Obama Grants Immunity to CDC Whistleblower on Measles Vaccine Link to Autism

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Obama Grants Immunity to CDC Whistleblower on Measles Vaccine Link to Autism
By HealthImpactNews, Published on February 4, 2015
http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/obama-grants-immunity-to-cdc-whistleblower-on-measles-vaccine-link-to-autism/

  "Health Impact News Editor Comments

   After six months and nearly one billion tweets on Twitter, it took a
   media frenzy over a small measles outbreak in California at the
   beginning of 2015 to draw the attention of some in the national media
   to finally start reporting on the significance of the CDC Whistleblower
   story from the summer of 2014.

   Patrick Howley of The Daily Caller has reported that the Obama
   administration has granted whistleblower immunity to Dr. William
   Thompson, a senior epidemiologist at the CDC who co-authored and
   published research on the MMR vaccine for the CDC back in 2004. His
   decision to become a whistleblower and reveal data that was concealed
   by the CDC linking the MMR vaccine to autism among African American
   boys was revealed during the summer of 2014.

   In his report, Howley links to a letter published on the Natural News
   website from the summer of 2014 sent by Dr. Thompson to then-CDC
   director Dr. Julie Gerberding in February 2004, where he expressed his
   concerns to Dr. Gerberding about how the CDC was concealing data
   linking the measles MMR vaccine to autism. (Letter here.)
   
   Howley points out that Gerberding is now an executive vice president at
   Merck, the pharmaceutical giant that is currently the sole manufacturer
   of the measles vaccine. Gerberding originally left the CDC to take the
   position of president of Merck's vaccine division.

Dr. Brian Hooker Spent 10 Years Trying to Obtain CDC Documents on Measles Vaccine Study


Dr. Coleen Boyle of the CDC testifies under oath before Congress in November 2012 that the body of evidence shows there is no connection between mercury in vaccines and autism. Dr. Boyle was a co-author with Dr. William Thompson on the 2004 study.

   As we have previously reported, Dr. Brian Hooker spent 10 years
   fighting the CDC and submitting over 100 Freedom of Information Acts to
   obtain the raw data from studies the CDC conducted that allegedly
   proved there was no connection between the measles MMR vaccine and
   autism. It was almost exactly one year ago from now, in February of
   2014, that Dr. Hooker was finally able to secure the raw data from the
   studies he was seeking, with the help of Congressman Bill Posey, which
   revealed that the CDC had data linking the measles MMR vaccine to
   autism for over 10 years. (Original story and press release here.)

   At the time this was revealed, the mainstream media either ignored it,
   or vilified it as insignificant.

CDC Whistleblower Contacts Dr. Hooker

   A few months later, Dr. Brian Hooker received a phone call from Dr.
   William Thompson of the CDC, one of the original authors of the 2004
   study. A series of phone calls took place, and Dr. Hooker recorded some
   of them. Here is the now famous video that was released in the summer
   of 2014 that mainstream media basically ignored:

CDC Director of Immunization Safety Admits Bias and Withholding Data Linking Measles Vaccine to Autism


Frank DeStefano, MD, MPH. Image source.

   While most of the mainstream media was ignoring this story, independent
   journalist and former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson called Dr. Frank
   DeStefano, the CDC Director of Immunization Safety, who was a co-author
   with Dr. William Thompson in the 2004 CDC study on the MMR vaccine, and
   asked him some questions about the concealed data Dr. Thompson had
   revealed.

   She recorded her phone call and posted it on her website here.

   Attkisson asked the CDC director why the excluded data linking the
   measles vaccine to autism in African American boys would not be
   important enough to investigate further, since it contained such a
   higher rate of autism. Dr. DeStefano's reply was very typical of the
   bias that currently exists among CDC scientists when it comes to autism:

     "you know, autism, as you probably are aware, is a condition that
      really probably has its start while the child is still in the womb.
      And, you now, it doesn't, some of the behaviors and such don't come
      apparent, become apparent until maybe the child is one, two, three
      years old."

   In other words, they believe autism is completely due to genetic
   factors, and not environmental factors. Of course, this theory of the
   genetic cause of autism lends itself to billions of dollars in drug
   research, even though it contradicts both scientific evidence, as well
   as the experience of many tens of thousands of parents who saw their
   completely normal child rapidly digress shortly after receiving
   vaccines. Even the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has
   paid out damages to children with autism as a result of vaccines,
   including the measles MMR vaccine.

Obama Has Granted Whistleblower Immunity – What's Next?

   Now, many months later after all of this information was revealed,
   Patrick Howley of the Daily Caller has picked up the story, and
   revealed that Dr. Thompson actually obtained whistleblower status from
   the Obama administration "months ago."

   So what's next?

   Howley reports that Congressman Posey staffer Anna Schartner stated:

     "We're working with the Science Committee to get a hearing," Anna
      said. "What we're talking about is integrity within an agency. It's
      rightfully under the purview of the Science Committee."

   In an interview with Dr. Gary Null on his national radio program last
   month (January 2015), Dr. Brian Hooker stated that Dr. Thompson is
   currently cooperating with members of a Congressional subcommittee.
   Also:

     "Thousands of American parents with vaccine damaged children,
      suffering from permanent neurological impairment and autism, await
      a trial that will finally bring to justice many of the nation's top
      health officials. (Source.)"

The Mainstream Media is Covering the Wrong Measles Story

   Yesterday, we published an article about how the mainstream media was
   not covering the charges of fraud against Merck regarding the measles
   MMR vaccine in the current measles debate. (See: Why is the Mainstream
   Media Ignoring Measles Vaccine Fraud Cases?)

   We mentioned not only the CDC whistleblower story, but also the federal
   lawsuit with allegations of fraud over the mumps portion of the MMR
   vaccine, in a case filed back in 2010 by two virologists who worked for
   Merck, and became whistleblowers.

   Hours later, The Daily Caller published the report by Patrick Howley.
   This is a positive move in the right direction that we hope other media
   sources will follow.

   The United States does not currently have a measles epidemic. We have
   an autism epidemic.



   It is time to stop denying the vaccine link to autism, and work on a
   solution to the very obvious problems that exist in the vaccine
   industry. Autism is a much more serious problem than the small number
   of measles cases we are currently seeing. We cannot continue to deny
   this problem exists, if we expect to find real solutions.

   Comment on this story at VaccineImpact.com

   See Also:

   Why is the Mainstream Media Ignoring Measles Vaccine Fraud Cases?
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