Hi, everybody. It's Cheryl Ackison. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today, decades after we entered an emergency state with an autism epidemic, the disorder shows no signs of slowing.

Mary Holland of Children's Health Defense says,

finally there may be people at high levels in government committed to finding answers and

stopping it rather than covering it up and normalizing it. Despite the narrative that you will

occasionally hear that there's just greater diagnosis of autism or the autism cases are all

completely normal. Those ideas have been universally dispelled by credible scientists who are not

conflicted by having connections to the pharmaceutical industry. But the idea that that

propaganda still exists and circulates shows just how effective it's been

among some.

25 years ago, we all knew this autism thing was an emergency, but the government got very

busy covering it up on behalf of pharmaceutical interests and explaining it away, even though

their own research in cases and decisions and court

settlements pointed to various vaccine-related factors. Now, a generation or more, doesn't even

remember when the autism epidemic wasn't horrifyingly common. And so I think to many of them,

efforts to convince people, it's just normal, it's always

been this way, are somewhat effective in some corners. Well, finally, there are people at the helm of

politics who are not wholly in the pockets of the vaccine industry interests, and they are taking

independent looks at things that have been covered up or censored or swept under the rug for

decades. In this week's upcoming episode of Full Measure, I take a look at the current state of

autism prevalence in the U.S. I often say that if around the 1985 period you would have told

rational people and scientists and doctors that there would be an epidemic of a

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