Anyone following the Twitter #vaccinesNOVA hashtag on the evening of Wednesday September 10 would have seen their stream seemingly overwhelmed by the #CDCWhistleblower hashtag.
Wednesday was when NOVA’s documentary Vaccines – Calling The Shots aired, and the #vaccinesNOVA hashtag was intended to enable a national discussion between parents, medical professionals and others on the issues surrounding infectious diseases and vaccines.
Instead, those looking for a serious and informative conversation were all but drowned out as anti vaccination advocates co-opted the hashtag along with their own: #CDCWhistleblower – a hashtag promoting an alleged cover-up by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on MMR vaccine and autism research.
Despite being a topic of vigorous discussion amongst anti vaccine advocates, the CDC whistleblower story hasn’t hit the mainstream headlines in a big way, probably leaving a number of genuine #vaccinesNOVA followers somewhat mystified.
The story revolves around a 2004 paper examining associations between the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism in children, and William W Thompson – a researcher at the CDC, and co-author on the paper. Thompson, it was recently revealed, had reservations about how the study data were analyzed, and the resulting conclusions drawn.
In August, vaccine critic Brian Hooker published a re-analysis of these data in a paper that has since been withdrawn, which claimed that there was “new evidence of a statistically significant relationship between the timing of the first MMR vaccine and autism incidence in African American males.”
Based on the story, anti vaccine advocates have been aggressively accusing the CDC of fraud, while using the incident to press their case that vaccines are harmful, and that the truth of the associated risks is being covered up by the medical establishment.
The truth of the matter? One of the clearest and most precise analyses of the issue to date can be found over at the Harpocrates Speaks blog – it’s well worth reading, whichever side of the vaccine discussion you are on.
And the bottom line?
Despite much noise being made by the small, yet incredibly vocal, anti-vaccine community, there is no evidence of fraud on the part of the CDC, nor is there convincing evidence of any cover-up. Brian S. Hooker’s study contains a number of flaws leading to a spurious, and biologically implausible, conclusion. In fact, the quality of the study is such that the journal that published it withdrew it pending further investigation, citing serious concerns about the validity and potential conflicts of interest. This entire issue is, in reality, much ado about nothing.
Image: Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid innoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas. April, 1943. Source: Library of Congress CALL NUMBER: LC-USW36-828 [P&P] Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. Wikimedia Commons.
Update September 14 2014, 7:00 AM: Clarified that at NOVA – Calling The Shots aired on Wednesday September 10 in the opening paragraph. Shortened the quote from Harpocrates. Added a feature image.
Actually, there is evidence or fraud. I know you truly believe what you are writing.
I doubt you have taken a close look at risk studies in order to make a risk/benefit analysis.
We all wish it was black and white and there were no grey zones regarding vaccines, but it’s fantastical thinking and neither vaccines nor the immune system are that simple.
Take a closer look
If there is supportable evidence of fraud, please provide further substantive information – unfortunately, just saying it doesn’t make it so unfortunately. The Harpocrates piece is based on expert assessment and analysis, and so in a weight of evidence analysis it currently holds considerable sway.
Dr. Maynard,
Are you asking Dr. Bark for the documents or Dr. Thompson’s statements?
If you are, that would indicate you wrote this piece before examining the evidence, which seems a bit unprofessional, if true.
May I suggest you spend a little time looking at the facts contained in documents released, but, of course, not covered in msn, before you post another article, based on a single blog?
If you can’t find enough to draw your own conclusions, you may contact the office of U.S. Rep. Daryl Issa or William Posey (House Committee on Government Reform), and ask to examine the thousands of documents Dr. Thompson has turned over to the committee.
With regard to your use of the term “anti-vaccine activists,” do you not see the irony in using that PR initiated, buzzword to demean parents who vaccinated their children with everything asked of them, and then were prevented from presenting their very real evidence of grievous harm (like IgM, IgG measles titers elevated 4 fold over top of reference range, 10+ years after MMR and no exposure to wild measles paired with off the charts antibodies to myelin basic protein and brain lesions) in a court of law, and who now are asking for straight answers to as yet unanswered questions, after 25 years? That deserves your condemnation?
As others have asked many times, if you questioned the safety of the Ford Pinto, would that make you “anti-car”?
If you value the vaccine program, if you value your own worth as a “risk scientist,” you should be on the side of getting these answers, not using rude and inflammatory statements like:
“It is just another example of anti-vaccine activists doing bad science to put your children at greater risk of harm, all because they cannot accept their own children as they are.”
That approach has been the playbook for far too long, and the public is beginning to catch on that this unthinking vitriol is being used to avoid focusing on the questions that need responses.
I am your Ann Arbor neighbor, and you are welcome to look at my children’s medical records any time (The CDC has no interest in looking at affected children, btw). It might help you overcome your institutional imprisonment.
Well said, mhirzel and toni bark
You need to face the fact! The Genie, is out of the corrupted bottle,and the parents are going to make sure. That it stays, out! Hearings, will take place, and in time, many maybe going to prison. Not for making a honest mistake, it will be for not telling the parents Congress and the Courts. The real, truth. Vaccines, indeed cause, ADD ADHD Speech-delay. And the very big! trillion dollar elephant in the room. Meaning,the life long care cost, of 1 in 50 children. 1 in 31 boys.
MIT professor Seneff , just this week released the revelation at the rate we are going.
By 2025 1 in 2 children will be autistic. She said, that 50% of all this Nations kids will
be autistic! She’s right, about the amount of children. Problem is, that since there is a 4 to 1 ration, boys to girls. The sad fact is, that over half of the US. children. They will be, according to an MIT professor. Autistic, by 10 yr’s or less.
Mr. Maynard, do you believe it’s A-OK! for a tax paid agency,to ever protect scientific information. From the FOIA act? Congress? and the Courts???And for what reason, could you give, as a logical answer. For that kind, of deceit??? To a parent, that’s living in this hell of an existence. That behavior, is worse than Treason!
