Toby Rogers, PhD

Political economist Toby Rogers, who has joined Catherine on the Solari Report and Financial Rebellion in powerful interviews about the Great Poisoning, was one of just three witnesses to speak at the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing spearheaded by Senator Ron Johnson on September 9, 2025. The hearing title was, “How the Corruption of Science Has Impacted Public Perception and Policies Regarding Vaccines.”

Since its publication at the University of Sydney in 2019, Rogers’ doctoral thesis, The Political Economy of Autism, has become one of the top 10 most downloaded doctoral research papers in the university’s history, but Rogers has not rested on those laurels. Instead, he has continued to study and publish on autism and related topics, painstakingly documenting the unequivocal conclusion of both published research and “activist-initiated participatory science”—namely, that vaccines have played a preponderant role in the autism crisis.

Rogers’ unparalleled expertise explains why, in under six minutes of testimony at the Senate hearing, he was able to pack in all of the essential bullet points needed to convey that “autism”—with a 32,158% increased prevalence over the past half-century—is really a proxy term for vaccine injury and poisoning. Later in the hearing, Rogers also forcefully rebutted pro-vaccine witness Dr. Jake Scott’s slippery statements about vaccine clinical trials:

“A double-blind randomized controlled trial should have two groups: a group that receives the vaccine (that’s the treatment group) and a completely unvaccinated group given a saline placebo (that’s the control group). That’s not what the supporters of the status quo mean when they say ‘randomized controlled trial….’ [T]he one thing they never do is to compare a completely unvaccinated group with a vaccinated group because everyone knows that such a trial would show harms…. [O]n page nine of his written statement, Dr. Scott states that ‘vaccinated versus unvaccinated studies are especially prone to bias.’ It’s hard to imagine a more Orwellian statement! Up is down, left is right, dogs are cats, and according to Dr. Scott, a proper vaccinated versus unvaccinated study is unethical. That’s why we’re in this mess. That’s why we have an autism and chronic disease epidemic in this country.”

In follow-up comments at Substack, Rogers’ readers congratulated him on his effective Senate delivery:

• “You crushed it.”
• “You were a lion! Amazing work!”
• “You were calm and unruffled in the face of multi-level prevarication, and you were very prepared.”
• “Nobody—nobody—could have said it better.”

At his uTobian Substack, Rogers has rebuked the U.S. senators who in recent months have embarrassed themselves as blatant pharma propagandists, saying,

“I’d like to see a U.S. Senator steelman his/her opponent’s argument rather than strawman it…. Strawman and ad hominem hits play well online for a few hours but are ultimately worthless.”

In an October 2024 Substack post (humorously titled “Public health is to actual health what drag queens are to actually being a woman”), Rogers contrasted the rigorous public health profession of yore, which focused on things like sanitation and a cleaner environment, to the “weird, exaggerated, corporatized…drag performance” of today, in which public health “has become genocidal.”

With his doctoral thesis and subsequent writings, Rogers has been one of the lone courageous voices (Catherine is another) to draw attention to the financial ramifications of autism and the Great Poisoning, in 2024 co-authoring a landmark study titled “Autism Tsunami: The Impact of Rising Prevalence on the Societal Cost of Autism in the United States.” A one-minute video excerpt of his Financial Rebellion interview about the study rapidly became “The little video that could,” generating millions of views.

As Rogers reminded the senators assembled at Sen. Johnson’s hearing, autism was already bankrupting families and society to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year in 2015 when he began looking into the phenomenon. At the time, he was surprised that government “was not responding with a sense of urgency.” A decade later, his renewed plea to U.S. senators is to “summon the political will to act.”