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In California, the worst measles outbreak in fifteen years is spreading.

The virus is roaring back into the headlines tonight.

An outbreak somehow traced to

someone who has probably caught measles abroad

visited Disneyland, and may have sneezed.

Measles on the march in America.

This outbreak is showing no signs of letting up.

There are already more cases this year than there were in the...

In 2014, the number tripled to 644 measles cases

reported in 27 states.

I mean, is this all basically because of the anti-vaccination movement,

because the parents aren�t vaccinating their kids?

Yeah, you know, I--I think so.

A bill that would ban exemptions from childhood vaccines

is advancing through the California legislature.

We are authoring legislation that'll abolish personal belief exemption.

I think you�re starting to see why it is that the mandates are so important.

There has been some inaccurate information circulating about vaccines

mostly stemming from a British study

linking vaccines to autism.

We still continue to hear that vaccines cause autism even though that�s been debunked.

Repeatedly and thoroughly debunked.

You may have heard vaccination causes autism

in one out of 110 children.

Fuck that! Total bullshit! It doesn�t!

The bill requiring children to be vaccinated has passed with bipartisan support.

Every child must meet immunization standards

before joining public schools, private schools and daycares.

I would strongly encourage everybody,

look at the science, look at the facts.

CDC, the Center for Disease Control can give you good information.

Get your children vaccinated.

Hello?

I was sitting at my desk where I teach at Simpson University.

My phone rings, and it�s Dr. William Thompson.

Brian, you and I don�t know each other very well.

I don�t know how this is all going to play out.

You have a son with autism, and

I have great shame now

when I meet families with kids with autism

because I have been part of the problem.

My son, Steven,

was born in February of 1998.

Steve, what does the cow say?

Two weeks after his fifteen month vaccines, then he lost all language.

He lost all eye contact.

You�d pick him up and he would just hang limp.

This is a time where CDC was just starting
to do these studies on vaccines and autism.

As a scientist, I have over 60 technical and scientific publications

in major international scientific journals.

And I was contacting CDC and was deeply critical of their studies.

And so the CDC decided that the scientist

who was going to interface with me at that time
was Dr. William Thompson.

Because I was on his back, because he didn�t like
what I was saying about the statistics

I received a letter from a CDC attorney in 2004

saying that I was no longer permitted
to contact the CDC.

Fast forwarding to 2014,

Thompson said to me:

�Brian, if you listen to me

and if you do what I tell you to do

I can guarantee you will be able to access
a treasure trove of data

and I would like to guide you through these steps.�

So, I want to be a resource, I want to be valuable to you.

I want you to have someone in the system.

For years

I have been trying
to crack this edifice of the CDC

and just getting little glimpses of what was not right.

The CDC has put the research 10 years behind.

Because the CDC has not been transparent

we�ve missed 10 years of research

because the CDC is so paralyzed right now

by anything related to autism.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist
and a board certified behavior analyst.

In 1978,

I want to say the prevalence of autism
was about one in 15,000 children.

It was a very rare disorder.

I was working at a clinic at UCLA

which was pretty much the only known center
for treating children with autism

and we had maybe 6 to 10 children who we were working with.

Somewhere around the early 90s,

shortly after I opened CARD,

the growth of autism has been so high and so rapid

that I�ve never felt like I could ever catch up anymore.

From an official diagnostic perspective

the way that we define autism,

we were looking at deficits in two areas.

The first is social communication and social interaction.

And in that area

we require three specific symptoms to be present,

symptoms such as no social-emotional reciprocity

no non-verbal communication � that means eye contact, for instance,

or no development of relationships.

The second required area of deficits is

the presence of stereotypic, repetitive, restricted behaviors.

And these are things like hand flapping,

body rocking, insistence on routines being the same.

One of the new additions

is the presence of a sensory dysregulation.

If a child has an inability to sense things correctly

not necessarily hearing things the way we do

that could be classified as a symptom of autism.

So, if you have five symptoms

two in the area of repetitive behaviors

and three in the area of social communication deficit

then you will get a classification of what�s called
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

We begin though, as always,
�Keeping Them Honest�.

Breaking news tonight.

Just hours ago, British Medical Journal (BMJ)

did something extremely rare for a scientific journal.

It accused a researcher Andrew Wakefield of outright fraud.

I got a call on the 19th of May 1995

from a mother telling me the story of her child

his regression
into autism following a vaccine.

And I said
'How can I help you?

I know nothing about autism.
You�ve come through the wrong number.'

And she said:
'No, doctor. My child has terrible gastrointestinal issues

and no one will take them seriously.�

I was an academic gastroenterologist doing research

with the particular interest in Crohn�s
disease and ulcerative colitis

inflammatory bowel disease.

I knew nothing whatsoever about autism.

When I was at medical school it was so rare

we weren�t talking about it.

We heard a succession of stories
which were very, very similar.

Medicine is about 'pattern recognition'

and there was a clear pattern emerging.

So we decided, a group of us,

including the world�s leading pediatric gastroenterologist

at the time led by Professor John Walker Smith

decided that these children merited thorough investigation.

Well, Dr. Wakefield, as has been shown,
used absolutely fraudulent data.

He created a fake paper.
The Journal allowed it to run.

All the other studies that were done showed
no connection whatsoever

again and again and again.

So it�s an absolute lie
that has killed thousands of kids.

What we discovered and reported
for the first time was this

link between what appeared
to be a novel type of intestinal inflammation

and autistic regression in previously developed,
mentally normal children.

And among those, the majority have regressed into autism,

according to their parents,
following the measles, mumps and Rubella Vaccine.

It wasn�t our place to censor that story
because it may be uncomfortable for public health.

Our job was to report that story accurately

in order that it might lead to further investigation.

And the paper explicitly said:

'This paper does not prove an association between

MMR vaccine and the syndrome described.

More work is needed to resolve this issue.'

That was the conclusion of the paper.

As an investigative medical journalist

I�ve spent the last seven years working
on one of the best medical talk shows in the world.

We know in medicine that there have been many, many studies

proving that vaccines
do not cause autism.

But the problem I have always had with that is

is thousands and thousands of parents
all telling the same story.

�My child got a vaccine, usually the MMR vaccine'

and then that night or the next day broke out in a fever

and then when they came out of the fever lost speech,
lost the ability to walk

basically regressed into what we know as autism.

And never came back.�

Doctors used to be told to listen
to their patient.

That was the cornerstone of medicine as we know it.

But something�s changed recently where

the patient doesn�t know
what they�re talking about

and these parents with their story of their children
have just been written off

as though they have no idea
what�s really going on with their child.

I have two kids

and anyone that has children knows
that when we first have babies

we are overly sensitive to every little hiccup,

every cough, every sniffle.

So to say that the parent was just unaware
that the child had issues

and suddenly they realized one year later that �Oh, they have autism�

that doesn�t make sense to me.

