Autism - Exploding Like a Supernova. We Are in the Midst of unfolding calamity.
#33 2025 The Rowen Report
Dear Subscriber,
Our own government says autism is running rampant. That is the truest statement I’ve heard out of “health” authorities in years, but by my standards, it is an understatement, as you will see. “The autism epidemic has now reached a scale unprecedented in human history because it affects the young,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “The risks and costs of this crisis are a thousand times more threatening to our country than COVID-19. Autism is preventable and it is unforgivable that we have not yet identified the underlying causes. We should have had these answers 20 years ago.””
I am reposting the appended report from Children’s Health Defense by permission.
We are facing an unprecedented crisis in America. It is a crisis in progress, which, if the Chinese are patient, they won’t have to go to war to take us down. We will be eaten out from within, and in the lifetime of most of you.
I did not know or hear of autism in my youth. In fact, my first encounter was in medical school around 1973, where it was called “minimum brain dysfunction”, and then largely blamed on lack of proper mothering. I went to UCSF School of Medicine.
From being largely unheard of 50 years ago, our Corruption and Deception Commission (aka CDC) now tells us that autism rate increased from 1 in 36 in 2020 to 1 in 31 in 2022, just two years. From 2.8% of our youth to 3.2% in just 2 years. That is a cumulative 3.5% yearly increase if my math is correct.
Consider that the average birth rate in the country is close to 2 per couple. That means that, (further math) one in 15 families will be faced with a child on the spectrum. In my medically CORRUPT state, it is even worse, especially for boys, known to have higher autism risk. Risk here is as high as 1 in 12.5 boys. Can you imagine a state of affairs where one in 6 families with 2 children will be faced with a serious lifetime disorder in one of their children? If you don’t have a child with autism, you cannot imagine the heart wrenching, emotional, mental anguish, as well as the economic toll. We ALL will pay the economic toll.
Our current economy is spiraling to God only knows where. I can tell you what is currently occurring economically will pale in comparison to the societal, familial AND economic impact on 1 in 6 families tied up with autism, and it is only going to get worse. We will not be able to survive as a nation, as a society, as a body politic, as an economy, and it is coming on full bore.
China, Russia and Islamic terrorist need only be patient. The former two have much more patience than do we. The latter seemingly has no patience, but they won’t self-destruct over vaccines, as will we. AI says that China currently has a 1 in 100 autism rate, about 1/5 ours. Who destructs first at this rate? Our situation is not static, but ESCALATING. Wait till you see the frightening graph below.
Well educated medical people personally close to me are righteous about the safety and efficacy about vaccines, all based on published studies, most all of which are fully flawed, in my opinion (to which I am entitled). One of these medical families does have an affected child, but refuses to see a connection to vaccines. I am not saying the cause of the unfolding calamity is simply vaccines. We live in a toxic soup. Consider gender dysphoria. Few people, including these I am referring to, have told me they do not believe this dysphoria is related to environmental intoxication disrupting hormone receptors in developing brains. We have a full-frontal assault on the bodies of our most vulnerable from every direction – terrible “food” choices, environmental toxins, injected poisons and immune system disruptors, fluoride in water, and more. There are over 300 highly toxic chemicals identified in most umbilical cord samples. And this has NOT been addressed or properly studied at all. I mentioned a meeting I had with a researcher nearly 40 years ago who told me that the immature thymus glands of animals injected with the human equivalent of vaccines were nearly emptied of the vital primitive immune cells, necessary for life long immune function. My attitude on vaccination was changed on the spot. This information/conjecture could be checked out in weeks, not years. I do not believe there will be “a” cause or “the” cause of autism discovered. It will be a synergistic interplay of scores to thousands of toxins.
So, from my perspective, we have hormone disruptors wreaking havoc on gender identity and sexual function, and immune disruptors(vaccines and other agents) wreaking inflammatory havoc on the entire body, brain included. Autism involves inflammation in the brain AND elsewhere, such as gut. To me this is a no brainer (pardon the pun). We must see the forest for the trees, and emergently!
I remain sad that RFK, Jr has not lent his ear to anyone I know who has been in the trenches for decades. I do think that at least one of his advisors should be a SEASONED clinician and NOT an alleged “scientist”. If you can, please keep some pressure on him to get long term clinical advisors who might be able to guide him better from experience rather than mental masturbation.
