CDC whistleblower on MMR fraud reveals his identity

[golden]

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/09/02/covering-up-vaccine-autism-link.aspx

 

[Firestormm]

Statement issued (presumably) by Dr William Thompson:

http://www.rescuepost.com/files/william-thompson-statement-27-august-2014-3.pdf

Legal representatives website (same statement): http://www.morganverkamp.com/august...-relationship-between-mmr-vaccine-and-autism/

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”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-AUGUST 27,2014

STATEMENT OF WILLIAM W. THOMPSON, Ph.D., REGARDING THE 2004ARTICLE EXAMINING THE POSSIBILITY OF A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MMR VACCINE AND AUTISM

My name is William Thompson. I am a Senior Scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where I have worked since 1998.

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.

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.

My concern has been the decision to omit relevant findings in a particular study for a particular sub group for a particular vaccine. There have always been recognized risks for vaccination and I believe it is the responsibility of the CDC to properly convey the risks associated with receipt of those vaccines.

I have had many discussions with Dr. Brian Hooker over the last 10 months regarding studies the CDC has carried out regarding vaccines and neurodevelopmental outcomes including autism spectrum disorders. I share his beliefthat CDC decision-making and analyses should be transparent. I was not, however, aware that he was recording any of our conversations, nor was I given any choice regarding whether my name would be made public or my voice would be put on the Internet.

I am grateful for the many supportive e-mails that I have received over the last several days.

I will not be answering further questions at this time. I am providing information to Congressman William Posey, and of course will continue to cooperate with Congress. I have also offered to assist with reanalysis of the study data or development of further studies. For the time being, however, I am focused on my job and my family.

Reasonable scientists can and do differ in their interpretation of information. I will do everything I can to assist any unbiased and objective scientists inside or outside the CDC to analyze data collected by the CDC or other public organizations for the purpose of understanding whether vaccines are associated with an increased risk of autism.
There are still more questions than answers, and I appreciate that so many families are looking for answers from the scientific community.

My colleagues and supervisors at the CDC have been entirely professional since this matter became public. In fact, I received a performance-based award after this story came out. I have experienced no pressure or retaliation and certainly was not escorted from the building, as some have stated.

Dr.Thompson is represented by Frederick M. Morgan,Jr., Morgan Verkamp, LLC, Cincinnati, Ohio, www.morganverkamp.com.

 

[natasa778]

It might make some of you nauseous but you really should try and read some of the skeptic blogs written by those who do work with statistics and in science on a daily basis. Several links are in the above post..

Ops, except that Hookers results matched the results by the CDC, before they decided to omit crucial data

http://www.ageofautism.com/2014/08/...mmr-african-american-males-data.html#comments

" ... I regret that my coauthors and I omitted the statistically significant information in our 2004 article ... The omitted data suggested that Afrrican-American males who received the MMR before the 36 months of age were at significant risk of autism ...

Decisions were made about which finding to report after the data were collected, and I believe the final study protocol was not followed
"

OUCH

I guess as Dr Thompson does not work with statistics and in science on a daily basis his original findings cannot be trusted over a left brain no-brain blogger's opinion

Def left me very nauseous, all this.

 

[Esther12]

I'm kind of interested in the politics of this.

From the data, it looks like vaccines are unlikely to be a cause of autism, or if they are, only for almost undetectably few of those who develop autism... But do the politics around this area mean that researchers would want to avoid acknowledging any association, even if just for a small sub-section of the population that would likely be explained as a chance finding?

Thompson's statement does seem to indicate concerns about the idealogical views of researchers affecting how they presented their data, and from what I've read on this issue over the last decade, that doesn't particularly surprise me. I think that a lot of the anti-vax movement is nutty and harmful, and that vaccines are a really great medical development for humanity, but also think that there can be a political desire to downplay any potential harm of vaccination, and that this can lead to a dismissive approach to the hardships some people face. Some of the initial responses towards the link between narcolepsy and the H1N1 vaccine from Sweden was tinged with political concerns imo, and then there were inaccurate reports claiming that there was no link in other countries. Given the culture that seems to surround the matter of vaccine side-effects, I wouldn't be amazed if some researchers did choose to turn a blind eye to evidence indicating very small and uncertain risks associated with vaccines.

