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CDC scientists held meeting to destroy autism-vaccine documents, reveals CDC whistleblower
Thursday, December 03, 2015 by: Julie Wilson staff writer
(NaturalNews) The results of a 2004 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered a
significant
link between the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella) and autism in
African American boys vaccinated under or around the age 36 months;
however, if it weren't for one whistleblower, you would not have been
privy to any of this, because the evidence was
deliberately covered up.
Dr.
William Thompson, currently a senior scientist at the CDC, recently
made a shocking admission that he and his colleagues specifically
arranged a meeting to
destroy important documents related to the
study in an attempt to withhold information from the public regarding a
link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
As first
reported by Sharyl Attkisson, a former
CBS News journalist turned
independent investigative reporter, Dr. Thompson and the study co-authors "scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study.
"The
remaining four co-authors all met and brought a big garbage can into
the meeting room, and reviewed and went through all the hardcopy
documents that we had thought we should discard, and put them into a
huge garbage can."
"The omitted data suggested that African
American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at
increased risk for autism." – CDC Senior Science Dr. William Thompson
However, aware that destroying
documents
in this manner was both illegal and unethical, Dr. Thompson kept hard
copies of all the documents that had been disposed of, as well as
maintained all associated computer files.
After securing a
whistleblower attorney, Dr. Thompson came forward with his admission,
providing relevant documents in August 2014 to the office of Rep. Bill
Posey (R-Florida), who presented details of the cover-up on the floor of
the U.S. House of Representatives.
Posey, who maintains that he is "pro-vaccine," read the following quote by Dr. Thompson on the House floor:
My
primary job duties while working in the immunization safety branch from
2000 to 2006, were to later co-lead three major vaccine safety studies.
The MADDSP, MMR autism cases control study was being carried out in
response to the Wakefield-Lancet study that suggested an association
between the MMR vaccine and an autism-like health outcome.
There
were several major concerns among scientists and consumer advocates
outside the CDC in the fall of 2000, regarding the execution of the
Verstraeten Study. One of the important goals that was determined up
front, in the spring of 2001, before any of these studies started, was
to have all three protocols vetted outside the CDC
prior to the start of the analyses so consumer advocates could not
claim that we were presenting analyses that suited our own goals and
biases.
We hypothesized that if we found statistically
significant effects at either 18 or 36 month thresholds, we would
conclude that vaccinating children early with MMR vaccine could lead to
autism-like characteristics or features. We all met and finalized the study
protocol and analysis plan. The goal was to not deviate from the
analysis plan to avoid the debacle that occurred with the Verstraeten
thimerosal study published in Pediatrics in 2003.
At the Sept 5th meeting
we discussed in detail how to code race for both the sample and the
birth certificate sample. At the bottom of table 7, it also shows that
for the non-birth certificate sample, the adjusted race effect
statistical significance was huge.
All the authors and I
met and decided sometime between August and September 2002, not to
report any race effects from the paper. Sometime soon after the meeting,
we decided to exclude reporting any race effects.
The co-authors scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study.
The
remaining four co-authors all met and brought a big garbage can into
the meeting room, and reviewed and went through all the hardcopy
documents that we had thought we should discard, and put them into a
huge garbage can.
However, because I assumed it was illegal
and would violate both FOIA and DOJ requests, I kept hardcopies of all
documents in my office, and I retain all associated computer files. I
believe we intentionally withheld controversial findings from the final
draft of the Pediatrics paper.
The CDC and Dr.
Thompson's co-author Dr. Frank DeStefano, CDC Director of Immunization
Safety, continue to defend the study as originally published.
A July 29 Tweet by Attkisson states:
So far, no hearings scheduled and no known inquiry of the alleged scientific misconduct.
Sources:
SharylAttkisson.com
SharylAttkisson.com
Twitter.com
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