will be immediately taken down.
So you’re not allowed to ask this question, unfortunately.
They don’t want to know the truth.
Nobody wants to know the data
Doctors treating autism don’t want to know when it occurred relative to the shot.
Few doctors will actually ask the parents when they noticed the first symptoms of ASD and put this in their medical records. If they do that, none will analyze the records.
I just got off the phone with a vaccine injured pediatrician who thinks vaccines do NOT cause autism. I asked her for the before:after stats. She said she didn’t know. Then she said she could ask her clinic but they don’t have time to pull the records. I’m serious.
Researchers looking into finding the cause of autism don’t want to know this either apparently. I talked to a top autism researcher at MIT and this person had no clue. Nor was he/she interested in exploring the topic any further.
Validating my survey: stats from a retired pediatrician who can speak freely without fear of retribution
Doug Hulstedt, a former pediatrician, told me that in his practice, he saw over 150 autistic kids.
He said that 74 of those cases were absolutely caused by the vaccine and 44 cases happened within 1 month after vaccination.
He said 0 cases happened within a month BEFORE vaccination.
So my survey wasn’t biased at all because physicians see the same thing in their practice.
OR=125.7 (95% CI 7.6 - 2065)
There are simply not enough pediatricians in the entire world for me to be able to “cherry pick” such a result.
In fact, even if everyone in the entire world was a pediatrician, I still would be extremely unlikely to cherry pick a result like that.
So I’ve met the burden of proof with just one pediatric practice. It’s a virtual certainty that vaccines cause autism from just this one anecdote.
So now there are just two ways someone can disprove that:
Show that Doug is lying (he has no incentive to lie) OR
Show us a counterexample: just one pediatrician with a before:after OR of A:B where A>B and A+B>10.
If the vaccines don’t cause autism, it should be easy for anyone who doesn’t believe me to show me a pediatrician where the number of autism cases a month before the vaccination appointment is comparable to the number of autism cases a month after the vaccination appointment. Half the pediatricians with >20 autism cases should meet my criteria.
Where is that pediatrician and can we see the records?
Note: In my entire life, I’ve only discussed these before/after autism statistics with just a few pediatricians so I cannot be accused of cherry picking. They all had zero “before” counts.
Studies published in the peer reviewed literature also link vaccination and autism
Here are the odds ratios of having autism if you are vaccinated vs. mostly unvaccinated:
Hooker: 5.03
Mawson: 4.2
Control group: 82. “For those with zero exposures to post-birth vaccines, pre-birth vaccines, or the K shot, the total rate of autism in the entire CGS is 0% (0 of 1,024)” Doing an OR calculation relative to my survey of 10,000 children: OR=82.058395 % CI:5.1197 to 1315 z statistic: 3.114 Significance level. P = 0.0018
Lyons-Weiler: This study was too small to assess autism risk, but showed better health outcomes among the unvaccinated than the vaccinated in other conditions. See this article which notes that the unvaccinated had better compliance to their wellness checks than the vaccinated which eliminates a common argument that anti-anti-vaxxers use. It says, “the unvaccinated families made their well-child visits with greater frequency than the vaccinated families.” Which means that the original Paul Thomas study shouldn’t have been retracted.
Conflicting studies in the peer reviewed literature are “compromised”
There are a number Denmark studies “proving” vaccines and autism are not related? Those studies are unethical on their face and should have been retracted as I noted here. These studies were designed to fail.
Looking at age of diagnosis is not the way you’d look for causality if you really wanted to find it. You’d look at the rates before vs. after a shot in a prospective study where you could talk directly to the parents and note the time when they first noted a behavioral change. The ideal study would document baseline behavior by taking a video BEFORE every vaccine shot, and document behaviors on video 1 month AFTER each vaccine shot. It would be objective video evidence and it would CLEARLY show an effect.
If we did such a study, it would be immediately obvious what is going on.
And the DeStefano study? Corruption at its finest where the RACE analysis was unethically withheld from the paper. I have a copy of all the documents proving they found the signal and clearly it wasn’t in the paper.
Larger datasets, Homefirst Medical Services in Chicago
We already have enough evidence to say for certain that vaccines cause autism.
But that’s not all.
