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STUNNING TESTIMONY: Political Economist and Brownstone Fellow Dr. Toby Rogers TORCHES CDC’s Autism Narrative Before U.S. Senate — Exposes “Genetic Myth,” Shredded Studies, and Hidden Data Proving Vaccines Drive the Autism Epidemic

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Dr. Toby Rogers testifies before the U.S. Senate, exposing the CDC’s failed autism narrative and buried vaccine data

The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations was rocked on Tuesday by jaw-dropping testimony from political economist Dr. Toby Rogers, Ph.D., M.P.P., who dismantled the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) long-standing narrative on autism.

Dr. Rogers, a Brownstone Institute Fellow and leading researcher, testified that the autism epidemic in America is being fueled by toxic exposures, most notably vaccines, and not by “bad luck genetics,” as government health officials have claimed for decades.

Rogers recounted how his then-partner’s son was diagnosed with autism in 2015, prompting him to dig into the CDC’s claims. As a PhD student trained to scrutinize primary sources, he discovered the agency’s story simply didn’t add up.

Rogers explained how the CDC has leaned on three flimsy excuses for the explosion of autism cases since the 1970s: genetics, parental age, and obscure drugs like valproic acid and thalidomide. But none of these can explain the staggering reality:

Rogers:
“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.

As a Ph.D. student I was trained to focus on primary source documents, so I read all of the references in their footnotes. To my surprise, I quickly discovered that the CDC’s narrative did not add up:

  • 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.
  • Then the CDC blamed valproic acid, a treatment for epilepsy that is contraindicated in pregnancy, and thalidomide, which was never approved for use in the U.S. — so those factors could only explain a handful of cases stemming from inadvertent use.
  • Finally, the CDC pointed to advanced parental age; however, the effect sizes were modest and the increase in the proportion of older parents is insufficient to explain the surge in autism prevalence.

Rogers changed his doctoral thesis to focus on the political economy of autism, analyzing over 1,000 studies.

Rogers detailed how 22 studies claiming “vaccines don’t cause autism” are essentially worthless because not a single one used a true unvaccinated control group.

Meanwhile, over $2.3 billion has been poured into genetic research with virtually nothing to show for it.

“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,” Rogers said in his testimony.

Even massive epigenetic studies looking at toxins like pesticides, flame retardants, and heavy metals failed because they deliberately refused to control for vaccines. The result? Junk science that conveniently protects Big Pharma.

Rogers pointed senators to a series of independent studies that mainstream media and federal health agencies have either ignored or actively suppressed:

  • Gallagher & Goodman (2008, 2010): Birth dose of Hepatitis B significantly raises autism risk.
  • Anthony Mawson (2017, 2025): Vaccinated children are at least 4.2 times more likely to develop autism.
  • Hooker & Miller (2021): Vaccination increases autism risk fivefold — and up to 18.7-fold in combination with C-section births and lack of breastfeeding.

Even more damning: A systematic review of 1,000 studies led Rogers to conclude that vaccines, along with a dozen toxic exposures, are the primary drivers of America’s autism and chronic disease epidemics.

According to Rogers, eyewitness testimony from thousands of parents backs up the data: normal development followed by a devastating “autistic regression” almost immediately after a so-called “well-baby” vaccine appointment.

Rogers’ work, once dismissed, is now one of the top 10 most downloaded doctoral theses in the history of the University of Sydney. He told the Senate that the epidemic will not end until Washington stops protecting Big Pharma and instead listens to parents, whistleblowers, and independent researchers.

“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,” he said.

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For the Second Time in a Week, NATO Forces Intercept Iranian Missile Entering Turkey Airspace

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Iranian ballistic missiles are targeting everyone around them.

NATO is getting into the action.

As the military conflict between US-Israel and Iran progresses in an ever-more-brutal way, the Islamic regime of the mullahs continues to strike everyone around it – friend or foe.

As much as the civilian leadership apologizes for the attacks on neighboring countries, nothing has really changed.

Now, even NATO member Turkey has started to get targeted.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ‘stands ready’ to defend its members’ territory, it said, after Iranian ballistic missiles entered Turkish airspace.

Ankara said today (9) that it shot down a second missile in a week.

Euronews reported:

“NATO forces have intercepted an Iranian missile heading to Türkiye for the second time in less than a week, as US-Israeli strikes on Iran throw the wider Middle East into conflict.”

Both the Turkish Ministry of Defense and NATO spokesperson confirmed the incident.

The intercepted Iranian ballistic missile was reportedly headed toward Turkish airspace close to the Syrian border.

