By Toby Rogers at Brownstone dot org.

(Editor's note: This is yet another look at autism causation studies. We're in such a strange moment. The stakes could not be higher, and yet, as I explain below, the available studies are flawed and unlikely to get better. I don't believe that the presence of a few reformers inside the administration changes this calculus much at all. I think we are much better taking matters into our own hands.)

The paradox of autism causation studies is that we already know beyond a reasonable doubt what's causing autism, but mainstream science will never "know" in the conventional way because of economic and political factors surrounding the autism epidemic.

Let's start with the first half of that sentence:

I. We Already Know

Eyewitness testimony is foundational to our criminal justice system and is relied upon by judges and juries every day to administer justice. In Neil v. Biggers (1972), the US Supreme Court outlined five factors for evaluating reliability of eyewitness testimony: opportunity to view, degree of attention, accuracy of description, level of certainty, and time between crime and identification. That testimony can then be corroborated by documentary evidence and additional witnesses.

Parental testimony about autistic regression is at the highest end of the range in every case. Parents are with the child 24/7, the degree of attention could not possibly be higher, the parents know more details about the child's life than anyone, they are certain about what they saw, and they generally know right away when something is wrong. In a sane society, the following testimony would be sufficient:

Your honor, my baby was perfectly healthy and meeting all of his developmental milestones. We went to a child "well baby" visit, my child got 4 shots. Over the next several days my child was with me 24 hours a day. He had a high fever, seizures, vomited, and screamed at a high pitch. We went to the emergency room, they ran a bunch of tests, but they couldn't help us. Since then the child no longer speaks, makes eye contact, or has any social skills. The child now has a diagnosis of autism.

The judge and jury can verify any of these facts by examining before and after video; reviewing medical records; and interviewing other family members, caregivers, etc. These are relatively straightforward cases. A child was developing normally, but they experienced an acute toxic exposure at a child "well baby" visit, and the child regressed. This happens in up to 88% of autism cases.

When this testimony is then repeated tens of thousands of times by moms across the country, it's clear that we are in the midst of a major crisis.

However, we live in a society where our economy is based on enslaving children through chronic illness to enrich the ruling class. The 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act combined with the wrongly decided Omnibus Autism Proceedings and the wrongly decided Supreme Court decision in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC turned off the Seventh Amendment right to trial by jury for the vaccine-injured.

Wide swaths of society have been brainwashed by carrots (the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry and the soon to be trillion dollar autism industry), sticks (exile, banishment, and blacklisting for anyone who questions the narrative), and the most expensive and sustained propaganda campaign in history, to think that this is normal and okay.

Unfortunately, trying to achieve justice in connection with vaccine injury in the US means going up against the medical mafia that runs all aspects of society - the courts, the political system, the regulatory system, the media, the medical system, the scientific system, Wall Street, academia, etc. And they tilt the playing field and the evidentiary standards to protect their interests.

However, as free, sovereign, and sane people we need not accept the edicts of an insane society. We can simply acknowledge that "I saw with my own eyes what happened" is sufficient ...