America, Meet Our Unvaccinated Kids, Version 2.0

By J.B. Handley

Back in June, we released what we felt was an astonishing data set for the first ever study comparing the rates of ADHD, autism, and asthma between vaccinated children and unvaccinated children. Our conclusion was weighty:

"We surveyed over 9,000 boys in California and Oregon and found that vaccinated boys had a 155% greater chance of having a neurological disorder like ADHD or autism than unvaccinated boys."

And the mainstream media wouldn't touch it.

Cynics will say this is because our survey was only a “phone survey” despite the fact that phone surveys are reported in the news every day, and despite the fact that the CDC uses a phone survey to establish the prevalence of…autism!!

As the Director of the CDC's two phone surveys on autism noted: "the consistency of prevalence estimates across the two surveys supports high reliability or reproducibility of parental report of autism and reliability is one important component of validity."

Were we blacked out? Was our story too hot for the mainstream media to handle? Perhaps, we'll never know for sure. That said, we got plenty of coverage and heard from places like UPI reporter Dan Olmsted, Daily Kos, and NewsMax.com, to name a few.

Fast forward to September, and the climate for listening to the parents has changed, perhaps permanently, thanks to Jenny McCarthy.

So, we ran our Ad again today, the one describing the survey results, but this time we ran it in USA Today.

With that as background, America please meet our unvaccinated kids:

For the first time ever, we know something about them that may help our kids.

Yup, they live right down the street from you, they are 5.6% of the population, and they have less asthma, less ADHD, and less autism than our kids seem to have. At least according to our survey.

Do we expect you to believe us? Not really. Not if you're a member of the mainstream media or the mainstream medical establishment. But, we really hope you will look at our data. Because today, unlike the CDC, we are making all of our data public simultaneously with the release of our survey. Crunch away, and decide for yourself.

We followed a very straightforward process, so anyone can retrace our steps. We told a market research firm what we wanted to know. They designed a questionnaire they felt would get us an answer. We approved the questionnaire. They ran the survey and sent us the data, which you can now access. Decide for yourself.

Some of the numbers really jump out, particularly amongst the boys. A Risk Ratio is a way to compare prevalence, so that if 10% of vax kids and 5% of unvax kids have ADHD, the Risk Ratio is 2.0, or a 100% difference. Risk Ratios above 2.0 tend to be allowed in a court of law to show correlation. We found many Risk Ratios well in excess of 2.0, and some higher than 4.0, the equivalent of a 300% difference.

Decide for yourself.

Have we proved anything today? Yes and no. We've proved that unvaccinated kids are easy to find, and that a straightforward survey yielded some disturbing results. What we haven't done is design a study with enough scale and controls to be published in a first-tier, peer-reviewed journal. But, we've certainly highlighted the screaming need for such a study to happen.

So, now what?

Everyone should send an email to Dan Olmsted and thank him for his Age of Autism series from UPI. He's the one who asked about unvaccinated kids first, and asked it loudest. He even asked Julie Gerberding, CDC Director. He just kept on asking it until we got so tired thinking about what an obvious question it was that we did something about it.

Our data should be scrutinized, analyzed, challenged, and debated by any and everyone in the autism community who cares to do so. (If you want a copy of the Excel spreadsheet with the primary data in it, email us and we will send it to you.)

Everyone and their grandmother needs to cajole their Congressperson to jump on the bandwagon and support Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney's bill to study unvaccinated children.

This incredibly brave Congresswoman from New York said in a press release in June: "What is ultimately needed to resolve this issue one way or the other is a comprehensive national study comparing outcomes between vaccinated and unvaccinated children.  As the most scientifically advanced country in the world, we should be jumping at the chance to conduct a comprehensive national study to resolve the questions that have been raised.  Parents deserve answers, and children deserve no less than absolutely certainty and safety."€

The autism community should pull together and fund our own independent study, in addition to the Maloney bill, to gather as much data as quickly as possible. Autism Speaks, with the biggest war chest, should take this opportunity to fund or lead the funding for such a study, and help put this issue to rest once and for all. It would be a great opportunity for them to repair a badly burned bridge with many of us, and I hope they jump at the chance. The study must be run by researchers who have no history in this fight, on either side of the argument, and it must have the scale and controls to achieve wide acceptance through journal publication.

