This article was first published July 29, 2015
A current Centers for Disease Control (CDC) senior scientist has made an unprecedented admission: he and his colleagues–he says– committed scientific misconduct to cover up a meaningful link between vaccines and autism in black boys.
Just as startling, the CDC scientist, Dr. William Thompson, says 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…co-authors…brought a big garbage can into the meeting room… [and put the documents]…into a huge garbage can.” –CDC Senior Scientist Dr. William Thompson
Despite this whistleblower testimony, which Dr. Thompson provided to Rep. Bill Posey, R-Florida, there is little chance of a meaningful hearing or investigation.
In an untainted news environment, the allegations would make headlines in most legitimate publications and would trigger federal inquiries. However, the interests of the powerful pharmaceutical industry reach deeply into Congress and the news media through lobbyists, propaganda and advertising dollars.
“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 Scientist Dr. William Thompson
That’s why Congressman Posey resorted to simply reading some of Dr. Thompson’s statement today on the House floor…including the part in which Dr. Thompson says he retained the evidence that had been thrown in the garbage can, in the unlikely event that a neutral investigative or scientific body would like to see it today.
“[B]ecause I assumed it was illegal and would violate both FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] and DOJ [Department of Justice] requests, I kept hardcopies of all documents in my office, and I retain all associated computer files,” Posey quotes Dr. Thompson as reporting.
The CDC and Thompson’s co-author Dr. Frank DeStefano, CDC Director of Immunization Safety, have defended the controversial study as originally published. Dr. DeStefano explains why here in detail.
One final note: Rep. Posey unequivocally states that he is pro-vaccine. However, the propaganda campaign typically falsely portrays anyone who addresses vaccine safety issues as “anti-vaccine.”
Listen to Rep. Posey’s statement by pasting the link below into your browser and going to 1:02:24
CDC responds to allegations it omitted vaccine-autism study link AUDIO
CDC: Possibility that vaccines rarely trigger autism
Rep. Posey’s entire statement about Dr. Thompson:
“I rise today on matters of scientific integrity and research. To begin with, I am absolutely, resolutely, pro-vaccine. Advancements in medical immunization have saved countless and greatly benefitted public health. That being said, it’s troubling to me that in a recent Senate hearing on childhood vaccinations, it was never mentioned that our government has paid out over $3 billion through a vaccine injury compensation program for children who have been injured by vaccinations.
“Regardless of the subject matter, parents making decisions about their children’s health deserve to have the best information available to them. They should be able to count on federal agencies to tell them the truth. For these reasons, I bring the following matter to the House floor.
“In August 2014, Dr. William Thompson, a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, worked with a whistleblower attorney to provide my office with documents related to a 2004 CDC study that examined the possibility of a relationship between [the] mumps, measles, rubella vaccine and autism. In a statement released in August, 2014, Dr. Thompson stated, ‘I regret that my co-authors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics.’
“Mr. Speaker, I respectfully request the following excepts from the statement written by Dr. Thompson be entered into the record.
“Now quoting Dr. Thompson.
“‘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.’
“Mr. Speaker, I believe it is our duty to insure that the documents that Dr. Thompson are not ignored. Therefore I will provide them to members of Congress and the House Committees upon request. Considering the nature of the whistleblower’s documents as well as the involvement of the CDC, a hearing and a thorough investigation is warranted.
“So I ask, Mr. Speaker, I beg, I implore my colleagues on the appropriations committees to please, please take such action.”
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Has anyone seen the original study anywhere that demonstrates the autism/MMR connection before the coverup? It’s got to be posted publicly somewhere. My son has autism and I would like to read it.
You are deeply loved, appreciated, admired, and prayed for by so many of us. Thank you for being a Real Warrior for Truth….Justice…and the American Way!
Great journalism Attkisson
But what happened to Dr. William Thompson after 2015? Did he keep pushing for truth?
What is he doing today? Is he a reseacher, a practising doctor? Is he still in the US?
Any link to his profile in any social media or blog?