We have further evidence that is impossible to explain if vaccines are not the primary cause of autism.
There is a clinic in the US that has treated thousands of kids over the past 25 years. Most all are fully unvaccinated. There are no autism cases. Zero.
And there are also these observations in this UPI article entitled, The Age of Autism: 'A pretty big secret'
In Chicago, Homefirst Medical Services treats thousands of never-vaccinated children whose parents received exemptions through Illinois' relatively permissive immunization policy. Homefirst's medical director, Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, told us he is not aware of any cases of autism in never-vaccinated children; the national rate is 1 in 175, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We have a fairly large practice," Eisenstein told us. "We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we've taken care of over the years, and I don't think we have a single case of autism in children delivered by us who never received vaccines."We do have enough of a sample," Eisenstein said. "The numbers are too large to not see it. We would absolutely know. We're all family doctors. If I have a child with autism come in, there's no communication. It's frightening. You can't touch them. It's not something that anyone would miss."
Earlier this year Florida pediatrician Dr. Jeff Bradstreet said there is virtually no autism in home-schooling families who decline to vaccinate for religious reasons -- lending credence to Eisenstein's observations
In short, clinics with large numbers of unvaccinated kids don’t have any autism. This validates our survey.
I haven’t heard of a single
Why won’t anyone show me their survey?
Reuters “fact check” and any other “fact check” organization should commission their OWN survey of parents if they want to fact check me where all of the respondents are contactable just like my survey. Or they can ask pediatric practices for their statistics. All it takes is one phone call. The before:after odds will either be close or skewed. Just one phone call!
But they won’t.
Also, all of my respondents (at least the first 273) have VERIFIED email addresses because the only way they found out about the survey is via email from me.
Prior to this article (which is being published at 8am PST on June 3, 2023, the survey link was never posted publicly.
So I can verify each and every response for the first 307 responses.
And no respected survey company will ever run their own survey because it would destroy their business. So the NY Times can’t commission a survey because nobody would do it.
The mainstream media could validate my survey by calling a few pediatricians for their statistics. It would really only take ONE phone call to a pediatric practice which tracks this statistic. But hey, nobody really is interested in asking this question are they?
US Government expert testifies under oath that vaccines can trigger autism
Even the expert relied upon by the US government to “prove” that vaccines do NOT cause autism admitted that vaccines can trigger autism and that the US government deliberately mischaracterized his testimony. See his affidavit.
Autism is a huge problem, but nobody wants to ask the question I just asked
The CDC says the rate of autism is 1 in 36.
I couldn’t validate this. I think it is MUCH higher than that.
About 1/3 of my friends have an autistic kid in their household. That’s shocking. I thought it was zero. I never thought to ask.
The rates of autism in the 10,000 kids of my followers in my latest survey was 4.9% which is 1 in 20. But my followers are mostly white and my followers are “anti-vax.” This means the true rate of autism might be higher than this. Or it might be lower than this because my followers may have become anti-vaxxers after their kids were injured.
I did quick poll on Twitter to get another estimate, but this time on a per household basis (not per child):
This is horrifying. The odds of having an autistic child in your household is 1:3.6.
In other words, my quick survey showed that over 21% of American households have 1 or more autistic children.
The true number of households in America with at least one autistic child might be higher or lower, but the mainstream media is never going to ask that question, are they? Like Congress, they don’t want to know.
It is estimated that it will only take 10 to 20 years before half our kids are autistic if we don’t find the cause soon.
But because we are afraid to implicate the vaccines, we’re not likely to ever find the cause. You can’t find what you aren’t looking for.
Don’t expect Congress to ever investigate
Unfortunately, they aren’t talking about this at all in Congress. Why? Because the drug companies don’t want them to.
For example, there was a House bill (H.R.3069) in 2009 which would have required the NIH to do a survey on the health outcomes of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated.
Can you guess what happened next?
Yup, it was killed in committee. Never saw the light of day.
In 2005, CDC Director Judy Gerberding promised to do a vaxxed vs. fully unvaxxed study and nothing happened tells you everything you need to know. Or how they killed the bill in 2009 that would have required the NIH to do such a study.
