Autism, the Failure of Conventional Medicine, the constant cover-up of medical harm

I have written extensively about the Failure of Conventional (or Pharmaceutical) Medicine. What is happening to the health of our nations is not a failure to invest sufficiently in conventional medicine. It is not a matter of "invest more, and get healthier"; indeed quite the opposite is true; the more we invest in pharmaceutical medicine, the sicker we have become.

Equally important, however, is the way conventional medical authorities have hidden this failure, and how it continues to do so. This cover-up is the reason most people are not aware of the medical failure, and indeed why, despite continuing medical failure, most people demand yet more resources for yet more of it!

And here we need to pay tribute to the one, most important, single success of conventional medicine - its enormously successful (but pernicious) propaganda.

Nowhere is this better demonstrated than how conventional medicine is currently manipulating our understanding of the autism epidemic.

Autism was unknown in the 1940’s. In many ways, this was the decade that finally confirmed and reinforced the dominance of conventional, or pharmaceutical  medicine. In the UK, in 1948, the National Health Service (NHS) was created. Henceforward everyone would be able to access pharmaceutical medicine, free at the point of use. In most other western nations similar medical schemes were introduced to ensure that populations had access to "the best drugs" available. 

The result, over the years, has been an exponential increase in the consumption of pharmaceutical drug. For the last 80-100 years we have taken them in the belief that they would make us better, that the outcome would be improved health, and less illness and disease.

Adverse drug and vaccine reactions have been less well discussed. Yet any survey of any chronic disease shows clearly that they have all risen, consistently, rapidly since the drug-fest began. They have become epidemics. And it is known, in conventional medical literature, that pharmaceutical drugs are known to be a major cause of diseases like arthritis, cancer, dementia, diabetes, heart/liver/kidney disease, and many more. 

The rise of autism is just one of them - but it is an important one. Autism rates have risen rapidly since the first case was identified in the 1940's. I wrote about this in  March 2019.

        "Autism is a disease unknown before the 1940’s, prior to mass vaccination campaigns. Since then it has risen, exponentially. And it has done so in exact parallel to the increased use of vaccines. The CDC website (a pillar of the conventional medical establishment) gives the following statistics about the rise and rise of autism in the USA.

          2000          1 in 150 children
          2002          1 in 150 children
          2004          1 in 125 children
          2006          1 in 110 children
          2008          1 in 88 children
          2010          1 in 68 children
          2012          1 in 59 children

A CDC study, published in March 2023, shows that the incidence of autism continues to rise, and shows no sign of abating.

        "For 2020, one in 36 children aged 8 years (approximately 4% of boys and 1% of girls) was estimated to have ASD. These estimates are higher than previous ADDM Network estimates during 2000–2018".

In England alone, the Nuffield Trust estimates show that there are about 1.2 million autistic people, and 2-2 million people with ADHD now. There has been a huge rise in demand for both diagnoses and support, and providing this support in going to be a huge task - the secondary costs of conventional medical failure.

• Once upon a time, this autism epidemic was discussed as "an urgent public health concern" - but no longer. The new approach is to develop "enhanced infrastructure to provide equitable diagnostic, diagnostic, treatment, and support services for all children with ASD".
  

If you examine conventional medical literature three things become clear. First, the cause of the epidemic of autism remains unknown (after 80 years)! Second, autism is NOT caused by vaccines (it could be any other factor, but it is definitely not our vaccines)! Nor will we look at the cause. Third, there is no effective treatment. These are some comments made on the UK's NHS website and it demonstrates conventional medicine new, blase, apathetic, unconcerned approach to autism.

    * Autism is not an illness. Being autistic does not mean you have an illness or disease. It means your brain works in a different way from other people. It's something you're born with. Signs of autism might be noticed when you're very young, or not until you're older. If you're autistic, you're autistic your whole life. Autism is not a medical condition with treatments or a "cure". But some people need support to help them with certain things. Being autistic does not have to stop you having a good life. Like everyone, autistic people have things they're good at as well as things they struggle with. Being autistic does not mean you can never make friends, have relationships or get a job. But you might need extra help with these things. It's not clear what causes autism. Nobody knows what causes autism, or if it has a cause. It can affect people in the same family. So it may sometimes be passed on to a child by their parents. (It is) not caused by vaccines, such as the MMR vaccine.

For a failed medical system this new strategy makes eminent sense. Doctors do no understand what is causing the disease; they have no treatment for it; they are embarrassed because links with vaccine damage will not go away; so they ask us to 'accept' the disease, that nothing can be done, that it is something we must just accept.

So 2nd April 2024 was officially pronounced by the USA President as "World Autism Acceptance Day". I wonder how many of us noticed how the word "acceptance" was skilfully slipped in there? Autism is no longer an "urgent public health concern", it is something we have to accept. Why? Conventional medicine can do nothing about the condition - so all we can do is to look after all those on the "autistic spectrum" properly. 

I have no problem with with the idea that autistic people have to be properly looked after. My problem is that in doing so conventional medicine fail to recognise the seriousness of the condition, and in doing so  the failure of conventional medicine - its role in creating autism, its failure to identify the cause, its inability to treat autism, and its recognition that nothing can be done to prevent an even higher incidence of the condition in future. This is what the Childrens Health Defense organisation described it.