As for me, nothing much changes. My son is getting better, and we think the road map drawn by considering him "vaccine injured" is why. Knowing cause is so incredibly important to figuring out how to help and treat our kids, and I'm grateful for the pioneers who have been demanding answers for years. My wife and I hope, in some small way, that this survey moves things forward, and creates a deafening demand from parents for more answers. Now.

J.B. Handley is co-founder of Generation Rescue.

Comments

[Sarah]

I am a mother of 6 1/2 mth old twin girls who are still unvaccinated. I, too have felt the pressure from their doctor and the mainstream community as to why I have chosen to "endanger the lives of my children". To vaccinate or not is something that I wrestle with on a daily basis. Reading as much as I can, I feel that I am making the best choice for my family. Thank you for not taking no for an answer and pushing through all the red tape. You have helped me and I am sure, other parents like me feel hope again and a little peace with a subject that is otherwise taboo.

[Amy Price]

I am ABSOLUTELY THRILLED with the publicity this is getting now. I feel like there will be hope for my son who is 6 1/2 months old and so far, vaccination free. I know we are running under the radar right now with him in a daycare facility and we hope to keep it this way. Keep getting the word out!

[The Truth]

Here's a bit of interesting information that I've read and researched myself.

There are 100,000 Amish between Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois. There isn't one case of autism among them. Compare that to 1 in 150 for the rest of Non-Amish Americans who have their children vaccinated, because they are lied and told it is the law to immunize your children. Or scare them into believing that parents don't immunize their children with toxic mercury vaccines. Then they'll die of measles or mumps. The few Amish that have been diagnosed with autism, are adopted children who were immunized, or Amish from Texas or Iowa that have elevated levels of mercury.

Another point of interest is that there are no reported cases of deaths do to measles or mumps among the Amish Americans either. The few outbreaks of measles within the Amish community in the early 90's and 80's. Turned out to be due to the vaccinated portion of the Amish, spreading it to the non-vaccinated Amish population. Which is hard evidence that the vaccines don't prevent the viruses that they are designed to prevent.

You can read more about the study of vaccines and the Amish yourself at this link:

http://www.nomercury.org/science/documents/Articles/UPI-The_Age_of_Autism-Mercury_and_the_Amish_5-21-05.pdf

[Walter Schumm]

EDITOR: DR. SCHUMM, WE JUST SENT YOU THE FILE. 9/27 9:30pm

Thank you for doing the survey. I would appreciate your sending me the excel file. I would be glad to help you get it published in a professional scholarly journal. I have researched anthrax vaccine and its side effects previously and helped sue the pentagon over it by reanalyzing some of their data.

Walter Schumm, Ph.D.
Kansas State University

[Kerri Rivera]

I am proud to be a small part of this. Keep leading and we will follow. Giving hope to the rest of the parents out their before their pediatricians strip them of it.
Best wishes,
Kerri Rivera

[Jennifer]

I have a ten year old son dx with autism at 22months age, now recovered. I did the shot schudule as told, and even had some early due to being in the dr. office for other reasons, and I feel that was the cause of his autism. The regression that followed the shots was unreal! I didn't do any other vaccines after knowing about his Autism. I also have a 5 year old who is unvaccinated, and VERY healthy. For example; my children didn't have the chicken pox vac., yet they never got chicken pox when it was going around the school (from children who did have the vaccine). I have been following the D.A.N. and doing ABA for over 8 years. I will continue to do my part in helping other children and families now in the world of autism by providing education and funding.
Jennifer L.
A.N.G.E.L., Inc.
Autism Network through Guidance, Education and Life
www.angelautismnetwork.org

[Alix Mayer]

Great piece, JB. I'm going to post it on my blog along with my writeup of Jenny's appearance on Oprah. I feel like this is the real life X Files - the truth is out there - no one wants to see it yet.

[susan harris]

JB Handley -

Regarding Barbara Walters - AS the montage of "all the tough questions that Barbara has ever asked to her interviewees" (to celebrate her birthday) plays just before her interview with Jenny McCarthy - I have to ask "Why be such a wossy now, Barbara - I thought you just had a tribute to asking the tough questions!!"

Your commentaries rock!

[Kelli Ann Davis]

I'm thinking of the Carley Simon song, "Nobody does it better" cuz JB, when it comes to Ruckus, YOU are the King and in my opinion, you do it best.

Rock on.