-Caveat Lector-
I passed this on to a friend who is an autism researcher whom I happen
to know personally, who wishes to remain anonymous for professional
reasons.
I got back this:
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Vaccination is almost surely a major contributing factor to the rising
rate of autism, but it is not the sole cause of autism. To say so is to
make your arguments easily rebutted, to wit:
1. Autism existed long before vaccines.
2. There are many people who have autism but have never been
vaccinated.
3. "Autism" is a set of symptoms, not a single disorder with a single
cause.
There is no doubt among any researcher I know--and I know most of them--
that autism is a genetic disorder. But like some forms of breast cancer,
it's a genetic disorder that involves inheriting a gene or combination
of genes that puts a person at risk for, but that do not directly cause,
the disease. Today's vaccines, which contain mercury and which are given
before an infant's immune system is fully formed, are one very likely
contributing factor. They are an environmental insult of the sort that
could cause those genes to be expressed, causing the disorder. Research
in the early 60s showed that atypical measles exposure (before age 6
mos., or measles and mumps at once) was a risk factor for autism. For an
infant with an impaired immune system, which is the case for most
persons with autism, the MMR shot would appear to deliver exactly that
type of risky atypical exposure, even without the mercury-based
preservative, which further depresses the immune system.
I can't speak for the "Medical Mafia," but there are quite a few
mainstream researchers looking into the vaccine/mercury angle (see
www.mindinstitute.org for info on one group at UC Davis Medical Center.)
Even NIH was forced to admit last year that the connection deserved
attention--although apparently not their funding.
Other angles deserving of attention include organophosphate pesticides
and heavy metals like lead and mercury from sources other than vaccines,
among other environmental causes. As the saying in autism research
circles goes, "there's no such thing as a genetic epidemic." There
absolutely, positively has to be one or more probably many environmental
causes involved in the rising rates.
Incidentally, the rise in cases of autism is hitting the third world
particularly hard, and this story has gotten little play in the US or
the UK. Rates in China, the Philippines, India, etc. are also
skyrocketing. And guess who is now getting boatloads of "perfectly
good," free, mercury-containing vaccines that have been taken off the
Western market? You guessed it... now THERE'S a conspiracy, not unlike
the shipping of BSE-infested feed to Malaysia by Britain in the '90s,
when the UK government ordered it taken off the local market.
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