So I wanted to look into this story
and find out

what is this disconnect between
medicine, science and real parents?

I couldn�t wait to be a mom.

I remember specifically,
before we even got married

talking about how important children
would be in our lives.

I wanted a daughter first
and I wanted a son.

And we were planning on having four children.

We were going to be the most
perfect parents that we could be.

Bella was born and

that was a wonderful experience.

Bella was just this angelic, perfect child.
She hit all her milestones.

I got pregnant with Billy quite quickly.

Bella, say hello to Billy.

We�ve now got a beautiful girl and a beautiful boy.

Life was just amazing.

So two, four and six months
Billy had his normal baby vaccines.

A little bit snivelly, chesty, coldy
after maybe the last one.

So me, in my �perfect mother mode�
rushed to the doctor.

�Is he okay? Do I need to give him anything?�

�Yes, you need to give him antibiotics

just to make sure
there�s not an infection in there.�

It didn�t clear up.

Rushing back to the doctor,
�Oh, he needs more antibiotics.'

So just keep this going in him.

And I remember my mother calling me up,
my mother is a homeopathic hippie

calling me out saying
�What are you doing? You're chucking those antibiotics down your son?

For what?� And I�m saying to her:

�Mom, with all due respect, you�re an artist
and they�re doctors, so they know best.�

He was due his MMR vaccination
at twelve months

So the morning exact to the day my friend, she said to me:

�Listen, I heard that there may be a problem
with this vaccine you're about to take Billy for, the MMR.�

And I said �Are you crazy? What is the matter with you?

If there was a problem with vaccination
it would be headline news.

The doctor would be calling me up saying

�Do not bother coming in.
This is not a safe vaccine.�

None of that is happening.

You�re being negative and you�re being careless
and you�re listening to what? Some rumor that you heard somewhere.

Billy could become deaf if I don�t take him in now
and get him his MMR.

Most of the evidence linking measles with autism has kind of settled down

and most of the doctors and scientists agree

that it probably isn�t the major cause.

I�ve been working in pediatrics for almost twenty years.

I think most pediatricians
view vaccines as

they�re the number
one thing they do for kids.

I�m young enough
to not remember

the days of kids in an iron lung

because they were battling polio.

You know, polio has essentially
been eradicated from this country.

In �98 the Wakefield study came out.

My son had just been born.
That study kind of pointed the finger at the MMR.

As a parent, I was scared to give the MMR to my son

and as a matter of fact, we...
I didn�t give it to him on time

because I wanted to see.
I wanted to see what additional studies would show.

And over time additional studies did show that it�s safe

so he did get the vaccine.
You know, if everybody stopped vaccinating...

we would be going back to the dark ages.

When a CDC scientist
who'd been there at that time 17 years

tells you:

�This is how you access data�

it didn�t take me very long to realize

�Oh, I better do what he says

because he knows what he�s talking about.�

I just want to tell you one thing.

Right now, I�m sitting in a very pretty position

in terms of providing you a lot of information.

He asked me:
�What data sets are you going to request?�

and I said: �Well, I�m going to request
two of the studies you�ve done on Thimerosal

the mercury containing preservative
that�s used in some of the vaccines.�

And he said: �Well, that�s fine,

but I want you to request the MMR data set first.'

This is the study by
Frank DeStefano and his colleagues in 2004.

It was the one study where
we could end up creating a mess

while the CDC tries to sort out something they couldn�t understand.

The day Billy got the MMR was a living nightmare.
It was the worst day of my life, to be honest with you.

I came in and I saw him
lying in his cot, listless.

He started this uncontrollable shaking,

uncontrollable shaking!

Imagine
coming out of a frozen pond.

His eyes were doing this
and he was shaking like this.

And I remember, she grasped him
and held him really tight to her chest.

There�s immediate fear in John and there's immediate

�Mommy, this is not going to happen'

�I don�t know what is wrong with you
but this is not going to happen.�

And we get to a hospital.
We rushed him in,

doctors are coming in,
looking at him.

That�s when they said:
�He�s had a reaction. He�s had a seizure.

This is normal. This is common

for many, many children
who have this vaccination.

It�s absolutely okay. He�s going to be fine.�

Nobody ever told me

there would be any side effect
to any of the vaccinations my children had.

Following his fibril convulsion
that he had the same day of the MMR

we were told to take him home.

He slept in the bed with us for the night.

He seemed just very, very sleepy.

In fact, he didn�t really ever wake up
to the Billy that we had before.

For me, it became really necessary
to start looking at

what types of medical issues are this children going through,

what are the other factors that have affected them,

that have brought them to this
level of symptomology that we call autism.

This is now probably the mid-90s.

I came to notice that a) there was a very high

use of antibiotics amongst these children

but b) what became pretty interesting was

seeing the number of families
who were reporting

that their child had a regressive
type of behavior occur

right after their vaccinations.

A lot of these parents were showing me
footage of their children

who had been completely
developing normally until 18 months

and then all of a sudden, post-vaccination,
had developed incredible regression.

Children who had speech
anywhere or close to 50 to a 100 words

had completely lost
all of their words.

Children who were extremely attached
and interactive with their parents

had suddenly become isolated,

no longer responding
to their own name.

This was all happening
right after their MMR vaccines.

My oldest son, Ian, was born normal, developing normally.

He was this beautiful boy and we ended up at our 12-month day, which is one year.

Then they gave him multiple vaccines at once.

And within seven days
he had a 104 fever,

and a rash all over his body.

He had previously been noted

in our videos,
home videos, that he was walking

and actually running at that point.

Seven days after the vaccine,
he was no longer able to do that.

He was falling down,
he became a really sick, sick little boy.

So the question
for those of us investigating autism:

Is age of exposure to MMR a risk for autism?

And in order to understand why that might be

you have to understand something
of a history of the MMR vaccine.

In 1987, there was an MMR vaccine
that was being used in Canada

produced by SmithKline Beecham (GSK)

and that vaccine caused meningitis.
It was recognized quickly

and that vaccine
was withdrawn in Canada.

However, in the same month
that it was withdrawn in Ontario,

it was licensed in the UK.

The name vas simply changed
from 'Trivirix' to 'Pluserix.'

In the UK, it was used for four years
and likewise it caused meningitis

and had to be rapidly withdrawn.

There was a public outcry,

there was an acute loss of confidence
by the public in the vaccine policy makers

and the vaccine should, at that point,
have been destroyed.

It wasn�t.

It was then shipped to developing countries,
like Brazil

where it was used in a mass vaccination campaign.

And there was an epidemic of meningitis.

So, it was entirely predictable.

Now, scientists studied that epidemic

and what they found is that the risk for meningitis

was associated with age of exposure.

The younger you got the MMR vaccine

the greater the risk of meningitis.

For people like me, investigating autism,

the question was:
�Is there a similar risk in autism?

Is age of exposure to MMR

a risk for autism
just as it was for meningitis?�

We shared with the U.S. Congress and the CDC the hypothesis.

