Researchers searched for Amish children with autism: This is what they discovered
Investigative journalist Dan Olmsted once posed a simple but uncomfortable question: What actually occurs to populations that largely evade modern medicine – and especially vaccination? His trail led him to the Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., a traditionally closed community that largely lives without modern vaccination programs.
The expectation was clear: If the national statistics were extrapolated to the Amish, there should be around 2,000 cases of autism among them (there are approximately 400,000 Amish worldwide). But Olmsted made a discovery that stunned even experienced scientists: He found only three cases. And all three involved children adopted by the Amish – children who had already been vaccinated before coming into the community. He found not a single case among Amish children born to the community.
Vaccinations as the main cause?
These observations were not without consequences. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration, cited Olmsted’s work in a conversation with Charlie Kirk, last year. Kennedy spoke of “very strong evidence” that vaccines are one of the main causes of autism.
Kennedy went even further: He is convinced that autism can be caused by vaccinations. His argument is based on biological mechanisms: stress in the mitochondria, the ‘powerhouses’ of our cells.
“We put stress on mitochondria in many ways – through the air we breathe, the food we eat, and even the medications our children receive,” Kennedy said.
🚨 Amish & Autismus – brisante Enthüllung
🔍 Forscher Dan Olmsted untersuchte die Amish in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Erwartet: ~2.000 Autismus-Fälle. Gefunden: nur 3 – und alle bei adoptierten, zuvor geimpften Kindern.
💉 Unter den geborenen Amish: kein einziger Fall von… pic.twitter.com/RR3aFPBnSF
— Don (@Donuncutschweiz) September 28, 2025
Mitochondrial stress as a common denominator
In his view, many modern diseases – autism included – follow the same biological pathways. Environmental toxins, unhealthy diets, medications, and vaccines interact to overload cellular energy production. The body reacts with chronic dysfunction – in the worst case, neurological developmental disorders such as autism.
A pattern elsewhere too
Kennedy points out that similar observations to those among the Amish have been made in other parts of the world. Communities or populations with low vaccination rates report significantly fewer cases of autism – a phenomenon that is barely researched but all the more hotly debated.
Conclusion: An uncomfortable finding
Olmsted’s findings and Kennedy’s interpretations call into question the foundations of modern vaccination policy. While authorities and the pharmaceutical industry are focusing on widespread programs, these findings raise the question of whether the price is being paid in the form of a dramatically increased autism rate.
Kennedy himself sees this as a central theme of his term in office: raising awareness about the true causes of chronic diseases – and a radical reassessment of the role of vaccinations.
A new working group of outside advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will convene to assess the safety, effectiveness and timing of the shots children and adolescents get, as well as whether the schedule should be modified, according to a new document posted on the CDC’s website.
This group will be part of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP, a panel of independent experts who regularly meet to assess what vaccines should be given to the public and when. In an unprecedented move, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of ACIP in June and replaced them with his own picks.
yogaesoteric
October 12, 2025