If Thompson is aware of something like this happening, then it would be great to have him draw attention to it, even if it does mean that some of his statements can be used inappropriately by anti-vax campaigners.

 

[Valentijn]

CNN is finally covering the story, and saying that the article has been retracted pending further investigation: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/27/health/irpt-cdc-autism-vaccine-study/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The turds even mention the "iReport" from days ago which they had almost immediately removed from public view (they left out that detail), as if they somehow were (almost) first to the story.

 

[ahmo]

Latest from Mike Adams. Don't know that it has anything new beyond Adams' rant re CDC, vaccines. References the above press release. Some interesting comments re past vaccine use follow the article...
http://www.naturalnews.com/046630_CDC_whistleblower_public_confession_Dr_William_Thompson.html

 

[A.B.]

With Thompson's public statement, this is starting to get interesting.

 

[natasa778]

With Thompson's public statement, this is starting to get interesting.

Very good article below. With Congressman Posey hopefully pushing this further is should get properly interesting

Interestingly Bill Posey has revealed that the CDC has also set up an orchestrated campaign to shape public opinion about vaccines. One of their biggest moves is to go online where information isn’t controlled and spin to fit the goals and agendas of large corporations. The campaign attacks bloggers and websites, even people who question vaccines at all, they intend to vilify them, make them feel stupid, and turn others against them.


Instead of simply answering questions and doing proper research, Posey’s claims suggest the CDC has chosen to avoid real questions and simply attack those who question things while turning the regular public on people who do question, creating fights and arguments online. Something we have seen all too much here at CE. Now given the mis-information people use to fight each other is part of a CDC campaign, it really makes their attempt to keep this hidden seem even more intense.

 

[A.B.]

@natasa778

interesting article:

“I asked her a very direct question. ‘Have you done a study comparing autism rates in vaccinated vs. unvaccinated children?…’ She started telling us about everything she’s done …After she wasted three minutes, I cut her off and I demanded that she answer the question. And then, only then, did she admit that the federal government has never done that very simple, fundamental, basic study.” U.S. Congressman Bill Posey

Is that really true? If so, how can anyone claim that vaccines do not cause autism?

 

[natasa778]

@natasa778

interesting article:

Is that really true? If so, how can anyone claim that vaccines do not cause autism?

Absolutely true, sadly.

If you read one of leaked CDC letters it talks about what they 'should to do about findings of low incidence of autism in the low vaccine exposure group...'

So it looks like the data HAS been collected, they just didn't like the results....

This really must be fully and properly investigated.

 

[ahmo]

Aside from the accounts of several parents re the chronology of their children's vaccinations and following health problems, this is what I found fascinating in the comments to the most recent Mike Adams article. (And one of those poor parents has 3 children who've suffered post- vaccine) Some of the references are to reputable journals, others to vac campaigners.

I see that this commenter has close ties w/ Mike Adams, authored an article in Adams' Natural News in 2012 listing some of the information quoted below. I didn't look any further on his site.
http://www.naturalnews.com/036748_thimerosal_vaccines_neurological_disorders.html


http://www.naturalnews.com/046630_CDC_whistleblower_public_confession_Dr_William_Thompson.html
comment-1562792055 by chinesehealthandfitness

Vaccines are not what saved us

In 1871-2, England, with 98% of the population aged between 2 and 50 vaccinated against smallpox, it experienced its worst ever smallpox outbreak with 45,000 deaths. During the same period in Germany, with a vaccination rate of 96%, there were over 125,000 deaths from smallpox. (The Hadwen Documents)

- In Germany, compulsory mass vaccination against diphtheria commenced in 1940 and by 1945 diphtheria cases were up from 40,000 to 250,000. (Don`t Get Stuck, Hannah Allen)

- In the USA in 1960, two virologists discovered that both polio vaccines were contaminated with the SV 40 virus which causes cancer in animals as well as changes in human cell tissue cultures. Millions of children had been injected with these vaccines. (Med Jnl of Australia 17/3/1973 p555)

- In 1967, Ghana was declared measles free by the World Health Organisation after 96% of its population was vaccinated. In 1972, Ghana experienced one of its worst measles outbreaks with its highest ever mortality rate. (Dr H Albonico, MMR Vaccine Campaign in Switzerland, March 1990)

