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UNINFORMED CONSENT, SEATTLE WA - Amidst disturbing allegations of excessive manipulation of data in a study recently published in the November issue of ‘Pediatrics’, Congressman David Weldon, (R-FL), also a physician, has formally requested Dr. Julie L Gerberding, one year old appointee as director of the CDC, (Centers for Disease Control), personally investigate the charges.
In a
letter to Dr. Gerberding, Congressman Weldon states in part, “I have reviewed the article and have serious reservations about the four-year evolution and conclusions…(sic) I have found a disturbing pattern which merits a thorough, open, timely, and independent review by researchers outside of the CDC, HHS, the vaccine industry, and others with a conflict of interest in vaccine related issues …(sic) there may have been a selective use of the data to make the association in the earliest study disappear….This demonstrates to me how excessive manipulation of data can lead to absurd results."
Weldon goes on to write, “The only way the issues are going to be resolved…(sic) is by making this particular dataset and the entire VSD database open for independent analysis.”
In referring to independent researchers previously approved for this purpose by the CDC and the US Congressional Committee for Government Reform to research this data, Weldon states, “The treatment that these well-published researchers have received from the CDC thus far has been abysmal and embarrassing.”
Critics say the main author of the CDC study, Dr. Thomas Verstraeten, has been working for GlaxoSmithKline since 2001 shortly after the first version of this study stunned government scientists, doctors and researchers.
GlaxoSmithKline is one of the big five vaccine manufacturers in the world. This information was omitted from the new version of the Verstraeten Study as published in the November issue of the peer-review publication, Pediatrics. This is in strict violation of the publication’s conflict-of-interest policies. A GlaxoSmithKline spokeswoman said Monday the company had never asked Verstraeten to change the study’s data.
According to Safe Minds, a research organization dedicated to identifying the cause of autism in children, “Data was manipulated, in part, by adding in samples from Harvard Pilgrim, an HMO in Massachusetts, the only state in the country that severely under-reported autism in the years looked at in the study, appearing to have almost no cases compared to nearly 500% increases in other states. Using Harvard Pilgrim data helped skew results so that a conclusion of 'inconsistencies' between Harvard Pilgrim and other HMO’s appears to disprove a link between mercury-laced vaccines and autism."
The Verstraeten Study was commissioned by the CDC and administrated by Dr. Thomas Verstraeten when he first came to the CDC as a NIS officer in 1999. It was done from data collected by the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Data-link, (VSD), from the super bills of two large HMOs, (Health Maintenance Organizations), Group Health Cooperative in Seattle and Northern California Kaiser with a combined enrolled population over 6 million people. They include 110,000 children that were born between 1992 and 1997 of families continuously enrolled and had records of all vaccines received during the child’s first year of life. They excluded some children from the study, notably, those who had been vaccinated with the Hepatitis B immunoglobulins containing an additional 12.5ug of thimerosal/ mercury, in the first six hours of life as they “would have a higher likelihood of the outcomes” such as autism.
Verstraeten’s original version of this study dated February 9, 2000, shows the risk of autism was sharply higher than even the next presentation presented to 52 doctors, scientists and researchers affiliated with various public protection government agencies, including the CDC, at the hastily called Simpsonwood meeting, less than four months later in June 2000, where the information was embargoed from release because of concerns of adverse reaction from the public.
In the last three years, the study has apparently undergone numerous evolutions, face-lifts and additions - one in particular, by adding in children not at risk to autism to mathematically “water down” the alarming results of the original findings. In the current issue of Pediatrics it represents there is “No consistent significant associations between thimerosal-containing vaccines and neuro-developmental outcomes.”
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