            "The CDC has “taken action” by promoting April as “Autism Acceptance Month” from “Autism Awareness Month. But “acceptance” means different things to different people. For us, the term is, in fact, unacceptable.CHD “ accepts” and supports all efforts to improve the lives of children and families affected by autism. We accept individual differences. But we don’t “accept” the refusal by our taxpayer-funded public health agencies to investigate the real causes behind this tragic epidemic."

Pharmaceutical medicine wants to take our minds off both the cause, and the treatment of autism. We have just to accept it. Autism should be celebrated and embraced. Forget the possibility that autism might be caused by vaccines, recognise that a diagnosis of autism is a sign of social inclusivity. Let's normalise the disease. Let's celebrate neurodiversity. Autistic people are just 'different', and we should appreciate those who are different, and not consider autism to be a disease.

Yet there is a difference between celebrating and normalising an individual with autism, and celebrating autism itself. As one father of an autistic child has said, he wants to celebrate his autistic daughter, but he does not want to celebrate her disability, or what will happen to her when he, and her mother, have gone.

        "My daughter's disabled for life. Don't cheapen that disability by pretending that the fact that you're a little nerdy makes you autistic."

This is exactly right. He continues by saying that early in life autism is very costly to parents, including mothers who are often obliged to stay home and abandon their careers. Over time those costs shift, as the parents retire, and eventually die.

        “Most autistic individuals in adulthood are unemployed and unemployable … Then they’re going to have to be housed somewhere and they’re going to have to have something to do during the day. Someone’s got to watch over them.”

So 'normalising' autism might be a good strategy for the pharmaceutical medical establishment, but not for the person who has autism, or their family - especially severe autism. 

It is also fundamentally dishonest. There is no effective treatment for autism, but whilst developing the case for normalising and celebrating neurodiversity, the drug companies have also noted that autism provides them with a huge opportunity - a multi-billion market for autism drugs! The global Autism Spectrum Disorder treatment market is projected to reach $11.42 billion by 2028, according to a new report by 360 Research Reports.

So the pharmaceutical industry is riding two horses simultaneously. 

    (i) Accept autism as a normal condition, whose cause in unknown; and 

    (ii) take antipsychotic drugs, like Risperdal and Abilify to treat this 'normal' condition! 

And whilst families are doing this, they want us to ignore that the toxicity of antipsychotic drugs is only matched by their ineffectiveness! So an industry that profited from harming the children initially now want families to ignore this, to accept what has happened, accept that they will profit again - by selling them more toxic drugs that are likely to cause further patient harm.

Autism rate rises to 1 in 44 children in USA. And we are still told the cause is 'unknown'

At the end of 2021, the CDC announced that autism rates in the USA had risen to 1 in 44 children. They published an analysis of 2018 data from nearly a dozen USA states confirming that the autism rate for 8 year old children had risen from 1 in 54 in 2016, from 1 in 150 in 2000, whilst in the 1990's prevalence estimates ranged from 1 in 2,500 to 1 in 1,000. The autism rate is also high in France, 1 in 144, in Iceland, 1 in 139, and in Austria, 1 in 138. The study said this:

            “We found autism prevalence to be 3.6% in New Jersey overall, but higher in one region (5.4%) and in multiple areas approaching 7.0%. We identified significant variation in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) prevalence by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES) and school district size. Mapping prevalence in smaller, well-specified, regions may be useful to better understand the true scope of ASD, disparities in ASD detection and the factors impacting ASD prevalence estimation.”

In July 2020 I wrote a blog on the subject of autism, referring specifically to 157 research papers that supported the Vaccine-Autism link. I put a link to this webpage on my Facebook page, who quickly tagged this as "False rating on content shared by Safe Medicine Homeopathy' and that it's been reviewed by Science Feedback. Facebook also put an article against my blog entitled "How we know vaccines do not cause autism", and threatened to reduce the distribution of my page because 'misleading content', stating:

            "Pages and websites that repeatedly publish or share misleading content will see their overall distribution reduced and their ability to monetise, advertise and register as a news Page removed. People will also be able to see if a Page has a history of sharing false news."

This is typical of Facebook, and social media generally. They have succumbed to the pressure from the Conventional Medical Establishment (CME) to censor anything and everything that speaks against their business interests - selling pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines. The CME already controls the mainstream media, and now want to get social media under its control.

So autism is an epidemic, and year by year it is getting worse! And the CME is doing everything it can to deny that the drugs and vaccines listed here have anything to do with it, and to stop us getting to know.

So do the 157 research papers exist? 

Yes, they do; you can see them all outlined here for yourself if you click on the link, and then read each one of the studies for yourself.

The position of the CME is that there is no autism epidemic. Denial and censorship reign. J.B Handley outlines and demolishes their position in his blog, "There is no Autism epidemic - a pernicious rumour".

I too have dealt with it too, in my "Iatrogenic Disease" and "Why Homeopath?" e-books. This is what I said in the former.

 

"The conventional medical system are in denial about the cause of Autism. Indeed, it has worked very hard to hide from the public the cause of Autism. The NHS Choices website typifies this approach when it says:

               'The exact cause of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is currently unknown. It's a complex condition and may occur as a result of genetic predisposition (a natural tendency), environmental or unknown factors.'

It goes on to talk about inherited genes that make some children more vulnerable to ASD. It speaks about 'environmental triggers', such as premature birth, and exposure to alcohol in the womb. It says there is 'no conclusive evidence' linking either pollution or maternal infections in pregnancy to the condition. 

It does say that 'certain medications' are a possible trigger, and does mentions Sodium Valproate (a pharmaceutical drug used to treat epilepsy during pregnancy, and known to cause other birth defects).