Here is proof, that they did, exactly that. This is your hero’,s in action! They are, at the least considered cowards. At the worse, they could be considered domestic Terrorist!
In August of 2002, a VSD meeting was held in Denver Colorado. One of the presentations, which is attached, has to do with VSD Team Website Security.
One of the, PowerPoint slides states, the following;
” Protecting Scientific Information; From FOIA the Congress and the Courts”
Just what does that mean?????? Personally, I thought if you had Science on your side,you were supposed to share it with the Congress and the Courts. In order
to win in Vaccine court. One really should be wondering, if one is trying to hide their science on the safety of their vaccines, from the Congress and the Courts. Just how safe, is these vaccines?????
What happened, to the integrity, of the NIH AAP CDC & FDA ?? For this is an example, of a highly respected person, from US. history. This is his take, on scientific integrity, and it is what is supposed to be followed. By the NIH,and other’s, when their evaluating scientific evidence.
This Einstein Quote, is written out side at the NIH campus. If they had followed Einsteins Quote, there would not have ever been, an Autism epidemic.
The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. – Albert Einstein
Einstein would not recognize, what the AAP and the CDC claims as science.
My religious beliefs prevent me from giving my children vaccinations. If you were to ask a neurosurgion whether they vax their children or not; they will emphatically tell you the same thing. You should be following the people who study the brain and not the salesmen at the CDC.
Why is it that anyone who speaks against the CDC Whistleblower story, claiming that there is no coverup or malfeasance by the CDC, simply refers to yet another blog entry by some random blogger? And especially when the blog says plain as day:
“Todd is not a physician or formal scientist. His statements on this blog should therefore not be taken as medical advice (get that from your doctor) nor as definitive scientific proof (go to the consensus of scientific literature for that).”
And why can’t the blogger in this article actually reference any of the relevant information, like Dr. Thompson’s legal statement, or his letters to various CDC officials like the head of the CDC, or the text of his statements made to Dr. Brian Hooker?
In short, if you are going to come to a conclusion about a story of this kind of significance, why not actually examine the evidence and present it for the reader to decide?
Your conclusions, like all the other blog-referencing pro-vaccine articles I have read, are forgone and are independent of any available information.
This article is a waste of time.
I think you might want to actually read Thompson’s statement. He plainly states,
“I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.”
That sounds like an admission to me.
http://www.morganverkamp.com/august-27-2014-press-release-statement-of-william-w-thompson-ph-d-regarding-the-2004-article-examining-the-possibility-of-a-relationship-between-mmr-vaccine-and-autism/
Jamie, This is an opinion – on it’s own it is not grounds for accusations of fraud, a cover up, a suppressed link between MMR and autism, or many of the other meanings that have been attached to it. Does it suggest that in the process of scientific and professional review the data should be re-examined by experts in epidemiology? Absolutely. But at this point there is no clear evidence to back up Dr. Thompson’s concerns, or the rather more serious abuses of this situation by individuals and groups who have no qualms about hiding and manipulating data to push their own agenda.
I see very few people who use Dr. Thompson’s statement to raise questions over the safety of vaccines and the integrity of the scientific community striving to protect people’s health quoting this paragraph out of the same statement:
“I want to be absolutely clear that I believe vaccines have saved and continue to save countless lives. I would never suggest that any parent avoid vaccinating children of any race. Vaccines prevent serious diseases, and the risks associated with their administration are vastly outweighed by their individual and societal benefits.”
“Does it suggest that in the process of scientific and professional review the data should be re-examined by experts in epidemiology? Absolutely. But at this point there is no clear evidence to back up Dr. Thompson’s concerns….”
Ah, but, if the AAP’s journal, Pediatrics, has anything to say about it, there won’t be a re-examination. (Pediatrics: the journal of last recourse for “debunkers” with research to publish that’s been rejected – as this 2004 study was – by respected journals who are “fussier” about bogus methodology)
Questions Surrounding Review of Challenged Vaccine-Autism Study
http://sharylattkisson.com/questions-surrounding-review-of-challenged-vaccine-autism-study
There are risks. Risks of not vaccinating are of course low until herd immunity is lost, then they go up. If a healthcare system is private, as in the US, then if you don’t vaccinate, your insurer knows and presumably you pay more?
In a socialist medical system, such as in the UK, then not vaccinating costs the taxpayer, so there cannot be an opt out, though there is. An opt out would mean you are opting out of the NHS. This does not happen, but should.
Another social problem is that vaccination is not foolproof on a population basis, so when herd immunity is lost, a few vaccinated children will be sick and some may die.
But, does it matter in the very long term and over the average of the entire population? I am reminded of the Berbers, who were the ruling class with a large population of slaves. Some time after colonialisation by the French, schooling appeared and was mandatory. The Berbers were not impressed, so sent their slaves. No prizes for guessing who now populates the lower and the upper tiers of society, economically and politically!
So in the end, epidemics in communities with low levels of vaccination will kill offspring, either changing opinion of parents or reducing their population. Darwin wins, though it takes time.
I would add that in Swansea there was a recent local breakout of one of the three (I cannot remember), which caused a mad panic amongst parents, who had hitherto fought hard against vaccination. Nothing like seeing your child heading for the grave to change opinion. There is now a group of parents seeking legal redress from the Fraud in Chief, Wakefield.
My advice: vaccinate, hope the vaccine has taken well and sit on the sidelines and enjoy the show. If you want to be part of the show I watch, it is your problem not mine.
Really? What outbreak occurred in Swansea which caused all the concerned parents to cast off those concerns? What you mean is, the propaganda machine fired up, scared the crap out the oblivious masses. The concerned ones, probably remained concerned. Our latest ebola, h1-n1, etc hype, hasn’t caused me or others versed in the controversy to abandon our concerns.
Your analogy is about as silly as the old saw: “There are no atheists in fox-holes.”
