Vaccines do cause brain damage and AUTISM: CDC forced to admit the science was NEVER SETTLED
By ljdevon // 2025-11-21
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For decades, parents who witnessed their vibrant, healthy children regress into a world of autism after routine vaccinations were dismissed as hysterical, anti-science conspiracy theorists. They were told by every major health authority, their pediatricians, and the media that the connection they observed was a tragic coincidence, a fantasy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) website served as the bedrock of this official narrative, boldly proclaiming “Vaccines do not cause autism” as an unassailable fact. Now, in a stunning reversal that vindicates countless families and exposes a legacy of institutional failure, the CDC has been forced to update its guidance. The agency now admits this long-held statement is not evidence-based, confirming what a growing chorus of doctors and devastated parents have known all along: the science was never settled, and the truth has been systematically suppressed. This monumental change, compelled by the Data Quality Act, shatters the foundation of vaccine orthodoxy and opens the door to a long-overdue, honest investigation into the genetic, environmental, and medical triggers of the autism epidemic that have crippled a generation. Key points:
  • The CDC has officially updated its website, retracting the definitive statement “Vaccines do not cause autism” because it is not supported by rigorous scientific evidence.
  • Multiple federal reviews, including those by the Institute of Medicine, have consistently found the evidence “inadequate” to determine if vaccines like DTaP and Hepatitis B do or do not cause autism.
  • A correlation between the rising number of childhood vaccines and the skyrocketing autism rates has been identified, meriting serious investigation that has been historically ignored.
  • Evidence provided by McCullough et al. sheds a light on the vaccine-autism connection and opens the door for more debate on other causes.
  • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is now launching a comprehensive assessment to investigate plausible biological mechanisms, including the role of aluminum adjuvants and neuroinflammation.
  • This admission exposes a decades-long public health deception and paves the way for real science to address the root causes of the autism crisis.

The house of cards comes tumbling down

The CDC’s update on this serious public health issue is a capitulation, a confession. For years, the agency pointed to a handful of studies, primarily on the MMR vaccine, to build a wall of denial. Yet, when one looks at the fine print of the very reports the CDC cited, a different story emerges. The source text reveals that the 2011 Institute of Medicine (IOM) study, often paraded as proof, actually concluded that the evidence was “inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship” between the DTP/DTaP vaccine and autism. In plain language, they did not know. This critical nuance was buried, and the public was fed a simplified, fraudulent certainty. The deception runs deeper. Of the 16 vaccines on the childhood schedule, only the MMR has been directly studied for a link to autism in any significant way. What about the other 15, and what about compounding dosages? The CDC’s own updated guidance admits that for the core infant vaccines—DTaP, Hepatitis B, Hib, IPV, and PCV—there are simply no studies that rule out a connection to autism. These are the vaccines injected into babies in their first six months of life, during a critical window of neurological development. The foundation of the “safe and effective” mantra for the entire schedule was built on a void of evidence. How can an agency sworn to protect public health make a definitive safety claim about products that have never been properly tested for one of the most significant childhood health crises of our time?

A timeline of ignorance and failed oversight

The government’s own timeline of reports paints a damning picture of willful ignorance. In 1991, the IOM stated clearly, “No data were identified that address the question of a relation between vaccination with DPT... and autism.” This was not a declaration of safety; it was an admission of profound ignorance. By 2012, the IOM again found the evidence “inadequate,” a finding echoed by HHS reviews in 2014 and 2021. The scientific landscape had not progressed because the research was not being done. The question was being ignored. Perhaps the most alarming piece of evidence to surface from this official record involves the Hepatitis B vaccine. The 2014 AHRQ review identified a single reliable cross-sectional study that found a threefold risk of parental report of autism among newborns who received the HepB vaccine in the first month of life compared to those who did not. Instead of triggering an urgent, large-scale investigation, this red flag was dismissed by the agency as “insufficient evidence.” One must ask, what constitutes sufficient evidence for these agencies? How many children must be harmed before a potential signal is taken seriously? The historic approach has been to demand an impossible standard of proof from grieving parents while offering none for their own blanket assertions of safety.

The undeniable correlation and the aluminum connection

While correlation does not equal causation, it does demand explanation. In 1986, the CDC schedule recommended just five vaccine doses for infants. Today, that number has exploded. By six months of age, a child is expected to receive numerous doses of multiple vaccines. This massive increase in the immunological burden on infants coincides perfectly with the autism rate skyrocketing from an estimated 1 in 10,000 in the 1980s to approximately 1 in 36 today. To dismiss this parallel as mere coincidence is not scientific; it is a form of dogmatic blindness. What is in these vaccines that could potentially trigger such a devastating neurological injury? Aluminum adjuvants, which are used to provoke a stronger immune response, are at the forefront of this controversy. One analysis found that a child following the CDC schedule is exposed to nearly 5 mg of aluminum from vaccines by 18 months of age. Aluminum is a known neurotoxin. Evidence in the U.S. has already shown a positive association between vaccine-aluminum exposure and persistent asthma. Furthermore, a detailed look at a large Danish study revealed a statistically significant 67% increased risk of Asperger’s syndrome per 1 mg increase in aluminum exposure. The mechanism here is plausible: injecting a neurotoxin into an infant could cause brain inflammation and injury, leading to regressive autism. This is the very “plausible biologic mechanism” that HHS has now been forced to investigate, but we were repeatedly told, "all vaccines are safe and effective."

A new dawn for truth and accountability

This forced correction by the CDC, while a landmark victory for truth, is only the beginning. It opens the floodgates for legitimate, long-suppressed research. HHS is now obligated to investigate the role of aluminum, the risks for children with underlying mitochondrial disorders, and the broader harms of vaccine-induced neuroinflammation. A great amount of research has already been conducted by McCullough et al., including co-authors Nicolas Hulscher, John S. Leake, Simon Troupe, Claire Rogers, Kirstin Cosgrove, M. Nathaniel Mead, Breanne Craven, Mila Radetich, and Andrew Wakefield. This is the research that should have been conducted decades ago. The generation of children lost to autism, who suffer from lifelong challenges and profound disability, are the living testament to this failure. Their parents’ pleas were not anecdotes; they were clinical histories that the medical establishment was criminally negligent to ignore. The CDC’s admission is a confession of guilt. It reveals an institution that prioritized vaccine uptake over scientific integrity and parental trust. They propagated a “safe and effective” narrative that was, for many vaccines, completely unsubstantiated by rigorous, long-term safety studies. The angst and anger felt by millions of families is justified. Sources include: CDC.gov Zenodo.org Enoch, Brighteon.ai
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