Yet the NHS goes much further in its denial of the autism epidemic, and dismisses out of hand any connection between autism and childhood vaccinations. 

    'In the past, a number of things were linked to ASD, but extensive research has found no evidence to suggest that any of these contribute to the condition.' (My emphasis).

These 'past connections' include the MMR vaccine, and thimerosol, the mercury-based compound that is used as a preservative in many vaccines. Wikipedia, always a supporter of the conventional medical establishment, goes along with these denials.

    'Many causes of autism have been proposed, but understanding of the theory of causation of autism and the other autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is incomplete. Research indicates that genetic factors predominate. The heritability of autism, however, is complex, and it is typically unclear which genes are responsible. In rare cases, autism is strongly associated with agents that cause birth defects. Many other causes have been proposed, such as childhood immunizations, but numerous epidemiological studies have shown no scientific evidence supporting any link between vaccinations and autism.'

Most sources of information about autism follow this conventional medical line, and come up with similarly unsatisfactory explanations about the causes of autism. More than any other illness there is a complete denial that vaccines have played any part in causing the autism epidemic we have witnessed in recent decades, and which continues to grow.     

     'However, one of the leading conventional medical authorities, CDC (Centers for Disease Control) were forced to admit that there was no scientific proof that vaccines do not cause autism, conceding that reassurances to parents that childhood vaccines don't cause autism was not based on any scientific evidence."

 

Although this was written several years ago nothing has changed. It would appear that however serious the autism epidemic becomes, conventional medicine will continue to deny that pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines might be the cause. The CME is in complete denial, and this has serious consequences for the children of the future, and the parents who are not being told about the possible/like association.

Complete denial is a position the CME adopts when other chronic diseases, like those mentioned here, becomes epidemic.

• We don't know what causes it, but it definitely isn't us! 

As long as the CME sticks to this stance it will continue to cause an increase in autism (not to mention other chronic diseases), AND it will remain incapable of developing any relevant response or treatment. 

So the Autism epidemic is likely only to get progressively worse!

Neurodiversity. A valuable concept: but it has an inherent danger

When faced with a failing, but still powerful and highly manipulative medical system, it is necessary to examine any new terminology that suddenly appears with regard to health. One such medical term is "Neurodiversity". It has been variously described, but the 'Genius Within' website provides a good comprehensive definition.

    "Neurodiversity is the concept that all humans vary in terms of our neurocognitive ability. Everyone has talents and things they struggle with. However, for some people the variation between those strengths and weaknesses is more pronounced, which can bring talent but can also be disabling.

    "Neurodiverse / neurodivergent people tend to find some things very easy and other things incredibly hard. This usually leads to an inconsistent performance at school or work.

    "Neurodiversity can be a competitive advantage when the individuals are in the right environment, making use of their strengths, instead of constantly trying to overcome challenges. To achieve this we must create inclusive spaces to work and learn that reduce disabling factors and amplify diverse abilities.

Given this definition I have no problem with the concept of Neurodiversity. Indeed, it is an approach to life that seeks to adopt a positive view towards all people, focusing what what every person has to offer than any deficit they may have. It seeks to avoid the problem of dealing with people as a merely a member of a 'minority' group, and all the stigma this can entail. Genius Within say that its aim "is to work towards a world where all variations in the rich tapestry of human cognition are accepted and enabled."

Yet Neurodiversity has been controversial among disability advocates. Those opposed to, or have doubts about the concept point out that it does not reflect the realities of individual lives, especially those people who have high support needs. I share this concern; but my issue is somewhat different.

I wholeheartedly applaud any other effort to avoid and overcome the problem of stigmatising minority groups whether this be through sociability, learning difficulties, attention span, changeability of mood, and other issues regarding mental functioning. Indeed I welcome anything that removes the social barriers to the acceptance and full involvement in social life of any individual.

Genius Within says that neurodiverse, or neurodivergent conditions include a variety of physically 'invisible', but ever-growing conditions such as:

• ADHD (affecting 5% of the population)
  
• Autism (2% of the population)
  
• Dyslexia (10% of the population)
  
• Dyspraxia (5% of the population)
  
• Tourette syndrome (2% of the population)

They add that 7% of the population now have mental health needs, and 5% of the population have an acquired brain injury. So the neurodiverse population is a significant, and a growing one.

My quite specific problem with the definition of neurodiversity is given by the 'Understood' website which states that:

 

    "Neurodiversity is a viewpoint that brain differences are normal, rather than deficits."

The conditions listed above as neurodivergent are not "normal" conditions. They have a relatively modern rise to prominence. They are essentially new diseases, either previously unknown, or whose incidence have become more widespread in recent decades. Why is this? What is the pathology. Something has caused them. And my argument is that it is always vital we seek to find the causation of any illness.

• If we had not discovered that rickets was caused by a lack of vitamin C that disease would still be rife amongst the population.
• If we had not discovered that most 19th century epidemics (for measles, cholera, typhus, typhoid, smallpox, et al) were caused by poverty, poor nutrition, inadequate overcrowded housing, bad sanitation and water supply, we would still be experiencing these epidemics at regular intervals.
• If we had not linked the use of DDT, and other toxic chemicals, as the cause of poliomyelitis, we would still be in the midst of a polio crisis.
  

So if neurodiversity is used to challenge the view that neurodevelopmental disorders are pathological, that knowing about the causation is not important, if we accept that they are "normal", medicine will be unable to progress.