Best wishes, Torbjorn Sassersson, editor/founder of Newsvoice.se founded in 2011 (not to be mixed up with the copycat Newsvoice.com founded in 2017 by another Swede)
First, my heart goes out to all the families with vaccine injured children. May society acknowledge your struggle, get you the help you need,. As more people wake up to your reality, may the lies and damage finally stop.
Second, is there anything left to say after Toto blew through this comment section? Whew!
Well, a little.
With a covid vaccine coming at us at, apparently, “warpspeed,” it behooves everyone to be familiar with the laws about vaccine liability (or lack thereof). This recent discussion between Catherine Fitts and Dr. Tenpenny spells it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=6Q6fm1-fwgM&feature=emb_logo
Redpill’s Feb. 3 commentary (on Thinking Mom’s Revolution blog) on the World Health Organization’s most recent vaccine summit video (Dec. 2019) enumerates the questions finally being asked by the WHO docs– questions parents have been asking for decades, which can’t be easily answered.
https://thinkingmomsrevolution.com/slippery-slope-censoring-called-pseudoscience/
WHO has declared the “vaccine hesitant” to be a health emergency. Interesting. We must be reaching a tipping point, which might explain why someone was messin’ with this page. ;;-)
I don’t know jujitsu, but it seems like bringing this older article to everyone’s attention after what happened was good “journalist jujitsu”!
all best
Shannon
israel = russia
My son is a testimony to this ordeal. My son is now 8 and he is an African American young boy. He to was born healthy no alignments or delays. He was vaccinated at 18 months and shortly went downhills from there. He lost all form of what little speech he had and stop looking me in my eyes he all of a sudden became high rate and started displaying self-harm to himself. Me being a single parent you listen to your physician because you think they’re there to help guide you and protect your children but the minute they gave my son that injection everything changed. He was later diagnosed with Autism something here was nowhere near displaying prior to the MMR. As a parent, and i speak for all parents we know when something isn’t right. If they say it doesn’t display itself till their a little older why is it the signs start to manifest itself a couple of weeks after vaccination why not before or later. Something needs to be done.. I’m still waiting..
VAXXED opened this week in Sacto, CA a stone throw from the State Capitol where Governor Brown and the Legislators voted in SB277, the forced vaccine law for all public and private school aged children with the exception of home schooled children. During the passage of SB277 Robert Kennedy Jr. made an appearance with an invitation for the Legislators and Governor Brown to listen to him speak and to view a documentary. Not one legislator showed up and including Governor Jerry Brown. The Law was passed on the sole assumption that the CDC could provide scientific studies on the link between MMR vaccine and Autism. And, including multiple vaccines given at once, and the effects of the live virus flu shot on pregnant mothers, and the effects of aluminum in vaccines. Not True! No studies have never ever been done. The local media station did a small story. Sacramento Bee to over control of the media with their unyielding Pro Vaccine stand! Blocked the truth from the People of Sacramento. So, our Democratic Legislator and Governor and the Sac Bee does the bidding of Jerry Brown are poo pooing the facts presented in the documentary. We now know that Doctor Wakefield and Thompson have presented their evidence and Dr. Boyle of the CDC when pressed against the wall by the Congressional Health Oversight & Reform Committee learned. Our State Legislators were paid 5.5 million dollars to pass the Anti Parent Law making MD’s the finale decision maker for vaccines. Dr. Pan and lobbyists of the AMA and Big Pharma were allowed to speak and legislators took the work of Senator Dr. Pan regarding the safety and effectiveness of vaccines based on lies and “no science to back up these claims.”It’s really time to shut down the State Legislature for corruption and collusion to keep the truth from Californians. Taking the voters rights away and forced anything is against the Nuremberg Code….where human experiments began for antibiotics and vaccines. Hitlers Scientists ended up in America after being released from prison.
Whooping cough is a bacteria that colonises the throat, called pertussis.
