A major new study has confirmed that autism is caused by “toxic chemicals” being injected into children, and it is not a genetic condition, as long claimed.
For decades, Americans were told a simple story: autism is in your genes — a tragic roll of the biological dice.
But now, even scientists within the genetic research establishment are quietly admitting what many skeptical parents have long suspected: this theory doesn’t hold up.
According to Dr. Toby Rogers, whose suppressed doctoral thesis chapter was recently released, the $8 billion per year U.S. genetic research complex has failed to produce clear results linking genes to autism or any other major illness.
“Even if sophisticated genetic and genomic research is able to find ways to reduce symptoms and severity, it is still going to be orders of magnitude more cost-effective (not to mention more ethical) to prevent autism in the first place by keeping toxic chemicals out of children’s bodies,” Rogers writes.
Despite billions of taxpayer dollars funneled into the field through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), genetic research into autism remains scientifically weak and dangerously misleading.
In fact, studies have shown that over 96% of reported genetic-disease associations fail replication — the basic standard for proving anything in science.
And yet the funding continues, propped up by massive biotech lobbying, university-industry collusion, and an entrenched narrative that conveniently diverts attention away from corporate pollution, vaccine safety concerns, and environmental toxins — all politically inconvenient topics for powerful institutions.
Since the 1990s, the Human Genome Project and biotech firms promised miracles — cures for everything from autism to Alzheimer’s, all encoded in our DNA.
But by 2009, even insiders admitted they were “almost back to square one.”
Renowned geneticist Craig Venter had already warned in 2001:
“The human species’ diversity is not hard-wired in our genetic code… environments play a critical role.”
As data mounted, researchers like David Goldstein, Nicholas Wade, and Richard Lewontin reached similar conclusions: genomics failed to deliver.
To cover for these failures, geneticists created the so-called “dark matter theory” — the idea that disease-related genes exist, we just haven’t found them yet.
Critics say this is little more than an excuse to keep the grant money flowing.
The emerging science points in a different direction: environmental triggers — not genes — are likely behind the autism surge.
Studies by researchers such as Landrigan, Bennett et al., and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists suggest autism is preventable, not inherited.
The main culprits? Toxic chemicals, pollutants, and potentially pharmaceutical products.
Biologist Evelyn Fox Keller explains that DNA is not a blueprint but a “resource” the body draws on, influenced constantly by hormones, diet, toxins, and more.
The idea that genes cause disease is outdated and scientifically false.
Even the biotech industry’s claims about genetic engineering, including vaccine technologies, have come under fire. According to Ruth Hubbard,
“Genetic engineering is still in its infancy and unable to accurately predict its effects.”
The genetic myth won’t die because there’s too much money to be made.
Patents on genes, sequences, and cellular processes have transformed human biology into intellectual property, with biotech companies and university departments cashing in.
From 1993 to 2014, NIH’s budget tripled, with over $8 billion allocated to genetic research in 2016 alone.
Much of this was driven by lobbying from the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) — a trade group representing Big Pharma, genomics startups, and agricultural giants.
Jeremy Gruber, in the book “Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense,” called this industry
“full of hubris and bordering on faith… filled with exaggeration, hyperbole and outright fraud.”
Dr. Martha Herbert, a Harvard-trained neurologist, has said autism should be understood as a dynamic condition — one involving brain inflammation and immune dysfunction, not genetic defects.
She argues that many cases can improve or even reverse through proper treatment, particularly those focused on removing toxic exposures.
The genetic establishment has been “blinded by its own hubris,” Herbet concludes.
Worse, Herbert believes that the parents of autistic children may understand the condition better than many doctors, but their experience is dismissed by a medical system built around prestige, pharma contracts, and rigid hierarchies.
Rogers and others point to a troubling pattern: the persistence of genetic determinism is not scientific — it’s political.
It allows corporations and government officials to avoid responsibility for rising chronic illness rates.
It distracts from the need for environmental regulation, product reform, and medical accountability.
And the media? Complicit. Their coverage focuses on hope-filled genetic “breakthroughs,” ignoring the decades of failure behind the scenes.
In short, as Rogers bluntly concludes:
“Nearly everything that we’ve been told about genes and autism is wrong.”
And until we confront the corrupt system that keeps this myth alive — from NIH to biotech boardrooms to Washington — autism rates will keep rising, and nothing will change.
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