My autistic daughter is fifty and I have been active in organising groups and leading projects to create resources for autistic people since 1979. I have met over two hundred autism families and their children. I deeply resent pharma’s use of the term anti-vaccininationists, firstly because I have never met one and I don’t believe they exist. What they mean are people who question in any way possible links between vaccines and their child’s condition. My own observations lead me unerringly to a demonstrable and virtually provable link between a vaccination and my child’s autism. I will happily debate this in open public debate with any proponent but so far my invitation has always been not simply declined but ignored. Am I an anti-vaxxer because I refuse to shut up about it?
Tony – thank you for your comment. I can understand how frustrating and hurtful such broad brush strokes can be, especially when you are dedicated to easing suffering and finding answers to such a difficult condition.
I intentionally used the term “anti vaccination advocates” in describing those who vociferously use every opportunity to try and convince parents not to have their children vaccinated – here, there are tactics and misuses of information that can only serve to mislead, silence and hurt parents who are genuinely seeking help and support. This is not the way to an open and informed dialogue
You may be interested in reading some of the pieces we have been posting on vaccines, especially a recent one advocating humility in addressing vaccine fears: http://www.riskscience.umich.edu/public-health-needs-humility-address-vaccine-fears/
“…there is no evidence of fraud on the part of the CDC, nor is there convincing evidence of any cover-up.” Is this a joke? I know its not what you wanted to hear, but quite the contrary, my friend. Do your research. Its not hard on this one, Dr. Thompson admits fraud. Can’t get much clearer than that. But if you need more evidence, Congress is currently looking through 1000’s of documents that will very likely land several folks in jail for lying, resulting in the damaging of an extraordinary number of children. Not “anti-vaxx”, just “pro-truth”. There’s a difference.
I may be missing something here – there are reports on the internet that Congressman Bill Posey is in possession of thousands of documents from the CDC, but I have so far not been able to confirm whether these were obtained under the Freedom of Information act, whether William Thompson passed them on personally, or what the documents contain. There is no information about this request on Bill Posey’s website.
Without any idea what is in the documents, it seems presumptive to state that they will “will very likely land several folks in jail for lying, resulting in the damaging of an extraordinary number of children”
Absolutely, that’s what happened in the Pinks epidemic. It only became evident, that the Mercury
containing teething powders were the cause. When, all the one’s denying the mercury connection,
had all died.
This, is from an article I posed on. Can you not read? I already proved, chelation was mainstream by the CDC, for inner city children that ate Lead paint chips. I will Quote, what I was told by the CDC; “we have had, for decades, all across the US. chelation stations”
It only became dangerous, when the (AAP CDC & the FDA) had screwed up a generation of our American children with a mercury based preservative. And then decided, if it’s chelated out and
the child recovers. Were toast!
Also, from the History pinks, it’s being eradicated by chelation. You will not, find big story’s from the inner city kids, or the pinks children dying in masses. History, does not show that. What you have, is first hand accounts that the Dr’s gave [dimercaprol] & experienced gratifying cures! Here’s what the product (dimercaprol) is, when defined;
[Dimercaprol] What eradicated mercury poisoning called Pinks. Definition of Dimercaprol in the Medical dictionary – by medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/dimercaprol dimercaprol /di·mer·cap·rol/ (di″mer-kap´rol) a metal complexing agent used as an antidote to poisoning by arsenic, gold,mercury, and lead.
Also called British anti-lewisite ” BAL” If you do a Google search, on the safety of Chelation. You will find overall, it is now and always has been safe. In fact, the CDC did some research. And that research, revealed. That the children, with heavy metals in their body. That had Autism, the symptoms, seemed to get better. With chelation……But the children without Heavy metals in their body’s, they seemed to get worse. So, they scrapped the study.
The Idiots, could not design a study, with only Autistic children. All with, heavy metals in their body’s? They, could not see the benefit, of some children getting better. So they scrapped that study,and then declared chelation as unsafe. And began circulating, that it kills children. When history is replete, with many good reports on this practice. Like I said, corrupt to their very core.
So, why the lies now ? To save,the health agency’s, much embarrassment. And their antiquated
vaccine program. With a very dangerous, schedule. That’s now hurting children, more than it’s helped the children.
If you called the CDC, or the AAP, and asked about the safety of chelation. They would lie on a dime, and their easily caught. Here’s how, the CDC or the AAP,they will remind everyone that a child with Autism that was being chelated had died. Therefore, chelation is dangerous. Not one word of that, is fact. Except, their was a boy with autism, from another country. That was chelated and died. What you don’t know, and they will not tell you, is that the boy was chelated with the wrong!!!! chelating agent. It had stripped out, the boys calcium, and the boy died. That’s true, but even the CDC back then, had addressed that accident. As being just that, an unfortunate accident.
The spokesperson, for the CDC back then, said the Dr. was confused by the two chelating agents.
Because, they are almost identical, he also said this happened two other times that they know of
in the US. He then state’s, who and where. So, how did we get from chelating intercity kids in masses, to it’s to dangerous?????? And it kills kids?????
Because, they are corrupt to the core of their being, and they seen an opportunity. And, they took
it. What’s strange is, that I found on the CDC’s own website, this (“if you get to much mercury,it’s necessary to chelate”
I guess, they forgot, that was on their website. History will show, that the CDC and the AAP, was more dangerous than any terrorist we have ever faced.
Hang on… You wrote this piece and you don’t even know how Posey came to be in possession of the documents? Hahahaha. Turn off your wordpress dashboard and come back when you have done a little more research, will ya?
What I know is that Posey’s office has confirmed that Dr. Thompson has handed over documents. If you have specific verifiable information on whether these were provided formally by CDC or personally by Dr. Thompson, what the precise nature of the content of the documents is, and the degree to which they include substantiatable evidence of fraud, please do post links.
I know Dr. Wakefield, we speak from time to time. He said,that there are thousands of documents. And they are on various, vaccines and subjects.
