CDC Vaccine Controversy and Cover-Up

Roll back in the time machine to August of

2014.

That is when Bill Thompson made the admission

that the CDC had lied and hid the fact

that the MMR vaccine was associated with autism.

Talking with Thompson, as it unfolded, felt like a

spy movie. It led me to secretly record

phone conversations with Dr. William Thompson, which I did in the

state of Oregon because it's illegal to secretly record phone

conversations in the state of California. Dr.

Thompson freely admitted that he had covered it up,

and his associates at the

CDC had also covered it up.

Thimerosal causes autism-like features, and that's the way I would say it.

I'm completely ashamed of what I did.

The higher-ups wanted to do certain things, and I went along with it.

Colleen is the center director, Frank is the director

of immunization safety, and Marceline's the branch chief.

They're still all much more senior than me.

Dr. Julie Gerberding was head of the CDC at the time.

Coincidentally, she went on to a lucrative career at

Merck, the

manufacturer of the MMR vaccine.

I'm like, "Oh, my God, I cannot believe we did

what we did." Um, but we did.