Tag: autism
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Trump Signs Executive Order on Vaccines
by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 10, 2026) — At 2:55 p.m. EDT, President Trump began speaking from the Oval Office regarding the CDC’s childhood vaccine schedule, thanking HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for his assistance in contributing to it. Reading presumably from the order, Trump said the recommended number of vaccine doses for children is…
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Looking Back: The Best of Popular Rationalism, 2025
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Dec. 29, 2025) — Let’s Talk About What You Helped to Build in 2025 You’ve been with us this year — reading, sharing, questioning — and you weren’t just here for the ride. You were helping steer it. We published 295 articles; a mix of full-length feature articles,…
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An Epistemic Audit of WHO’s December 2025 Statement on Vaccines and Autism
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Dec. 12, 2025) — Executive Summary On 11 December 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO), via its Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS), published a high-profile statement declaring that a “new analysis” reaffirmed that there is “no causal link between vaccines and autism.” This categorical claim rests…
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Bill Cassidy’s Footnotes vs. the Executive Branch: Who Actually Runs U.S. Health Policy?
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Nov. 25, 2025) — NB: My analysis here does not rest on personal familiarity and long-standing working relationship with Kennedy, but on the evidentiary and methodological standards I have applied to every vaccine-chronic illness study since 2015. This is an important article that deserves your attention and social…
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NIH Shakes Up Environmental Health, Turns to Autism on Point: Physician-Scientist Kyle Walsh, MD, PhD, Steps In at NIEHS
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Oct. 29, 2025) — Bethesda, M.D. and Durham, N.C. — October 27, 2025 In a surprise late-Friday announcement, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD confirmed that Kyle Walsh, MD, PhD, a Duke University neuro-oncologist and epidemiologist, has been appointed Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences…
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Tylenol and Autism: More to the Story
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Oct. 13, 2025) — In 2020, the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that one in 36 children (approximately four percent of boys and one percent of girls) was estimated to have autism-spectrum disorder, estimates that were significantly higher than those in all previous years. But just…
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Film Featuring Unprecedented “Vaccine” Research to Premiere Sunday Evening
by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 11, 2025) — On Sunday the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) will live-stream its production of “An Inconvenient Study” at 8:00 p.m. EDT/5:00 p.m. PDT at the Malibu Film Festival at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) in Los Angeles. The non-profit research arm of “The Highwire” founded by medical journalist…
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United States Announces Revolutionary Reform in Autism Research and Treatment
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Sep. 22, 2025) — The federal government just signaled a serious course correction on autism. In a joint appearance that felt less like a press conference and more like a policy pivot, President Donald J. Trump stood alongside HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya,…
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BULLETIN: Fourteen‑Year Fugitive from Justice Poul Thorsen Arrested in Germany for Defrauding the US Government: What This Means for the Vaccine/Autism Question
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Sep. 16, 2025) — Poul Thorsen, a Danish physician and researcher prominently involved in vaccine‑autism epidemiology, was indicted in 2011 in the U.S. for allegedly misappropriating more than $1 million in CDC grant funds. For over a decade he was a fugitive who face, name and charges were…
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A Health Renaissance Begins: The MAHA Commission Sets a Bold New Standard
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (May 23, 2025) — American children are not just unwell—they are the sickest generation in the nation’s history. Over 40% now live with at least one chronic condition. Obesity has tripled since the 1970s. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among teens. Autism, once rare, is…
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A Resilient Nation Tests Its Products — Not Its Citizens
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (May 18, 2025) — In today’s bureaucratic vernacular, resilience has become a euphemism for public tolerance of failure. Institutions now invoke the word to imply that a strong society absorbs harm, accepts uncertainty, and trusts authority—regardless of evidence. But this is not resilience. It’s submission. True resilience in a free…
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IMA’s Marik Hosts Wakefield on Vaccine-Autism Connection
by Sharon Rondeau (May 7, 2025) — 7:00 p.m. EDT – The Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), formerly FLCCC, is hosting a free webinar titled, “Autism, Vaccines and the Search for Truth.” The session is hosted by Dr. Paul Marik, and his guest is Dr. Andrew Wakefield, a former British gastroenterologist whose reputation was impugned and…
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What’s Wrong with “The Danish Study”?
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Apr. 18, 2025) — The 2002 New England Journal of Medicine article by Madsen et al., often cited as pivotal in “debunking” the link between MMR vaccination and autism, contains numerous red flags that point to serious flaws and, potentially, elements of scientific misconduct or fraud. A thorough forensic analysis…
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Reclaiming Scientific Integrity: A Call for Objective, Predictive Research on Autism Risk
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Apr. 7, 2025) — Finally, The Fork in the Road.. Never a More Exciting Time for Science, But WashPo is Debby Downer On April 4, 2025, the Washington Post reported on the National Institutes of Health’s upcoming initiative to investigate the causes of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Rather than welcoming…
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RFK, Jr. Unriddles America’s Biggest Political Shift Since the Civil War
by John Anthony, The Truth Monster, ©2024 (Nov. 1, 2024) — The Democratic Party is dead. The anti-war, anti-establishment, anti-racist, pro free-speech party has been abandoned by corrosive leaders who now embrace every shred of the sickness their followers once despised. All that survives is a pseudo-aristocratic crown of self-deluded manipulators with little concern for…
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With Kennedy on Board, This is What a Trump Win Will Mean for Democrats
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Nov. 1, 2024) — In 2016, I began to receive invitations from concerned parents and activist groups to come, at my own expense, and share with legislative committees and other bodies what I knew from reading and evaluating vaccine safety science and what I knew about informed consent.…
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Scientists and Doctors Weigh in on Gender Dysphoria – WATCH NOW
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2023 (Dec. 2, 2023) — Gender Dysphoria & ASD: A Scientific Discussion (rumble.com) This webinar was hosted by R.E.A.C.T. Research & Education for Autistic Children’s Treatment (www.REACTforHope.org) a non-profit advocacy organization seeking truth while combating lies, to best serve the health of children and adults struggling with neurodevelopmental disorders…
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More Vaccines Equal More Deaths
by Dr. Joseph Mercola, ©2023 (Aug. 8, 2023) — Two new studies can now be added to the growing body of evidence showing that the “safe and effective” narrative you’ve been fed about vaccines is far from the truth, whether we’re talking about the COVID jabs or conventional childhood vaccinations. Routine Childhood Vaccinations Increase Mortality…
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Perino: Democrat Presidential Candidate “Should Rethink” Position on Vaccines
by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 27, 2023) — At 3:34 p.m. EDT, “The Five” co-host Dana Perino was a guest of Fox News’s Martha MacCallum, host of “The Story,” and asked if Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a declared Democrat presidential candidate challenging Joe Biden for the nomination, would find himself out of place in the party…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tests the Appetite of Democrats for Science, Logic & Reason
by Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2023 (Jun. 21, 2023) — In the marketplace of credibility, fewer people have more going for him than Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Those of us who have worked with Bobby and know precisely the full extent of the length the man goes to vet information before he takes…