Letters to the Editor

Defends Dr. Brady column

To the Editor:

I am writing in defense of Hudson Life Magazine and its publication of Dr. Andrew Brady’s latest column (Vol.27-No.6) following the Letter to the Editor from Meghan and Dave Bullard demanding censorship of same (Vol.27-No.7).

As Dr. Brady noted, autism rates in America are at an all-time high. Unlike Dr. Brady, the Bullard’s offered no insight into this problem. However, as people “who work in healthcare,” the Bullard’s somehow seem certain that America’s autism explosion has nothing to do with two of the industry’s biggest moneymakers: antibiotics and vaccines. As expected, in attacking Dr. Brady, the Bullard’s resorted to hackneyed rhetoric (e.g., “misinformation”, “conspiracy theory”) and fearmongering. Even worse, they called on HLM to restrict Dr. Brady’s speech, seemingly doubting HLM’s readers’ ability to consider diverse medical theories and make informed health decisions for themselves.

Autism rates have skyrocketed in America from about one in 10,000 children in the 1980s to nearly one in 36 in 2023 per the CDC. Coincidentally, antibiotics are now handed out like lollipops at pediatrician offices. and our childhood vaccine schedule has exploded from only 10 vaccines doses in the 1980s to over 80 vaccine doses today.  There has never really been an investigation of the risks associated with the cumulative effect of all of the antibiotics/vaccines that we are now giving children. Therefore, it may well be the Bullard’s dismissive and close-minded approach to science and medicine that is more “unfunny and frankly dangerous.”

Mark Fazio Sr.

Nicholson Drive ∞