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When they are actually tested, a huge percentage of children with autism are found to have mitochondrial dysfunction (see below for relevant references.) Of course, the only people who will test them for this are the people who believe in the vaccination connection. Everyone else says, "No, we won't run a test for mitochondrial dysfunction, because we know your child has autism, not mitochondrial dysfunction." And when autistic individuals are confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt to have mitochondrial dysfunction (e.g. Hannah Poling,) suddenly it becomes evidence that they never had autism to begin with.




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