Would Robert Malone like to clarify his position on MMR Vaccines and Autism?

INTRODUCTION: Twitter has traditionally been a place where people all over the world have met to discuss important an unimportant topics. Twitter has sadly, and with criminal design and intent, put their hands on the scales of public opinion in an effort to encourage people to take a poisonous vaccine. Twitter banned and censored people who discussed and reported the dangers of the mRNA-based vaccines, and ran a very large bot program that simulated and encouraged liberals who were pro-science or "not anti-vax" to constantly harass those who remained to speak of the dangers of the mRNA COVID vaccines.

Robert Malone was one of the many people who were banned. He was banned from Twitter on December 29, 2021, and reinstated on December 12, 2022.

Much has changed during the time of Robert Malone's ban and return, however. During this time, information came into public discourse on his extensive record with the biodefense and vaccine industries. Some people criticized him in a manner that he did not like.

Speaking for myself, during the time where I followed and supported Malone on Twitter prior to his ban, I was not aware of many things that I am today. I had not seen his curriculum vitae before the ban. A screenshot of the first page of Malone's CV is provided below.

Understanding Malone's background in "biodefense" changed my perspective on Malone substantially from one of a concerned whistleblower in the academic community. From the first page of his CV, you can see that Robert Malone is a man who has designed around 40 phase 1 clinical trials, raised hundreds of millions of dollars for vaccine research, helped Merck obtain the first Ebola vaccine in December 2019 after the "COVID" pandemic began, put "Pentagon leadership" in touch with leadership from the World Health Organization (WHO), and so on.

It became more difficult to research Malone's background after he was banned from Twitter after all of his tweet's disappeared. These tweets are visible again, although I cannot say whether or not any of them have been deleted. Other information provided by Malone has disappeared due to censorship as well, such as his LinkedIn contacts, a post on LinkedIn of his famotidine research, and New York Times article on his famotidine research.

Malone has taken the criticism of him very seriously and has filed a lawsuit on October 30, 2022 in the Western District of Virginia against Peter and Ginger Breggin, America Out Loud, Jane Ruby, and Red Voice Media. Malone's lawsuit alleges damages to his reputation, mental anguish, and so on.

I realize that many people have a sincere and genuine appreciation for Malone because he has often spoken of the dangers of the current "COVID" vaccines. I was once one someone who appreciated and supported him. As Malone and many others return from their bans back to Twitter, the debate over Malone's merits and demerits that largely began during the bans have followed them onto Twitter, and I know it has to be causing some discontent and confusion among those who support him.

Those who support Malone do so because they believe that Malone has been telling the world of the dangers of COVID vaccines all along. For instance:

The good thing about his reinstatement to Twitter is that you can correct mischaracterizations of Malone's position with his own words. For instance:

Malone has said a great many things that are contrary to the public perceptions of him, in my opinion. That is just one example. The section on his tweets on autism will be thorough. I do not wish to cherry pick the tweets, and I would like to give him a chance to respond.

Malone has been on Twitter for a long time. His first tweet was back in June, 2009, where he said he was "Getting ready for the Biodefense conference in DC next week."

With that background out of the way, the next section will be devoted to autism.

ROBERT MALONE'S TWEETS ON AUTISM

This research article began with a simple search of Robert Malone's tweets for the word "autism." Twitter's search results showed that Malone used the word "autism" 6 times between 2011 and 2014. Those were the only results. All of Malone's tweets on autism included links to information. In order to provide a representative context of these tweets, I have included:

A link to the Tweet.

A screenshot of the Tweet.

A reference to the link contained in the tweet including the title of publication, the publication source, the date of publication, and the author name.

An excerpt from each link where available.

TWEETS BEGIN

Tweet 1: Jan 5, 2011. "http://huff.to/fP43sR Huffpost - Report Linking Vaccine To Autism Was Fraudulent, Says British Medical Journal"

Report Linking Vaccine To Autism Was Fraudulent, Says British Medical Journal, Huffington Post, January 5, 2011 (Updated December 6, 2017).

Author: Nicholas Graham.