He DR. Thompson, is also going to aid in looking at Dr. Hookers FOIA Doc’s that he recovered, by giving his professional, epidemiological assistance.
Now that’s has been said, please do explain this FOIA info. Dr. Maynard.
In August of 2002, a VSD meeting was held in Denver Colorado. One of the presentations, which is attached, has to do with VSD Team Website Security.
One of the, PowerPoint slides states, the following;
” Protecting Scientific Information; From FOIA the Congress and the Courts”
Just what does that mean?????? Answer please.
Here’s how I feel about it. Personally, I thought if you had Science on your side,you were supposed to share it with. The Congress and the Courts.
In order to win. in Vaccine court. One really should be wondering, if one is trying to hide their science on the safety of their vaccines, from the Congress and the Courts. Just how safe, is these vaccines?????
You will have to face God for writing these lies, their is evidence and the scientists that did the studies admitted they lied and covered up the truth. Stop being a scum bag and show some integrity by reporting the truth
Most of the critics of people who prefer having a choice on vaccinating or not are skeptics– meaning they don’t believe in God , heaven or hell so they don’t care whether you condemn them to an after life judgment or not. Sad but true.
Folks, what are we doing here? This is not a man who is capable of open-minded inquiry. Here, as usual, the emphasis is not on finding truth, but inflaming fears and diverting attention.
I usually don’t comment on these diatribes anymore, but I gave in because this “scientist” lives in my community and has a nice face. 🙂 I do not suspect him of being anything but sincere in his locked-in-tight/not-budging beliefs, unlike the PR flacks that are so often hired to write these things, but, in the end, I’m afraid many are simply damaged, irreparably, by their professional/institutional “training.”
Sadly, Thomas Kuhn was right: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die…”
Absolutely, that’s what happened in the Pinks epidemic. It only became evident, that the Mercury
containing teething powders were the cause. When, all the one’s denying the mercury connection,
had all died.
This, is from an article I posed on. Can you not read? I already proved, chelation was mainstream by the CDC, for inner city children that ate Lead paint chips. I will Quote, what I was told by the CDC; “we have had, for decades, all across the US. chelation stations”
It only became dangerous, when the (AAP CDC & the FDA) had screwed up a generation of our American children with a mercury based preservative. And then decided, if it’s chelated out and
the child recovers. Were toast!
Also, from the History pinks, it’s being eradicated by chelation. You will not, find big story’s from the inner city kids, or the pinks children dying in masses. History, does not show that. What you have, is first hand accounts that the Dr’s gave [dimercaprol] & experienced gratifying cures! Here’s what the product (dimercaprol) is, when defined;
[Dimercaprol] What eradicated mercury poisoning called Pinks. Definition of Dimercaprol in the Medical dictionary – by medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/dimercaprol dimercaprol /di·mer·cap·rol/ (di″mer-kap´rol) a metal complexing agent used as an antidote to poisoning by arsenic, gold,mercury, and lead.
Also called British anti-lewisite ” BAL” If you do a Google search, on the safety of Chelation. You will find overall, it is now and always has been safe. In fact, the CDC did some research. And that research, revealed. That the children, with heavy metals in their body. That had Autism, the symptoms, seemed to get better. With chelation……But the children without Heavy metals in their body’s, they seemed to get worse. So, they scrapped the study.
The Idiots, could not design a study, with only Autistic children. All with, heavy metals in their body’s? They, could not see the benefit, of some children getting better. So they scrapped that study,and then declared chelation as unsafe. And began circulating, that it kills children. When history is replete, with many good reports on this practice. Like I said, corrupt to their very core.
So, why the lies now ? To save,the health agency’s, much embarrassment. And their antiquated
vaccine program. With a very dangerous, schedule. That’s now hurting children, more than it’s helped the children.
If you called the CDC, or the AAP, and asked about the safety of chelation. They would lie on a dime, and their easily caught. Here’s how, the CDC or the AAP,they will remind everyone that a child with Autism that was being chelated had died. Therefore, chelation is dangerous. Not one word of that, is fact. Except, their was a boy with autism, from another country. That was chelated and died. What you don’t know, and they will not tell you, is that the boy was chelated with the wrong!!!! chelating agent. It had stripped out, the boys calcium, and the boy died. That’s true, but even the CDC back then, had addressed that accident. As being just that, an unfortunate accident.
The spokesperson, for the CDC back then, said the Dr. was confused by the two chelating agents.
Because, they are almost identical, he also said this happened two other times that they know of
in the US. He then state’s, who and where. So, how did we get from chelating intercity kids in masses, to it’s to dangerous?????? And it kills kids?????
Because, they are corrupt to the core of their being, and they seen an opportunity. And, they took
it. What’s strange is, that I found on the CDC’s own website, this (“if you get to much mercury,it’s necessary to chelate”
I guess, they forgot, that was on their website. History will show, that the CDC and the AAP, was more dangerous than any terrorist we have ever faced.
I can’t help but wonder……. There must be very little for a “risk scientist” to do to further vaccines as untouchable, immutable truth crusade. I mean, you have nothing to work with on either end, do you?
You can’t produce data about how much disease they prevent, since, sadly, none have ever been subjected to gold standard efficacy trials, where a group gets a single vaccine, a control group does not, and data on disease occurrence is compared between the two large groups.
And, risk? “One in a million”????? No way to know, since it has been acknowledged by surveillance officials that no more than 1-10% of adverse outcomes from vaccination (or any drug) get reported. Again, institutional “training” strikes: After medical school, doctors cannot see adverse events from vaccination, so cannot report them.
We’re always hearing “correlation does not equal causation.” How true. And, the lack of true efficacy and safety science on vaccines also means that, with regard to disease prevention, one can only repeat “correlation does not equal causation.”
So, for a risk guy, I guess the only thing to do to further this Holy Grail is to write crap like this.
Every good wish, Neighbor.