The story as told to us,
on which we have an obligation to report,

is that the majority of children regressed

following a period of normal development

in the face of MMR vaccination.

That does not mean it is the cause of the disease.

The Institute of Medicine is a body of scientists

and physicians that review
the available data on vaccine safety

and then advise our government
on vaccine research policy.

Well, because Andy Wakefield
had put forth this theory that

the age at which you receive the MMR

may increase your risk of autism

the IOM looked to the CDC
to do that very study.

It was a study about timing.

Does the earlier you receive the MMR vaccine
increase the risk of autism?

When we talk about the MMR study

nobody had ever requested those data

because it was
a big secret that you can do it.

Thompson told me
to e-mail such and such person,

and then on the inside,

I also found out that one of the people
preparing these data sets for me was Bill Thompson.

They don�t really want people to know that this data exists.

Again, just simply,
we can actually get you that data.

Thompson couldn�t send these
documents directly to Brian Hooker

because that would have been illegal.

What Thompson identified was a legal loophole

that is referred to
as a �citizen�s request�.

That allowed Thompson
to deliver to Brian Hooker

potentially classified information
in a legal way.

You get checked in England with your babies
at certain times helped by health visitors.

So nine months, Billy had his full-blown check

and it says no parental concerns,

baby laughing, babbling, talking.

So, we passed that with flying colors.

18 months is when they next come in

and by this time we know
there�s something seriously wrong with Billy.

Probably within five or six days,
the first sign really was this vacancy.

He wasn�t the same
smiley little baby that he was before.

He had a blank expression.

Then the diarrhea kicked in.

His tummy started to get bigger and bigger, bloated.

Rock-hard bloated tummy.

He would start to walk on tiptoes,

his hair fell out,
and this dreadful

high pitch scream,
sort of whiny scream developed from him

and then came the head bang,

the constant banging against his crib,

the constant banging against the floor or wall
or anything that he could find to bang his head on

he would trash it and trash it. .

John and I would lie in bed at night
just listening to these thuds, thuds, thuds.

There�s nothing.

He�s now not even noticing
his sister he used to play with.

John comes through the front door after work � no recognition

that we were his parents

or this child even belonged to us.
Nothing. Nothing. Gone.

I mean, that was the time where

our boy changed from what he was to...

a real...

a real tragic, tragic case

of child who regressed
into this autistic state

and lost everything.

Lost everything!

The CDC � the way that they do
research studies is very reactionary.

They look
at something that�s creating the press

and creating a buzz that
could actually lower vaccination rates

and that�s what they study.

They don�t study vaccines proactively.

So if Andy had never done
his original study,

gotten that published in �The Lancet�

it would have never created the uproar that

rightfully it should have created,
and the CDC would have never studied this.

The press conference for 'The Lancet' paper was called

by the dean of the medical school
who was the chairman of the media committee.

I had done an extensive research

into measles vaccine safety and MMR vaccine safety

in the pre-licensing phase.
In other words, what safety studies had been done

before these vaccines were
put onto the market and into children.

The 250 page report

was compiled by me
showing that the vaccine safety studies

for MMR in particular, were lamentable.

They were lamentable.

Many, many assumptions have been made
about the safety of this vaccine.

And there have been problems
which should have been airbrushed.

So, I wrote to my colleagues,
and the dean, and I said:

'Going forward there are going to be
questions about what parents should do next.

I cannot in due conscience
support the continued use of the MMR vaccine

having done this research.

I said I will continue to
vigorously support the use of the single vaccine,

but can no longer support the use of the triple MMR vaccine.

So the dean, as chairman of that committee,
had three choices:

he could have not had a press conference,

he could have
banned me from the press conference

or when the question
came up, as inevitably it would,

�what the parents do next
about vaccinating their children?�

he knew
what my response would be,

he could deflect
the question to someone else.

When the question came up on the day,

he directed it straight to me.

All I recommended at that press conference

was that parents opt
for the use of the single vaccines

single measles, single mumps, single rubella

until the issue
had been resolved scientifically.

What happened when I made that recommendation

unilateral decisions were made
by the government in the UK to withdraw

the importation license for the single vaccines,

�Merck� opting in the U.S.
to cease the production of the single vaccines

giving parents no option.

I said to the senior
representative of the Department of Health

�Why? If your objective is to protect children
against serious infectious disease,

why would you take away the option of how parents do that?�

And she said because if we allow the parents the choice of single vaccines

it would destroy our MMR program.

In other words, the concern was for the protection of the program

over and above the protection of the children.

No one�s career has ever been advanced
in the medical industrial complex

by being outwardly and openly critical of the vaccine industry.

I�m Mark Blaxill,

father of a daughter diagnosed with autism back in 1998.

I�ve written two books that have
come out of the autism movement

that have been projected into
autism advocacy ever since.

Michaela was born typical,
everything was fine,

was developing normally
through her first birthday.

We have vivid memories of early language

joint attention, lots of play.

She was adorable, beautiful, cute.

And then somewhere in the months after
she began to slip away.

She lost language and she began
to retreat into a world of her own.

And at 2 years, 9 months

we got a formal diagnosis
of full syndrome autism.

It was a hopeless, pessimistic future
that was laid out in front of us.

She was going to be disabled
for the rest of her life,

likely to be non-vocal,
in an institution.

And the best thing that we could do
was to accept the inevitable.

Part of the story we heard
from the Harvard experts

was autism was genetic,

it was low and relatively
constant prevalence.

And the more I learned,

the more clear was that
that whole orthodox view

was false, completely false.

Revolutions only happen
in science when there is an anomaly

an anomaly that
the older orthodoxy can�t explain.

With autism
the anomaly was the explosion in cases

which meant that what people were trying
to describe as genetic neurologically based condition

couldn�t be genetic.

It could only be
environmental,

it could only be some set of things
that have happened to children.

and you had to ask the question
�What might it have been?�

One of my personal training clients

was a director of programs for LWT,
London Weekend Television.

And this guy said
�Why don�t you do a program?

and people out there - there may be
someone out there with this condition.�

He said �This is going to be
an unbelievable story.�

We thought we�ve got nothing to lose.

Right now this child is either going to kill himself
because he�s going to smash his head to pieces

or we�re going to go insane because
everybody here is miserable.

That program was aired

And

we received 250,000 e-mail hits.

Computers were kind of new then,
the whole Internet, computer thing.

Ours crashed.
We've set up a Billy Tommy website

just in case somebody, one person
might be able to help us. Crashed!

The television station�s computers crashed.

They had never seen anything like this before.

The parents had
exactly the same story as us.

Antibiotics,

e isso era depois da vacina.

BANG!
The symptoms were all the same.

The diarrhea, the constipation,
the high pitch scream,

The banging of the head. We�ve all
lived through it, it�s the same story.

