Ten years ago (yesterday), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) whistleblower Dr. William Thompson released his August 27, 2014 public statement regarding internal studies confirming a link between the MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Dr. Thompson’s statement reads, in part:
“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.”
Although Dr. Thompson submitted an official complaint to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in September 2014, no corrective action was taken, and the public was never notified of the data hidden by the CDC. The ORI refuses to release the relevant findings, and the CDC continues to recommend the MMR vaccine for children between 12 and 18 months of age, regardless of race or sex.
Dr. Thompson also appealed to U.S. Congressional Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL), who entreated Congress in 2015 to subpoena the CDC whistleblower. No subpoena has ever been issued, and Dr. Thompson has never appeared before a Congressional committee. When called on to testify in a civil case, Hazlehurst v. The Jackson Clinic, P.C., in September of 2016, Thompson’s testimony was blocked by CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden. Thompson was going to testify on behalf of Yates Hazlehurst, who was injured by his infant vaccines in 2002.
The study authors’ omission constitutes a serious breach of medical research ethics. Children’s Health Defense (CHD) Chief Scientific Officer, Brian Hooker, Ph.D., reviewed the CDC’s data on autism incidence and the timing of the first dose of MMR. He found that children who received the vaccine before their third birthday have a 152% greater chance of being diagnosed with “isolated autism.” Dr. Hooker also found that African-American boys who received their first MMR vaccine before they turned three years old had a 286% greater chance of receiving an autism diagnosis than those who received the vaccine after their third birthday.
“Dr. Thompson showed the highest level of bravery that day, and the CDC should have followed suit by changing the vaccination schedule and investigating the effect further,” said Dr. Hooker. “This could have prevented over 100,000 cases of autism in African American boys over the ten years since Thompson’s revelation. Evidently, politics and pharma are much more important than children at the CDC, and the autism incidence among African Americans in the United States is now greater than that of Caucasians.”
“Ten years after the revelation that the CDC has been falsifying data regarding vaccine-induced autism causation, the agency still has said nothing publicly,” said CHD CEO, Mary Holland. “It is an outrage that, for ten years, the CDC has withheld from the public information that could prevent autism. They have completely abrogated their duty, and it’s time for the public to know the truth.”
