Thousand-Fold Increase in Autism Prevalence since the 1930s • World Mercury Project

Overall, however, their study decisively indicates that the bulk of the increase (at least 87%) “is due to a true rise in the condition.” The detection of specific “change points” in the accelerating autism timeline—around 1980, 1990 and 2006—lends further credence to this conclusion, given that these moments approximately coincide with the periodic expansion of the pediatric vaccine schedule, which resulted in children’s increased exposure to neurotoxic thimerosal in the early 1990s and neurotoxic aluminum in the mid-2000s. Ultimately, a 1000-fold increase in autism prevalence since the 1930s and a 25-fold increase over the past several decades should be front-page news—and prevention of any further rise in autism prevalence should be an urgent national priority.