Our nation is in dire and immediate medical peril. Thankfully, Kennedy IS aware and has announced an autism task force. I can only pray that his task force includes the right people for this job. I do trust him, and still have to assume that they are right for the job. However, I believe that his “experts” will not be familiar with means to treat autism, and how we can deal with communicable disease outside of vaccine so-called “prevention”. Kennedy is familiar with oxidation therapy. Will he move on it? He did promise me that he would remove the Federal regulation striking ozone therapy after he got in. I have patience.
Regarding autism treatment, we have treated several childhood autism cases over many years. Results range from absolutely incredible (near or apparent full resolution) to mild improvement. I cannot think of one child that did not see improvement. One must begin treatment early. We did see an adult from overseas with serious autism and the response, if any, was negligible. All cases involved some form of oxidation therapy, dietary improvement, no further vaccines, supplements, and environmental protection. SAD diet has to go, and no dairy, gluten, or high risk foods (lectins).
To Your Excellent Health,
Robert Jay Rowen, MD
From Children’s Health Defense:
April 15, 2025 › Health Conditions › Toxic Exposures › News
AUTISM
1 in 31 Kids Had Autism in 2022 — Up From 1 in 36 in 2020
Overall, the prevalence of autism in U.S. children rose approximately 17% between 2020 and 2022, continuing a decades-long trend, the CDC said in its latest study, published today. The number for boys was 1 in 20 overall and as high as 1 in 12.5 in California.
APRIL 15, 2025
An estimated 1 in 31 (3.22%) 8-year-old children had an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis in 2022 — up from 1 in 36 (2.8%) in 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in its latest study, published today.
Overall, the prevalence of autism in U.S. children rose approximately 17% between 2020 and 2022, continuing a decades-long trend.
The condition was 3.4 times more prevalent among boys than girls — 1 in 20 for boys overall and as high as 1 in 12.5 in California. ASD rates were lower among White children than among Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, Hispanic and multiracial children, continuing a pattern that first emerged in 2020.
“The 1 in 31 number is a testament to the failure of the medical system as we know it,” said Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense.
Holland added:
“The level of autism among 8-year-olds has been steadily increasing for decades without unbiased, real research into the likely causes. Tens of thousands of parents have come forward in recent decades to say they believe vaccines triggered their children’s autism. Yet mainstream science, media and government regulators have rejected the idea of even examining this observation seriously.”
However, Holland praised efforts by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to study the problem.
“The only good news here is that we finally have a president and HHS secretary truly committed to looking at all the potential causes and stopping this downward trajectory that is putting our nation at risk,” Holland said.
Kennedy announced in a Cabinet meeting last week that the government has launched a “massive testing and research effort” to determine what causes autism. He said the effort involves hundreds of scientists globally and will be completed by September. Once the environmental causes of autism are identified, “We’ll be able to eliminate those exposures,” Kennedy said.
Commenting today on the CDC report, Kennedy said: “The autism epidemic has now reached a scale unprecedented in human history because it affects the young. The risks and costs of this crisis are a thousand times more threatening to our country than COVID-19. Autism is preventable and it is unforgivable that we have not yet identified the underlying causes. We should have had these answers 20 years ago.”
‘This is beyond an epidemic’
The CDC study is based on data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network, which has used health and education data since 2000 to track autism rates among 8- and 4-year-olds at multiple sites across the country.
The CDC releases a report on the data every two years. The 2022 data come from 16 sites across the country.
Since the CDC started collecting the data, prevalence estimates have skyrocketed from 1 in 150 in 2000 to today’s estimate of 1 in 31 children.
The trend has persisted for decades. Autism prevalence in the 1990s, which was 1 in 1,000 children, already represented a tenfold increase over the condition’s estimated prevalence in the 1970s.
Toby Rogers, Ph.D., a fellow at the Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research and co-author of “Autism Tsunami: The Impact of Rising Prevalence on the Societal Cost of Autism in the United States,” said the new numbers were “stunning.”
Rogers said:
“How long is the U.S. public health establishment going to keep pretending there isn’t a problem? An ASD rate of 3.2% nationwide among children aged 8 years in 2022, 4.9% for boys, 5.3% in California, 4.7% in Pennsylvania and autism rates a full percentage point higher in Asian and Black communities than in White communities — this is beyond an epidemic.”
The CDC study also evaluated 4-year-old children, who typically have lower autism rates because many of them have not yet been diagnosed, and found rates among that age group also increased. Four-year-olds born in 2018 had ASD at rates 1.7 times higher than those born in 2014, suggesting that future rates will likely be even higher.
In five of the CDC’s 16 study areas, autism rates are already higher among 4-year-olds than 8-year-olds.
Data don’t support ‘better diagnosis’ theory on rising autism rates
The CDC and mainstream media suggest that increasing rates of autism are a result of improved diagnosis, which has led to the inclusion of many more high-functioning people with autism in the data collection.
However, the data in the latest CDC report contradict that theory.
The latest data show that nearly two-thirds of children diagnosed in 2022 with autism have an intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning, meaning they have an IQ of 85 or lower. Those numbers have also increased since the last report.
“These children face lifelong challenges with learning, communication, and independence,” said Rebecca Estepp, longtime autism advocate and mother of an adult son with autism. “Many will need specialized care, educational supports, and social services for decades — services that are already stretched thin in many communities.”
Research shows the costs of those services are rising exponentially and impacting the entire society.
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Autism industry ‘too big to fail?’
Over the past several decades, as autism rates skyrocketed among U.S. children and concern has risen among parents, researchers have looked to the role environmental risk factors might play in compounding underlying genetic factors that may make some children more susceptible to autism.
Environmental risk factors include metals like aluminum and mercury in vaccines, glyphosate exposure, use of acetaminophen during pregnancy and infancy, heavy metals in baby food and other organic pollutants.
Studies also link industrial chemicals, including lead, arsenic, copper, selenium, iron and magnesium, to the disorder.
Despite growing evidence that environmental factors play a role in the development of ASD, the CDC report did not mention environmental exposures as a potential cause.
“Words that do not appear anywhere in the report: toxic, vaccine, environment,” Rogers said. “We need better researchers who aren’t afraid to challenge corporate power.”
“Autism is an industry in the U.S. that has become ‘too big to fail,’” Rogers said. “Causing and treating autism generates hundreds of billions of dollars in profits every year for Big Pharma and various professions, from doctors and hospitals to ABA [applied behavioral analysis] providers and university researchers. With a few notable exceptions, the autism industry does not want the autism epidemic to end, ever.”
Related articles in The Defender
· We Can End the Autism Epidemic — By Telling the Truth
· RFK Jr. Launches ‘Massive Testing and Research’ Into Autism Epidemic
· CDC Will Study Possible Link Between Vaccines and Autism, Pledges to ‘Leave No Stone Unturned’
· 1 in 36 Kids Have Autism, CDC Says — Critics Slam Agency’s Failure to Investigate Causes
· Gaslighting Autism Families: CDC, Media Continue to Obscure Decades of Vaccine-Related Harm
Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., is a senior reporter for The Defender. She wrote and taught about capitalism and politics for 10 years in the writing program at Duke University. She holds a Ph.D. in human geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's from the University of Texas at Austin.
My now 25 year old son was diagnosed with Asperger‘s at age 15. At age 12, he started with severe anxiety and at age 14 would have meltdowns and be destructive.
I could not figure out what was going on with him and took him to a total of five different therapist and all they wanted to do was shove pills down his throat.
In fact, one of the therapist specifically said after the second appointment if he doesn’t go to the hospital and find out what medicines will work for him he cannot help him. That’s the condition of our psychiatry today and that was 10 years ago. I could tell you horror stories about those five therapist.
I finally found a therapist who could actually tell me what was going on with him and that’s when he was diagnosed with Asperger’s. And to this day, if I would not have found that therapist, I don’t know where my son would be. He worked with him for years on behavioral therapy and he is now a thriving 25-year-old..
The line that autism rates are going up because of better diagnosis is false. Otherwise my son would’ve been diagnosed a lot sooner. I knew very little about autism and he showed no symptoms of what I knew about autism however, unbeknownst, to me there are levels of autism, which I was not aware and he is on the high functioning end of that scale.
We do have an epidemic of autism rates in this country and because my son didn’t show what I would term classic signs of autism, I have no idea if this was caused by vaccination or heredity although I know of no one from past generations in my family that have autism.
We now have three people in my family that have Asperger’s, which includes my son, my niece and a cousin. Sadly, our government has hid from this fact for years, but the cost is going to be enormous.
Look at this:
https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/autism-rates-reach-unprecedented
The proportion of autism cases that has low IQ is going up. If increased diagnosis were the issue, we would probably expect the reverse as more high-functioning people get diagnsoed with autism. Also note the data on just before and after SB277 in California. Alarming spike.