Ph.D. Brian Hooker: MMR Vaccine and Autism Link --- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention manipulated data

https://www.wellbeingjournal.com/mmr-vaccine-and-autism-link/

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Data manipulation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that obscured a higher incidence of autism in African-American boys has been uncovered by Brian Hooker, Ph.D., scientific advisor for the Focus Autism Foundation, with the help of a top research scientist working for the CDC. According to a Focus Autism report, Hooker, who has a Ph.D. in biochemical engineering, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for original data on the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and autism study conducted by CDC researchers lead by Frank DeStefano, M.D., et al.

Hooker viewed highly sensitive documents related to the DeStefano study that had been obtained via Congressional request by U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Hooker then found William Thompson, Ph.D., working with the CDC, who showed him the evidence that certain data had been omitted. Hooker's reanalysis of the data, published August 8, 2014 in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Translational Neurodegeneration,* shows that African-American boys receiving their first MMR vaccine before 36 months of age were 3.4 times more likely to develop autism than those vaccinated after the age of 36 months.

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