My first contact with the concept of neurodiversity was in response to a blog I wrote, several years ago now, on the link between autism and childhood vaccines. I was taken to task by someone who told me that autism was NOT a disease, or an illness, but a gift. She said that she loved her son, and did not want him to be associated with being sick, or in any way abnormal. 

This made me realise that we were speaking about two quite different things. She was talking about the love she had for her son, and how he should be treated. I was talking about the pathology of the condition with which her son had been diagnosed.

There should be no conflict between these two approaches, the one can progress alongside the other. She should be able to love her autistic son, and I should be able to look at the cause of her son's condition. The two tasks were not mutually exclusive.

Treating the person as "normal" is important. Treating the condition itself as 'normal' risks failing to examine the cause of the condition - and doing away with it.

I understand that neurodiversity is especially popular within the autism rights movement. And this is my worry. My concern is that 'neurodiversity' will be used by the Conventional Medical Establishment (CME) to deflect attention away from the causation of these conditions, not least autism. 

The CME already denies vehemently any connection between autism and childhood vaccination. The rise of autism has been alarming, and it continues to rise. Yet when asked about the cause of the autism epidemic the CME says (quoting the UK's NHS):

          "The exact cause of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is currently unknown. It's a complex condition and may occur as a result of genetic predisposition (a natural tendency), environmental or unknown factors."

How a disease, unknown prior to the 1940's, can have a 'genetic' cause is not explained. Yet it would appear that the CME does know that it is NOT childhood vaccines. It dismisses any link out of hand!

          "In the past, a number of things were linked to ASD, but extensive research has found no evidence to suggest that any of these contribute to the condition."

Yet there are, in fact, 160 research papers that supports the vaccine / autism link.

I would hate to think that the neurodiversity movement would be taken over by the CME. There is a real danger that the pharmaceutical industry might want to 'support' the neurodiversity movement, another part of its programme to deny medical harm caused by adverse drug and vaccine effects. It provides them with an attractive argument. "Autistic children are lovely, loveable people; we should spend our time loving them, not asking questions about why they developed autism".

So Neurodiversity could become an excuse for pharmaceutical denial. We don't need to look at the pharmaceutical causes of autism, in case links are found with vaccines, or paracetamol, or antidepressants, or any other drug. We do not need to look at the pharmaceutical causes of Tourette's, in case links are found with drugs like Amphetamine Sulfate, Benzphetamine Hydrochlorideor, Cylert, Pemolline, or vaccines.  

And the same applies to any of the other conditions under the umbrella of neurodiversity.

The CME message would be clear. "We have to accept that we will all be ill, and that there is no treatment for these conditions. We don't need to know about causation. It is sufficient just to love people, don't bother to look at cause. And if you (the neurodiversity movement) do this, we will support you movement with money."  This is exactly what it has done with many health charities, and patient support groups. 

The pharmaceutical industry is highly profitable, the most highly profitable industry of all; and it uses its money to divert attention from its direct culpability in the causation of illness.

I have never known anybody who has purposely set out to have a child who suffers from any condition, neurological or any other, because they are lovable. Good parents will love them, of course; and value them, of course.

But causation should never be dismissed; we should not allow anyone who has caused any medical condition to deflect attention away from their culpability; we should not allow drug companies to get away with any patient harm that may have been caused by their highly profitable drugs and vaccines.

The Autism - Vaccine Link. The 157 Research Papers that supporting the link

The Autism-Vaccine link is hotly disputed by conventional medicine. All pharmaceutical drugs cause serious harm to our health, and doctors don't want you and me to know about it. But pharmaceutical medicine is particularly hostile if anyone dares suggest that there is a link between the autism epidemic and vaccination. They want us to believe that vaccines are entirely safe.

Yet there are now 157 research papers that support the link. A summary of all 157 papers can be found at this link.

http://mainevaxchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VaccineAutismStudies.pdf

For anyone considering vaccinating their young child this is essential reading. And it should be read as your doctor will not tell you about this - (s)he will insist that all vaccines are entirely safe. They are not.

AUTISM. The epidemic continues to grow. Conventional medicine doesnt know the cause. But they do know it is NOT caused by pharmaceutical vaccines.

Three links about autism came into my in-tray this week. Each demonstrates that the Autism epidemic continues to grow, and that no-one appears to be interested in finding out why.

Autism Numbers in USA increase by 10%

               "According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of children diagnosed with autism in the United States continues to increase. In a report published on Mar. 27, 2020, the CDC estimated the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the country is now one in 54 children - up from one in 59 reported by the agency in April 2018, for an increase of nearly 10 percent."

One in every 16 Irish boys has autism: crisis worse than COVID-19 and nobody cares

               "According to National Health data released last week, autism incidence among Irish children is now at 4.3%, an 82% rise in five years. One in 16 boys is affected."

England has 250,000 more autistics in 15 years. 1 in 21 English schoolboys in now autistic official Education Department statistics indicate.

               "Official UK statistics indicate 1 in 21 English schoolboys is now autistic.  Worse still when school leavers are included, in just 15 years the total number of new autistic school children and young adult school leavers is 258,000 according to CHS’ estimates from the official figures."

Autism is a disease that was unknown until the 1940's. It now affects millions around the world. Why is this? Conventional medicine does not know. This is what the UK's NHS clear and concise answer to this important question.

               "Nobody knows what causes autism, or if it has a cause."