Why is mhirzel so obsessed with the fact that Dr. Maynard is his neighbor?
property values
Yeah, sorry about – who’d of thought in a town full of academics I could be such a bad influence
Yes you are missing a lot Dr. Maynard. You can find a gold mine of the real science & evidence on Twitter.com using #CDCwhistleblower, just like that.
There’s still media black out but the world’s waking by the masses to the real fact & horror, anyway. We do have some reporters breaking rank & reporting truth like Sharyl Attkisson, look her up. She left CBS to be free to speak & she sure is thanking the good God is for that.
We the many parents & world citizens have been number two on Twitter in an ongoing storm that won’t let up but media is not reporting as is usual with that kind of a surge.
Many who have been writing these same type deceptive articles for years, parroting the same rhetoric, will be held accountable. There are many whispers of the Nuremberg Code, Trials & Geneva Convention if you listen.
I too believe you beLIEve & are innocent.
We ask you do the proper research & write a much needed retraction to this article.
Far too long too many have been selling the lies & others parroting them which have been holding children in pHARM’s way.
Please help us because 1 in 68 are affected with autism & 1 in 8 having many other conditions like asthma, seizures, headaches, nose bleed, allergies, vision problems, etc, etc. & so on. Research will show the healthiest children are those NOT vaccinated, doctor.
If we don’t save our children now, soon, nothing else will matter!
Watch Congressman Posey questioning CDC research on Autism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNWTOmEi_6A
Look up ‘US Congressman says ‘incestuous relationship’ between CDC and vaccine manufacturers needs to be scrutinized’
For almost15 years many every where & especially in congress have been blowing the whistle & fighting the others in congress who are bought & paid for by BIG pHARMs lobbyists.
There are so many whistle blowers & have been for years, most of these many are doctors & scientists, but they were all ignored & stifled until now as you will learn. I will be back to show you as this message is long enough.
Until then watch, also,this shocking, eye popping & convincing evidence of what we have been up against. Be sure to watch the criminal doctor, Coleen A. Boyle from the CDC hang herself.
Look up ‘Congressman Dan Burton 2002’
Hooker’s flawed article indicates “a statistically significant _INCREASE_ in autism cases specifically among African American males who received the first MMR _PRIOR_ to 36 months of age.” [My emphasis.]
Although his paper is so poorly written that it’s difficult to understand his comparisons, what Hooker actually claims is, then, that African-American boys who did not receive timely vaccinations (i.e., the dozen or so African-American boys in the study sample who were vaccinated years after the recommended date for MMR administration) were also LESS likely to be diagnosed with ASD.
Hooker provides a citation that explains his finding–and it has nothing to do with MMR. Check the conclusion of Hooker’s reference number 15: “there are significant [socioeconomic status] disparities in access to diagnostic and other services for children with autism.” [Durkin MS et al. Socioeconomic inequality in the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder: evidence from a U.S. cross-sectional study. PLoS One. 2010 Jul 12;5(7):e11551.]
At the time the DeStefano study’s data was collected, about 1/3 of African-American children in the study site, Atlanta, lived in families with no wage earner. With no health insurance, limited access even to vaccination and to well-baby visits where developmental concerns might be noted, and markedly reduced access to specialists capable of diagnosing ASD, the children of such families are both less likely to have have on-time vaccination and to be diagnosed with ASD.
The concept of a “lurking variable” seems to have eluded Hooker. Although both the number of firemen required to fight a fire and the economic loss due to the fire might seem to be correlated, even Hooker would probably not fail to call the Fire Department for fear that his losses would increase if the Fire Department tried to save his burning home; the lurking variable is the severity of the fire. Nonetheless, although Hooker clearly should be aware of the lurking variable that explains his conclusion–since he cited Durkin–he avoids mentioning the obvious explanation for the seeming connection between failure to obtain timely vaccination and failure to be diagnosed with ASD among the dozen or so African-American boys in his data set: poverty.
Moreover, although Hooker acknowledges that African-American boys in the study were more likely than the overall study population to have had unusually low birth weight—which can increase the risk of ASD five-fold—he chose to avoid correcting for this obvious confounder, although DeStefano did make that critically important correction.
Here’s a good review of how Hooker made a hash of his statistical analysis:
http://blog.minitab.com/blog/adventures-in-statistics/analysis-and-reanalysis3a-the-controversy-behind-mmr-vaccinations-and-autism2c-part-2
Watch the video, with his own words, and then come back. And then try to defend this act worse than treason! If you can still do it,pharma owns you! Notice, where he says, I have great shame!
The higher ups, wanted to do certain things, and I went along with it.
Do not dare! say, we do not no if these are his words. He, has admitted, they are! I did not know, I was being recorded. We now have clear, and concise proof, that the CDC should be dismantled.
Many should be fired, and awaiting court dates. For last I heard, it was a felony, to poison children.
Dr. Thompson’s own words.
“We’ve missed 10 years of research because the CDC is so paralyzed right now by anything related to autism,” stated the whistleblower, who has worked for the CDC for more than 10 years. “They’re not doing what they should be doing because they’re afraid to look for things that might be associated.”
Now bepatienz,do you think we should be trusting an agency (to find the cause of Autism) that is in DR Thompson’s own words. ” the CDC is so paralyzed right now by anything related to autism,” stated the whistleblower, who has worked for the CDC for more than 10 years. “They’re not doing what they should be doing because they’re afraid to look for things that might be associated.”
It appears, that that kind of thinking, it will lead to what the MIT professor said “by 2025 at the rate we are going, autism will be 1 in 2 children” She then stated, that 50% of all US. children, will be autistic. That 10 yr’s for this Nation to exist!
In Andrew Wakefield’s words:
“Vile as the crimes of Stalin, Pol Pot and Hitler were, these men were not hypocrites, their motives ambiguous or their rhetoric glazed with apparent care and compassion. These men were not entrusted with the welfare of their victims”
Stalin has been described as “an amoral psychopath and paranoid with a gangster’s mentality, [eliminating] anyone and everyone who was a threat to his power – including (and especially) former allies. He had absolutely no regard for the sanctity of human life.” He was responsible for between 20 – 60 million deaths.