Excerpts:

LONDON -- The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.

The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues was renounced by 10 of its 13 authors and later retracted by the medical journal Lancet, where it was published. Still, the suggestion the MMR shot was connected to autism spooked parents worldwide and immunization rates for measles, mumps and rubella have never fully recovered. ...

On Wednesday night, CNN's Anderson Cooper interviewed Wakefield, who acknowledged he had not read the latest analysis. Still, Wakefield defended his work against what he dismissed as "false allegations," suggested that Deer didn't actually conduct interviews with the parents, and characterized Deer as a "hitman" funded by the pharmaceutical industry. Cooper pointed out that Deer had signed a document asserting that he had no financial interest. ...

Last May, Wakefield was stripped of his right to practice medicine in Britain. Many other published studies have shown no connection between the MMR vaccination and autism.

Tweet 2: Aug 26, 2011. "Report: Vaccines Are Safe, Hazards Few And Far Between, not linked to Autism (NPR) http://npr.org/blogs/health/2011/08/25/139947193/report-vaccines-are-safe-hazards-few-and-far-between?sc=fb&cc=fp…"

Report: Vaccines Are Safe, Hazards Few And Far Between, NPR, August 25, 2011.

Author: Nancy Shute.

Excerpt:

Do vaccines — such as the one against measles, mumps and rubella — cause autism?

Nope.

"The MMR vaccine does not cause autism," Ellen Clayton, a pediatrician who chaired the panel, said in a media briefing Thursday. "The MMR and the DTaP do not cause Type 1 diabetes. And the killed flu vaccine does not cause Bell's palsy, and it does not trigger episodes of asthma."

The group found convincing evidence for 14 health problems, including seizures and brain inflammation, and identified the vaccines that are linked to those problems. The panel of experts looked at both studies of whole populations, and individual case reports of adverse events.

Tweet 3: Nov 11, 2011. "Autism has its advantages- medscape commentary" http://medscape.com/viewarticle/753068?src=mpnews&spon=17…"

Is There an Up Side to Autism?, Medscape, November 07, 2011.

Author: Yael Waknine

Excerpt:

Autism may be an advantage in some settings and should not be viewed as a defect that needs suppressing, according to a provocative article published online November 2 in Nature.

Recent data and my own personal experience suggest it's time to start thinking of autism as an advantage in some spheres, not a cross to bear," author Laurent Mottron, MD, PhD, from the University of Montreal's Centre for Excellence in Pervasive Development Disorders, told Medscape Medical News.

Tweet 4: Nov 11, 2011. "Changing perceptions: The power of autism (Nature) http://nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7371/full/479033a.html…"

The power of Autism, Nature, November 02, 2011.

Author: Laurent Mottron.

Excerpt:

Most grant proposals, research papers and reviews on autism open with, “Autism is a devastating disorder". Mine do not.

I am a researcher, clinician and lab director concentrating on the cognitive neuroscience of autism. Eight autistic people have been associated with my group: four research assistants, three students and one researcher.

Their roles have not been limited to sharing their life experiences or performing mindless data entry. They are there because of their intellectual and personal qualities. I believe that they contribute to science because of their autism, not in spite of it.

Tweet 5: Dec 17, 2012. "Changes Coming to Autism Diagnoses http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=742632…"

The article linked by Robert Malone on "Ozarks First" is no longer an active link. The "Wayback Machine" says that the article is restricted content.

As a substitute for this article, although I do not suggest that it represents Malone's position, I have included another article around this time which explained the changes which occurred in autism diagnosis of 2012:

DSM-V Goes Forward: Major Shift In Diagnostic Criteria For Autism Spectrum Disorder Approved, The Autism Community in Action (TACA), December 3, 2012.

Authors:

Holly Bortfeld and Summer Stech

Excerpts:

The APA just approved a significant revision to the way Autism is diagnosed. Here is the official announcement.

Who will this effect?

Studies show as many as 75% of people with Asperger’s Syndrome could lose their diagnosis, and maybe their services.

