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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.” —CDC Senior Vaccine Safety Scientist, Dr. William Thompson, through his lawyer, August 2014
“After the meeting we decided to exclude reporting any race effects [showing elevated autism in black boys], 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 hard copy documents that we had thought we should discard and put them in a huge garbage can. I believe we intentionally withheld controversial findings from the final draft of the Pediatrics paper.” —Dr. William Thompson’s deposition with Congressman Bill Posey
“You know, in the United States, the only mercury containing vaccine is for pregnant women. I can say confidently I do think thimerosal causes tics (Tourette’s syndrome). So I don’t know why they still give it to pregnant women. Like that’s the last person that I would give mercury to.”
“I have a boss who is asking me to lie … I’m not going to lie. I basically have stopped lying.”
originally posted by: Bluntone22
A vast majority of doctors say vaccines are safe.
We can't ignore the concensus.
To do so would indicate a conspiracy.
www.nbcnews.com...
originally posted by: NateTheAnimator
a reply to: Realtruth
OK just because theirs an increased risks for autism doesn't mean vaccines are the sole cause! It just implies that it is exacerbating an underlying condition due to genetic factors. It's such a ludicrous conclusion to make that this some how confirms anti-vaxer's claims...Would people make the same conclusion that because people are at an increased risk of contracting lung caner for smoking that somehow that concludes cigarettes are the sole cause for lung cancer?
People just want to pick and choose their own facts it seems.
originally posted by: intrptr
So are we trashing the CDC over this? Dumb move.
On a side note, I was given a couple boosters when I was a baby and one inoculation for small pox. I haven't had any other Vaccines in my entire life. I'm not sick either, except for the fallout from a life of cigarettes and other abuse.
You want a recommendation, I vote we forgive them having turned politically correct, they are still one of the goto agencies, handled the Ebola outbreak in the US quite well.
Now becoming widely known as the “garbage can quote,” the scenario it describes appears intended to conjure a group of people closeted in a windowless room stopping just short of building a trash fire to destroy evidence. The alleged “hard copies” in this case are related to a study published in 2004 showing no link between autism and the MMR vaccine in a population of Atlanta schoolchildren.
The person to whom the quote is attributed, William W. Thompson, is one of the authors on that study. Thompson has since said that the study showed an increased risk for autism among African-American boys who received the MMR but that the study authors decided not to publish that information.
Recent analyses of the data—which seem to have survived the garbage can—do not suggest this conclusion. As Jim Frost, the statistician who evaluated the 2004 paper and reanalyzed the data in the above links, noted:
The criticism that the study discarded data from African American subjects just doesn’t hold water. No data was discarded. For the subjects who were linked to birth certificates, the researchers performed additional analyses. In this light, I see a careful observational study that assessed the role of potential confounders.
I think the point is that protocol was not followed because the conclusions were controversial. This is one example that we know about. Are there others we don't know about?
originally posted by: Gryphon66
DOES NOT PROVE that all the anti-vax accusations, conspriacy theories, wild exaggerations of data are verified by this one incident.
It's stunning that any one would make that claim.
A conscience stricken Thompson, who kept copies of the documents that were destroyed, has invoked federal whistleblower status and handed over the more than 100,000 pages of incriminating documents to Congress. Thompson has asked to be subpoenaed to testify about the corruption at the CDC but the Congressional Government Oversight Committee, drowning in Pharma cash, has so far refused to hold hearings on this extraordinary scandal. Meanwhile the corporate media, particularly the Atlanta-based CNN has thoroughly suppressed the story.
originally posted by: Realtruth
originally posted by: Bluntone22
A vast majority of doctors say vaccines are safe.
We can't ignore the concensus.
To do so would indicate a conspiracy.
www.nbcnews.com...
A vast majority of doctor's are just spewing what the CDC and big pharma tell them.
To questions them, their motives, and actually read and listen to the OP would be to "Deny Ignorance"