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CDC
Whistleblower Revealed
by Dr. Andrew Wakefield
© AutismMediaChannel 2014
[CDC WHISTLEBLOWER CONFESSES TO VACCINE-AUTISM FRAUD]
an Autism Media Channel exclusive
[Dr. William Thompson, Senior Epidemiologist at the CDC] Oh
my God, I cannot believe we did what we did. But we did.
It's all there. It's all there.
[DECADE-LONG COVER UP PUT MILLIONS OF INFANTS AT RISK]
[Andy Wakefield] This is a real story of a real fraud.
["... THAT PAPER"]
[Dr. William Thompson, Senior Epidemiologist at the CDC]
It's the lowest point in my career, that I went along with
that paper.
[Andy Wakefield] A deliberate, high-level deception of the
American people with disastrous consequences for its
children's health.
In order to give context to the extraordinary story that
you're about to hear, a little historical perspective is
important.
Many of you will have heard of Tuskegee.
Dirt-poor sharecroppers in Lincoln County, Alabama.
Black men with syphilis.
In 1932, 339 men were told by the Public Health Service,
the forerunner of today's CDC,
that they had "bad blood."
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FREE TREATMENT. BY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND GOVERNMENT
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AND BRING ALL YOUR FAMILY. FRIDAY.]
The motive of Public Health doctors ...
was to study the natural history of syphilis in the Black
man.
"Natural history" in this case means "deliberately
untreated."
[UNTREATED SYPHILIS IN THE MALE NEGRO. A COMPARATIVE STUDY
OF TREATED AND UNTREATD CASES. READ BEFORE THE ANNUAL
MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, SECTION ON
DERMATOLOGY AND SYPHILOLOGY, KANSAS CITY, MOS., MAY 11-15,
1930. R.A. VONDERLEHR, ASSISTANT SURGEON GENERAL. TALIAFERRO
CLARK, MEDICAL DIRECTOR (RETIRED). O.C. WENGER, SURGEON, AND
J.R. HELLER JR., ASSISTANT SURGEON, UNITED STATES PUBLIC
HEALTH SERVICE. A DETERMINATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF
TREATMENT IN PREVENTING THE TRANSMISSION OF SYPHILIS IS ONE
OF THE BASIC PROBLEMS IN THE CONTROL OF THIS DISEASE. SECOND
IN IMPORTANT TO IT IS THE EFFECT WHICH TREATMENT ...]
These men were deliberately left untreated ...
even when something as effective as penicillin came along.
Worse still, those infected were actively prevented by
Public Health doctors ...
from getting this life-saving drug.
[HUNDREDS OF BLACK MEN DISCOVERED MASSACRED IN SYPHILIS
"EXPERIMENT"]
Men suffered and died;
[SYPHILIS]
women continued being infected;
and babies continued to be born ...
with congenital syphilis.
A shiny, new CDC that took over in the late 1960s ...
refused to stop the experiment.
Not until every last man had been opened up on their autopsy
table.
[MEMORANDUM
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
DATE: NOV. 16, 1972
TO: Director
Center for Disease Control
THROUGH: Administrator, HS __ 11/22
FROM: Assistant Secretary for Health
SUBJECT: Termination of USPHS Study of Untreated Syphilis
(the Tuskegee Study)
As recommended by the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc
Advisory Panel, I have decided that the "Tuskegee Study" as
a study of untreated syphilis must be terminated. I will
advise you of the necessary steps to be taken to assure that
appropriate medical care be given to all remaining
participants in the "Tuskegee Study" as a part of the
close-out phase of the project.
Merlin K. DuVal, M.D.
TERMINATION MEMO]
The experiment was stopped, not because the CDC realized the
barbaric nature of their enterprise, but because a
whistleblower by the name of Peter Buxtun ...
leaked the story to a journalist at The Washington Star.
The story was published on July 25, 1972, hit the front page
of the New York Times, then the experiment was stopped
shortly thereafter.
Congressional hearings followed.
So unethical, so inhumane was this Public Health experiment,
that it led to a change in the CDC's code of medical ethics.
EXCEPT it didn't.
Thirty years later, the CDC was to do something arguably far
worse.
[AUTISM, VIRAL INFECTION AND MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA
VACCINATION
BY ANDREW J. WAKEFIELD FRCS AND SCOTT M. MONTGOMERY PH.D.,
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
MEDICAL SCHOOL, LONDON, UK.
THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY: CHANGING THE PATTERNS OF
CHILDHOOD INFECTION
AN ANSWER TO THIS ETIOLOGICAL PUZZLE LIES IN THE CHANGING
PATTERN OF EXPOSURE TO INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD.
