Journalist uncovers the truth about autism
Fortunately there are a few exceptions to the ruler, and one of those is a true journalist - Dan Olmsted, who is an investigative reporter for United Press International (UPI), and author of the “Age of Autism” series. One of the most outstanding things he did was answer the question, “Is there autism among non-vaccinated populations?” Sounds like a simple task and normally, this would have been something our own CDC would have investigated, but they didn’t because they didn’t need to. Again, the CDC already knew the mercury in vaccine was causing the disturbing increase in neurobehavioral disorders. They decided their job was to cover it up.
I spent my first few years of medical school just a few miles from the Amish country in central Pennsylvania. I can tell you that the Amish have the same genetic makeup that the rest of us have, and are susceptible to all the same diseases. There is no reason to believe that the Amish have super-genes that prevent them from getting certain ailments.
Olmsted looked at the nation's Amish population where parents almost never vaccinate children in his series “Age of Autism: A glimpse of the Amish.” Olmsted reported on the Amish community in Pennsylvania and found a family doctor in Lancaster who had treated thousands of Amish patients over a quarter-century. This doctor said he has never seen an Amish person with autism.
Olmsted also interviewed Dick Warner, who has a water purification & natural health business and has been in Amish households all over the country. "I've been working with Amish people since 1980. I have never seen an autistic Amish child -- not one," he told Olmsted. "I would know it. I have a strong medical background. I know what autistic people are like. I have friends who have autistic children," he added. (http://aboutautism.blogspot.com/2005/06/age-of-autism-glimpse-of-amish.html)
Olmsted did find one Amish woman in Lancaster County with an autistic child but as it turns out, the child was adopted from China and had been vaccinated. The woman knew of two other autistic children but here again, one of those had been vaccinated.
On June 9, 2005, Olmsted reported on the autism rate in the Amish community around Middlefield, Ohio, which was 1 in 15,000, according to Dr. Heng Wang, the medical director, at the DDC Clinic for Special Needs Children. (http://aboutautism.blogspot.com/2005/06/age-of-autism-one-in-15000-amish.html)
"So far," according to Olmsted, "there is evidence of fewer than 10 Amish with autism; there should be several hundred if the disorder occurs among them at the same 150 to 1 prevalence as children born in the rest of the population."
On December 7, 2005, “Age of Autism” reported that thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common with Amish children, they have never been vaccinated and they don't have autism. (http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20051204-060313-6829r.htm)
Homefirst has five offices in the Chicago area and a total of six doctors. "We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we've taken care of over the years, and I don't think we have a single case of autism in children delivered by us who never received vaccines," said Dr Mayer Eisenstein, Homefirst's medical director who founded the practice in 1973.
Olmsted reported that the autism rate in Illinois public schools is 38 per 10,000, according to state Education Department data. In treating a population of 30,000 to 35,000 children, this would logically mean that Homefirst should have seen at least 200 autistic children over the years but the clinic has seen none.
In Olmsted’s most recent article (http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/56227.html#) he pinpoints the location where many of the first cases of autism were concentrated before the disorder exploded nationwide. He points out, “Ground zero was the nation's capital, in particular the Maryland suburbs where cutting-edge government research in the 1930s and 1940s exposed families to the chemical that first triggered the baffling disorder.”
The U.S. Agriculture Department’s Beltsville research center in suburban Maryland, just outside the nation’s capital, was experimenting with plant fungi and ways to kill them using ethyl mercury fungicide -- the exact kind also used in the vaccine preservative Thimerosal.
Ethyl mercury was patented in the 1920s through the work of Morris S. Kharasch. Kharasch was a chemistry professor at the University of Maryland in College Park, which is next to the Beltsville research center.
In 1943, Johns Hopkins University child psychiatrist Leo Kanner first diagnosed autism in 11 children born in the 1930s. Olmsted has found that these children seemed to have a parent either linked to cutting-edge research involving mercury or had exposures to ethyl mercury fungicides which were used to treat seeds, saplings and lumber in the 1930s. Olmsted concludes, “To sum up: the first cases of autism seem to radiate outward from a central point -- as big bangs tend to do. As those exposures expanded, so did autism. This suggests a new and deeply disturbing truth about the Age of Autism: our fate is not in our genes, Dear Brutus, but in the chemicals that increasingly pollute our world and our children.”
Olmsted is to be commended for his research and investigation into the cause of autism. He has done a tremendous service for the planet. He did what the CDC should have done, but again they didn’t need to do the research as they already know mercury is at the root cause of the autism epidemic. The CDC has acted as a dissembler in this epidemic.
What did the government know, and when did they know it?
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