STATEMENT BY BERNARD RIMLAND, PH.D.

THE AUTISM EPIDEMIC IS REAL, AND EXCESSIVE
VACCINATIONS ARE THE CAUSE

The vaccine manufacturers, the Center for Disease
Control, the FDA, and
the various medical associations have failed miserably
in their duty to
protect our children. Rather than acknowledge their
role in creating
the
immense, catastrophic rise in autism, these
organizations have resorted
to denial and obfuscation. They stand to lose their
credibility, and
billions of dollars in liability suits will soon reach
the courts.

As a full-time professional research scientist for 50
years, and as a
researcher in the field of autism for 45 years, I have
been shocked and
chagrined by the medical establishment's ongoing
efforts to trivialize
the solid and compelling evidence that faulty
vaccination policies are
the root cause of the epidemic. There are many
consistent lines of
evidence implicating vaccines, and no even marginally
plausible
alternative hypotheses.

. As the number of childhood vaccines has increased
700%, from 3 in the
'70s to 22 in 2000, the prevalence of autism has also
showed a parallel
increase of 700%..

. Late onset autism, (starting in the 2nd year), was
almost unheard of
in the '50s, '60s, and '70s; today such cases
outnumber early onset
cases 5 to 1, the increase paralleling the increase in
required
vaccines.

. Thousands of parents report - and demonstrate with
home videos --
that
their children were normal and responsive until
suffering an adverse
vaccine reaction. (The Autism Research Institute has
been tracking such
autism-related vaccination reactions since 1967.)

. Mercury, one of the most toxic substances known, is
used as a
preservative in many vaccines. Some infants have had
125 times the
maximum allowable limit of mercury injected directly
into their
bloodstreams, in one day, in vaccines. (People vary
enormously in their
sensitivity to mercury, because certain genes
predispose to mercury
sensitivity. The highly-touted New England Journal of
Medicine Danish
study failed to mention the very convenient fact that
none of the
Danish
children had prior exposure to mercury, since Denmark,
unlike the U.S.
had, banned mercury from childhood vaccines in 1992,
the year before
the
birth year of the children in the study.)

. There are numerous scientific studies showing large
differences in
clinical laboratory measures of blood, urine and
biopsies which compare
autistic children with normal controls. Such findings,
pointing
directly
to vaccines as the cause of the group differences, are
conveniently
overlooked by those attempting to conceal the strong
connection between
the autism epidemic and excessive use of unsafe
vaccines.

The truth must - and will - emerge. It is long
overdue.
 

Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.
Director, Autism Research Institute
Editor, Autism Research Review International
Founder, Autism Society of America
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