PATTERNS OF EXPOSURE TO COMMON CHILDHOOD VIRAL INFECTIONS
PLAY A LARGE PART IN DETERMINING BOTH THE SEVERITY OF THE
ACUTE DISEASE AND THE RISK AND NATURE OF DELAYED
CONSEQUENCES OF INFECTION. ACTING POSSIBLY THROUGH BYSTANDER
MECHANISMS, CHILDHOOD EXPOSURE TO MICROBIAL ANTIGENS ALSO
PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN EARLY IMMUNE PROGRAMMING AND, THUS,
THE SUBSEQUENT HANDLING OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANTIGENS UNRELATED
TO THE ORIGINAL INFECTION [12]. ONCE AGAIN THE PATTERN OF
EXPOSURE MAY BE FUNDAMENTAL TO THE INTEGRITY OF THIS IMMUNE
PROGRAMMING.
PATTERNS OF EXPOSURE TO COMMON CHILDHOOD INFECTIONS ...]
Over a decade ago, Dr. Scott Montgomery and I put forward a
hypothesis for MMR vaccine and autism. The age that you
receive the vaccine influences the risk. This makes sense,
for some infections, like measles, the age of infection
changes the outcome.
We shared this hypothesis with vaccine officials, members
for the Centers for Disease Control, at meetings in
Washington, D.C.,
and Cold Spring Harbor.
A
group of senior vaccine safety people at the CDC studied it.
It panned out.
We were right. At least partly.
[SAMPLE SELECTION FOR MMR/AUTISM STUDY]
By November 9, 2001, nearly 13 years ago,
senior CDC scientists knew that younger age of exposure to
MMR ...
was associated with an increased risk of autism.
In 2004 they published.
But they hid the results.
[Dr. William Thompson, Senior Epidemiologist at the CDC]
It's the lowest point in my career, that I went along with
that paper.
And I went along with this, we didn't report significant
findings.
[Andy Wakefield] MMR was declared safe.
[DR. COLEEN BOYLE TESTIFIED BEFORE THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
ON GOVERNMENT REFORM]
[Dr. Coleen Boyle] The IOM has evaluated this issue back in
2004, and again most recently in 2011, and their conclusion,
not just looking at the work that was done at CDC, but with
the total body of evidence, was suggesting that vaccines and
their components did NOT increase the risk of AUTISM.
[Andy Wakefield] What Dr. Coleen Boyle, the co-author of
that blighted paper did NOT tell Congress, is that she and
her colleagues had deliberately concealed the autism-vaccine
link from the Institute of Medicine, and the public.
Ironically, they even received an award from the Secretary
of Health and Human Services for this work.
[LANDMARK PUBLICATIONS: MADDSP. HHS SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE: THE AUTISM PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE
TEAM. DESTAFANO F, KARAPURKAR T, THOMPSON WILLIAM,
YEARGIN-ALLSOPP M, BOYLE C. AGE AT FIRST
MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINATION IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM
AND SCHOOL-MATCHED CONTROLS PEDIATRICS 2004;113(2):259-266.]
So troubling was the fraud, that one of the CDC researchers
broke ranks.
Eventually he made contact with Dr. Brian Hooker, father of
a vaccine-injured child with autism, and a vaccine safety
researcher.
[Brian Hooker, Ph.D.] Uh, I received a phone call out of the
blue. It had a 404 area code, so I knew it was from the CDC.
And lo and behold, it was Bill Thompson. He had much to
confess.
[Dr. William Thompson, Senior Epidemiologist at the CDC] I'm
completely ashamed of what I did. I have great shame now. I
was complicit, and uh, I went along with this.
[Brian Hooker, Ph.D.] Dr. Thompson had appointed me his
priest. And when he appointed me his priest, then he started
confessing. And we have had many, many phone exchanges.
We've exchanged dozens of emails. And he has released quite
compelling information regarding fraud and malfeasance in
the CDC.
[Dr. William Thompson, Senior Epidemiologist at the CDC] We
didn't report significant findings.
[Andy Wakefield] Thompson sent Hooker information that was
never intended for public scrutiny.
From their own data sheets, dated 2001,
Dr. Hooker analyzed the CDCs results,
and he found the same risk of autism that the CDC scientists
had themselves identified.
[Dr. William Thompson, Senior Epidemiologist at the CDC]
It's all there! It's all there!
[Andy Wakefield] He confronted Thompson.
[Brian Hooker, Ph.D.] He has expressed significant remorse
for lying, for burying data.
[Dr. William Thompson, Senior Epidemiologist at the CDC] I
have great shame now when I meet families with kids with
autism, because I have been part of the problem.
[Andy Wakefield] This week, August 10, 2014, Dr. Hooker
published the real findings:
A
340% increased risk of autism ...
in boys receiving the MMR on time compared with those
receiving it later.
Thirteen years,
and tens of thousands of children later.
