Hayley Watson

Deby Jizi
UWRT 1102-09
2 March 2016

Double Entry Journal

Citation: Rimland, Bernard. "The Autism Epidemic, Vaccinations, and Mercury." Journal of
Nutritional & Environmental Medicine. 10.4 (2000). Print.

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Responses

It was not until 1973, 24 years after

starting his practice, that he had his
first autistic patient. Then came more.
I am absolutely certain that there is a
huge increase in autism, Dr. Crook
told me. Page 1

This statement shows that autism was not a

huge problem back in the day but as time
went on autism became to become a problem.
Do doctors know why but they refuse to say?

increases between 1987 and 1998

ranging between 273% and 346%,
depending on which definition of
autism was used. The increase in
cerebral palsy, epilepsy and mental
retardation was about 3% per year for
the 1987 98 periodrunning parallel
to the increase in the general
population of California. Autism was
the only developmental disability to
show the precipitous increase. Page 2

Why is it that autism the only developmental

disability affected by this increase. Why not
all the others to? Why are the other disabilities
rising slowly in coherence with the population
but autism is not?

They say that the suspected linkage

between the MMR vaccination and
autism has been disproven by a study
conducted by Brent Taylor and his
colleagues in London... I respectfully
asked Dr. Taylor for a copy of the data
so that I could reanalyze them. He
refused this ordinary professional
courtesy Page 3

Why is refusing to give up his data? Is he

hiding something? Maybe he found something
that he did not want to find so he changed the
results to fit what he wanted to be portrayed in
this study. If his report was flawless and
accurate then he would have had no problem
handing over the results. Maybe he was scared
that his study would be disproven.

Data on many thousands of cases

collected by the Autism Research
Institute since 1965 show that the
onset of autism at 18 months is a
recent development. Autism starting
at 18 months was very uncommon for
several decades, then rose sharply in
the mid-1980s, when the MMR vaccine
came into wide use. Page 3/4

That is crazy to realize that autism starting at

18 months is not something that has always
happened. I believe that doctors have noticed
this trend but vaccinations are such a huge
industry they dont want to ruin its reputation
by admitting something is wrong with them.
Why is the MMR Vaccine supposedly the one
that triggers it?

In the US children now typically

receive 33 vaccines before they enter
schoola huge increase. Could this be
the reason for the upsurge in autism,
ADHD, asthma, arthritis, Crohns
disease, lupus and other chronic
disorders? Page 4

I am curious to find the answer to this

question. I know that these diseases and
disabilities have become and increase problem
recently and it would be interesting to figure
out if vaccines have anything to do with it.

These similarities, she testified,

include the defining characteristics of
autismand they include traits
strongly associated with autism and
found in nearly all cases of the
disorder In addition, she noted,
mercury poisoning can cause many of
the same biological abnormalities as
are seen in autism, including immune
system dysfunction and anomalies in
the cerebellum, amygdala, and
hippocampus. Page 5

It is crazy how closely related mercury

poisoning and autism is related. Maybe that is
why the other disabilities did increase so
quickly because they are closely resembled to
mercury poisoning. How can you distinguish
between mercury poisoning and autism? Has
cases of autism been misdiagnosed? Has
mercury poisoning cases been misdiagnosed?

Noting that low doses of mercury

tend to harm genetically susceptible
individuals, Bernard pointed out that
autism has been recognized as one of
the most heritable of all neurological
disorders and is strongly associated
with familial autoimmune disorders.
Page 5

Does this mean that mercury triggers the

dormant genes of autism within a particular
child? Interesting to know that small doses
can harm people but yet we are given huge
amounts as young children.