And it was Polly�s idea
to put all of this stuff together

in a magazine called �Autism File�.

Let�s all ask the questions
and maybe someone can help.

These questions from these parents
were not being answered

by the doctors that they went to see.

They came to us out of desperation

and we had 45,000 subscribers
within four months.

When I originally got
the MMR autism data,

I came up with
my own analysis plan

and I stepped through
logically and systemically

how the data
should have been approached.

I looked first of all at
males versus females.

Then I looked at black males

the relative risk of them receiving
an autism diagnosis was astronomical.

It was highly
statistically significant.

I really had to scratch my head
and say �I know nothing about the MMR vaccine.�

And so that�s when I
originally called Andy.

Wow! Really?

After everything that had happened,
everything we�d all been through,

everything that the families
had suffered for the last fifteen years,

and the CDC had known all along
there was this MMR autism risk.

As I started to divulge more the conversations
I think it really hit him

that this was a major crack
in the wall of the CDC.

The first thing that Thompson
did was to plot a graph.

A graph of percentage
of children vaccinated

against age of first MMR vaccination.

The children with autism
are represented by the pink line

and the children without autism
by the blue line.

Now, if there�s no link
between early MMR and autism

those two lines should track together

whatever the age of the first MMR.

Now, they do track together
until they get to fifteen months.

Then they separate and they
continue to separate thereafter.

This was the first indication
that MMR vaccine was causing autism.

and that finding alone
rocked Thompson back on his heels.

This was a huge issue for Andy.

So I said to Brian,
�Brian, are you recording these conversations?�

Recording phone conversations
was not really palatable to me.

It almost seemed cruel.

Whistle blowers can disappear
as easily as they came.

They�re like a fish on a hook

and your job is to get them into the boat.

Temple walked at 12 months,

so he had been walking for an entire month
before he went in for the next set of the vaccinations.

The minute we walked into the pediatric office,

Lu, his twin, is screaming her head off.

I mean, she knows what�s going on,
she doesn�t want the doctor touching her.

I look up and there
she�s got the shots lined up

three for him, three for her.

By the second shot,
Lucinda had flipped herself over,

so I had to stop looking
at what I was doing,

unstrap her and get her out.

Well, the minute I get her down
and I calm her down a little bit, I look over

he�s screaming. I look at the shots
and I noticed that one of hers was gone.

There are only two shots left for her

and I asked the nurse practitioner,
I said, �What happened to the other shot?�

She says �Oh! Oh, my goodness.
I gave it to him.�

I said �Which one was it?�

She said �It was the other MMR.�

I said �Call the doctor!

This baby is screaming his head off! You've given him an
extra shot I don�t know what the effect of that is going to be.

We�re leaving.� And I left.

so she never got her shots.

I go home. This baby cried, cried, cried.

I put him down on his little blanket.
He starts banging his head on the floor,

banging his head on the floor.

The next morning I go in his room

and he�s staring in the space and he�s looking
around like this, as if he�s a bit paralyzed.

Not the baby who was doing this every morning

and smiling for me to get him out of bed.

And I pick him up and he does this.

I said �What has happened to my baby?�

So I call the clinic

and I said �I think my child has had adverse reaction

to those shots yesterday.�

She said �No, no, no.
I�m waiting for a representative from Merck.

I don�t think it was a reaction to that.�

Bill Thompson looked at African-Americans.

He saw that those African-Americans
that got the MMR on time

were 2.64 times more likely to get an autism diagnosis

than those African-Americans

that received the MMR
after three years of age.

What this was suggesting is that among the blacks,
the ones that were getting vaccinated earlier,

were more likely to have autism.

At that point, the group of researchers
that was working on this particular study

they were having weekly meetings.

Coleen Boyle who was the Head
of Developmental Disabilities branch

and Marshalayn Yeargin-Allsop
who was one of Thompson�s direct supervisors,

Frank DeStefano who was the
Head of the Immunization Safety office,

and then a post-doctoral
research associate named Tanya Bhasin.

In that meeting,
Thompson brought up

the fact that African-Americans
were showing

a highly statistically significant risk of autism

if they got the MMR on time.

What is said in these closed door meetings

I mean, do people say
�Oh, well, this is unacceptable�

or do they always say
�Oh, this can�t be right�

or, �I�m not going to lie,

but I also don�t want to say
things to you right now

that aren�t some written form.�

Right.

The analysis regarding the African-Americans

was the 8 on the Richter scale earthquake

that just shook through the CDC.

I take him to see the pediatrician that I know

and she looks at me, she closes the door and she whispers.

She says,
�Sheila, I believe he has autism.�

I said �What? Like Rain Man?�

She says �Something like that.
I�m going to refer you out to neurologist.�

We go see the neurologist the next week.

He says �He has every
classical symptom of autism.�

I do not believe this. I was angry.

What he was explaining to me,
what kind of autism is,

he told me he was born that way.
I said �No, he wasn�t.�

Clearly, there was a very high risk
of autism in African-American children.

And here�s the thing: we know that autism
is four times more common in boys,

so to see that effect mirrored in the African-American
children was a compelling finding.

When I looked at African-American males only

the relative risk was 3.36.

It just blew my mind! And that�s when
I wanted to call Bill Thompson on the phone,

and his statement to me
was �Oh, you found it?�

It appears in the final publication is
that race in general is downplayed.

Of course it is downplayed.

Temple�s twin is amazing.
She is fluent in three languages.

She speaks French like a native.

She is an A student.

She plays classical piano.

With all of the guilt
that I feel from that day,

one of the best decisions
I made for her was to walk out of that office

without her being vaccinated.

At the end of this journey, I don�t� want
to be one of those mothers standing there saying

what I wish I would�ve, could�ve, should�ve done.

I want to be able to say

I gave it everything that I had.

I gave it my best shot.

His twin is going to eleventh grade.

And for someone who still can�t manage to cross the street

now, am I grateful he�s here?
You bet!

I�m grateful my son lived,

but I was so naive that

he would live a fulfilling life,

he would end up being a happy man

having a family...

My dreams for him...

And every year that goes by,
the older my son gets

the further that dream seems to be.

All about vaccines!

So what do vaccines do?

Vaccines build up your immune system

and make you stronger
to fight off disease.

Are vaccines safe?

Yes. The studies involving millions of children
have shown no connection

between vaccines and autism.

Stick to the schedule!

The CDC�s own vaccine schedule which
we are required to adhere to as parents in America

recommends that our children
get the MMR between 12 and 18 months.

But in this hidden data
provided to us by William Thompson

it is clear that for African-Americans

this is actually the most dangerous
time to deliver the MMR.

The CDC in my opinion�it�s where I go to

if I need information about an infectious disease.

I probably either go on their website or open one
of their reference books every day.

That building is filled by a lot of scientists
that are smarter than me.

The analysis plan is one of the most important
parts of a scientific study.

It�s the laws or the rules by which a scientist
will adhere to while doing the study.

