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At the 2009 Fourth International Public Conference on Vaccination, which was sponsored by the charitable National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)¹ established in 1982 by parents of DPT vaccine injured children, I made an appeal to the audience for donations to help NVIC fund a study to compare health outcomes of vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Authored by Anthony R. Mawson, PhD and Binu Jacob, that peer reviewed study was published on Jan. 23, 2025 in Science, Public Health Policy and the Law.An analysis of Medicaid claims data for 47,155 nine-year-old children revealed that vaccinated children were significantly more likely than unvaccinated children to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD); hyperkinetic syndrome of childhood; epilepsy or seizures; encephalopathy, tic disorders and learning disorders.²

Since the 1990s, NVIC has repeatedly called for published research comparing all morbidity and mortality outcomes in children administered vaccines according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) schedule and those who remain unvaccinated,^3 4 and we have called for published bench science that provides information about the biological mechanisms of vaccine injury and death and individual high risk factors to help prevent vaccine injuries and deaths.⁵ By the mid-1990s, it had become clear that increasing numbers of American children were being plagued with chronic disease and disability marked by chronic inflammation in the body, especially neurodevelopmental delays like autism.^{6 7 8 9 10 11}This increase in brain and immune dysfunction among children—especially autism—occurred at the same time the recommended childhood vaccine schedule tripled from 23 doses of seven vaccines given between two months and age six in 1983¹² to 69 doses of 16 vaccines given between day of birth and age 18 in 2013.^{13 14 15 16}

More Vaccinations—Increased Risks for Autism Spectrum Disorder

The objective of the current study was to determine the association between vaccination and neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) by analyzing data in records of children from birth to age nine enrolled in the Florida State Medicaid program and testing three hypotheses: (1) vaccination is associated with ASD and other NDDs; (2) preterm birth coupled with vaccination increases the odds of NDDs compared to preterm birth without vaccination; (3) increasing numbers of vaccinations are associated with increased risks of ASD. A retrospective cohort design was used to compute relative risks specifically of ASD and cross-sectional analyses were performed to calculate prevalence odds ratios.

Investigators found that “(1) vaccination was associated with significantly increased odds for all measured NDDs; (2)  Among children born preterm and vaccinated, 39.9% were diagnosed with at least one NDD compared to 15.7 percent among those born preterm and unvaccinated (OR 3.58, 95% CI: 2.80); and (3) the relative risk of ASD increased according to the number of visits that included vaccinations.”

Children with just one vaccination visit were 1.7 times more likely to have been diagnosed with ASD than the unvaccinated (95% CI: 1.21, 2.35). Those with 11 or more visits were 4.4 times more likely have been diagnosed with ASD than those with no visit for vaccination (95% CI 2.85, 6.84).

Study Results Suggest Current Childhood Vaccine Schedule May Contribute to Multiple Forms of Neurodevelopmental Delays

The authors concluded that:

These results suggest that the current vaccination schedule may be contributing to multiple forms of NDD; that vaccination coupled with preterm birth was strongly associated with increased odds of NDDs compared to preterm birth in the absence of vaccination; and increasing numbers of visits that included vaccinations were associated with increased risks of ASD.

2013 Institute of Medicine Committee: The Early Childhood Vaccine Schedule Not Adequately Studied for Safety

In 2013, a report published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies, examined scientific evidence related to the federally recommended early childhood vaccine schedule. The report was authored by an IOM committee that concluded the birth to six-year-old vaccine schedule had not been fully scientifically evaluated, pointing out that:

Most vaccine-related research focuses on the outcomes of single immunizations or combinations of vaccines administered at a single visit. Although each new vaccine is evaluated in the context of the overall immunization schedule that existed at the time of review of that vaccine, elements of the schedule are not evaluated once it is adjusted to accommodate a new vaccine. Thus, key elements of the entire schedule—the number, frequency, timing, order and age of administration of vaccines—have not been systematically examined in research studies.¹⁷

The 2013 IOM report concluded that there is not enough scientific evidence to determine if the recommended early childhood vaccine schedule is or is not associated with the development of the following brain and immune system disorders prevalent among American children today: asthma; atopy; allergy; autoimmunity; autism; learning disorders; communication disorders; developmental disorders; intellectual disability; attention deficit disorder; disruptive behavior disorder; tics and Tourette’s Syndrome; seizures, febrile seizures and epilepsy.¹⁸

In a Jan. 16, 2013 press release, the National Vaccine Information Center called for “transparency, independence and replication in future research to assess the safety of federal vaccine policies, including evaluating health outcomes of vaccinated and unvaccinated children and those using alternative vaccine schedules.”¹⁹

Unanswered Questions About Vaccines and Chronic Illness

Since 1982, parents of vaccine injured children in America have been warning that there are many more children being harmed by vaccines than government, industry and medical trade are willing to admit. By the mid-1990s, we knew that there was an epidemic of chronic disease and disability plaguing our infants and children that public health officials could not explain and still cannot explain and we begged those in charge of the mandatory vaccination system to do the scientific research that Congress promised in the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act would be done to answer outstanding questions about vaccine risks.²⁰

A small non-profit charity, the National Vaccine Information Center, raised $150,000 in donations to fund a study to compare health outcomes of vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Congress hands billions of taxpayer dollars to the National Institutes of Health every year (a staggering $48B in 2024) to do scientific research that is supposed to improve the health of Americans.²¹ Why does none of that money go to investigating vaccine risks and explaining how and why vaccines cause harm and who is most vulnerable?

The lives of the vaccine vulnerable are just as important as the lives of those vulnerable to complications from infectious diseases. Public health policy that is not based on sound science is dangerous and mandatory vaccination laws that violate the informed consent ethic are morally bankrupt.

The people have waited far too long for the “experts” to do something about vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths. It is time to hold those operating and profiting from the mass vaccination system accountable and repeal compulsory vaccination laws at the same time.

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The following information is critical as the autism rate for American children is 1 in 33 and is likely even worse.