Truth
“Dr. William Thomspson from the CDC: I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics.
How can they be trusted?
They only lie 95% of the time?!”
Interesting how you just bring this up as if this is something new, this has been brought up many times in this discussion, while you use this to paint the CDC in a negative light, this actually proves the level of integrity that goes on in the CDC.
Dr Thomson (who is a vaccine supporter) was part of the team that conducted a study, they noted that there the subgroup of African American children with autism were vaccinated on time vs other children.
The reason they decided to omit this from the study was that they realized that this was due to the special ed programs that these children went to had a requirement that the children be fully vaccinated, therefore unlike other children this subgroup had all of their vaccines on time.
Dr Thompson did not disagree with the reasoning behind this, he even included these facts as part of his presentation (which he released and is available to the public).
His colleagues believed that people will misinterpret the data to show that vaccines cause autism. However, Dr Thompson believed that since this is part of the study nothing should be withheld, he released the emails he had with his colleagues that clearly show that this was what was going on.
After all these pages of posts that clearly show how dishonest the radical anti vaxx and anti medicine people are, twisting studies and chery picking stuff, I find it surprising that the level of integrity that is expected of the CDC is something that you use against trusting the CDC.
Another point, there were no lies, only an omission of what the team believed was statistically insignificant.