And this analysis plan is put together
by the scientists themselves.

Sometimes their superiors weigh in,

but once they�ve locked that analysis plan

they say �This is how we�re going to use the data.�

And you can�t deviate from that analysis plan

or you risk a fraud, scientific fraud.

Did they deviate from the analysis plan
after seeing something that they didn�t like?

If they did,

we have a real problem.

Thompson not only played a major role
in developing the analysis plan

he was the numbers guy.

He was responsible for collecting the data,

analyzing the data
and presenting the results.

And by November 2001

the results were in.

Now, with the MMR autism one,
we had an analysis plan

that we were supposed to
execute and was written.

Yeah, I�m going to be sharing
these draft analysis that we have

and you can see whether we did
what we said we�re going to do.

That analysis plan had been
agreed upon not only by the co-authors

but also the CDC superiors.

In order to conceal the effect of the MMR,

what they had to do was to reduce
the number of children in the study

in order to reduce what is referred to as
the statistical power, that is

the ability of the study to detect
the difference if one genuinely exists.

In the analysis plan they had agreed
to use two sources of information.

The first was the children�s school records

and the second was the children�s
Georgia birth certificate record.

So while every child in the study
had a school record,

only half of the children in the study
had a Georgia birth certificate record

because the other half
had been born in other states.

So the analysis plan was explicit.

Information on the child�s race
was to come from their school record.

but when confronted with the data

that revealed an increased risk
on autism in African-American children

they deviated from their analysis plan.

They chose to get the race data
not from the school record

but from the Georgia birth certificate record.

Instead of having 3,000 individuals in the study,

it went down to about 1,800.

The relative risk
went down from 2.64 to 1.8,

but more importantly, that relative risk

was no longer statistically significant.

I now ask you to step forward to receive
your prize from the hands of His Majesty the King.

I am Luc Montagnier M.D.

Shortly after Julie Gerberding
became head of the CDC

I began to communicate with her
and asked her to come to my office.

There didn�t seem to be
objective research going on.

There was CDC
trying to promote vaccination for children,

and then they were doing
the safety research themselves.

In CDC�s judgment, the best public policy
is to continue vaccination unchanged

while aggressively working to try to identify
causes of developmental disabilities.

CDC, I just thought,
was institutionally conflicted.

The CDC can�t take money directly
from pharma but they can set up a foundation

and the foundation can attract donations
from commercial interests and does.

Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer,

Sanofi Aventis have huge multibillion dollar vaccine
businesses.

They are profitable, they�ve grown

because some of these new high-tech vaccines
that are patented, that are high-priced,

yet protected by this little cocoon

of regulatory capture at NHSS,

and are guaranteed multibillion dollar franchises.

When I was working at Merck,
I was a sales rep for Vioxx.

The whole scandal started
when it was discovered that Merck had manipulated data

and covered up the fact that Vioxx actually

caused twice the amount of heart attacks
and strokes than the placebo.

What I learned from that experience was

just because things are on the market, does not mean they are safe.

I think we get into a very dangerous
territory with vaccinations.

If a drug company gets
just one vaccine added to the schedule

they can make upwards
to 30 billion dollars in one year.

It�s no secret. I think they published their attention

which is they want to create
an environment of constant vaccination

from cradle to grave.

They want infant vaccines expanded: flu shots,

DTaP boosters, Gardasil shots, meningococcal shots.

They want adult vaccines

you know, they want you and me to come in
and get a constant barrage of shots

and then they want vaccines for the elderly.

We have a highly profitable product

because the safety testing
isn�t as rigorous as a normal pharmaceutical drug.

The gold standard is
double-blind, placebo-based, long-term study.

And that just isn�t done with vaccines

because they�re
classified in a different way

as a public health measure,

and they haven�t been tested
in combination with other vaccines.

Yet, doctors give six to nine doses per visit.

It�s insane!

If pharmaceutical drug was tested like this it

wouldn�t be on the market.

but because it�s a vaccine
and the safety testing is less vigorous,

our children are being experimented on.

I don�t like to look at
autism from behavioral perspective.

I look at it more
from what causes it in each child.

When I want to define autism
I have to say that

it�s the inability to detoxify
the way you�re supposed to or at the rates that you�re supposed to.

It all has to do with this toxic overload.

These children are not detoxifying from the vaccinations

Same thing with GMO products,

the pesticides in our food.

If I can prevent the child
from being exposed to more toxins,

then when I�m teaching the child
at least the child is getting better and not continuously getting worse.

Without the doubt,
what has happened to Billy has changed his life.

You got a strike!

What I have in my hands now
is a 19-year-old man. He�s 6 foot 2,

he�s volatile.

On good days,
Billy is brilliant, he�s an angel.

On bad days the slightest thing can trigger him and he's scary

I�m going to go downstairs
and get daddy right now.

You need to stay up here. Okay?

I�m going to kill daddy right now!

Bill, listen to me. I�m going to stay with you
up here and you�re going to try and come down, okay?

The reason they become
aggressive and dangerous in some cases

is because they have no ability to communicate.

Because mommy asked Kent

but...

Kent bringing the sweet corn

and then bringing in the chickens here.

This is your fault, mommy.

If you were not able to express your needs,

your wants, your desires, your happiness and
sadness and so on, you would become aggressive.

That�s often when we
see the worst part of autism.

We had to occupy his room and use his video player.

And, of course, that is a massive intrusion in his space

and he�s�he got very upset.

Where else in this house can we play the video?

Remember? Listen, Bill.

Use the stress level, Billy.Stress level down!

Bill, don�t fight daddy.

Out there there�s millions of me, there�s millions of
Polly Tommys with vaccine-damaged children.

I am telling you this because
I do not want you to live the life that I�ve led.

I do not want you to go through
the pain, I do not want to see you suffer

or your family suffer.
That is why I�m telling you.

N�o h� outra raz�o pela qual eu
deveria ter essa conversa.

I have no other reason to tell you about it.
It�s not my concern � my kid�s already damaged.

I am a senior research scientist here at MIT

in the computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory.

I have a bachelor�s degree in biology from MIT

and I have MSEE and PhD degrees, also from MIT,

in electrical engineering and computer science.

I became interested in autism
a long time ago when my best friend at the time

had a son
who was diagnosed with autism following a DPT shot.

He had a high fever
after the shot, seizures a week later

and then was later diagnosed with autism.

We have to accept the fact that autism is new,

that before 1930 the rate of autism
in the world was effectively zero

and then for a long time was 1 in 10,000.

I got interested in studying autism eight years ago

when I saw
the numbers go up and I was quite alarmed

because I could see
that the trend was exponential growth,

and exponential growth is extremely scary.

Since really the mid to late 80s
we�ve gone from this low prevalence environment

to a rate of increase where the trend is still vertical.

We have not seen the flattening in trend.

and you�ve got the dots
going all the way back to 1975. If you draw the line

it is a perfect exponential curve.

