In every “debate” about childhood injections, causing autism will be the last ditch, defended to the intellectual death of denial by pro-vaxxers. They may admit to high fevers, seizures, rashes, even an occasional sudden death, but nothing compared to the toll of real disease. Take one for the Team, for the Greater Good.
Naomi Klein’s “neurodiverse” son turned ten while she was wrapping up her book, Doppelganger with a year of prepublishing clearance hurdles. He believes he’s a great white shark, so obsessed with animal violence shows. Not alone, they’re an entire bandwidth on the spectrum of etherized youth.
She insists his condition was not caused by vaccines, is very offended by anti-vaxxers who say autism is, but can’t provide another cause. “Billions spent on autism research- [yet] we do not know why some brains are wired differently.” Actually, we do know why. Damaged by neurotoxins, autoimmune and inflammatory agents, delivered direct, bypass gut.
Genetic fate, non-diversity in the biome*, and Tylenol during pregnancy are being offered up as sacred goats, because of correlation, but not as compellingly as the hockey stick curve of cases since mandatory inoculations increased in 1988. (Facing a virtual flood of lawsuits, Johnson and Johnson may have to blame vaccines as the guilty party, with complete immunity on those products since then.)
She admits there’s been “a dramatic increase in diagnosed cases. The CDC- found 1-44 8 year olds were diagnosed in 2018- up from 1-150 in 2000.” Eight is too old to “successfully intervene” with early diagnosis and treatment.
Klein pastes the standard downplaying of disability rates, with excuses of “clinical definition expanded, more getting tested including adults, wider black and latino diagnoses, formerly more likely to be disciplined than diagnosed, or labeled ‘trouble makers’- ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder.” Not likely with the tell tale gait and mannerisms of the autistic spectrum brain damaged kid.
A defense lawyer she knew told her of his son’s sudden onset following a “well baby visit”, which doctors term regression without cause. Billable. He became a prominent anti-vaxx lawyer, led a campaign against “supposedly tyrannical health mandates.” Another father told her of his older son, born abroad, never vaccinated, not atypical, while younger one was US vaccinated and autistic, or neuroatypical.
She’s contemptuous of the “Vaccine= Autism Myth” and these anecdotes are brushed aside like gossamer. She didn’t question her son’s injection schedule, didn’t notice a sudden regression. He was born like that. Her father is a doctor, so will assume Land Shark was fully vaxxed from birth, though she won’t go there.
Born in British Columbia- moved to Toronto at five months old- where autism services were extremely scarce with years long wait list for a doctor to diagnose. His Kindergarten class had five with “developmental challenges” out of 30 kids in class, not disabilities. Way too many for one teacher’s aide, after their teacher fled for health reasons. There was one autism team serving hundreds of schools in the district, with only ten days left in school year when they got to his class.
Klein went seeking community and found cabals of Autism Warrior Parents- at war with their child’s asocial behaviors, pursuing aggressive early interventions, because if you don’t catch it early, too late. Discipline and reward, even electroshock. Some were sold on an industry of strange magical cures, Pygmy Poop tm fecal implants, herbal concoctions, vitamin injections, sound waves, extreme elimination diets.
Naomi Klein compared it to research she’d done on the CIA’s MKULTRA experiments on psychiatric patients at McGill University, where her father taught. Medical mind control, not the psychiatric brainwiping across campus. Her research is equally shallow into vaccination caused autism, because McGill was certified psychiatric torture.
The family moved back to New Jersey where his new grade school had a nurse, psychologist, speech therapist, shared with 2 other schools. She wept with relief after her son was tested over 2 days, issued a detailed educational plan, mainstreamed in a class with 5 students on the autism spectrum. They have 3 teachers trained in neurodiversity dogma, providing extracurricular activities, including weekly sports with neurotypical teenagers in Buddy Ball.
Basically the jackpot of public school services in the plushest of exurban wealth and privilege, yet wherever she turned other parents of “developmentally challenged children” would blame vaccinations from their participant observations.
Klein tuned them out as “repeating the broad outlines of MMR- caused, based on an entirely discredited paper from 1998, published in The Lancet.” Klein trashes “the main author, Andrew Wakefield, banned from practicing medicine for undisclosed conflicts of interest, and callous disregard for children.” and confidently reports “no further evidence supports the claim a quarter century later.” Peer reviewed research finding vaccine induced brain injuries began with DPT shots in 1948.
Wakefield was part of a team of gastroenterologists who ushered in the floodgates of biome research. No parents complained. Their findings have been replicated several times, the fundamental challenge in science based medicine. No real fact checking in publishing these days.
Klein despises Ellie McPherson-“model turned wellness influencer, possibly in romantic relationship with Wakefield, who helped promote his antivax propaganda film.” Vaxxed/Unvaxxed. She’s still calling out Jenny McCarthy, who long ago recanted like Galileo, as the “person who has done more to popularize the myth- model/actor/TV host.”
There’s no shortage of compendiums of evidence for vaccines causing autism and spectrum brain injuries in print, audio and video. Evidently she avoided any information colliding with her Red Line. She definitely did not read the Autism to Alzheimer’s: A Gray Scale Spectrum chapter in my 2013 book Save Trillions with Universal Health Care, updated in the revised 2019 e-book, Mandatory Vaccinations = Totalitarian Inoculation.
Distills abundant evidence from thousands of pages into keystroke proofs for ADHD adults (also on the spectrum). Etiology and Causation from Mercury preservatives, Aluminum Adjuvants, autoimmune synaptic snipping, Measles gut inflammation, encephalitic fevers. Exposes International Criminal to Repentant Replicator Frauds from CDC. Plus, other causes of the neurologically damaged besides Tylenol.
Klein’s chosen doppelganger, Naomi Wolf is “thoroughly entangled in the autism misinformation movement” with “RFK, jr. the rabidly anti-vax Children’s Health Defense” founder. Klein scoffs at Wolf, selling her fables as “entirely well sourced.” Suppose my 800 page ebook with links and citations would warrant the same scorn. If it weren’t being shadowbanned by Amazon. Class Action suits are in order. Like minnow nibbling on piranha.
*The Mind Gut Connection, Emeran Mayer, M.D., Harper Wave, 2016 (Doesn’t credit the 1998 Lancet article for pioneering the field in his extensive bibliography, and vaccines are not listed in his index. Autism is cross indexed numerous times, firmly linked with microfloral monoculture. Injections damaging gut lining is his Red Line.)
I was in Paris in 2015 when Klein addressed all of we protestors there. She gave us 5 minutes of her time with a carefully prepared ‘speech’ on how bad climate change, or maybe on nothing, was and then promptly jetted off to London.
Thanks Stephen for delving into various reactions and the supposed causes of why children
could be born with Autism. The law of nature keeps a balance in everything, as when one thing is lacking it will more-than-likely be made up in some other manner. There is always a balancing.
In these children who 'we think' are lacking in something, are often exceptional in something else.
If looked at solely from an affection point of view, the affection they give is exceptional.
Albert Einstein was autistic and historians say, Thomas Jefferson, third president of the US, was in fact autistic. As were artists, Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Michelangelo, Isaac Newton, Mozart, and Beethoven, also Tesla. Their focus is different, drawn mostly to special interests, and often accompanied with repetitive behaviours, difficulty in communication and interactions.
Elon Musk has announced he has Asperger's, a form of Autism.
The world would be a very dull place without them.