1. Near no pertussis Australia whole cell pertussis vaccine (wP) 1953-1995
2. Change to aP vaccine 1996.
3. Vaccination rate, all time high levels of over 90%
4. First Major outbreaks begin 2010, when all first aP vaccinated show 100% failure rates of the vaccine.
5. No one over age 12 catches the illness, in the outbreak in 2010, one has to assume the whole cell is still working in anyone who got vaccinated prior to 1996.
6. WA Health Department discover those kids aged 6-12 who they test, during the outbreak in 2010, although showing no symptoms still had pertussis bacteria in their throats for up to 8 weeks, and were able to transmit this to others. These children had still working aP vaccine, which protected them, but did not stop them transmitting the bacteria.
7. Studies prove that fully vaccinated, with no symptoms, who have not yet had pertussis themselves (when the vaccine fails), do in fact, still catch, carry and spread pertussis to infants, who are too young to be vaccinated..
8. In an attempt to prevaccinated babies, USA recommends aP vaccine be given to all pregnant women in 2013. Rise from 5,000 microcephalic babies per year to over 25,000 per year.
9. Introduce aP vaccination to all Brazilian pregnant women in May 2015, first babies born October, a rise to 12,000 babies per year with microcephaly, which is less than the present rate in USA.
10. No zika in USA to blame, so how do CDC explain this rise in microcephaly?
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WAS THIS THE FORMAT FOLLOWED WHEN THOMPSON’S LAWYER SENT THE CDC DOCUMENTS TO CONGRESSMAN POSEY?
“Responding to Committee Document Requests
1. In complying with this request, you are required to produce all responsive documents that are in your possession, custody, or control, whether held by you or your past or present agents, employees, and representatives acting on your behalf. You should also produce documents that you have a legal right to obtain, that you have a right to copy or to which you have access, as well as documents that you have placed in the temporary possession, custody, or control of any third party. Requested records, documents, data or information should not be destroyed, modified, removed, transferred or otherwise made inaccessible to the Committee.
2. In the event that any entity, organization or individual denoted in this request has been, or is also known by any other name than that herein denoted, the request shall be read also to include that alternative identification.
3. The Committee’s preference is to receive documents in electronic form (i.e., CD, memory stick, or thumb drive) in lieu of paper productions.
4. Documents produced in electronic format should also be organized, identified, and indexed electronically.
5. Electronic document productions should be prepared according to the following standards:
(a) The production should consist of single page Tagged Image File (“TIF”), files accompanied by a Concordance-format load file, an Opticon reference file, and a file defining the fields and character lengths of the load file.
(b) Document numbers in the load file should match document Bates numbers and TIF file names.
(c) If the production is completed through a series of multiple partial productions, field names and file order in all load files should match.
(d) All electronic documents produced to the Committee should include the following fields of metadata specific to each document;
BEGDOC, ENDDOC, TEXT, BEGATTACH, ENDATTACH, PAGECOUNT,CUSTODIAN, RECORDTYPE, DATE, TIME, SENTDATE, SENTTIME, BEGINDATE, BEGINTIME, ENDDATE, ENDTIME, AUTHOR, FROM, CC, TO, BCC, SUBJECT, TITLE, FILENAME, FILEEXT, FILESIZE, DATECREATED, TIMECREATED, DATELASTMOD, TIMELASTMOD, INTMSGID, INTMSGHEADER, NATIVELINK, INTFILPATH, EXCEPTION, BEGATTACH.
6. Documents produced to the Committee should include an index describing the contents of the production. To the extent more than one CD, hard drive, memory stick, thumb drive, box or folder is produced, each CD, hard drive, memory stick, thumb drive, box or folder should contain an index describing its contents.”
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015-12-22-JC-DeSantis-to-Bharara-US-Atty-re-Dinesh-DSouza-due-12-28.pdf
IF SO, WE WOULD KNOW THE EXACT NUMBER OF PAGES SENT…. “PAGECOUNT”
What common sense would have told you….
“Original Investigation | August 2015
Adverse Events After Routine Immunization of Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants”
https://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2300376&utm_source=silverchair+information+systems&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jamapediatrics:onlinefirst06/01/2015