Action Alert: Ask Dr. Thompson to Remove Name from Pediatrics Study
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Please ask Dr. Thompson to remove his name from tainted CDC MMR/Autism paper
Thompson's statement yesterday confirmed alteration of paper
William Thompson, Ph. D., a Senior Scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a public statement yesterday via his attorney corroborating reports that Thompson and other senior CDC employees manipulated a 2004 study published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Association of Pediatricians (AAP), of a possible association between the Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism after discovering that African American males who received the MMR younger than 36 months had a 264% higher rate of autism that those who received the MMR after 36 months. The manipulation allegedly consisted of excluding African American males from the study using criteria that were not applied to any other group. Once these African American males were excluded from the study the autism rate in the overall group was reduced to a level that the paper authors presented as not worthy of concern.
The Autism Action Network will be calling on the public to take a number of actions to compel the vaccine industry and the Federal government to take appropriate action in the wake of these stunning revelations. Our first action will be to send a request to Dr. Thompson asking him to formally remove his name from the tainted paper published in Pediatrics.
Please click here at this Take Action link to send a message to Thompson thanking him for coming forward, and asking him to direct Pediatrics to remove his name form the 2004 CDC paper. Ee assure you that your emails will get through to Thompson and asking him to remove his name from the tainted Pediatrics paper.
Here is the key paragraph from Thompson’s statement:
“I regret my co-authors 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 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data was collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.”
Dr. Brian Hooker, Ph. D., a biochemist at Simpson University, recalculated the data in the original CDC study upon the advice of Thompson and confirmed the 264% increase. Hooker’s findings were published in the journal Translational Neurodegeneration on August 10. Translational Neurodegeneration removed Hooker’s paper from their website yesterday.
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Thank Thompson? Never. He's a criminal. I assume he is now retired and won't fear loss of job and reputation like Dr Wakefield. Thompson has made his blood money and should be charged with fraud and criminal negligence causing harm and death. He's no hero, the coward waited too long to do the right thing.
Posted by: Another Vaccine Victim | September 08, 2014 at 10:56 PM
But maybe it's better for his name to be on the study, so that it means a lot for him to speak out regarding the falsification/withholding of data?
Posted by: Twyla | August 31, 2014 at 03:45 PM
Thompson's initial statement followed by his request to have his name removed from the paper would be a very visible and highly unusual act by a senior CDC scientists and would demand much deeper investigation. Senior CDC scientists just do not tell the world that they no longer stand behind the integrity of a study they preformed. It would be impossible for objective people to believe that there is nothing writing with the CDC paper.
Posted by: John Gilmore | August 30, 2014 at 07:32 AM
You say 264%. Isn't it 340%?
Posted by: James Butler | August 29, 2014 at 05:51 PM
Is this wise? Dr. Thompson has already gone public, and that was a huge boon to our cause. But should we badger him further? No doubt he is under tremendous pressure and stress. Sending him messages of support was entirely right, but beyond that we should leave him alone, let him make his own decisions, and devote our energies to publicizing what he has already revealed -- which is explosive enough.
Posted by: JerseyGuy | August 29, 2014 at 10:10 AM
Sometimes I need things spelled out for me so bear with me. Can you please explain in what way(s) you expect that him removing his name from the study will contribute to some kind of tangible positive changes in the situation? I'm not being a naysayer, I'm just not recognizing at this juncture what this will do, in light of the fact there are 3 other CDC scientists standing by their fraud, he's still working for them/with them, and even in the face of one of the study's authors admitting that they deliberately changed the study protocol Pediatrics is still standing by the integrity of the study. In research published in journals, would it lead to the study being retracted or something? Wouldn't be more meaningful to petition the CDC and Pediatrics or maybe the governments office of accountability to publish additional conclusions to the study regarding what the numbers would be if ALL the african american boys were included in the compilation, as intended by the original study design and force Pediatrics to include the information? Or does something like that never happen?
For legal purposes, if it ever got to that point, would Thompson's testimony be more valuable as an included authors testifying against coauthors, or more valuable as someone who removed himself from the study. Would a petition asking Thompson to publicly ask for a retraction of the study do to their deliberate manipulations, which he hasn't done yet, be helpful? Would such a statement by Thompson have any impact on Pediatrics' decision to stand by the study? Looks like a new study using only African American boys needs to be done.
Posted by: Jenny | August 29, 2014 at 09:34 AM