- In the UK between 1970 and 1990, over 200,000 cases of whooping cough occurred in fully vaccinated children. (Community Disease Surveillance Centre, UK)

- In the 1970`s a tuberculosis vaccine trial in India involving 260,000 people revealed that more cases of TB occurred in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. (The Lancet 12/1/80 p73)

- In 1977, Dr Jonas Salk, who developed the first polio vaccine, testified along with other scientists that mass inoculation against polio was the cause of most polio cases throughout the USA since 1961. (Science 4/4/77 “Abstracts” )

- In 1978, a survey of 30 States in the US revealed that more than half of the children who contracted measles had been adequately vaccinated. (The People`s Doctor, Dr R Mendelsohn)

- In 1979, Sweden abandoned the whooping cough vaccine due to its ineffectiveness. Out of 5,140 cases in 1978, it was found that 84% had been vaccinated three times! (BMJ 283:696-697, 1981)

-The February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 90% of obstetricians and 66% of pediatricians refused to take the rubella vaccine.

- In the USA, the cost of a single DPT shot had risen from 11 cents in 1982 to $11.40
in 1987. The manufacturers of the vaccine were putting aside $8 per shot to cover legal costs and damages they were paying out to parents of brain damaged children and children who died after vaccination. (The Vine, Issue 7, January 1994, Nambour, Qld)

- In Oman between 1988 and 1989, a polio outbreak occurred amongst thousands of fully vaccinated children. The region with the highest attack rate had the highest vaccine coverage. The region with the lowest attack rate had the lowest vaccine coverage. (The Lancet, 21/9/91)

- In 1990, a UK survey involving 598 doctors revealed that over 50% of them refused to have the Hepatitis B vaccine despite belonging to the high risk group urged to be vaccinated. (British Med Jnl, 27/1/1990) - In 1990, the Journal of the American Medical Association had an article on measles which stated, “Although more than 95% of school-aged children in the US are vaccinated against measles, large measles outbreaks continue to occur in schools and most cases in this setting occur among previously vaccinated children.” (JAMA, 21/11/90)

- In the USA, from July 1990 to November 1993, the US Food and Drug Administration counted a total of 54,072 adverse reactions following vaccination. The FDA admitted that this number represented only 10% of the real total, because most doctors were refusing to report vaccine injuries. In other words, adverse reactions for this period exceeded half a million! (National Vaccine Information Centre, March 2, 199)

READ FAR MORE AT; ;
http://chinesehealthandfitness.com/ArticlePage1.html

http://www.vaccinationdebate.net/

http://articlesofhealth.blogspot.com/2008/02/death-by-vaccine.html

http://www.whale.to/vaccines/decline1.html

German Chancellor, Ministers Get Special Vaccine Without Soft Kill Ingredients

infowars. com/german-chancellor-ministers-get-special-vaccine-without-soft-kill-ingredients/

 

[JoanDublin]

Curiouser and curiouser. The article in the Translational Neurodegeneration has been removed

http://www.translationalneurodegeneration.com/content/3/1/16/abstract

 

[natasa778]

Given the culture that seems to surround the matter of vaccine side-effects, I wouldn't be amazed if some researchers did choose to turn a blind eye to evidence indicating very small and uncertain risks associated with vaccines.

The problem may be much more serious and wide-spread than that though, as has been outlined by ex-Congresswoman Beth Clay in her detailed and eye-opening article:

... I was the staff lead on the original House Oversight Committee’s investigation looking into concerns about vaccine injuries. The year was 1999. Two of our Subcommittees has been looking at different topics. Chairman Shays had taken on the reports of anthrax vaccine injures in the military and Chairman Mica had taken on a review of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) and as part of that looked a bit into the Hepatitis B vaccine.

...
In all of our work on the Committee, we were looking for the truth. When it came to vaccines, while we were accused of being ‘anti-vaccine’, which was an absurd claim. We – both Chairman Burton and myself in truth were and are ‘pro vaccine-safety’.