So perhaps autism just 'happens', perhaps nothing causes it. It comes out of the blue, out of the air, like a virus. But the NHS continues,

"Autism is not an illness"

Not even an illness. Well, that's okay then - isn't it? Nothing to worry about? However, amidst all this bland uncertainty the NHS is perfectly clear about what does NOT cause autism. As the NHS says,

               "Autism is not caused by .....vaccines, such as the MMR vaccine...."

So parents who believe they had children who were developing normally prior to having childhood vaccines are just plain wrong. The vaccine is quite definitely NOT the cause. Even if "nobody knows the cause", or indeed "if there is a cause"

"It's not me, guv!"

So, no doubt conventional medicine can back up its certainty with scientific evidence. After all, it says that pharmaceutical medicine is 'science based'. So the question was asked of the USA's CDC (Centers for Disease Control), and they had to concede in a in Federal Court that it does NOT have any studies to support its claim that “Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism”.

So when some 40%-70% of parents with autistic children blame vaccines, typically pointing to vaccines given during first six months of life caused the problem, conventional medicine resorts to denial - completely unsupported by evidence.

So who is looking into what is causing the autism epidemic?

• No one, it appears; sounds like doctors don 't even think it's necessary

Who cares about what is causing the autism epidemic?

• Answers on a postcard please

And by the way, should any of you parents are wondering, conventional medicine has no treatment for autism.

Autism

Just one of the many secondary costs of conventional medical failure

Autism. Was your child developing normally - until receiving a childhood vaccine?

This is not really my blog, it has been written by lots of parents who confirm that this was their experience. Indeed, you hear many parents who make this clear - their children were developing normally, and they they were vaccinated.

So please read about their experience - click here

And preferably, do read their testimony BEFORE agreeing to your child being vaccinated.

The Anti-Vaccine movement. Why is it growing so quickly? Why is conventional medicine so desperate to prove vaccines do not harm us?

The conventional medical establishment is desperate to convince us all that vaccines are safe, that they do not cause patient harm, and particularly that there is no link between vaccines and autism. Anti-vaxxers, they say, are a danger to public health, subjecting us to deadly diseases such as measles and mumps.

Over the last week I have had three reasons to consider the nature and background of conventional medicine's desperation, each one making it clear that the future credibility of conventional medicine is now at stake.

• If vaccines are found to damage our health, particularly if there is any link between vaccines and autism the reputation, conventional medicine is as good as finished. 
• Moreover, it is no longer just about the damage pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines causes to patients. It is also that doctors would have been found out - denying the damage they must know is being caused.
• If this ever becomes clear, patients would never again trust pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines; and never again trust the doctors who have been lying to us. And entire industry would be effectively destroyed

So the stakes are high, and this is why the protestations of doctors about vaccines safety are becoming increasingly desperate.

1. A question recently posed on the Quora platform
"Why is the anti-vaccine movement growing so quickly?"

Most of the answers the question received did point out that people patients with vaccine damaged children were unlikely to continue using them just because doctors continued to insist that they are 'entirely safe'. From experience they know otherwise!

In my answer I said that whilst the ant-vaccine movement continues to be quite small, it was growing, and that in future there were two main factors that would only accelerate its growth.

First is conventional medicine’s continuing insistence that vaccines are ‘entirely safe’, and that any safety concerns were generated by ‘misinformation’ and 'false news'. This 'misinformation' usually comes from people who have seen the damage vaccines can cause! The problem that conventional medicine has is that drug damaged families are now everywhere, and unless or until the state is prepared to ‘liquidate’ us, the story of vaccine harm will continue to be told.

Indeed, there are many sources of information that will keep the story of vaccine damage alive. If we look at VAER’s data (the USA vaccine court) we can see quite clearly that despite doctors telling us that vaccines are safe the USA government is paying out huge sums of money, every year, to damaged families - money that would not be awarded without good reason or justification.

Moreover, there is the damage (or the known 'side effects') that are outlined in 'patient information leaflets' (or PILs) that accompany each and every pharmaceutical drug and vaccine. In other words, although doctors continue to insist vaccines do not cause harm, the evidence of harm is contained within their own medical literature.

Second, the dominance of the conventional medical establishment has made it increasingly arrogant, so arrogant in fact that it is now trying to impose their drugs and vaccines on all of us - whether we want them or not, on the basis that

• ‘They’ know best! 
• ‘We’ are misinformed and ignorant, that we need doctors to tell us what is best for us. 

Everywhere the Orwellian state beckons, not least in the USA, the so-called ‘land of freedom’. And from what I can see and hear (from England) the pharmaceutical companies are winning this battle. Enforced medication is dominant within USA politics, in the mainstream media, in health services. Yet it is also opposed, everywhere, by proponents of personal freedom, and democracy. I suspect that the war will be won by the strongest argument, and people will ultimately choose personal choice, and health freedom, over mandatory medicine imposed by the corporate-dominated state.

In my answer I said that I was not an ‘anti-vaxxer’, per se, but someone who believes in (i) the medical principle of “first, do no harm’, and (ii) the political principles of freedom and democracy. The vaccine issue is about both these elements, and conventional medicine will find it difficult to prove that their drugs and vaccines do not cause patient harm, it explain why it is necessary (in a democracy) to force people to accept mandatory medicine.

The desperation of the conventional medical establishment is about their ability and confidence that they can do either, in the longer term.

