The Link Between Childhood Vaccines and Autism Part Three
In this installment, we take a look at another large portion of the vaccine/autism debate around the CDC covering up data and the works of Dr. Brian Hooker and Dr. Rashid Buttar
Reposted with permission from the author of the article:
Scott Armstrong | Rebunked News | Twitter: @RebunkedNews
Originally published on tlavagabondsubstack.com on June 20, 2023
Welcome back to the final installment of a 3 part guest post. This installment concludes a deep dive on the causes of autism. You can read about this vaccine mystery and more with the release of My Life in the Thrill Kill Medical Cult!
-Zowe
After the last few years of medical tyranny, the entire world got to see the blatant and callous nature of the medical establishment, viciously attacking and silencing any doctor or scientist who dared to speak against the mainstream. However, unbeknownst to many, these tactics have been employed for decades to attack anyone who dares to raise any concerns over the safety of childhood vaccines.
In Part One and Part Two of this series, we took a look at the dramatic increase in the overall cases of Autism Spectrum Disorder and some possible explanations. We also looked into the work of Dr. Andrew Wakefield and his infamous 1998 study that laid the foundation for much of the debate around childhood vaccines and autism today.
Let’s take a look at another similar case to Dr. Wakefield’s, this time involving the deliberate tampering of crucial data by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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Dr. William Thompson, Dr. Brian Hooker and the CDC Cover-Up
This story begins back in 2004 when a paper entitled “Age at First Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination in Children With Autism and School-Matched Control Subjects: A Population-Based Study in Metropolitan Atlanta” was published by DeStefano and colleagues that sought to compare the age of the first Measles, Mumps & Rubella (MMR) vaccines between children who had been diagnosed with autism and children who did not have autism.
The results of the study showed that there was no statistically significant link between the age that a child received their MMR vaccines and the onset of autism:
The overall distribution of ages at MMR vaccination among children with autism was similar to that of matched control children; most case (70.5%) and control children (67.5%) were vaccinated between 12 and 17 months of age.
The story becomes incredibly interesting when, 10 years later in 2014, one of the researchers on the 2004 study, Dr. William Thompson, a psychologist who worked at the CDC, came forward alleging that the CDC altered the data to give the report a more favorable outcome, suggesting no association with MMR vaccination and autism. This information came to light in a phone call that was recorded by Dr. Brian Hooker, a biochemical engineer who had a son that fell victim to autism following an MMR injection.
Following that conversation, Dr. Brian Hooker published a follow-up study to the original 2004 study entitled “Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young African American boys: a reanalysis of CDC data” where his findings showed an increase in autism following MMR injection among boys 36 months of age or younger, including an even more pronounced increase in cases among African American boys, which contradicts the findings of the original DeStefano study. So what happened?
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Dr. Thompson stated that the original analysis plan formulated for the DeStefano study was changed after the data had been collected; when the CDC scientists noticed that the data suggested a higher rate of autism among boys post-MMR vaccination. In order to make the data seem more favorable towards there being no association between MMR vaccination and autism, the scientists conducting the study had to exclude children from the study to bring the data more in line, reducing the “statistical power” of the data.
In the analysis plan, they chose to identify children using two sources of information, the school record for each child and the child’s Georgia birth certificate. All of the children had school records, but since many of the children were born out of state, only about half of them had a Georgia birth certificate. The children’s race originally meant to come from their school record. After the data came in, they chose to glean the race information from the birth certificate, leaving about half of the data pool without the race information. From the Dr. Hooker study:
the CDC study limited the total African American cohort to include only those individuals who possessed a valid State of Georgia birth certificate which decreased the statistical power of their analysis. Although a statistically significant relationship between first MMR age and autism incidence was seen in the general (all races) population within the earlier Destefano et al. [14] study, the coauthors interpreted this result as an artifact of “healthcare seeking behavior” citing that autistic children would receive their vaccines earlier in order to enroll in State of Georgia early intervention programs.
According to Dr. Brian Hooker in the film Vaxxed:
“Instead of having 3000 individuals in the study, it went down to about 1800. The relative risk went down from 2.64 to 1.8, but more importantly, that relative risk was no longer statistically significant.”