“According to NATO sources, there is as yet no indication Turkey is triggering formal proceedings within the alliance to initiate action against Iran.”

Watch: Erdogan criticizes Israel ‘pitting brother against brother’.

Read more:

Israel and US Forces BEGIN Massive Strikes on Iranian Oil Depots and Refineries in Major War Escalation — Iran Fires Missiles at Haifa Refinery in Retaliation (VIDEO)

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Bill Maher Slams Kamala Harris Over Comments Against Iran Strikes: ‘Who Knows More About What the American People Don’t Want?”

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Bill Maher  – Screencap of Twitter/X video.

During his opening monologue on Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher slammed Kamala Harris for her stance on the current conflict in Iran.

The Gateway Pundit reported that the United States and Israel launched ‘Operation Epic Fury’ against Iran last weekend.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was eliminated in a joint military operation conducted by Israel and the United States. At least 40 other senior Iranian regime leaders were also killed in the strikes.

Harris can’t keep her stance straight on Iran straight.

In October 2024, when asked which foreign country she considers the be our greatest adversary, the failed presidential candidate Harris responded, “Well, there are different reasons we should, um, we should be thoughtful about each. Most recently, I think there’s an obvious one in mind, which is Iran.”

“I mean, look, Iran has American blood on their hands.”

On Sunday, Harris flip-flopped saying, “Donald Trump has dragged us into a war the American people don’t want.”

Following news of the strikes, Harris wrote on X, “Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice.”

Maher slammed Harris, noting, “Kamala Harris made a statement. She said, ‘This is a war the American people don’t want.'”

“Who knows more about what the American people don’t want?”

“She’s right. Like 6 out of 10, the American people don’t want this war. Okay, it doesn’t mean they’re right. We’ll see. What’s bizarre is, Don, I’m one of the few people on your enemy’s list who is backing you on this, we’ll see.”

“And yet today, today, this is today, March 6th, at 8: 50 AM, he tweets about the war, ‘There will be no deal until we have unconditional surrender.'”

“Important statement to be put out.”

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JUST IN: Arizona Senate President Confirms “the FBI Has the Records” After FBI Seizes Maricopa County Election Records in Criminal Probe

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Ballot counting at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix – photo by Jordan Conradson

The FBI has reportedly expanded its investigation into election fraud in Maricopa County, Arizona, obtaining election records through a subpoena in the state’s largest county. 

This comes after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem traveled to Arizona last month, just weeks after the FBI executed a search warrant in Fulton County, investigating fraud in the 2020 election.

Arizona State Senator Jake Hoffman at the time had teased a major breakthrough in Arizona’s elections, saying he’d been in contact with the Department of Homeland Security for the “last 72hrs,” adding, “Stay tuned America.”

JUST IN: DHS Sec Kristi Noem in Maricopa County for “Georgia-Like” Event with Election Officials, John Solomon Says – AZ State Senator: “Stay Tuned America” (VIDEO)

Now, the FBI has quietly seized Maricopa County election data and voting records via a grand jury subpoena, according to Just the News.

The probe reportedly involves allegations from the 2024 election that Runbeck Election Services, the private company that provides ballot printing and mail-in ballot services in 31 states and 54% of the nation’s voters, allegedly commingled voted ballots with blank ballots in multiple states. US Rep. Abe Hamadeh previously alerted the Department of Justice to these findings and demanded an investigation.

This also comes after the 2020 and 2022 elections, during which hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots were counted without chain-of-custody documentation and with mismatched signatures.

Per Just the News:

The sources, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of the grand jury probe, said FBI agents are receiving gigabytes of electronic election data from Maricopa County, about a month after the bureau first disclosed an investigation into election irregularities by raiding a warehouse near Atlanta and seizing ballots from the 2020 election conducted in Fulton County, Georgia’s largest metropolis.

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Sources said the FBI is likely to execute searches and subpoenas in other states beyond Georgia and Arizona in coming weeks.

The bureau has been coy about the full extent of its probe, but the unsealed affidavit from its raid of Fulton County’s election center made clear the bureau is looking at possible violation of federal laws that require election administrators to follow state laws when sending out and counting ballots.

FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans told the court the bureau has "substantiated" some major irregularities in how votes were counted in Georgia's largest urban area in the aftermath of the 2020 election and is probing whether those failures were intentional efforts to violate federal election law.

Trump shared the report on Truth Social, commenting, "Great!!!"

Arizona State Senate President Warren Peterson further confirmed that the investigation is ongoing. "Late last week I received and complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the Arizona State Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa County. The FBI has the records. Any other report is fake news," he said on X.

This is a developing story. 

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