2. Responses to another Quora question
But then I looked at another Quora post. This asked the more direct question - "Did your child get autism after vaccination?". I strongly suggest that you have a look at some of these responses. Certainly, I was astonished to see the number of responses - it had received over 100. And when I looked at the nature of many of the responses, which I skim-read, it suggested that they were highly sophisticated and technical responses which could only have came from people with a vested interest in conventional medicine. They suggested, perhaps, that this was a co-ordinated response, linked to the desperation to 'prove' that there was no direct link between vaccines and autism.

So the question must be asked - what is this desperation all about? Why such a huge, co-ordinated response to the question of the link between autism and vaccines?

It is also notable from several 'parents' of autistic children who used the argument that they did not blame vaccines for their disability. Some said it was 'just a coincidence' that the symptoms of autism came shortly after the vaccine! A coincidence that happens so frequently? Others said that "they would have developed autism anyway, even if they did not have the vaccination". Others said that their children were so pleasant, intelligent and loving they would not want them to be any different, leaving me wondering what would have been wrong with them being pleasant, intelligent, loving - and normal?

3. Research funding for research in vaccines, aluminium toxicity and autism
The third reason were articles that have appeared in the Times, and the websites of Natural News and Age of Autism, concerning Professor Chris Exley, of Keele University. described by the Times as "a controversial British academic who claims childhood vaccines can cause autism".

Professor Exley has been blocked from raising funds by scientific research councils after protests by health scientists and 'experts' who were 'infuriated' when he told parents that the aluminium in vaccines may cause “severe and disabling” autism. The Times likened him to Andrew Wakefield, whose 1998 claim that the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine caused autism led to a fall in immunisation rates.

As the Age of Autism website explained, Exley has resorted to crowd funding to pursue his research into aluminium toxicity. It comments that this kind of drama has unfolded many times before - a well respected doctor or researcher who begins to ask questions about vaccine safety as a result of scientific research, and his/her career is adversely affected as a result.

The Natural News article uses the headline "Medical police state cuts off research funding from scientist who found that vaccines cause autism". The term 'medical police state' might be appropriate, even if many may find that rather too sensational. Yet the situation certainly indicates the power of the pharmaceutical industry, and its ability to controls conventional medicine, and the funding of medical science. Aluminium is a known poison, and an ingredient of many of the vaccines that are injected into our children's bloodstreams. The conventional medical establishment clearly does not want medical science to investigate what happens when aluminium is injected into us - which, at best, sounds very unscientific, and at worst suggest that doctors are afraid of what such research might discover about the safety of vaccines.

So how will this all progress? The conventional medical establishment will, in their desperation, continue to deny that vaccines cause harm, and the pharmaceutical industry will continue to plough its huge profits into making sure that doctors, politicians, the media, et al, have a vested interest in not informing us.

Yet despite this the anti-vaccine movement will grow, albeit slowly, because the evidence of the harm caused by conventional medicine is there for anyone to see, not least by those people and their carers who have been damaged by pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines. And if too many people get to know this it would be the end for a medical system that has dominated health care for over a century.

In the end the truth will prevail!

AUTISM & HOMEOPATHY. Does conventional medicine cause autism?

The BBC’s gratuitous attack on the homeopathic treatment of autism, inaccurate, partial, and unfair as it was, is a diversion, a refusal to admit that their allies in the conventional medical establishment have been instrumental in causing the problem of autism, and having no treatment for it. 

It is often said that attack is the best form of defence. And it is known that a cornered animal, especially when its life is threatened, can be ferocious when it has to defend itself. Perhaps this is what is happening in this situation.

We live within a society that has a strong health and safety ethos. This is not a bad thing. Throughout human history people have lost their lives working on projects, in industries, and in many other settings, because of the inherent dangers of their working and living circumstances, and the carelessness of their masters. Whether it was Pharaohs building their pyramids, or 19th century industrialists profiting from unsafe working practises, millions of people have been killed for the greater glory of their superiors.

Health and safety practises now dominate all spheres of life. Sometimes safety is taken to ridiculous lengths. Playing conkers, for instance, has been deemed to be unsafe! And as I write, trees are being felled in the wood opposite my house because they have been deemed 'unsafe', alleged to be diseased, a risk as they might fall on me as I pass under them. It is a nature reserve, and wildlife habitat is being destroyed in the name of health and safety.

So in most walks of life health and safety now rules - except for one important area - conventional medicine and health.

"First do no harm" is a principle developed by Hippocrates, who lived in the 5th century bce Greece. Conventional medicine has adopted it, but has always ignored it. They accept that their drugs cause 'side effects' and 'adverse reactions' but however serious these are found to be doctors continue to prescribe the drugs to their patients. We are told that the 'benefits' outweigh the 'risks', although patients are never told about the detail of these risk assessments.

Samuel Hahnemann was a 18th century doctor who decided that he could no longer involve himself in the patient harm caused by the drugs of his time, mostly based on mercury and opium, and practises such as bloodletting, blistering, and the use of leaches. He set himself the task of developing a safer form of medicine, and over 220 years ago he came up with homeopathy. The conventional doctors of the day derided and attacked him, and conventional doctors continue to do so today - fully supported by the mainstream media.

Provision for health care is now dominated by conventional medicine, and this is itself dominated by the prescription of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines. It is a system of medicine that remains inherently unsafe, just as it was in Hahnemann's time.

How do we know this? Do we have evidence of the harm it causes? For instance, does conventional medicine cause autism, is it the reason for the current epidemic levels of autism, a disease entirely unknown 70 years ago? One this is certain, the conventional medical establishment says that it does not know the cause of autism.