After those data sets were once again put back in with Dr. Hooker’s study, the findings were shocking. From the study:
The present study provides new evidence of a statistically significant relationship between the timing of the first MMR vaccine and autism incidence in African American males. Using a straight-forward, Pearson’s chi-squared analysis on the cohort used in the Destefano et al. (CDC) study, timing of the first MMR vaccine before and after 24 months of age and 36 months of age showed relative risks for autism diagnoses of 1.73 and 3.36, respectively. Future studies should be completed to further evaluate the relationship of first MMR timing and neurodevelopmental maladies, including autism, especially in underserved populations.
The 3.36 relative risk for African American boys is almost double what the findings were in the original DeStefano study, which constitutes a statistically significant association between MMR vaccination and autism. According to Psychiatrist.com:
As a measure of effect size, a [Relative Risk] value is generally considered clinically significant if it is less than 0.50 or more than 2.00; that is, if the risk is at least halved, or more than doubled.
As you might expect, as with Dr. Wakefield’s study, this paper by Dr. Hooker was retracted after intense pressure from the industry, citing conflicts of interest and “concerns about the validity of the methods and statistical analysis.”
It is not surprising, knowing what we know now about the Medical Industry, that such measures are taken to disqualify and marginalize the efforts of people who are putting in the work to poke holes in the mainstream narrative around childhood vaccines.
Dr. Rashid Buttar
“Autism is the result of exposure to mercury during the critical period of neurodevelopment. It is nothing more than mercury toxicity on board a physiology with a genetic predisposition for the inability to excrete.”
-Dr. Rashid Buttar
Dr. Rashid Buttar rose to prominence in the COVID Lockdown Era as a strong voice pushing back on the corrupt and tyrannical medical/government establishment. But did you know that he was also a fearless proponent of the dangers of childhood vaccines and their association with the rise in autism?
Unfortunately, Dr. Buttar passed away on May 18, 2023, leaving behind a legacy of helping patients using unconventional means, which led to the full weight of the medical industry bearing down on him repeatedly over the years
Here is a great farewell to Dr. Buttar from Children’s Health Defense.
Dr. Rashid Buttar was an emergency medicine doctor and an osteopathic physician based out of North Carolina. He recieved his medical degree from Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine and was an osteopathic physician for over 20 years.
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He has two websites that are a valuable source of information that you should check out if you would like more information on this topic:
Autism Defined is a collection of papers and articles that Dr. Buttar was involved with over the years, including a document that includes his testimony before congress in 2004 about the rise in autism and its possible correlation to vaccines containing mercury/thimerosal. This document is complete with over 1,000 pages of supporting documents.
Another paper on Autism Defined is Dr. Buttar’s “Autism: A Multi-System Oxidative and Inflammatory Disorder” that goes into more detail about trying to explain the alarming increase in autism cases.
Another section on Autism Defined includes an 11-part series where Dr. Buttar does a deep-dive into the topic of thimerosal and its link to autism along with all sorts of valuable associated information.
Please visit Autism Defined to find more valuable resources.
Here is a video of Dr. Buttar demonstrating how he was able to help his vaccine injured son Abie make a full recovery:
Abie’s Story. Credit to Celia Farber at The Truth Barrier (must follow!) for posting this video
There is some speculation out there about the nature of Dr. Buttar’s death. Some speculate that foul play was involved, Dr. Buttar himself claiming that he felt like he had been poisoned in some of the last interviews that he conducted. We pray for his family in this difficult time, are working to do our small part to carry on his legacy and hope that one day, the truth will be revealed.
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A controversy blew up when I worked at The Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Neides was Vice Chair and Chief Operating Officer of Cleveland Clinic Wellness, as well as the Associate Director of Clinical Education for The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. But he unceremoniously got the boot when he (I believe innocently) questioned the link between vaccines and autism on a social media platform on his own time that was independent from the hospital where he worked. It was quite a brewha amongst CCF staff which I thought was odd (this was long before Covid made everything odd) because as I put it, whether you agree or not, isn’t science supposed to question things? If you call yourself a science based organization but you get fired for just the mere suggestion that maybe we should look into something, regardless if it’s status quo, then guess what? You’re an arrogant fascist dictatorship NOT the altruistic democratic care giving organization you pretend to be. I thought it was a shame back then. And, a worse shame now. https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2018/01/12/whatever-happened-to-dr-daniel-neides-a-year-after-he-was-forced-to-leave-the-cleveland-clinic-because-of-his-antivaccine-rant/
Spoiler Alert: This article was written by an asshole.
Look at the propaganda. Disgusting. https://www.healio.com/news/pediatrics/20240228/qa-how-to-discuss-vaccines-with-hesitant-parents?utm_source=selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news