Under Pol Pots leadership, the Khmer Rouge made hundreds and thousands of people dig their own graves, and them buried them alive – so as not to waste bullets on them.
Hitler was responsible for the targeted murder of at least 6 million people, and atrocities against humanity that continue to rip through lives and communities.
I allow these comments to remain in this stream because I believe in freedom of speech,and the importance of allowing people to respond to what I write. But I am greatly saddened to see that so many of the people leaving comments here have such distain for the suffering they caused that they would cynically co-opt their victims in the crusade to silence people who have given their lives to protecting health.
I am deeply ashamed.
Andrew, you really think, it’s Ok! for the CDC FDA and the AAP. To hide the truth, of what happened, to our children????? For the greater Good. Is that what you are saying????? If they had found a link,and then done something about it,then a mistake is a mistake. Anyone that’s human, can make one.
We understand, really we do, it’s just that the CDC had found a link. And then, when confronted, with the realization of it. They then decided, to bury it. And then,some real gentlemen from the CDC FDA or AAP decides. We can blame, the ignorant parents genetics. And they all said, why not blame the parents, they will never know. Andrew, all things that’s done in darkness, eventually come to light. Parents, have been begging God, for someone in the CDC to get a conscience for many decades. Those who done this, are very lucky,for God is slow to anger. But watch out! when he gets there, for he grinds his enemy’s to powder!
Andrew,they have had many warning’s, on the toxicity of thimerosal. Starting
in 1948, the AMA paid for the study that found that Thimerosal is toxic down to one one millionth of a gram. In other words, Andrew. Trace amounts,are even considered extremely toxic. The FDA, was warned again, in 1982 about the dangers of thimerosal. The FDA ignored it, that’s probably why, they cannot
ever admit it. The same AMA funded study participants, tried in 82 to get the thimerosal out of everything it was in. Including,over the counter products.
Dr. Engley said; ” that’s, about as toxic, as it gets ” The study was published in two Journals. The AMA, and the Annals of NY. Both are,as you know very prestigious Journals. Here is his interview, as you can see, he was old and and close to death. And,when you are at that point in life,there is no reason to lie.
http://www.ashotoftruth.org/science/frank-b-engley-jr-phd-interview
More whistle blowers in true news right now Dr. Maynard.
Look up:
‘Lawsuits claiming Merck lied about mumps vaccine efficacy headed to trial’
“Two lawsuits claiming Merck ($MRK) lied about the efficacy of its mumps vaccine won’t be going away anytime soon. A federal judge in Pennsylvania refused to dismiss the suits, filed by a pair of whistleblowers and a group of doctors and payers, and now, they’re on their way to trial.”
I know the criminals argued this matter in court saying this is not a case for the courts to decide but the FDA, instead.
Very funny. They hoped another crooked government organization they are in bed with like the CDC would save them.
NOT!
Thanking the good God is U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones II didn’t buy that.
The world wakes daily & the cat’s never going back in the bag!
There have been many, MANY whistleblowers but they have been ignored & stifled until now.
Look up ‘Vaccination Liberation’ to see the many scientists & doctors in the ‘quotes’ section who have been trying to warn us for years.
Then my friend in Sweden who blew the whistle on Eli Lilly incriminating himself some years ago & #nothinghappened.
John Virapin. Learn all about him by looking him up.
Oh & there are many pHARMa reps who have voiced the truth through the years. look up ‘Pharma reps blow whistles’
Gwen Olsen will be there for just one powerful confession.
Follow me on Twitter @mofmars333 & go to #CDCwhistleblower to see what’s really science & what’s not.
The whistles are blowing over there in a storm that won’t stop. And still media blackout. But real journalists, newspapers & many others are waking & blowing whistles, too.
bepatienz We the parents & world citizens know all about the PBS/Nova special told about in this opinion article.
Many of our ‘so called’ & wrongly called antivaxxers watched, took notes & gave PBS our feed back. Many were disappointed in PBS because they counted on them to tell the truth but now it’s known PBS insists on taking Merck’s money & public funds then looking the other way as children & families slip through the cracks.
PBS will lose a lot of public funding when the truth comes out even more than it has.
Their advertisers are being boycotted right now.
With all cards in media stacked against us & many bogus & deceiving articles, as usual, the house of cards is still falling.
There isn’t a complete media blackout of this CDC whistle blower issue. PBS has ramped up the propaganda segments to examine the controversy. Typically, the issue is discussed by a head of a Pediatrics organization and a head of a vaccine development group of a university. No injured parents, no “anti-vaxxers”. But there is typically reference to up-scale, educated, affluent parents who are simply misguided, according to these typical segments.
One of these radio segments followed a great piece on an agency dedicated to reviewing/confirming the pharma research used to validate their products. The overall message there was that there is anything but transparency in that field.
I’ve called my local PBS, canceled my decades old subscription, recalled them, to let them know how offensive their coverage was.
Marsha, their house of deceitful cards, is plummeting to the ground. Look, for an Ebola out break
coming to city or a town near you. That’s, their only way out, of the corner that they have painted them selves into. Diversion, if they work it right, we will be begging them. To vaccinate us, against their weaponized, CDC created Ebola. Outbreak.
If the author of this article does not know who Poul Thorsen is, then he has no right to even have an opinion on this subject, much less be calling people names. An intelligent article is available at Market Watch, which by the way mentions Dr. Thorsen.
Marsha McClelland, it is telling that your response to my post ignores the scientific evidence and instead focuses on the reaction that you and your fellow travelers had to a PBS documentary. It’s actually the scientific evidence that matters, although people who have no meaningful training in science or medicine are obviously unable to interpret that evidence.