As I've said, Dr. Montgomery and I were only partly right.
The risk of autism from early MMR vaccination was seen in
Black children,
Black boys.
Those boys for some reason are at very high risk.
Consistent with the CDC's own findings,
the rate of autistic regression in Black children is
reported to be twice that in white children.
[RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN DEVELOPMENTAL REGRESSION IN CHILDREN
WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS. BY ADIAHA SPINKS-FRANKLIN,
AMY SHUI, ROCHELLE SEXTON, JENNIFER B. SWANSON, ROBERT G.
VOIGT. PEDIATRICS, TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL/BAYLOR COLLEGE
OF MEDICINE, HOUSTON, TX; BIOSTATISTICS, MASSACHUSETTS
GENERAL HOSPITAL, BOSTON, MA.
BACKGROUND: AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS (ASD) ARE COMMON
NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS THAT OCCUR IN 1 IN 88 CHILDREN.
IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT APPROXIMATELY ONE THIRD OF
CHILDREN WITH ASD HAVE DEVELOPMENTAL REGRESSION. WHILE THERE
ARE NO REPORTED GENDER DIFFERENCES IN RATES OF REGRESSION,
IT IS UNKNOWN WHETHER THERE ARE RADICAL DISPARITIES IN RATES
OF REGRESSION.
OBJECTIVE: TO DETERMINE THE RATE OF DEVELOPMENTAL
REGRESSION, AND WHETHER RACIAL DISPARITIES EXIST IN THE RATE
OF REGRESSION, AMONG PRESCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN IN THE AUTISM
TREATMENT NETWORK (ATN) DATABASE.
DESIGN/METHODS: SUBJECTS INCLUDED ALL NON-HISPANIC BLACK,
NON-HISPANIC WHITE, AND HISPANIC CHILDREN AGES 37-71 MONTHS
IN THE ATN DATABASE WITH DATA FROM A PARENT FORM REPORTING
WHETHER EACH CHILD EXPERIENCED DEVELOPMENTAL REGRESSION. THE
RATE OF REPORTED DEVELOPMENTAL REGRESSION WAS DETERMINED,
AND THE RATE OF REGRESSION BY RACE WAS EVALUATED. LOGISTIC
REGRESSION ANALYSIS WAS ...]
[Dr. William Thompson, Senior Epidemiologist at the CDC] Oh
my God, I cannot believe we did what we did.
[Andy Wakefield] Tuskegee revisited.
Scientist Dr. David Lewis, an international expert in
whistle blowing and the detection of scientific fraud,
reviewed the original CDC documents and the paper they
published in 2004.
[Dr. David Lewis, Ph.D., Research Microbiologist] Probably
this is the clearest case,
and the easiest case, in which to answer "Is it fraud, or is
it an accident,
or it is just an artifact of the study?" What we're dealing
with here, clearly is fraud.
[Brian Hooker, Ph.D.] He knows that he is culpable for
damage. He knows that he's culpable for permanent damage of
a large, significant portion of the population in the United
States.
The
Obama administration has granted whistleblower
immunity to a federal government scientist that
claimed he intentionally omitted information in
a study that could have shown a race-based link
between vaccines and childhood diseases
including autism.
-- Obama Admin Grants Immunity To CDC Scientist
That Fudged Vaccine Report…Whistleblower Plans
To Testify Before Congress, by Patrick Howley |
[Dr. William Thompson, Senior Epidemiologist at the CDC] The
higher ups wanted to do certain things, and I went along
with it.
[Andy Wakefield] Dr. Frank DeStefano, Dr. Marshalyn
Yeargin-Allsopp, and Dr. Coleen Boyle. They knew, they let
it happen, and they could have stopped it.
Michigan lawyer Allison Folmar,
an award-winning advocate for children and parental rights,
gave her reaction.
[Allison Folmar, Lawyer] Um, I feel, first and foremost as a
human being, you know, betrayed.
When you lose your faith and trust in humanity, you know,
how do you repair that?
I
mean, I don't even know what to say to be honest.
[Brian Hooker, Ph.D.] Thompson is very regretful about his
involvement.
[Dr. William Thompson, Senior Epidemiologist at the CDC]
It's the lowest point in my career that I went along with
that paper.
And I'm not going to lie. Um, I basically have stopped
lying.
[Andy Wakefield] You see, vile as the crimes of Stalin,
Pol Pot,
and Hitler were, these men were not hypocrites,
their motives ambiguous,
or their rhetoric [inaudible] with apparent caring and
compassion.
These men were not entrusted with the welfare of their
victims.
Their mottos did not include the words ...
"To Save Lives and Protect."
They were not running a mandatory program disguised as
caring.
How many children?
How many went to the war in that decade of science?
How many presidents, Mr. Obama?
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