If we assume that things are going to continue

as they have for the past 30 years into the future,

we can predict that by 2032,

80 percent of the boys born will end up on the autism spectrum

half the children; 80 percent of the boys.

If you think the vaccine is only a problem for African-American kids

like me, you�re wrong.

There is an even bigger problem,

one that puts all kids at risk,
and it�s called isolated autism...

When the CDC researchers
set out to do the study

they asked themselves the question,
�If early MMR vaccine causes autism,

in which children would we
be most likely to find this effect?�

Their answer is children

with no developmental
concerns for the first year of life,

children who were perfectly healthy
until they received the MMR vaccine.

They called this group �isolated autism�.

Now, this does not refer to an isolated case of autism

or an isolated group with autism.

They isolated autism out,
so children who had no comorbid conditions

apart from that autism.

No cerebral palsy,

no mental retardation,
no visual or hearing impairment,

no epilepsy and no birth defects.

This risk group includes essentially
every healthy child in the world.

I�m a single father
raising a 15-year-old,

severely autistic,

non-verbal, teenage daughter.

When she was 15 months old
she received her round of vaccines

that included the MMR and the DTaP.

She developed a high fever.
When the fever broke, she lost everything.

My daughter was six weeks old
when I took her in for her vaccination.

Two hours later
she had a five-minute seizure

and two hours after that
she had another five-minute seizure.

Mommy�s here. Come on. Come on.
You�re okay. You�re okay.

Come on, baby. Come on, babe. You can do it. Come on, baby. Come on, now.

Come on now. Come on, baby. Come on!

Keep breathing. Come on, come on, come on.

The vaccination gave her
severe brain damage

and she had seizures every day for the rest of her life

until she died in my arms at the age of 15.

There is no good reason
to choose not to get a vaccine!

He got his MMR
and he got his DTP,

and within days he stopped talking.

Projectile vomiting, convulsions.

He went blind in his left eye.

Vaccines took our healthy, happy baby

and made him unwell.

She lost all acquired speech.

He lost his speech, he lost his eye contact,
like the flick of the switch.

If vaccines were unsafe I think this
would be an interesting and reasonable discussion.

Obviously some minority
get hurt by this stuff.

I don�t understand why this is controversial.

Vaccines are safe. Get vaccinated.

It�s like �You know what?
Shut the fuck up and

let me take every vaccine
that Merck wants to shove down my throat.�

Autism is not a side effect of vaccine,

or to say it in another way,
because some people don�t want to hear this well,

vaccines do not cause autism.

Hear this well.

Hear this well.

Please, hear this well.
Hear this well.

Vaccines can and do cause autism.

My grandson�

Daughter Lily�
My daughter�

My son was fully vaccinated�

My son Jackson�

I had a healthy typically developing boy�

Please hear this well�

Vaccines cause autism!

One day
everyone will know the truth about vaccines.

Hear this well!

I actually think the most interesting results
of the elevated ones, or the isolated,

ones that don�t have
the other comorbid questions.

The effect is where
you would think it would happen.

In isolated autism,
he saw a very, very strong effect

specific to those kids
that got the MMR on time.

When Bill Thompson ran those numbers

he saw an astronomical effect.

Some of the numbers
were actually the relative risks,

were as high as 7 or 8 times
higher with these kids

that were diagnosed
with just isolated autism,

no other diagnosis, versus those controls.

Isolated autism is confusing
because it sounds small

but it really is a big problem

because all healthy children,
no matter what race, are at risk.

For example,
my sister�s 18 months old

and she�s
supposed to get an MMR shot right now.

But if she does,
she�s 7 times more likely to get autism

than if my parents
wait until after 3 years old.

So I hope my parents will do it.

Here�s what�s really scary.

When we look at isolated autism

we see that there�s an up to seven-fold
increase in the incidents of autism

between those that received the vaccine
between 12 and 18 months

versus those that got it after 3 years old.

But let�s be perfectly clear,

every child in this study had received the MMR vaccine.

What would the numbers be if you compared

children who got the vaccine between 12 and 18 months

versus children that never got the vaccine at all?

This is often referred to as the vax vs unvax study,

and the CDC refuses to do this study,

even though every drug that we take
has been through this exact study.

There�s a group who take the drug and then they
compare it with the group who do not take the drug,

and they see are there more side effects and complications
with the group that takes the drug.

So why does the CDC refuse to do the vax vs unvax study?

Probably because when we look at the results of this study,

we realize that the risk would be astronomical

and it�s likely to be one of the major reasons
we�re seeing the skyrocketing increase of autism worldwide.

Just like the African-American children,

they went into the room

and they sliced and diced the data
in an effort to get rid of that effect.

This is Coleen Boyle�s meeting notes,

how they planned to present the data by these age groups,

but after the fact when the data are in

she writes �reformat�

and then she puts in new age groups.

Even this failed to achieve the desired effect since

in the end they simply omitted the relevant
findings from the paper altogether.

I was just looking at it and I�m like �Oh, my God!

I cannot believe we did what we did.

But we did.

- Yeah.
-So it�s all there.

And you in the health field,

you who run our health agencies in this country
who are sitting here today,

you have an obligation to these kids that you just saw there

to make sure that these studies are complete, thorough,

so that everybody knows that we have all the facts.
And you don�t have that.

One of the things we did because this was such an important topic

was to have them be sworn in

so they were under oath.
And if they were doctoring the results of a study

and they did it deliberately, they committed a felony.

It used to be 1 in 10,000

and now it�s 1 in more than 250 kids that are being
damaged in this country, that are autistic.

Now, those kids are going to grow up.
They aren�t going to die.

It�s not like a lot of diseases where they get
infected and they drop dead.

They�re going to live to be 50, 60 years old.
Now, who do you think is going to take care of them?

It�s going to be us, all of us, the taxpayers.

And it�s going to cost, I think as you said, Miss Mooney,
trillions of dollars!

So we can�t let the pharmaceutical companies
and our government

cover this mess up today because it ain�t going to go away.

And it�s going to cost the taxpayers trillions more
if we wait around on it.

And for our FDA and our HHS and the health agencies

to continue to hide behind this facade

that there have been studies that conclusively prove otherwise

is just wrong too.

So the CDC wasn�t just doing this study inside of the bubble.
In fact, it was the exact opposite.

They were under fire.

You had Congressman Dan Burton in front of the Congress
demanding answers about mercury

and the MMR and vaccine studies and the connection to autism.

Dave Weldon, congressman from Florida

is reaching out to Julie Gerberding with serious complaints
on how he thinks this entire issue is being handled.

On top of that, the Department of Justice
is requesting files and data from the CDC

because of a previous study called the Verstraeten
study that had so many anomalies

it looked like scientific fraud was taking place,
so they were suspicious.

