by Andreas Wailzer, LifeSite News:
The 2016 movie ‘Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe’ was recently re-uploaded to Rumble and garnered significant attention again, likely since trust in both the CDC and vaccines in general has been diminishing since the COVID crisis.
With vaccine skepticism on the rise and trust in regulatory agencies and big pharma dwindling, it is time to re-visit one of the most important and most controversial potential cover-up cases of the past decades and answer the question: Did the CDC manipulate data to hide a link between MMR vaccines and autism?
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The 2016 movie “Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe” tells the story of CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) whistleblower Dr. William Thompson, who revealed how the CDC allegedly destroyed evidence that shows that the MMR vaccine is linked to autism in children.
The movie was recently re-uploaded to Rumble and garnered significant attention again, likely since trust in both the CDC and vaccines in general has been diminishing since the COVID crisis.
The film is produced by filmmaker Del Bigtree and scientist Andrew Wakefield, a former academic who has been accused of fraud for his 1998 study published in the Lancet on the possible link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism and has since been discredited as a “conspiracy theorist” and “anti-vaccine activist” by the mainstream media and the scientific establishment.
What are the claims of Dr. William Thompson?
Dr. William Thompson has claimed that he and his co-authors intentionally omitted data from a 2004 study that shows a significant correlation between the MMR vaccine and autism in African-American children.
In 2014, Thompson had a series of phone calls with Dr. Brian Hooker, a biologist and former university professor who is currently the senior director of science and research at Children’s Health Defense, the environmental and vaccine safety advocacy group chaired by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (Kennedy is on leave from his role with the organization as he runs for president as an independent.)
Thompson suggested that Hooker request the data from the CDC’s 2004 MMR-autism study through a so-called “citizen’s request.” Wakefield explained in the Vaxxed movie that Thompson used this method as a “legal loophole” because sending Hooker the CDC’s internal documents without such a request would have been illegal.
After Hooker had analyzed the data, he saw a significant correlation between the MMR vaccine and autism in black children, prompting him to publish his findings.
The CDC and the study authors were now threatened by media attention generated through Hooker’s publication. Hooker had furthermore secretly recorded his phone calls with Thompson, so he had evidence that the CDC scientist told him how to access the data.
This caused Thompson to go public and publish a statement on August 27, 2014, saying that he “regret[s] that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics.”
