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Cost of Autism: Life Expectancy and Median Age at Death
     James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Oct 03, 2025
What’s the Life Expectancy of People with Autism?
Life expectancy in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has emerged as an urgent public health and policy topic. A growing number of studies now provide numerical estimates of lifespan across different autism subgroups—especially stratified by co-occurring conditions like intellectual disability (ID) or epilepsy. Below is a synthesis of the major findings from both peer-reviewed studies and government case data.

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Raw testimony at Senate’s ‘Voices of the Vaccine Injured’ hearing
     by WorldTribune Staff, July 16, 2025, Real World News
Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on July 15 chaired a Senate hearing titled “Voices of the Vaccine Injured,” held under the auspices of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee.

The hearing featured emotional testimonies from those injured by injections, bereaved families, and medical experts, aiming to amplify often-silenced stories of harm while addressing broader debates on vaccine safety, efficacy, and policy.

The core of the hearing was the raw, personal stories from seven witnesses, representing both vaccine injuries and losses from diseases the public was told vaccines prevent.

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Big Money for Pharma, Big Risk for Kids: When Doctors Prescribe Antipsychotics and SSRIs for Children With Autism
     by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., June 12, 2025
The FDA has approved only two drugs, both antipsychotics, for treating children with autism. Both are approved specifically for treating “irritability associated with autism.” However, doctors often also prescribe, off-label, other drugs, including stimulants and antidepressants, without the benefit of studies on how multiple drugs may interact.

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‘Between a Shot and a Hard Place’: Autism, Vaccines and the Illusion of Certainty
     by Dr. Joel ‘Gator’ Warsh
For years, the public has been told the vaccine-autism question is closed — case dismissed, myth debunked, science settled. But when you peel back the headlines and examine the evidence, a startling truth emerges: We haven’t really studied the question at all.

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Debunking the ‘Autism Is Genetic’ Narrative
     by James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D., April 28, 2025
The dominant narrative within the academic autism research community has framed autism as a largely genetic condition — heritable, polygenic, and largely inevitable. But as the prevalence of autism climbs far beyond what genetic drift or selection pressure could plausibly account for, the credibility of this paradigm has quietly eroded.

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