Throughout a shocking Senate listening to, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed that within the early 2000s, a senior CDC scientist was ordered to destroy information from an inside examine that confirmed a staggering hyperlink between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism threat in younger Black boys.
In 2004, a CDC-backed case-control study in Atlanta in contrast 624 kids with autism to 1,824 with out, assessing whether or not timing of MMR vaccination (earlier than vs. after 18 or 24 months) was linked to autism threat. It discovered no vital affiliation.
Whereas the 2004 examine didn't discover a causal hyperlink, a later re-analysis of the identical information acquired vital consideration.
A 2014 examine printed in Translational Neurodegeneration re-examined the CDC’s dataset and claimed to seek out an elevated autism threat amongst African American boys who acquired the MMR vaccine earlier than 36 months of age.
In line with the 2014 study, “The current examine supplies new epidemiologic proof exhibiting that African American males receiving the MMR vaccine previous to 24 months of age or 36 months of age usually tend to obtain an autism analysis.”
In line with RFK Jr., the findings have been explosive:
“The info from that examine confirmed that black boys who acquired the vaccine on time had a 260% better probability of getting an autism analysis than kids who waited,” Kennedy testified.
“The chief scientist on that, Dr. William Thompson, the Senior Vaccine Security Scientist at CDC, was ordered to come back right into a room with 4 different co-authors by his boss, Frank DeStefano, who’s the top of the security press, and ordered to destroy that information. Then they printed it with out that reality.”
