I know many of you want me to look at the potential vaccine/autism link

This issue has heated up again after my article Friday on the study showing young rats demonstrated autistic behaviors after their mothers were given Covid mRNA jabs. Here's why I'm reluctant.

On Friday, I wrote about a disturbing paper from Turkish researchers that showed young rats showed evidence of brain damage and autistic-like behavior after their mothers were given the mRNAs. (Full link to Friday article is here - and below.)

As many of you know, I have been reluctant to speculate on the possibility that the standard non-mRNA vaccine schedule can cause autism. Obviously, many of you do not agree, and Friday’s article stirred up this issue again. The top reader comment on it came from J.B. Handley, who is a leading proponent of the vaccine-autism theory:

Your unwillingness, to date, to consider the childhood vaccine schedule’s role in the autism epidemic has been very frustrating for people like me who otherwise conisder you a hero. I hope this revelation helps you re-consider that somehow, magically, the childhood vaccines cause no problems…

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(I’ll tell you what I think even if I think you won’t like it… that’s gotta be worth something, right? Like 20 cents a day?)

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I think this comment deserves an answer - and not just because J.B. was an early and enthusiastic member of Team Reality. (His first email to me came on April 1, 2020, and ended, “Thanks, keep up twitter feed, you’re a voice of reason in a crazy world.” No surprise, vaccine skeptics were early to wonder if the medical establishment was being honest about Covid’s risks.)

So here, broadly, is why I am unlikely to get into the (non-mRNA) vaccine/autism issue for the foreseeable future:

JB - I understand where you are coming from.

As I have said publicly, at the moment I simply do not have the bandwidth to get involved in the autism/vaccine debate. I believe a very complex mix of factors - potentially both biological/genetic, and related to medical/health system incentives - are probably driving the increase in autism diagnoses.

And I do not quite see a plausible connection between old-school inactivated virus vaccines (especially without thimerosal) and autism. I find this study, for example, quite convincing. I am much more willing to believe the mRNAs are problematic, as they are much less understood and clearly have downstream effects that were not properly studied.

I would also point out that this study looks at prenatal administration of vaccines, not postnatal. To the extent autism is driven by genetic or metagenomic factors, I'd expect prenatal administration is far more likely to cause problems.

To some extent, this is simply a question of time and focus. As I have said before, I really need to figure out where I can best use my skillset. People want me to write about climate change; about the 2020 election; some even want me to write more John Wells.

I believe I have a nearly unique perspective and ability to investigate problems in medicine and drug/biologic/vaccine development, as well as efforts at recreational (defined broadly) drug legalization. I also believe these are issues where public opinion has not crystallized and hardened as badly as it has on issues like climate change or autism and vaccines, so I hope my voice can matter in a way it will not on the autism-vaccine debate.

I know this explanation may not satisfy you or other people who have spent time and effort examining the potential connection here, but I hope it helps you understand my perspective.

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Like I said, I don’t expect this answer will make everyone (or anyone) happy. But I believe I owe Unreported Truths readers… the truth.

Friday article is here: