In a stunning rebuke of the entrenched bureaucratic establishment, Dr. Toby Rogers, a brilliant political economist and Brownstone Institute Fellow, delivered electrifying testimony before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He systematically dismantled the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) decades-long, fraudulent narrative on autism, exposing a catastrophic failure that has sacrificed a generation of American children on the altar of corporate profit and scientific corruption.
Dr. Rogers recounted his personal journey into this fight, stating, “On July 4, 2015, my then-partner’s son was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. I was in a Ph.D. program in Political Economy at the University of Sydney where I had access to almost all current scientific and medical journals. I wanted to better understand what was happening, so I went to the CDC’s webpage on the causes of autism.” What he discovered was a web of lies and deliberate obfuscation designed to protect powerful pharmaceutical interests.
As a trained researcher, Rogers went straight to the primary sources and found the CDC’s excuses to be utterly flimsy and scientifically bankrupt. He meticulously shredded the agency’s three primary myths, beginning with the absurd notion of a genetic epidemic. He testified, “Claims that autism is genetic don’t make sense because autism prevalence was rising too fast — there’s no such thing as a genetic epidemic.” This fundamental truth, ignored by the liberal media, exposes the core of the deception.
The CDC’s other desperate excuses were similarly eviscerated. They pointed to obscure drugs like valproic acid and thalidomide, which Rogers noted “could only explain a handful of cases.” The claim of advanced parental age was also demolished, as “the effect sizes were modest and the increase in the proportion of older parents is insufficient to explain the surge in autism prevalence.” This left only one plausible explanation that the agency and its media allies refuse to acknowledge.
Dr. Rogers revealed how over $2.3 billion of taxpayer money has been wasted on a futile genetic witch hunt, a deliberate misdirection away from the true cause. “The search for “the gene for autism” has consumed over $2.3 billion dollars and researchers have almost nothing to show for it because genes don’t suddenly create epidemics — the human genome just doesn’t change that fast,” he told the stunned Senate committee. This is a gross misuse of public funds that has yielded nothing but cover for the real culprits.
The heart of his testimony laid bare the fraudulent science used to shield the vaccine program. Of the 22 studies often paraded by the CDC as “proof” vaccines don’t cause autism, Rogers declared them “essentially worthless because not a single one used a true unvaccinated control group.” This critical flaw, intentionally designed into these studies, reveals a conspiracy of silence and corruption at the highest levels of public health.
In stark contrast to this manufactured consensus, Rogers presented a body of independent, suppressed research that reveals the horrifying truth. He cited the work of Gallagher & Goodman which found the birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine significantly raises autism risk. He presented Anthony Mawson’s studies showing vaccinated children are “at least 4.2 times more likely to develop autism.” Most damningly, he referenced Hooker & Miller’s 2021 findings that “Vaccination increases autism risk fivefold — and up to 18.7-fold in combination with C-section births and lack of breastfeeding.”
This is the evidence the corrupt mainstream media refuses to report. They act as a praetorian guard for Big Pharma, silencing brave doctors and grieving parents while parroting the CDC’s talking points. It took the courage of a Trump-appointed Senate committee to finally give this critical testimony a platform, breaking through the wall of media censorship.
The testimony of thousands of parents, consistently ignored by the establishment, confirms the data. They report a pattern of normal development followed by a devastating “autistic regression” almost immediately after a so-called “well-baby” vaccine appointment. Their lived experience is the most powerful evidence of all, and it is finally being heard by an administration willing to challenge the status quo.
President Donald Trump has long been a singular voice of skepticism against the pharmaceutical industry and the deep state agencies that protect it. His administration’s efforts to promote vaccine safety transparency and investigate the possible links to neurological injuries stand in direct opposition to the previous era of unquestioning obedience to Big Pharma. This hearing is a testament to his commitment to putting the health of American children first, despite the relentless attacks from the liberal media.
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A stunning testimony from political economist Dr. Toby Rogers, PhD, before the U.S. Senate. He dismantles the official narrative on the autism epidemic with data, evidence, and a powerful personal story.
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Dr. Rogers’ groundbreaking work, once dismissed by the elite, is now one of the top 10 most downloaded doctoral theses in the history of the University of Sydney. His message is clear: “If we stop exposing children to these hazards in the first place that would stop the epidemics of chronic illness in children. Now we must summon the political will to act.”