Evidence Showing Childhood Vaccinations Are Causing Autism and Other Intellectual Disabilities

The association between vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders has been referred to by the recently re-elected US President Donald Trump and his new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr. The question is re-opened in this issue of the IJVTPR challenging the claim by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that “vaccines do not cause autism”. This paper reviews preclinical and clinical data, and outlines genetic susceptibilities to toxicants known to be causally associated with intellectual disabilities. Based on the pertinent scientific literature, and my own clinical experience as an MD, the positive association of autism with vaccines is getting more and more difficult to deny. The Bradford Hill criteria, which require temporal connection, significant magnitude of injury, consistency of similar cases across groups, systematic elimination of other possible causes, evidence of dose dependence, and the existence of a plausible theoretical explanation to demonstrate a true causal relationship, are all met. According to the CDC the prevalence of autism was about 1 in 150 children in 2000 and by 2020 it had risen to 1 in 36. Given the alarmingly rapid increase in autism and neurodevelopmental disorders, policymakers, health authorities, and parents should take seriously the message from the independent scientific community about the dangers of vaccines.