We worked from the knowledge that vaccines hold a unique place in medicine in this country. They are the only drugs that are mandated by a government (states) as a condition of participation in schools, day cares, and some jobs (health care, school personnel, first responder, etc.) based on recommendations of the federal government (CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Because the government is abridging the freedom of Americans with these vaccine mandates, I anticipated that because it was a group of drugs that almost every American would receive, that the bar on approval -the safety requirements for approval would be elevated. Imagine my surprise and disgust to find just the opposite. There seemed to be a rush to get something approved and in the market place so that manufacturers could make their investment back. (Yes that was a discussion in one of the advisory meetings!) Both the FDA and the CDC Advisory committee membership were replete with conflicts of interest that were either ignored or waived – meaning that individuals participating in the approval process of drugs or their recommendations for inclusion on the recommended schedule (to be mandated by the states), had financial ties to the makers of vaccines. The CDC was so lax in its management of their advisory committee that they simply granted everyone a waiver ‘whether they needed it or not’.

... I’m not going to go through all the steps of our investigation at this time. We gathered tens of thousands of pages of documents, conducted numerous hearings, prepared reports, etc. We were thorough in our attempt to gather information and speak to experts. We were repeatedly frustrated and often had the impression that officials from our health agencies were less than forth coming. (Which is a polite way of saying, I felt like they were lying, but were masterful at it.) It was obvious that witnesses had been well rehearsed by agency lawyers in how to respond to questions and not really answer them.

...
We did bipartisan interviews under oath and in hearings. We were already in the investigation when the Simpsonwood meeting took place. We were not invited to the meeting or given a transcript voluntarily.

I was at that Boston IOM meeting when Dr. Tom Verstaeten issued his opening statement that he had ‘just that morning accepted a job with Glaxo’ and I realized that he had violated ethical standards of the department. Ethically, the moment he began discussions of a job offer with a vaccine manufacturer he should have recused himself from involvement with the study. His access to the data should have been immediately terminated. There has never been a mention of such a recusal, and he continued to be involved in the study after starting at Glaxo. When we began looking into the changes in the study design, and concerns about data manipulation, we wanted him to come back to the United States and be questioned under oath. He declined, and through Glaxo’s attorney’s agreed to have one telephone interview with us. We had a lot of “I do not recall’ type answers in that call.

... Not only did I feel that we were not getting the whole truth (and I was not alone in that feeling), but I watched scientists from NIH, CDC, and FDA promote weak, poorly designed scientific studies on a host of topics as if they were solid, conclusion drawing research. Nowhere to my knowledge, except in this discussion, has population based epidemiology been used to answer toxicological questions.

...
I had always held the National Academy of Science and the Institute of Medicine in fairly high regard. They are touted to be an independent scientific body. I would learn in truth they are an elite members club of the scientific community that contracts with the government and industry to conduct reviews. With the vaccine injury inquiry, we watched them take direction from the CDC and shortchange the independent review process. They proved unable to separate their desire to protect vaccine policies from the process and conduct a truly independent and rigorous review of the evidence of possible vaccine injury.

At every stage were obvious irregularities in process, from the manipulation of the thimerosal data to wash out links to autism; to changing the instructions to the IOM; to data from Denmark from studies that were fatally flawed from the outset being touted as reasons to end the debate. I heard scientists quoted in the media say that it was ‘settled science’ and that no other funds should be devoted to asking the question. Science is never ‘settled’. And yet, this notion was put forward and adopted because it was convenient for those who wanted this uncomfortable topic to fade out.

... Keep in mind, all of the irregularities and substandard research occurred before we knew about Poul Thorsen’s criminal activity. All of our concerns occurred before the latest news this month that the CDC had covered up data showing African American boys at an increased risk of autism if given the MMR vaccine before 36 months.

... I have watched the orchestrated opposition take aim at all who dare speak out about vaccine injury. Does anyone recall what happened to Representative Bachmann during the presidential election cycle when she dared discuss vaccine injury? While members of Congress have not expressed fear of that type of retaliation, I have had Congressional staff express real concern that their bosses will be so attacked. There is a real fear to engage on this issue because of the risks of retaliation.