Dr. Hooker’s biased “reanalysis” of the data used in the DeStefano study clearly supports the hypothesis that MMR is not a risk factor for ASD in the general population–and, yes, that means among Caucasian children. Moreover, his tortured and wrong-headed statistical manipulations only manage to support the idea that among the dozen or so African-American boys in the his extremely limited study sample who received MMR two or so years after its administration was recommended were also somewhat less likely to be diagnosed with ASD–which most sentient beings should be able to understand can be clearly explained by factors (unrelated to MMR) including poverty and limited access to healthcare that are already well documented in the literature.
This article ^ aims to deliberately decept, the facts of William Thompson’s admission of fraud have been left out entirely, please watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGOtDVilkUc&feature=share
Also in the last 2weeks Merck is finally being caught our too for fraud also mmr : http://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2014/09/10/did-merck-unfairly-monopolize-the-market-for-a-mumps-vaccine/
Dr. Maynard,
We discount the paragraph in which Dr. Thompson praises vaccines as being an attempt to shield himself from legal liability when he is taken to court for having the temerity to admit, as a study author who sought fruitlessly to have the head of the CDC Julie Gerberding announce the study findings to the public, that the MMR more than tripled the rate of autism in young black males when they got the MMR before the age of three, as they usually do. He told Wakefield how sorry he was for having cooperated with those who seriously damaged his career and his reputation, when it was Wakefield who had told the truth, and the CDC that had lied and covered up the facts. The really astonishing thing is that Dr. Thompson felt guilty enough about his role in persuading people to continue getting vaccines on false pretenses, to make public statements about the fraud and his role in it. At the top of his statement, Dr. Thompson says that he regrets that he cooperatied in propagating lies about the safety of the MMR, when it reality it greatly increases the incidence of autism in those who got it. And then he got scared, and below added the lines that you find to be of paramount importance, about vaccines being safe and lifesaving, and he would NEVER advise even a black mother to refrain from giving her son the MMR. Surely you cannot believe those were words of anything but fear of the legal consequences, in an age in which one in 36 children is now being diagnosed with autism in the U.S. (U. of Minnesota 2013).
Cia Parker, you seem to be having some trouble in understanding the data. Since that’s understandable for someone like you, who has no training in science or medicine, let me explain in simple terms:
(1) There is no indication whatsoever that MMR is harmful in the general population. In fact, there is nothing to suggest that MMR caused any “epidemic” of autism. Specifically, neither the DeStefano paper or Hooker’s “reanalysis” suggests that MMR is associated with an increase in the risk of autism in Caucasian children. All that Hooker can claim is that he showed that diagnosis of ASD was _less_ likely in the exceptionally small sample of African-American boys who received MMR long after it was recommended than it was in a larger sample of African-American boys who received more timely vaccinations.
(2) If you slice and dice the available data, as Hooker did, it is unremarkable that about 5% of the results will seem to be statistically significant–that’s exactly what is expected, and in fact, given the number of Hooker’s calculations, you’d expect one or two of his comparisons to _seem_ significant due to chance alone. Similarly, Thompson previously published work suggesting that thimerosal exposure was protective against some neurological problems. That sort of biologically implausible result is expected when you set the usual low bar (5%) for statistical significance in biological studies. Biologists have to try to sort this out.
(3) Hooker showed that the small number of African-American boys who did not receive timely vaccinations were less likely than others to be diagnosed with ASD. Since that time, it’s become clear that socioeconomic status influences the probability of both vaccination and of ASD diagnosis; specifically, low socioeconomic status is predictive of both results. At the time the study was conducted, one-third of African-American boys in the study site lived in conditions predictive of both low probability of timely vaccination and low probability of having access to healthcare providers capable of diagnosing ASD. Thus Hooker’s results not only fails to make biological sense, it is explained by known and well-understood factors
(4) Hooker used a vanishingly small sample to reach his result–about a dozen boys. That’s as silly as Wakefield’s earlier and well-paid attempt to attack MMR using a dozen children. Of course, it was Wakefield who actually hid and manipulated data: Wakefield did not disclose that he somehow decided that the fact that eleven of the twelve sets of parents in his pre-selected study population connected receipt of MMR with the onset of symptoms of ASD should be hidden; no, he ignored their claims as well as the medical records in his possession and reported that only eight sets of parents or doctors made that claim–and thus dramatically inflated the results of his calculations to implicate MMR.
What an incredibly arrogant post. My God.. are you actually implying that thimerosal is good for children? What is wrong with you?
bepatienz there are so many errors in your post I can’t keep track of them. But the way you mischaracterize Wakefield’s study as an attempt to prove that MMR causes autism really bares your ignorance for all to see. You clearly know nothing about Wakefield’s study, and you clearly don’t know much about everything else you bring up.
The claims of Dr. Thompson of not disclosing very relevant data does not depend upon the veracity of Dr. Brian Hooker’s analysis of the data. Get it? What the CDC did happened 11 years ago.
As usual, the folks that are actually clued in about the harm that vaccines can cause continue to publicly gain ground against the heroes of the main stream ‘big pharma’ party line toters. I LOVE it. At least the comments of this blunt little obtuse article are way more entertaining.
Let me make sure this is clear to anyone that thinks all vaccinations are safe for all children. You’re dead wrong. You’re wrong without a shadow of doubt and you need to stop kidding yourselves and pull your brain washed heads out of your dumb a****. Try going to a few doctors office that specialist in bio-medical intervention and talking to a few hundred parents that have been through the tragedy of watching their kids regress immediately after a jab, instead of regurgitating the CDC’s propaganda.
Parents such as myself, that have been the victims of this outrageous injustice will NOT STOP until we are vindicated and the CDC admits that it has been propagating this lie for decades. We will see the CDC crumble (as their credibility already has) and we will see the Vaccine Injury Court dissolved and big pharma’s “immunity” from lawsuits we be revoked. I assure you, one day they will pay dearly to EVERY parent that has been left with a child that is disabled due to their own egregious greed.. Period.
