CDC Publishes Fact Sheet Insisting “thimerosal in vaccines is not harmful” Despite Evidence That It Is
In Brief
- The Facts:25
micrograms of thimerosal remain in many of the influenza vaccines
administered in the U.S., including to pregnant women and infants.
- Reflect On:Despite all of the evidence and scientific publications showing how harmful this can be to a child, why does the CDC still maintain its viewpoint? What's going on here? It makes absolutely no sense, which is why conflict of interest is important.
Propaganda experts have long admitted that the “big lie” is an important tool for molding public opinion. A psychological profile of
Hitler carried out by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services noted that
one of the German leader’s “primary rules” was that “people will believe
a big lie sooner than a little one” and “if you repeat it frequently
enough people will sooner or later believe it.”
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The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) appears to agree that a big and oft-repeated lie is a
powerful public relations tool, because in August, its Immunization
Safety Office posted a fact sheet that once again insists that “thimerosal in vaccines is not harmful to children,” despite ample evidence to
the contrary. The fact sheet trots out the same handful of
thimerosal-related studies (“conducted by CDC or with CDC’s
involvement”) that it has used for years to silence thimerosal critics.
Fortunately, multiple resource pages on the Children’s Health Defense
website make it easy to rebut the CDC’s regurgitated falsehoods. Our
website provides a thimerosal FAQ, information dispelling myths about thimerosal’s use in vaccines and countering false vaccine safety claims (including claims about thimerosal), analysis of the flawed studies that the CDC relies on to exonerate thimerosal from any role in the childhood epidemics of neurodevelopmental disorders—and more.
Below, we summarize three of the most obvious reasons to ignore the
CDC’s latest attempt to pull the wool over the public’s eyes.
The handful of CDC-funded or CDC-approved studies listed in the thimerosal fact sheet stand in sharp contrast to research conducted by independent researchers over the past 75+ years that have consistently found Thimerosal to be harmful…
Still dangerous and neurotoxic
The CDC says “the evidence is clear”
that thimerosal is “merely a preservative” and not a neurotoxin.
However, no one who actually takes the time to examine the scientific
literature can rationally conclude that mercury in any form—including
the mercury in thimerosal—is safe for humans. The handful of CDC-funded
or CDC-approved studies listed in the thimerosal fact sheet stand “in
sharp contrast to research conducted by independent researchers over the
past 75+ years that have consistently found Thimerosal to be harmful”;
this independent research has linked thimerosal to “neurodevelopmental
disorders, …tics, …speech delay, language delay, attention deficit
disorder, and autism.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s book, Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak,
describes hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific publications and the
“broad consensus among research scientists that Thimerosal is a
dangerous neurotoxin.”
The CDC falsely claims that “thimerosal was taken out of childhood vaccines in the United States in 2001.” However, 25 micrograms of thimerosal remain in
many of the influenza vaccines administered in the U.S., including to
pregnant women and infants. In fact, “thimerosal wasn’t so much removed
as it was moved around.”
All eight studies included in the CDC
fact sheet involve lead or co-authors accused of fraud or known to have
been involved in behind-closed-doors data manipulation or weighed down
by serious conflicts of interest.
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Fraudulent authors
All eight studies included in the CDC fact sheet involve lead or co-authors accused of fraud or known to have been involved in behind-closed-doors data manipulation or
weighed down by serious conflicts of interest. Dr. William Thompson,
who authored three of the studies in his former capacity as a senior CDC
vaccine safety scientist, made a whistleblower deposition to Congressman William Posey and issued statements through his personal attorney about
fraud and destruction of data at the CDC. In one of his most egregious
examples, Thompson reported that his bosses, including Branch Chief
Frank DeStefano (an author on three of the studies included in the fact
sheet), ordered Thompson and other CDC scientists to get rid of data
demonstrating vaccine-induced autism. As described previously by Children’s Health Defense:
“DeStefano called his four co-authors into a room and ordered them to dump the damning datasets into a giant garbage can. The published study omitted those datasets.”
The bulk of Thompson’s whistleblowing
revelations occurred in 40-plus phone conversations and over 10,000
pages of documents shared with Dr. Brian Hooker. In those conversations,
Thompson also stated that CDC officials “worked hard” to “dilute Dr.
Thompson’s strong and statistically significant finding…that thimerosal
exposure via infant vaccines causes tics in boys.”
In fact, Thompson asked Hooker to “start a campaign to publicize the
fact that multiple CDC-sanctioned publications show that thimerosal
causes tics.”
In addition to the studies authored by
Thompson and DeStefano, two of the papers held out by the CDC as
definitive proof of thimerosal’s innocence are 2003 studies authored by
Thomas Verstraeten and Paul Stehr-Green—two participants at the infamous
secret meeting held in Simpsonwood in
2000 to discuss the relationship between exposure to
thimerosal-containing vaccines and neurological damage in children. Both
Verstraeten and Stehr-Green were heavily involved in
trying to make a clear association between thimerosal and
neurodevelopmental effects seem unimportant. Although the Verstraeten
study nonetheless went on to report “statistically significant
associations between thimerosal and language delays and tics,” the CDC
fact sheet dismisses the associations as “weak” and “not consistent.”
Massaged data
As outlined previously by Children’s Health Defense and others,
and as indicated in the preceding sections, there are a variety of
reasons not to trust the results of the eight studies included in the
CDC fact sheet—including CDC funding and other conflicts of interest as
well as erroneous and fraudulent reporting of data. The table below
summarizes the studies’ major problems.
Lacking credibility
At this juncture, with over 80 studies connecting
the dots between thimerosal and autism alone, and new studies appearing
every day that link other vaccine ingredients such as aluminum to the
chronic illness epidemics beleaguering today’s children, the CDC has
lost all credibility when it makes poorly substantiated claims about
thimerosal or vaccine safety. An agency that buys and sells well over $4
billion of vaccines annually clearly has a vested interest in tamping
down any discussion of vaccine risks. Fortunately, the public
increasingly recognizes that the CDC’s “fact sheets” lies must be read
with a large grain of salt.
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