{"id":70621,"date":"2021-06-25T11:48:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T15:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=70621"},"modified":"2021-06-25T11:59:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T15:59:55","slug":"blockbuster-cdc-senior-scientist-exposes-the-massive-cdc-conspiracy-to-cover-up-the-vaccine-autism-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=70621","title":{"rendered":"BLOCKBUSTER! CDC Senior Scientist Exposes the Massive CDC Conspiracy to Cover Up the Vaccine-Autism Link<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou are a pathetic liar\u201d<\/strong><\/em>: CDC senior scientist to CDC’s head of immunization (DOCUMENT)<\/h1>\n

BY SHARYL ATTKISSON<\/p>\n

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A CDC internal email released through a Freedom of Information Act request reveals just how nasty things got behind closed doors after a CDC senior scientist confessed to covering up a link between vaccines and autism, and implicated his CDC colleagues.<\/p>\n

The email, dated Sept. 2, 2018, was written by CDC’s Dr. Willam (Bill) Thompson to Dr. Frank DeStefano, CDC\u2019s head of immunization safety.<\/p>\n

In the email, Thompson responds to an interview DeStefano gave me in 2014. It was after Thompson stunned the scientific community by saying that he, DeStefano, and other CDC scientists committed fraud in a major vaccine-autism study. It was information that upended a decade-and-a-half of government and vaccine industry narratives on the controversy, and stood to impact some of the millions of families in the U.S. who have autistic children.<\/p>\n

According to Thompson, he and his fellow CDC scientists covered up a link between MMR vaccine and autism in African-American boys. \u201cThe omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism,\u201d Thompson later testified.<\/p>\n

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From:\u00a0Vaxxed<\/p><\/div>\n

CDC officials disposed of study documents “in a huge garbage can”<\/h3>\n

As part of the alleged fraud and coverup, Thompson said he and the other CDC scientists who conducted the research got together and literally trashed study data.<\/p>\n

Thompson first revealed his role in the fraud during a series of phone conversations with the parent of an autistic child. The parent surreptitiously recorded the calls, in which Thompson confessed and said he lived with tremendous guilt.<\/p>\n

When the parent made the recordings public, Thompson admitted to scientific fraud and issued a statement issued through his attorney. \u201cI regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information,\u201d read the statement, in part. He also described how he says he and his CDC colleagues had a meeting and literally threw documents from the research into a garbage can.<\/p>\n

The coauthors scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study. The remaining four coauthors 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. However, because I assumed it was illegal and would violate both FOIA and DOJ requests, I kept hard copies of all\u00a0documents in my office, and I retained all associated computer files.<\/p>\n

Dr. William “Bill” Thompson, CDC Senior Scientist<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CDC would not permit Thompson to do media interviews after he blew the whistle.<\/p>\n

Interview with CDC official that prompted Thompson’s email<\/h3>\n

In the interview with me in 2014, DeStefano, a co-author with Thompson on the questioned study, defended the CDC\u2019s vaccine-autism research. I asked if he was aware of Thompson\u2019s concerns prior to them being revealed publicly.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Frank DeStefano, head of CDC immunization safety<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI mean I\u2019ve continued to see, uh, see him for over the past ten years and we\u2019ve interacted fairly frequently, and, uh, no I wasn\u2019t aware of this,\u201d DeStefano told me.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo whoever he raised his concerns to, he didn\u2019t, he didn\u2019t raise it to you or anybody you knew of?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I mean the last time I saw him was probably about two months ago, and he didn\u2019t mention anything about this,\u201d replied DeStefano.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd at the time he didn\u2019t seem concerned when you said there was a consensus?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, yeah,\u201d said DeStefano. \u201cI mean at the time he did these analyses he did, you know, he did point out that in one group, you know in that larger group the the the measures of association [between MMR vaccine and autism] were higher than in the, uh, birth certificate group and, you know, we discussed that and for the reasons I mentioned, uh, we came to consensus that the, uh, birth certificate uh results were more valid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thompson apparently heard or read a transcript of the recorded interview four years later, in 2018, and fired off an email to DeStefano. The subject was titled: \u201cYour dishonest behavior \u2014- trying to portray us as \u2018friends\u2019”<\/p>\n

Thompson\u2019s email included the link to my interview with DeStefano and the transcript.<\/p>\n

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Thompson copied other CDC figures on the email including Coleen Boyle, CDC\u2019s\u00a0Director of the National Center<\/a>\u00a0on Birth Defects and Disabilities;\u00a0Anne Schuchat<\/a>,\u00a0CDC\u2019s Principal Deputy Director<\/a>; Joanne Cono, CDC\u2019s\u00a0Chief Science and Medical Officer<\/a>\u00a0in the Office of Science; and Sudevi Ghosh, a\u00a0senior CDC attorney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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CDC’s Dr. Anne Schuchat<\/p><\/div>\n

Another pro-vaccine govt. expert alleges coverup<\/h3>\n

Also in late 2018, about the time Thompson was firing off the email, another of the government\u2019s top pro-vaccine medical experts signed a sworn statement also alleging a government coverup of links between vaccines and autism.<\/p>\n

Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, the world-renowned, pro-vaccine pediatric neurologist specializing in autism says that, as an expert witness for the government defending vaccines in vaccine court in 2007, he told the government that vaccines can cause autism in “exceptional” cases, after all. But he says the government\u00a0covered up his finding<\/a>, fired him as an expert witness, and misrepresented his opinion in court. The Department of Justice also secretly settled a major vaccine-autism court case that Zimmerman had consulted on– the government\u00a0admitting liability<\/a>\u00a0but making sure the records were sealed– while telling other parents of vaccine-injured children that links to autism were debunked conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, the pro-vaccine govt. expert who says vaccines can cause autism, after all, in “exceptional” cases<\/p><\/div>\n

Explosive allegations; but no independent investigation<\/h3>\n

Thompson has remained at CDC since he revealed the agency\u2019s alleged scientific fraud. Although Thompson provided his information, documents, and a sworn statement to Congressman Bill Posey (R-Florida), Posey says he was unable to convince colleagues to investigate or schedule hearings on the bombshell allegations.<\/p>\n

Once Thompson’s claims began to gain traction, numerous propagandists acting in the interest of the vaccine industry got busy controversializing Thompson and those reporting on his allegations, to try to discredit them.<\/p>\n

While it may be unprecedented for the author of a scientific, peer-reviewed article to publicly expose alleged flaws in his own work and that of his colleagues, the journal that published the study apparently disregarded Thompson\u2019s statements, and decided not to retract the study in question.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a publisher we take very seriously any questions about articles in our journal and have a set procedure to investigate such issues. We have followed that process, discussed the research methods with the authors, and have determined to take no action regarding the article,\u201d a spokesman for\u00a0Pediatrics<\/em>\u00a0told me in 2014<\/a>\u00a0when I asked if the study would be retracted.<\/p>\n

The journal reportedly never spoke to Thompson.<\/p>\n

According to a sworn statement Thompson provided to Posey\u2019s office:<\/p>\n