Autism: Wakefield From Another Direction

As you may know, Dr. Andrew Wakefield was run out of the medical profession for suggesting that vaccines may play a role in causing autism.

Now we have a different researcher saying that the human gut may play a role in the development of autism:

https://www.facebook.com/TheAutismRevolution/posts/656535041036058

See also:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-12/ciot-pta120413.php

"To our knowledge, this is the first report of an animal model for autism with comorbid GI dysfunction," says Elaine Hsiao, a senior research fellow at Caltech and the first author on the study.

Well ... yes and no. I believe that Dr. Wakefield was the first to publish a model for autism with comorbid GI dysfunction:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(97)11096-0/abstract

We identified associated gastrointestinal disease and developmental regression in a group of previously normal children, which was generally associated in time with possible environmental triggers.

But since his work threatened the profits of Big Pharma and Big Medicine, his publication was withdrawn under pressure, his medical license was revoked, and he was essentially blackballed from the medical profession.

Is there any provable relationship between number of vaccines given to children and infant mortality rates [IMRs]? Apparently there is:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/

The US childhood immunization schedule requires 26 vaccine doses for infants aged less than 1 year, the most in the world, yet 33 nations have better IMRs.

Moral of the story? When it's your kids, who are you gonna believe? A government which sacrifices some children supposedly for the good of the whole?