Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has started a huge debate in India after warning parents that vaccines an cause autism in kids.
"Parents should take this analysis seriously. I believe there is increasing evidence that we are giving way too many vaccines to very young children. This is spreading in India too and we are seeing a rapid increase in autism in India," he wrote in a post on X (earlier Twitter) while sharing a study on the same. The report of McCullough Foundation claimed that autism’s rise is multifactorial but cited vaccination as the most significant and preventable driver.
But, this is not the first time that Sridhar Vembu has voiced concern on autism.
In an old Twitter post, Vembu revealed how autism destroyed his personal life.
"My personal life, in contrast to my business life, has been a long tragedy. Autism destroyed our lives and left me suicidally depressed," Vembu wrote in the post dated March 2023.
"My wife Pramila and I were in this fight against autism for over 15 years. She is a super mom and her passionate cause is curing our son of autism. I worked hard along with her. To ensure his safety I also took some of his treatments so I could know what they did to him. As our son got older (24 today) I felt the endless treatments he was under were not helping much and he would be better off in rural India, closer to loving people and helping to lift up people. She felt I was giving up. Our marriage collapsed under that stress," he wrote then.
In another tweet on autism in Nov 2024, Vembu wrote, "What happened to "The Science" is that it got progressively (sorry!) institutionalized and became more dogmatic. "Vaccines have absolutely nothing whatever to do with autism, don't even think that blasphemous thought" is how the mainstream has treated the subject all along. The explosion in all manner of auto-immune diseases (and not just autism) is an uncomfortable fact for the establishment and any skepticism about the 72-shot vaccine regime for young children has become unmentionable in polite company. The fact that the progressive left adopted "Covid dogma" with such fanaticism meant that the door has now been blasted wide open for deeper questions on vaccines. They chose that hill to die on."
However, many took to social media to slam Vembu for the latest post on autism.
"Thiru @svembu, I urge you to delete your post; you are being devastatingly reckless and pose a threat to public health. This is India with high burden of vaccine-preventable communicable diseases. How could you cite dodgy ‘western’ source to make such a sweeping recommendation? Stop ?? peddling dangerous propaganda. Stick to what you know. Please don’t venture into #PublicHealth domain," wrote former IAS officer Dr PV Ramesh.
"Parents should take this analysis seriously. I believe there is increasing evidence that we are giving way too many vaccines to very young children. This is spreading in India too and we are seeing a rapid increase in autism in India," he wrote in a post on X (earlier Twitter) while sharing a study on the same. The report of McCullough Foundation claimed that autism’s rise is multifactorial but cited vaccination as the most significant and preventable driver.
But, this is not the first time that Sridhar Vembu has voiced concern on autism.
In an old Twitter post, Vembu revealed how autism destroyed his personal life.
"My personal life, in contrast to my business life, has been a long tragedy. Autism destroyed our lives and left me suicidally depressed," Vembu wrote in the post dated March 2023.
"My wife Pramila and I were in this fight against autism for over 15 years. She is a super mom and her passionate cause is curing our son of autism. I worked hard along with her. To ensure his safety I also took some of his treatments so I could know what they did to him. As our son got older (24 today) I felt the endless treatments he was under were not helping much and he would be better off in rural India, closer to loving people and helping to lift up people. She felt I was giving up. Our marriage collapsed under that stress," he wrote then.
In another tweet on autism in Nov 2024, Vembu wrote, "What happened to "The Science" is that it got progressively (sorry!) institutionalized and became more dogmatic. "Vaccines have absolutely nothing whatever to do with autism, don't even think that blasphemous thought" is how the mainstream has treated the subject all along. The explosion in all manner of auto-immune diseases (and not just autism) is an uncomfortable fact for the establishment and any skepticism about the 72-shot vaccine regime for young children has become unmentionable in polite company. The fact that the progressive left adopted "Covid dogma" with such fanaticism meant that the door has now been blasted wide open for deeper questions on vaccines. They chose that hill to die on."
However, many took to social media to slam Vembu for the latest post on autism.
"Thiru @svembu, I urge you to delete your post; you are being devastatingly reckless and pose a threat to public health. This is India with high burden of vaccine-preventable communicable diseases. How could you cite dodgy ‘western’ source to make such a sweeping recommendation? Stop ?? peddling dangerous propaganda. Stick to what you know. Please don’t venture into #PublicHealth domain," wrote former IAS officer Dr PV Ramesh.