Studies show as many as 79.95% of people with PDD (PDD-NOS) could lose their diagnosis, and maybe their services.

No one knows how this will actually play out yet. Studies show that people diagnosed with Asperger’s today, if re-evaluated under the new criteria, up to 75% may lose the diagnosis and instead get a diagnosis of "Social Communication Disorder" which has no treatments, programs or insurance coverage.

Tweet 6: Jan 24, 2014. "Vaccines do not cause autism. A compelling pediatrician produced video summarizing the data.”

Vaccines Don't Cause Autism: Healthcare Triage #12. Youtube, 2014.

Speaker: Aaron Carroll.

Excerpts:

In 1998, an article was published in the Lancet that followed the cases of 12 children with developmental regression and gastrointestinal symptoms.... 9 of the children had parents, and 8 of the 9 had parents who thought the symptoms of their autism had developed after the vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella, or the MMR vaccine was administered... This was not a randomized control trial nor even a scientific study. It was merely a description of a small group of children. To be honest, it's difficult to imagine that this study could get published in the Lancet today. But based on the beliefs of the parents of those 8 children, a frenzy of fear about vaccines and autism has ensued for more than a decade.

I've even been part of NIH-funded research to improve the ways we screen for and diagnose autism in children. It is a real condition that is increasing in prevalence and has a significant impact on children and families across the world... I do not deny in any way that we need to know more about autism. But it has nothing to do with vaccines. And every dollar that we waste on that topic is a dollar wasted that we can't spend on important research or treatment to help children with autism and their families.

MY OPINION ON ROBERT MALONE'S TWEETS ON AUTISM

Robert Malone made 6 tweets related to autism and the MMR vaccines between 2011 and 2015. 3 of the tweets contained links to information that were dismissive of claims that MMR vaccines caused autism. One of the dismissive links contained information that the claims were fraudulent. Another said the MMR vaccines were safe and effective.

2 of the 6 links were to information highlighting positive aspects of autism.

One of the 6 links was to the changes made to autism diagnosis in 2012.

In my opinion, Robert Malone intentionally provided information that was dismissive of the claims that MMR vaccines caused autism. Malone didn't say it himself, however. Because Malone explicitly didn't state an opinion himself on whether or not MMR vaccines caused autism, but instead only provided information to the effect that they did not, I believe that Malone should be given the opportunity to clarify his position.

POST-SCRIPT.

As many of you know, RFK Jr. has been involved in a legal battle over the MMR vaccines and autism. Here's a tweet from Kennedy, with a link. I present the same format as I did with Malone:

Jun 30, 2022. "In a riveting legal battle spanning two decades, William Yates Hazlehurst on Feb. 2, 2022, became the first vaccine-injured person with a diagnosis of autism to reach a jury since the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act of 1986 became law."

Father’s 20-Year Battle on Behalf of Vaccine-Injured Son Exposes Travesty of Liability-Free Vaccines, Children's Health Defense Fund, June 29, 2022.

Author: Megan Redshaw

Excerpt:

In a riveting legal battle spanning two decades, William Yates Hazlehurst (“Yates”) on Feb. 2, 2022, became the first vaccine-injured person with a diagnosis of autism to reach a jury since the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act of 1986 (the Vaccine Act) became law.

In a medical malpractice case filed in the Madison County Circuit Court in Tennessee, attorneys for Yates argued the clinic and physician who administered Yates’ vaccines, including the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine on Feb. 8, 2001, should be held liable for medical malpractice and the neurological injuries Yates developed after being vaccinated.

Although the jury decided in favor of the physician — who Yates’ father said failed to adequately inform the parents of the risks of vaccinating Yates while he had an active ear infection — the case exposed major flaws in a system designed to protect children and shield pharmaceutical companies and physicians from liability for vaccine injuries.

This apparent disagreement between RFK Jr. and Robert Malone over the link between MMR vaccines and autism raises questions to me on why Robert Malone came to edit RFK's book "The Real Anthony Fauci," but that's another topic. I hope this research article inspires a meaningful and public dialogue on MMR vaccines between the two of them.

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Charles Wright