I’m also not an expert in the field, but I am very interested in this topic and reviewing the available evidence to create a cohesive and easy to understand proof.
Some of the things the article in the OP mention indicates where he is getting his information. The “CDC whistleblower” allegations he refers to have been thoroughly refuted.
“(a) written by a lead author who also was lead author on another study which his own collaborator says was improperly manipulated to hide a vaccine-autism connection. Do they really need to rely on him as their sole source for arguing vaccines don’t cause autism?”
I didn’t read that ridiculously long distraction you linked, did you?
However every phrase in my statement I believe to be true.
Thompson was a collaborator.
Thomson issued a statement through his lawyer saying as follows:
“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 believe there are also phone tapes of him which he wasn’t expecting to be published that take a stronger position, and at the above link you can read old emails from him to the then Head of CDC, (Now Head of Mercks’ Vaccine Division) and others documenting and extending the claims.
If you visit the CDC webpage on the question of whether kids are getting autism from vaccines, the paper they link you to has the same lead author. This is the only primary source they link.
So I repeat my question: Does the CDC really need to rely on him as their sole source for arguing vaccines don’t cause autism?”
Incidentally, the more important question is the second one I point out, if you read that paper it is being misrepresented just as the data reportedly was in the earlier paper, to say things it doesn’t say. This study doesn’t indicate that too many vaccines too soon aren’t causing autism. It is blind on that subject. At best it indicates that DTP and the rest of the vaccine series isn’t dramatically more likely to produce autism than DTaP and the rest of the vaccine series.
In addition to that, its my belief that a minor reanalysis of their data, just changing the entries in a column of table 1 from “number of antigens” to “mcg of Al in vaccine” and running the data through their computer again, would give much more interesting results.
Also changing the entries from “number of antigens” to “1″ (ie total number of vaccines, counting 1 per vaccine) would give more interesting results. (The actual paper contrived to use a column that contained “3004” for DTP and some single digit number for everything else in common use, so it basically reduced itself to a single vaccine test while being presented as a test of multiple vaccine effects.)
I’m also not an expert in the field, but I am very interested in this topic and reviewing the available evidence to create a cohesive and easy to understand proof.
Some of the things the article in the OP mention indicates where he is getting his information. The “CDC whistleblower” allegations he refers to have been thoroughly refuted.
“(a) written by a lead author who also was lead author on another study which his own collaborator says was improperly manipulated to hide a vaccine-autism connection. Do they really need to rely on him as their sole source for arguing vaccines don’t cause autism?”
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/brian-hooker-and-andrew-wakefield-accuse-the-cdc-of-scientific-fraud-irony-meters-everywhere-explode/
I didn’t read that ridiculously long distraction you linked, did you? However every phrase in my statement I believe to be true. Thompson was a collaborator. Thomson issued a statement through his lawyer saying as follows: “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.”
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/046630_CDC_whistleblower_public_confession_Dr_William_Thompson.html#ixzz3P5iPApOM
I believe there are also phone tapes of him which he wasn’t expecting to be published that take a stronger position, and at the above link you can read old emails from him to the then Head of CDC, (Now Head of Mercks’ Vaccine Division) and others documenting and extending the claims.
If you visit the CDC webpage on the question of whether kids are getting autism from vaccines, the paper they link you to has the same lead author. This is the only primary source they link. So I repeat my question: Does the CDC really need to rely on him as their sole source for arguing vaccines don’t cause autism?”
Incidentally, the more important question is the second one I point out, if you read that paper it is being misrepresented just as the data reportedly was in the earlier paper, to say things it doesn’t say. This study doesn’t indicate that too many vaccines too soon aren’t causing autism. It is blind on that subject. At best it indicates that DTP and the rest of the vaccine series isn’t dramatically more likely to produce autism than DTaP and the rest of the vaccine series.
In addition to that, its my belief that a minor reanalysis of their data, just changing the entries in a column of table 1 from “number of antigens” to “mcg of Al in vaccine” and running the data through their computer again, would give much more interesting results. Also changing the entries from “number of antigens” to “1″ (ie total number of vaccines, counting 1 per vaccine) would give more interesting results. (The actual paper contrived to use a column that contained “3004” for DTP and some single digit number for everything else in common use, so it basically reduced itself to a single vaccine test while being presented as a test of multiple vaccine effects.)