By Donna Westfall – September 10, 2025 AUTISM….. what do you know about it? Probably not much more than the CDC knows about it. In the last 50 years there has been over a 32,000% increase in autism. Can you believe that? Virtually unheard of in the 1950's; but as vaccine requirements increased in infants and children autism also increased. There are 12 basic symptoms. Here are just a few: Poor eye contact. When my children were small, there was a little boy named George that was part of the group. He was autistic. We would meet in the park. I can't remember him ever making eye contact voluntarily with anyone including his mother. Repetitive Gestures. Rocking back and forth. Hand flapping. Finger-Flicking. Pacing back and forth or head banging. Loss of language or social skills. Heightened sensitivity. May dislike loud noises. May dislike being held or cuddled. One of the saddest experiences a parent can go through is seeing their child developing normally. THEN something happens and a child's life has changed. Children that have developmental milestone regression after receiving vaccines is heart wrenching for a parent. We have a Chronic Disease Epidemic going on in this country. One of the richest country's in the world with so many sick people yet with enormous medicines and drugs provided to us by an ever growing pharmaceutical industrial complex. If you go on the internet today and inquiry about autism, it still points out that genetics can be one of three factors. That has been proven to be bogus, more about that later. The other two factors, environmental and biologic. Dr. Toby Rogers presented his written statement to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on September 9, 2025. His doctoral thesis topic was "The Political Economy of Autism" and his thesis received rigorous external peer review in 2019. Just a few of the facts as he presented them: 1970, 1st autism prevalence study in the US found a rate of less than 1 in 10,000 children had autism. Then in the 1980's it began to skyrocket. The most recent report from the CDC showed that 1 in 31 eight year old children are now on the autism spectrum (2022). In the last 52 years, that means a 32,158% increase. If that's not a crime scene I don't know what is. My initial response was that part of the reason could be better diagnostic criteria. But that only accounts for a small fraction of the rise in autism prevalence. The studies that claim that vaccines don't cause autism are of no use. Over $2.3 billion was spent in researching a gene for autism. They have nothing to show for it. Wonder how much of that $2.3 billion was taxpayer money? A 2016 study shows that autism rates in children with no vaccines is 1 in 715 while the autism rate in vaccinated children is 1 in 31. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to conclude that some of our vaccines or the vaccine schedules when administered are a problem. Some quotes from RFJ, Jr at that conference: "We are now the sickest country in the world." "We spend more on healthcare than any other nation in the world." RFK, Jr. is a Truth Teller. He's got a lot of guts. Thanks to President Trump for appointing him. And thank goodness RFK, Jr. is finally tackling so many of the problems that have persisted in our country for far too long. Getting to the root causes. It's no secret. It's just that for far too long many of our alphabet agencies have either been bought off or those in positions of authority chose to ignore all the facts instead of protecting our health. It really irks me that so many employees of those agencies make or made a very healthy salary. Nothing like throwing money down the toilet. You can watch the press conferences on You Tube. Maybe trust in our public agencies will be resurrected as our health is restored.