On Wednesday, August 27, 2014, Centers for Disease Control Senior Scientist Dr. Bill Thompson issued a statement through his attorney’s website addressing his regret that he and his co-authors omitted “statistically significant information” in a 2004 study on the subject of whether the MMR vaccine was causing autism in children. Later that night CNN reporter Deborah Goldschmidt published an article which focused on the paper written by Dr. Brian Hooker that reanalyzed the CDC data, which has since been pulled from the internet under pressure from an outside agency. Embedded in the top of that CNN iReport piece was a video from earlier in 2014 where health correspondent Elizabeth Cohen states that within all of the dangerous side-effects of vaccines, autism is not listed. She then rephrased for those needing help understanding her, explaining that “Some people don’t hear this well: vaccines do not cause autism.” Outraged that CNN would choose to embed such a statement within Dr. Thompson’s confession that he and his co-authors had omitted evidence that African American males were at increased risk for autism from journal publication, autism parents across the country and across the globe responded to a call from the Autism Media Channel. These parents addressed the CNN correspondent directly, informing her that in their own families, vaccines had, in fact, caused autism before their very eyes. Videos were then tweeted to Ms. Cohen with the hashtag #hearthiswell. View all videos on the Hear This Well YouTube channel here: https://youtube/channel/UCFCrfK5rP_B6huriP1hLApw Follow on Facebook for more information: https://facebook/HearThisWell ireport.cnn/docs/DOC-1166951
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:24:28 +0000
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