Sharyl Attkisson: I don't believe vaccines alone are the only cause of autism

"I don't believe vaccines alone are the only cause of autism. I believe there is a combination of factors which makes it easy to try to pretend it's not, because genetics can come in play if your kid has a genetic predisposition and then gets challenged with vaccines in a way the child can't handle. or if the child has other toxic exposures that are individual to the child, or is just getting over an infection, that's why they tell you don't get vaccinated if your kid has a cold. They used to.

So there are so many factors that can be in play, but one clearly established by medicine and even by court cases where the government has secretly paid these cases and tried to have them sealed so nobody would know. But vaccines can be a trigger. It's been acknowledged by top officials if you know how to ask the question, which I did with a top CDC immunization official. He didn't want to say vaccines cause autism and I said, well, can they trigger autism? Which is one in the same to a parent perhaps, but scientifically allows them some wiggle room and he acknowledged that yes and that somebody should study that.

So I do think it's a factor, but the cover-up, the willful cover-up by people that I think most doctors trust and most parents trust is pretty shocking. That's even maybe the bigger story.

Eight-year-olds, so one in 36 eight-year-olds implies bigger as you get younger. They're only looking at the eight-year-olds, and it's increasing. So what other thing can you think of? Well, now there's probably a few, but when autism exploded was an epidemic that occurred in such a short time, a visible epidemic, that there's been no public health emergency declared over, that nobody has an action plan, and the best the medical establishment can say is, we don't know what's causing it, but it can't be the one thing that's implicated."