Finally, Congressman Bill Posey has never been able to get other members of Congress to have William Thompson testify in front of Congress to just two things: (a) who told him to destroy the evidence linking vaccines and autism and (b) exactly what evidence he was asked to destroy. Those two questions alone would bring the house down.
You see, the government authorities simply don’t want anyone to know the truth.
Black males are disproportionately affected (2X greater risk)
We learned from the DeStefano study in 2004 that the rate of autism among black males is more than double the rate of males in general.
See Brian Hooker’s paper that was retracted by the journal because of undisclosed “concerns about the validity of the methods and statistical analysis.”
They always keep these retraction notices very vague because they don’t want anyone to know that the analysis was valid. So they make a hand-waving argument with absolutely no evidentiary support to censor the result.
Note however that CDC author William Thompson found exactly the same result in his analysis and he was the lead key researcher at the CDC on the study that Hooker referenced.
The result was damaging to the narrative so the CDC authors unethically erased it from their paper. William Thompson was ordered by his bosses at the CDC to destroy the documents relating to the race analysis (and not any other documents)! If it was good, they would have included it. Think I’m kidding? Watch the movie Vaxxed. You can also watch it on Rumble.
There is a good reason why Thompson was never asked to testify under oath in Congress about what happened. It’s because they do not want you to know the truth ever that the CDC is corrupt.
The black community should be outraged about this
But they are silent as well. Completely silent. This is tragic. The only black leader that I’m aware of that is speaking out about this is Kevin Jenkins.
For more information
See:
Vaccines and Autism—Is the Science Really Settled? It notes at the end, “Have scientists proven that vaccines do not cause autism? If you read this blog post with your mind even open a little, I know you know the answer to that question is, “not even close.”
Autism and childhood vaccination: Shows a clear correlation between vaccine update and development of autism in the US. “Every percentage point increase in vaccination rates of 2 year olds between 1995 and 2001 was associated with an increase of 0.035 (95% CI: 0.014-0.057) percentage points in the rates of autism or speech impairment disorders among 8 year olds between 2001 and 2007.”
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Summary
No respected autism researcher is ever going to try to replicate my survey.
Why?
They are all afraid of retribution. The medical community doesn’t like being embarrassed like this. They’ve been telling parents vaccines are safe and that there is no link for decades.
If I’m wrong, they should show us the study they did where they reached out to parents to find out when the parent first noticed autistic symptoms.
If I’m wrong, there will be approximately the same number of kids who demonstrated autistic behaviors before the shot vs. after the shot in every medical practice in America.
You should be able to ask any pediatric clinic in the country for their stats. But do you think any of them know their stats because they asked the parents this question? I’ll bet very few. Because we just don’t want to know the answer.
I was easily able to find a pediatrician with 0:44 stats for one month before:after. It took me just one phone call. Why can’t “they” find a pediatrician with 44:0 stats? It’s simple. There are no such pediatricians.
All you have to do is name one pediatrician who has more autism reports from parents 1 month before the child’s vaccination visit vs. 1 month after the child’s vaccination visit. Just one.
They can’t do that. This is simply devastating for their “vaccines don’t cause autism” narrative.
Kids who avoid all vaccinations (including the vitamin K shot) whatsoever are uniformly healthier than kids who follow the CDC schedule. I’m not aware of a single counter-example, i.e., a pediatric practice that eschews vaccination that has inferior outcomes relative to their peers with the same patient demographics (e.g., surrounding practices).
But the CDC will never allow any researcher to access the VSD to do such a study. That is why it’s never been done. You are simply not allowed to ask questions like this in America.
Nor will any state epidemiologist ever do such a study. But they probably don’t even have the records to be able to do such a study. Nobody wants to know.
Nobody wants to know the truth. They are all afraid of learning the truth. So they won’t look. But I thought you should know the truth, even though they are never going to tell you.
Just want to give you a huge pat on the back for your tenacity and struggle for truth. Thank you for what you do, Steve.
Isn't it interesting that the people with the biggest financial investment in vaccines promote them...and others take their word for it, when they say that vaccines are safe! Just like all the doctors who promoted cigarettes years ago that were heavily invested in them...and they declared that cigarettes were safe. Jusrt, like Shakespeare said, "Oh what fools these mortals be!"