So then you look at the e-mails that
Thompson�s provided to us

and you can see that he�s reaching out to his
line manager, Dr. Melinda Wharton,

throwing up red flags saying:

�I first spoke with you in September of 2002 regarding

the sensitive results

we have been struggling with in the MMR/autism study.�

How do you struggle with scientific results?

I mean, facts are facts; data are data.
That doesn�t make any sense.

So you�ve got Dan Burton breathing down their necks,
the Department of Justice is requesting files,

and William Thompson finds out that Coleen Boyle
has brought in a lawyer

to help her decide what materials are too sensitive

to provide to the Department of Justice.

This obviously freaks William Thompson out

because later in the e-mail to Wharton he says:

�I will be hiring my own personal attorney

and it�s extremely unfortunate that we need
to be concerned about whether

our own legal rights are covered when
participating in a study such as this.�

What�s going on here?

We have government scientists lawyering up

over a children�s safety study.

Clearly this does not sit well at all with
Dr. Thompson because at the end of this e-mail

he makes what it looks to be to me a clear threat:

�My level of concern has also
caused me to seriously consider

removing myself as an author
on the draft manuscript.�

So then a few days later Thompson writes
directly to Dr. Walter Orenstein,

head of the National Immunization Program saying:

�I am not interested in taking

of the political heat that will go
along with that study.�

Thompson has gone all the way
to the top of his department.

I mean, we don�t ever get a response
from Walter Orenstein,

but Thompson is very clear
on what happened next.

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

In terms of chain of command,
I was number four out of five.

Dr. Thompson talked about
destruction of documents

and that in fall of 2002

there was a meeting, with the trash can rolled in
and they selected documents to be destroyed.

I led all the analysis
with the DeStefano thing.

Literally everyone else got rid
of all their documents

so the only documents that
exist right now from that study are mine.

These documents were not our federal records.

They were very important documents because they
showed a very strong statistically significant effect.

He felt that quite rightly it would be
illegal to destroy those documents

and so in his office he kept, along with his
hard copies, the computerized files for that study.

There was a dramatically
different result presented

before and after the timeframe that Thompson
alleged that these data were destroyed.

If I never had the documents before
October 2002, there would be nothing

that would show that they actually had the results in hand
and they decided to destroy those results

I filed a formal complaint to the
Office of Research Integrity

and the Department of
Health and Human Services

I heard back not long after
the complaint was filed

and the letter basically stated that every
co-author except for Dr. Thompson

denied that any such
meeting was scheduled.

They denied that any material was destroyed or thrown away.

They were calling Dr. Thompson a liar.
It was their word against his.

Dr. Thompson predicted
that this would happen.

There are things I haven�t even shared
with you because I can�t prove it

and that�s what I struggle with. I don�t want
to share things with you that I can�t prove,

that they aren�t hard records,

because

I am worried that the other four people
will collude and say, �No, that�s not true.�

Dr. Thompson provided
meeting notes to me for

precisely the time where the co-authors
are claiming that no meeting took place.

That�s what I keep seeing again

and again and again

where these senior
people just do

completely unethical, vile things and
no one holds them accountable.

Look, once you have the data,

a scientific study like this is a
relatively simple process.

You just run the data, you get the results, and
then you publish those results in the paper.

In their own analysis plan this study
was only supposed to take six months,

from May 2001 to December 2001.

So if they weren�t destroying data

why did this study end up
taking four years?

The question everybody needs
to be asking the CDC is:

'What the heck happened between
October 2002 and February of 2004.'

The reason you don�t see anything
else circulating on the study

it was five of us behind closed
doors for two years.

Wow!

So after two years of secret
meetings behind closed doors,

DeStefano emerges with the
final draft of the MMR study

and they�re going to present it
to the Institute of Medicine.

People on the IOM
move from:

industry - government - academia -
government - industry.

And then they bounce around.
It�s all the same people

there wasn�t a really good
policeman in all this

to really make sure that the vaccine safety studies
are done properly and that they�re done objectively.

It just didn�t seem to me like we were
running a system that was credible.

I had written to Julie Gerberding
and I asked her to postpone

the February 9th Institute of Medicine meeting.

This report, the Institute of Medicine report,
I wanted it postponed because of my concern

that this was not an exercise
in discovering the truth

but was instead the meeting being
driven by desire to short-circuit

important research and
draw premature conclusions.

The problem is William Thompson,
being the lead scientist,

he�s going to have to
present their findings

and he�s not happy about it.

In fact, he�s so upset

that he goes above the
lead author DeStefano,

above Walter Orenstein,

all the way to the head of
the CDC, Dr. Julie Gerberding.

And in an e-mail he says,

�Dear Dr. Gerberding,

I will have to present
several problematic results

relating to statistical associations between
the receipt of MMR vaccine and autism,�

basically saying �I�m not
going to continue this lie.

If you put me up there
I�m going to tell the truth.�

Thompson was originally
scheduled to provide a briefing

because he basically told
the director Gerberding

that he would have to say that
there is a causal association.

He was switched at the last
minute with Frank DeStefano

who was able to report
to the IOM falsely

that we have found no association
between MMR and autism.

The IOM was the point of no return.
So deprived of the truth,

the IOM declared the
MMR vaccine safe.

It was a rush to judgment
to shut the door permanently

and completely on the
MMR/autism link.

It�s absolutely appalling that much of
what I said turned out exactly to be true.

They were trying to
short-circuit the research.

It�s the lowest point of my career
that I went along with that paper.

After their brilliant work
on the MMR study,

DeStefano and his
team received an award

from the Department of Health
and Human Services.

And then several years later, Dr. Julie
Gerberding received an award of her own.

a high-paid job as head of the
vaccine division at Merck.

Clearly, Merck had appreciated the work
she had done investigating their vaccine.

Just to let you know,

I wrote a paper on
my results on MMR.

Yeah.

And it will include something
that I got from you.

Brian was about to publish a paper

using data that could only have come
from an inside source at the CDC,

a whistleblower, and from that point forward
William Thompson was a marked man.

Andy approached me and said:

'It�s time publicize the CDC whistleblower.'

Ironically, 12 years later,

while Thompson is baring
his soul to Brian Hooker,

in front of Congress
Coleen Boyle is just

peddling the same old CDC fraud,

but this time it�s to a new player and that�s
Congressman Bill Posey from Florida.

I wonder if CDC has
conducted or facilitated study

comparing vaccinated children
with unvaccinated children yet.

Have you done that?

We have actually done a number of studies
looking at the relationship between

thimerosal vaccines and autism
and other developmental disabilities.

The lies from the
CDC were still the same.

The difference now is we had
William Thompson.

Vaccines and their components
did not increase the risk for autism.

My time is very limited here.

So clearly, definitely,

unequivocally, you have studied
vaccinated versus unvaccinated?

We have not studied vaccinated versus unvaccinated. Actually --

Okay, never mind. Just stop there. That was the meaning of my question. You�ve wasted two minutes of my time.

