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Rollens graduated from California State University, Northridge.
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Rick Rollens
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He is also a political consultant and identifies as an internationally known advocate for autism research. His specific focus in terms of research and advocacy is for those "full syndrome" autistic individuals. Rollens resides in Granite Bay, California where he runs a lobbying/consulting business.
Rollens assisted in raising over $70 million to fund research efforts aimed at finding the causes and treatments for autism spectrum disorders.
Rollens was instrumental in the founding of Families for Early Autism Treatment (FEAT) and the University of California, Davis (Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders). During a 23-year career working within the California State Legislature, Rollens served as a senator"s chief of staff, as the chief consultant to the Senate Rules Committee, and as the director and creator of the state" General’ s Office of Senate Floor Analyses.
In 2000, Russell"s picture graced the cover of Time magazine. Prompted by his son"s condition, Rollens testified before the California Legislature, "The system is a sham.
When it comes to examining the question of the link between autism and vaccines, this same conflict ridden group continues to produce junk science studies produced not to seek the truth, but to contain damage control over the growing concern that vaccines may in fact be causing autism.
Even our own Department of Health Services, Immunization Branch is guilty of this deception."
The center is a collaboration—between the parents of children with autism spectrum disorders and University of California Davis researchers—who have united in a quest to find the causes of autism and treatment for neurodevelopmental disorders. Rollens says just pouring money into traditional autism research would not get them very far, "If we were going to wait for mainstream medicine to get around to finding a cure for our kids, we would all be old and gray and our kids would outlive us in their condition." Rollens also says the mass vaccine system is "riddled with conflicts of interest, and driven by profits.".
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Rollens is also a former board member of the Autism Society of America.
