‘You get a vaccine and that’s the trigger,’ one said during a conference.
New advisers to the government said during an event on March 9 that vaccines cause autism, a disorder that has become increasingly common in the United States.
“We have to stop 115,000 autism cases from happening every year. And the way that we stop that is by keeping toxic chemicals out of kids’ bodies,” Toby Rogers, one of the advisers, said. “That starts with getting rid of vaccine schedules altogether.
“But we also have to ban and better regulate about a dozen other toxic chemicals as well.”
Dr. Elizabeth Mumper, another adviser, added later that, depending on the situation, vaccines can set up the body for autism or trigger it.
“For some kids, I think a vaccine is an antecedent, meaning that it does something to the immune [system], so that the next time they see a trigger—it might be a bad flu infection, it might be another vaccine, it might be glyphosate, it might be moving close to an industrial pesticide farm—then that tips them over,” she said.
“Or maybe you’ve got predisposing factors that are antecedent, like C-section birth and early antibiotic use, and then you get a vaccine, and that’s the trigger.”
Rogers and Mumper were speaking at an event held in Washington by the MAHA Institute, which was started by a businessman who backed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid in 2024.
Kennedy in January named Rogers, Mumper, and others to a national autism committee that advises the government on autism-related work.
The committee was supposed to meet on March 19 for the first time since being remade by the health secretary, but officials recently said the meeting was postponed. A competing panel, started in part in response to concerns over the views of new committee members on vaccines, is still slated to convene on March 19.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to say that vaccines do not cause autism, but now says that studies have not ruled out that possibility. The federal vaccine court has awarded money to parents whose children experienced symptoms of autism, such as brain swelling.
The National Medical Association, which accepts money from vaccine manufacturers, is among the organizations that say no credible evidence demonstrates that autism is caused by vaccines.
At the MAHA Institute event, dubbed the “massive epidemic of vaccine injury roundtable,” people spoke out against vaccines, some more forcefully than others. Mark Gorton, president of the group, at one point said that all shots must be removed from the market “until they can be proven to be both safe and effective.”
