If you think *that* post stirred up the vaccine industry shills, wait until you see how they respond to this:
The govt (DOJ)/vaccine industry's chief expert witness that specialized in denying the vaccine autism link *changed his mind* based on advancing scientific knowledge. He said vaccines can cause autism, after all, in exceptional cases, and that he personally treated some. This is like the robber's best friend admitting his friend pulled the job.
If Dr. Zimmerman had come down the other way, the vaccine industry and their propagandists would declare it "settled science."
But since he came down the "wrong way" on this key issue worth so much $$$$, the vaccine cultists have bent themselves into pretzels trying to minimize him, his findings, spin it. See how they reply to this post for entertaining pretzel-ing.
The fact is: if vaccines triggered autism in one child with mitochondrial disorder, it's silly to conclude that's the only child on the planet it could happen to. Quite the opposite. Now that a biological mechanism is identified, it implies more instances. Perhaps many more. (Scientists say today mitochondrial dysfunction is more common than we knew when Dr. Zimmerman labeled it as a factor in vaccine-induced-autism.)
Secondly, many other predispositions can cause autism when triggered by vaccines, but the medical health establishment has made no public investment in identifying them.
For example, vaccine court and the government have acknowledged kids born with tuberous sclerosis also had autism triggered by vaccination. The government has paid awards to some of those families for that reason.
Hannah was described as normal, happy and precocious in her first 18 months.
Then, in July 2000, she was vaccinated against nine diseases in one doctor's visit: measles, mumps, rubella, polio, varicella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and Haemophilus influenzae.
Afterward, her health declined rapidly. She developed high fevers, stopped eating, didn't respond when spoken to, began showing signs of autism, and began having screaming fits.
In 2002, Hannah's parents filed an autism claim in federal vaccine court. Five years later, the government admitted vaccines caused her autism, settled quietly before it could become a landmark case, and had it sealed.
CDC officials continued to call the vaccine-autism link "debunked" and a "quack" theory.