Mark Blaxill watched his daughter Michaela develop normally until shortly after her first birthday, when she was diagnosed with autism, in 1988. In the film, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, you may remember that he shared:
“Somewhere in the months after [MMR vaccine], she began to slip away. She lost language, and she began to retreat into a world of her own. She was going to be disabled for the rest of her life.”
Blaxill has authored peer-reviewed articles on time trends in autism and founded advocacy groups to spur action. In addition to parenting and pursuing his career, he has also been co-editing the widely read news website AgeofAutism.com, and co-wrote three books with Dan Olmsted: The Age of Autism (released in 2011); Vaccines 2.0, (released in 2015); and Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future (released on July 25th 2017).
On September 8th in Burlington, Vermont, Blaxill will speak about how — even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs well into the billions — a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic.
Blaxill holds degrees from Princeton University and the Harvard Business School, and resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.