               "The exact cause of autism is currently unknown. Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental condition. The causes are still being investigated. Current evidence suggests that autism may be caused by many factors that affect the way the brain develops. These include genetics and environmental triggers."

But it does know that it does not cause autism, the MMR vaccine does not cause autism, the MMR vaccines is entirely safe. Anyone who says otherwise is an 'antivaxxer', a danger to our health according to the World Health Organisation. Yet look at this patient information leaflet, taken from the MMR vaccine given to children in Britain, which can be accessed through this website.

               "After the marketing of Priorix, the following side effects have been reported:

     • infection or inflammation of the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves resulting in temporary difficulty when walking (unsteadiness) and/or temporary loss of control of bodily movements, inflammation of some nerves, possibly with pins and needles or loss of feeling or normal movement (Guillain-Barré syndrome)"

Not autism perhaps, but evidence that the MMR vaccine can cause serious 'side effects' to the brain. So is this vaccines 'entirely safe'? The information leaflets also list other serious side effects, including high fever, rash, upper respiratory tract infection, infection of the middle ear, swollen lymph glands, abnormal crying, insomnia, bronchitis, swollen parotid glands, diarrhoea, vomiting, convulsions, joint and muscle pain, sudden life-threatening allergic reactions, narrowing or blockage of blood vessels, and measles and mumps like symptoms.

This is not my information. It is information that comes in the package with the MMR vaccine. Doctors know about this, yet they are still prepared to call this vaccine "safe".

When I wrote my DIE’s website (the disease inducing effects of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines) I was surprised how often conventional medicine claimed that it did not know the cause of so many serious illnesses. Everyone is aware that pharmaceutical drugs cause side effects, often so serious the drug (or vaccine) has to be banned. So I started to look for evidence that these so-called 'side effects' were (at least in part) the cause of these mystery, unexplained diseases. What I discovered was not only evidence that they do, but that much of that evidence is contained within the books and journals of conventional medicine itself.

Conventional doctors may insist that pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines are safe, even 'entirely' safe, but within their own literature there is clear evidence that they are not!

Autism is a disease unknown before the 1940’s, prior to mass vaccination campaigns. Since then it has risen, exponentially. And it has done so in exact parallel to the increased use of vaccines. The CDC website (a pillar of the conventional medical establishment) gives the following statistics about the rise and rise of autism in the USA.

          2000          1 in 150 children
          2002          1 in 150 children
          2004          1 in 125 children
          2006          1 in 110 children
          2008          1 in 88 children
          2010          1 in 68 children
          2012          1 in 59 children

A more recent 'Age of Autism' estimate suggests that the figure could now be 1 in 45 children!

The autism epidemic is not confined to America. It is now raging throughout the world, especially in countries with the health system is dominated by conventional medicine based on pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines. The National Autistic Society in Britain says that whilst there is no register, or direct count kept, autism is much more common than many people think.

               "There are around 700,000 people in the UK living with autism - that's more than 1 in 1001. If you include their families, autism touches the lives of 2.8 million people every day."


The NHS Choices website, in 2016, agreed with this estimate, stating that 1 in every 100 people in Britain now has autism.

Even so, as far as conventional medicine is concerned, the cause of autism remains 'unknown'! How can this be so? Is this a cover-up? Is the cause known but denied? 

My DIE's website looked into the evidence that pharmaceutical vaccines and drugs has caused the epidemic of autism. It implicates not only the MMR and other vaccines, but also the vaccination of pregnant mothers, paracetamol (the main ingredient of Calpol), and mums taking antidepressant drugs. And all of them are implicated in causing autism.

And equally, all of these links are routinely ignored, and/or denied by the conventional medical establishment!

This direct evidence that pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines cause autism is supported by what might be called 'reverse' proof of causation. Homeopathic CEASE therapy works by detoxifying the body, and homeopaths have found that one of the main toxins that has to be removed are childhood vaccines.

So CEASE therapy is effective, as in the many actual cases outlined in a previous blog, because it antidotes the harm that has been caused by childhood vaccines.

Even so, the BBC programme had the audacity, and the gall to claim that homeopathy harmed children. And in doing so it ignored the real harm caused to children by pharmaceutical vaccines and drugs.

So the debate will continue. Just because the conventional medical establishment, the pharmaceutical industry, drug regulators, politicians and governments, and the mainstream media seek to hide and deny the debate that is going on about autism, its causes and treatment, it does not mean that the worries and concerns of parents will go away.

Medicine does not have to be harmful to patients. Homeopathy is not harmful - but our health system, dominated as it is by conventional medicine, is dangerous to patients. Therefore, homeopathy will continue to oppose drugs and vaccines that cause patient harm, and we will continue to treat children with autism in order that they might once again lead full lives. Even if our children are not allowed to attend nurseries, or schools, and visit pubic spaces in town centres, homeopathy will continue to fight the battle for patient choice, and health freedom.

This is the last of 4 blogs on the subject of Autism and Homeopathy.

• the first blog, which described the hostile attitude of conventional medicine and the BBC towards homeopathy, can be found here.
• the second makes reference to some of the many cases of autistic children who have been treated successfully with homeopathy
• the third blog looked at the scientific evidence that shows that homeopathy can treat autism effectively.

If conventional medicine does not wish to find a cure for Autism, Homeopathy certainly will continue to do so.

CEASE therapists can be found on the internet here.

http://www.cease-therapy.com/make-appointment/all-certified-practitioners/

AUTISM & HOMEOPATHY. The science that support claims of successful treatment.