Thought process of a newly informed parent:
“And what? Bio-medical treatments are CURING some forms of autism?! But I thought they said it was genetic? With a little bit of environment thrown in?
Wait a sec… “some forms”? Like, everyone diagnosed with autism doesn’t have identical symptoms with identical treatment? Huh… And sometimes it can be reversed? Like, with detox? Last I knew you couldn’t reverse genetics… What could possibly be so toxic to so many little kids these days? Well, food, pollution… vaccines? Check the vaccine inserts? Okay… I mean, vaccinations are what 99% of school aged children in the U.S. have in common, right? Our pediatrician never offered up one of those… All I got was a one page memo from the CDC…
Uh, says here that one of the side effects of the DTap is AUTISM? What? Page 11… I definitely don’t remember being told that… So when little Jimmy broke out in hives and little Suzy slept for days on end after every well-child visit? And when the nurse said that was normal and that little Bobby’s unrelenting, high pitched screaming was just colic and to give him Tylenol… Those were “adverse reactions”? That doesn’t sound normal to me. “VAERS Reporting”? I’ll hafta look that one up… Why the heck are the diseases we’re vaccinating against listed as “side effects”?
Okay, I certainly wasn’t told about the ingredients… This must be a joke, right?
“Aluminum phosphate,
formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, 2-Phenoxyethanol, aluminum
hydroxide, polysorbate 80
(Tween 80), sodium chloride,
thimerosal, gelatin, neomycin
sulfate, polymyxin B, yeast
protein, aluminum salts, bovine
serum albumin, neomycin,
sucrose, purified capsular
polysaccharide, amorphous
aluminum hydroxphosphate
sulfate, amino acid supplement,
polysorbate 20 (Tween 20),
formalin, phosphate buffered
saline, MRC-5 cellular proteins
(from aborted fetal cells),
aminoglycoside antibiotic,
phosphate buffers, disodium
phosphate, dihydrate, sodium
dihydrogen, insect cell and viral
protein, bacterial cell protein, L-histidine, sodium borate,
amorphous aluminum
hydroxyphosphate sulfate
adjuvant, monobasic sodium
phosphate, monobasic
potassium phosphate,
potassium chloride, calcium
chloride, sodium
taurodeoxycholate, ovalbumin,
mercury, sodium, chloride, beta-propiolacton, egg proteins,
CTAB, kanmycin, octoxynol-10
(Triton X-100), a-tocopheryl
hydrogen succinate,
hydrocortisone, gentamicin
sulfate, sodium deoxycholate,
host cell proteins, baculovirus,
Triton X-100, residual MDCK cell
protein (canine cells from a
female adult Cocker Spaniel),
other cell proteins, MDCK cell
DNA, cetyltrimethylammonium
bromide, B-propiolactone,
phosphate-buffered saline
solution, monosodium
glutamate, hydrolyzed porcine
gelatin, arginine, dibasic
potassium phosphate,
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
(EDTA), polymyxin,
betapropiolactone, nonylphenol
ethoxylate, sorbitol, sodium
phosphate, hydrolyzed gelatin,
recombinant human albumin,
fetal bovine serum, other buffer
and media ingredients, urea,
monodium L-glutamate, human
albumin, sodium bicarbonate,
potassium phosphate, residual
components of MRC-5 cells
(including DNA and protein),
sodium phosphate dibasic,
succinate buffer, isotonic saline
solution, phenol, streptomycin,
residual calf serum, polygeline
(processed bovine gelatin),
human serum albumin,
potassium glutamate, sodium
EDTA, bovine serum, chicken
protein, chlortetracycline,
amphotericin B), amino acids,
dextran, Dulbecco’s Modified
Eagle Medium (sodium chloride,
magnesium sulfate, ferric (III)
nitrate, sodium pyruvate, D-glucose, concentrated vitamin
solution, L-cystine, L-tyrosine,
amino acids solution, L-glutamine, sodium
hydrogenocarbonate, phenol
red), calcium carbonate,
xanthan, monosodium L-glutamate, bovine calf serum, and EDTA”?
I let someone INJECT that into my CHILD?
We’re vegetarians! That only eat organic! Little Jimmy has food allergies; no wonder he broke out in hives!
My doctor didn’t tell me any of this! And neither did the evening news! And my kids just got all of their shots for school because they’re mandatory for attendance!
What? They’re NOT?! Michigan lets me opt out for religious, medical, OR philosophical reasons?!
O.M.G.
Why didn’t anyone tell me?
What else am I not being told?”
And on down the never ending rabbit hole of vaccine research they go… Daaaanng.
To elaborate on the list of ingredients in some vaccines, MRC-5 cells are from fetal cell lines, (aborted fetuses), to be specific. Wonder how many pro-lifers who vaccinate would find that acceptable?
http://www.cogforlife.org/SCPIpressrelease092014.pdf
Why is it that anyone who speaks against the CDC Whistleblower story, claiming that there is no coverup or malfeasance by the CDC, simply refers to yet another blog entry by some random blogger? And especially when the blog says plain as day:
“Todd is not a physician or formal scientist. His statements on this blog should therefore not be taken as medical advice (get that from your doctor) nor as definitive scientific proof (go to the consensus of scientific literature for that).”
And why can’t the blogger in this article actually reference any of the relevant information, like Dr. Thompson’s legal statement, or his letters to various CDC officials like the head of the CDC, or the text of his statements made to Dr. Brian Hooker?
In short, if you are going to come to a conclusion about a story of this kind of significance, why not actually examine the evidence and present it for the reader to decide?
Your conclusions, like all the other blog-referencing pro-vaccine articles I have read, are forgone and are independent of any available information.
This article is a waste of time.
Kind of typical of a corporate mindset this article represents. Its interesting to note the deliberate blackout out the story from the CDC whistle blower – this should have been the biggest story in the world as the ramifications of evil is beyond words, yet the corporate controlled media wont cover it. Truelove shocking !