... I have said all along that the Public Health community’s response to the autism-vaccine issue has undermined the public’s trust. Today, with the knowledge that the agency knowingly covered up an increased risk in a specific population underscores this, they are contributing to an infection of distrust that is spreading through the public. Only by opening up this issue, and shining the light of day on the issue, and truly holding those individuals accountable who have participated in this corruption and cover up can we begin the healing process. “Anything short of this is simply continuing the problem. A simple I’m sorry might be helpful to some, but there is justice to be meted out. Eventually, I have to believe it will be.

... It’s been 11 years since I resigned my Congressional position and entered the private sector. I have however remained involved in the issues. I feel a moral obligation to do so. Earlier this year I had the opportunity to travel to the beautiful country of Jordan and while there was privileged to visit holy sites. At the beginning of this, I had another one of those ‘coincidences’, when God was present and said “Pay attention Beth”…..a few hours later, sitting in a lovely restaurant the first family I saw enjoying their meal was a family with a young boy with autism. Autism is not simply an American issue, it is a global epidemic. Furthermore, the violation of the public trust by the CDC in this study has global repercussions. What of African boys? Are they at the same level of risk with MMR timing? Has the CDC quietly done such a study and simply not shared the results? Are we going to see Presidents of small African countries suspend vaccine programs because of this controversy? If so, it is not the fault of anyone who has spoken out about it, rather it will squarely be the fault of the CDC employees who participated in this conspiracy. I pray this does not happen, but have concerns that it may.

http://bethclay.com/when-you-know-you-are-being-lied-to/

 

[ahmo]

@natasa778 This article from Beth Clay made me cry. How totally disheartening to read this testimony from someone who was a non-aligned public servant.

 

[Christopher]

It's incredibly obvious to me that CFS is a vaccine induced injury, and that the CDC suspected this in the 1980s and ignored and ridiculed our population to minimize the chance of this being discovered.

Very ignorant to not acknowledge the possible risks of mass vaccination and straw man anyone questioning their safety as being "anti science" or "anti children".

Obvious bullshit and we are the victims.

 

[natasa778]

Dr. Frank DeStefano, the CDC Director of Immunization Safety and the main author of the fraudulent CDC study admits omitting crucial data linking MMR to autism

http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/cd...-withholding-data-linking-vaccines-to-austim/

 

[Valentijn]

Dr. Frank DeStefano, the CDC Director of Immunization Safety and the main author of the fraudulent CDC study admits omitting crucial data linking MMR to autism

http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/cd...-withholding-data-linking-vaccines-to-austim/

The journalist had a good point - how does a child having a Georgia birth certificate make other data (birthweight, etc) more available?

 

[alex3619]

Whether vaccination can cause ME is an open question, and outside the scope of this thread. What I can say though is that there is effort to silence any claim that ME might be vaccine induced. Some years ago there was a release of information from the UK secret files. I recall a comment by Behan in some of the minutes. He commented that in a vaccine trial to which he had been urgently consulted they found that everyone got CFS. It was a very brief comment. Recently, several times, I have been unable to confirm the source again. It looks like its been redacted.

Unless my memory is failing me (it does that) then there was a link to ME with vaccines, and it was expunged from the public record. Its also possible that I misinterpreted the comment. However the fact its missing goes to intent. Can anyone show me this comment from Behan dated to 1992 (I think)?

We also know of a small investigation in which 19 of 20 CFS patients were made worse by Hep B vaccine, though I do not think this had formal publication.

Yet there is no proof that vaccines cause ME. What we have, I think, is evidence that any connection between ME and vaccines is being quashed. Its a different issue, but still cause for concern. If nobody is even looking at the link then it has not been ruled out.

For the record I am pro-vaccine, but also pro-science and reason, and pro-safety. I am a survivor of measles encephalitis, in which two in four children die and one in four have obvious brain damage. In my case I am concerned that some or if not all of the remaining 25% have long term problems that are not acknowledged - including me. We need vaccines to stop disease. What we need though is open science, independent science, and rigorous science. Leaving it in the hands of vested interests is a nonsense way to deal with things.

 

[cigana]

Looks like the journal has pulled Hooker's paper:
http://www.autismdailynewscast.com/...udy-of-autism-and-mmr-vaccine/15168/joworgan/
If this is true it's really worrying.

 

[JoanDublin]

If you listen hard, you can hear the sounds of ranks being closed