Medical science is not much use to homeopathy! The practise of homeopathy has no need for it, and does not rely upon it. Unlike conventional medicine it does not give patients potentially dangerous drugs with harmful side effects. If an illness has symptoms they are studied, and matched with a remedy known to cause similar symptoms. Every remedy is highly diluted so it does not cause patient harm. It can be used with patients to see if it works; if it does, fine; if it doesn't, it does not harm, and the search goes on. This means that there is no need to test remedies for safety, and remedies can be given to patients without risk to their health.

This is how homeopathy has progressed for the last 220+ years.

And it is how homeopathy will continue to progress in future.

In last weeks BBC's 'You and Yours' programme that gratuitously attacked homeopathy for claiming to treat and cure homeopathy, it was stated that there was "no evidence for homeopathy". This is the mantra routinely trotted out by the mainstream media, loyally echoing the message that the conventional medical establishment wants us all to hear. Yet this is untrue.

I read an article recently entitled "Homeopathy is about to be regulated out of existence but science just got in the way". It outlines the many moves being made all over the world by conventional medicine (but focusing on the USA) to regulate and discredit homeopathy. The article focuses on one study undertaken at the University of Florence, Italy, in 2017 which reported on studies that show, unequivocally, that some highly diluted homeopathic remedies do evoke a biological response.

               “These studies show that, contrary to previous beliefs, when homeopathic medicines containing metal nanoparticles are progressively diluted and succussed (shaken), highly diluted solutions contains an unexpected amount of the original substance.”

More about this Italian research can be found here. Yet there is much more scientific evidence supporting homeopathy than mentioned in this single study. The fact is that there are now nearly 500 studies that point to the effectiveness of homeopathy as a medical therapy. 

Amongst these studies are three on the homeopathic treatment of autism.

Gupta N, et al. 

Homoeopathic Medicinal Treatment of Autism. 

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy, 2010, 4, 4, 19-28. 

An Indian research team set out to investigate the effects of individualised homeopathic treatment in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). 25 children who had been diagnosed with ASD were enrolled in the study. They received individualised homoeopathic treatment and their progress was followed for 18 months. Significant positive & curative response with homoeopathic medicines in subjects with ASD was found, suggesting that homoeopathic medicines can provide relief from abnormal behavioural problems in children presenting with ASD. 

Fibert P, et al. 

A Comparative Consecutive Case Series of 20 Children With a Diagnosis of ADHD Receiving Homeopathic Treatment, Compared With 10 Children Receiving Usual Care. 

Homeopathy, 2016, 105, 194-201. 

This UK research compared the clinical effects of individualised homeopathic treatment for 1 year in 20 children diagnosed with ADHD, with standard treatment for 10 children diagnosed with the same condition for 4 months. Parents completed Conners’ Parent Rating Scale, Revised Long Version (CPRS-R:L) and Measure Your Own Medical Outcome Profile (MYMOP) every consultation at baseline and every 4 months, from which DSMIV total scores were extracted. 

The use of homeopathy was associated with statistically significant improvements in criminality and anger and improvements in children with a concomitant diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in treated children over the year.

Praful M Barvalia1, Piyush M Oza1, Amit H Daftary, Vijaya S Patil, Vinita S Agarwal, Ashish R Mehta

Effectiveness of homoeopathic therapeutics in the management of childhood autism disorder

Indian Journal of Research in Homeopathy

The study demonstrated the usefulness of homeopathic treatment in management of neuropsychological dysfunction in childhood autism disorder, which is reflected in significant reduction of hyperactivity, behavioral dysfunction, sensory impairment as well as communication difficulty. This was demonstrated well in psychosocial adaptation of autistic children.

So why did the BBC ignores these studies? Or at least find out about them? Why were they content meekly to trot out conventional medicine's mantra - that there is no evidence for homeopathy?

• Remember, conventional medicine openly admits that it has no treatment for autism.

               "There's no 'cure' for autism, but there are ways to support autistic people, their families, carers and friends......"

• Remember, the BBC itself admitted in its programme that there are many 'desperate' parents out there who were looking for effective treatment for their autistic children. 

When science confirms the effectiveness of homeopathic treatment, as in the three studies outlined above, the conventional medical establishment will usually dismiss them, saying that such studies are not good enough, that there is something wrong with them. No doubt they would say this about these studies, regardless of their quality.

• Yet should these three studies alone not be sufficient to trigger for further research?
• Moreover, would the case examples outlined in my previous blog not be good enough reason to undertake more research?

If such results had come from a pharmaceutical drug such evidence would have been plastered all over the mainstream media, and we would not be able to escape hearing about it!

What this strongly suggests is that the conventional medical establishment (and their supporters in the BBC) has no interest whatsoever in a cure for autism.......... unless, of course, it is a conventional medical or pharmaceutical cure! And they haven't got one!

This is the third of 4 blogs on the subject of Autism and Homeopathy

• the first blog, which described the hostile attitude of conventional medicine and the BBC towards homeopathy, can be found here.
• the second makes reference to some of the many cases of autistic children who have been treated successfully with homeopathy
• the fourth blog concerns the evidence that conventional medicine not only has no treatment, but is a major cause of autism.

If conventional medicine does not wish to find a cure for Autism, Homeopathy certainly will continue to do so.

CEASE therapists can be found on the internet here.

http://www.cease-therapy.com/make-appointment/all-certified-practitioners/