Brian had also submitted

a related paper to a journal
called �Nature Neuroscience�,

and in that paper he had specifically referred
to an unnamed source at the CDC.

And my worst fears were realized

when a journalist from
�Nature Neuroscience� contacted the CDC,

contacted Walter Orenstein,

the message went on to Frank DeStefano
who sent it out to the co-authors saying:

�Keep your heads down!
This may be coming your way.�

The fear was all of a sudden we�d be
dredging the river for Bill Thompson.

I said to him �Brian, we�ve
got to do three things.

We have got to get Thompson
a whistleblower lawyer.

We�ve got to make sure that
his documents are with Posey,

and we�ve got to reveal his name.

Whistleblowers are in danger only

as long as the only people who know
their identity are their enemies.

Do vaccines cause autism?

In the last 30 years, the childhood
vaccine schedule has tripled

while the U.S. autism rate has skyrocketed

from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 50.

Dozens of published research papers

show that yes, vaccines
and autism are linked.

Yet, the debate rages on
in part because of the 1986

National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act

passed by Congress as a result
of pharmaceutical lobbying.

It shields drug companies

from liability for injuries and deaths
caused by the vaccines they manufacture.

Vaccines that the federal government
admits are unavoidably unsafe.

Instead of suing the pharmaceutical
company directly,

parents are forced to petition

the Department of Health
and Human Services

and if federal officials oppose
the compensation

the case is argued before a special master
in the U.S. Claims Court.

Many refer to this as �Vaccine Court�.

Here are some shocking facts
about the so-called 'Vaccine Court.'

Pharmaceutical companies do not have
to participate in the proceedings at all.

Taxpayers pay for all damages.

The U.S. Department of Justice
acts as a government�s lawyer

with taxpayers footing
the bill for their defense.

Beginning in 2002 there were already
thousands of cases accumulating

in Vaccine Court,

and the average compensation for autistic
child is in the range of $5 million.

So just do the math.
The government was facing

several hundred billion,
possibly a trillion dollars in liability.

As the autism epidemic grew, they had
to develop a fraudulent study

that would exonerate MMR

to deliberately defeat the cases in Vaccine Court
to avoid paying the trillion dollars.

So, the thousands of autism petitioners
were denied their fair day in court

by a corrupt and deliberate
obstruction of justice.

It is one of the most unethical
medical decisions of all time

because it was made with the knowledge to sacrifice these children

as a direct affront to the
Congressional mandate

that they�d all be compensated.

In the fall of last year, I got
a call from an inside source

who told me that in two weeks there�s going
to be a whistleblower from the CDC

who�s going to come out and say that the
CDC had committed fraud on the MMR study

and that they knew that vaccines
were actually causing autism.

I mean, that�s a huge story.

Unfortunately, it was a story that I would
not be able to tell on a medical talk show

because a lot of our funding was coming
from the pharmaceutical industry.

We were also very good friends with the CDC who had
appeared on our show many, many times.

But I knew that once the story broke, two weeks later,
that the mainstream news media would pick it up.

Fox would be on it, CNN would be on it, MSNBC ...

We�re talking about
the biggest medical story

in the last decade or two at least.

So that two weeks came.

I saw a video that was posted by
Andrew Wakefield and Brian Hooker

and I heard the words of
William Thompson and his confession.

Oh, my God! I cannot believe
we did what we did.

But we did.

It�s all there. It�s all there.

And I watched the
blogosphere go crazy.

Tweets, Facebook, social media -

everybody talking about it,

but not one mainstream media source
went anywhere near the story.

In fact, on CNN someone put the story up

on iReport and CNN took it down.

And in that moment I realized,

�Wait a minute.

Not only is my medical talk show being
produced by the pharmaceutical industry,

all of television is.

We were never going to get this story.�

But we certainly did get a story.

A highly contagious measles outbreak.

Major outbreak.

Measles outbreak.

Measles on the march in America.

This outbreak is showing no signs of letting up.

But in 2014, the number tripled to
644 measles cases reported in 27 states.

So it�s really amazing to consider

the number of cases of autism every
year and to contrast that

to let�s say the number of children who
acquired measles by going to Disneyland.

It�s a tiny number of children
who acquired measles

and it�s a vast

number of children who are being
diagnosed with autism every day.

We don�t know what causes autism.

I mean, that�s fair to say. We�re not sure in the
scientific community what causes autism, but

but we know that vaccines do not.

Now, I�m not saying that
Sanjay Gupta is a bad guy.

In fact, I think that
he tries to do a lot of good

just like many doctors do.

But if they�re being lied to by the scientific body
that provides them with the information,

what happens to all of us?

What happens if a good doctor
sees the same data that I saw?

So you�re a scientist basically.

You�re studying this and you feel
one hundred percent comfortable.

You even said you have kids, so you�re a
family person. You would feel very --

How long have you been a doctor
and what�s your area of specialty?

Sure. I�ve been a family medicine
physician for over 10 years now

and treating families, everyone
from newborns all the way up to --

my oldest patient is 96.

So, do you administer
vaccines as a part of that?

Yes, I do administer vaccines.

In our clinic we follow the
CDC recommendations

and we give that information to our patients

and we give them a schedule when their children
are going to need to be vaccinated and so on and so forth.

There�s something I want to show you.

This is a formal complaint about what they�ve been given
by William Thompson, the whistleblower at the CDC, okay?

There�s also some reference
materials in here and things like that.

I�m just going to give you time to look at it.
Study it as long as you want, okay?

When you feel like you have a grasp of it --I know, it�s
going to take some time. I appreciate you taking the time.

- All right.
- All right? Okay.

So I have sent you what William Thompson
has said is the fraud at the CDC,

all of that data that was missing.

Did you get a chance
to really look it over?

It�s really unbelievable

how blatantly the data was switched around.

It made me question whether
or not this organization

that�s been mandating
how I practice medicine the past 10 years

if they�re lying about this or leaving
data out about this particular study,

what else am I being lied to about?

I�m still trying to digest it because this study

which was used to kind of give
the definitive answer to us pediatricians

that the MMR is not related to autism --

I kind of feel like I�ve been lied to.

When they�ve set out to do the study they wanted
to look at the data and interpret the data.

But then there is a piece
of data that they chose to ignore.

The data they excluded
was really, really significant.

Think about it.
It�s a big deal.

It is a big deal for a physician
to have to deal with the fact

that for the past 10-20 years
we�ve been potentially...

destroying the brains of children.

Everything I�ve been telling
my patients for the last 10 years

has been based on a lie
and a cover-up.

Parents making decisions
about their children�s health

deserve to have the best
information available to them

They should be able to count on
federal agencies to tell them the truth.

Once Brian and I had outed Bill Thompson

he got himself a whistleblower lawyer.

He provided all of his documents
on the fraudulent CDC study

to Congressman Posey

who then went before the Congress.

Considering the nature of the
whistleblower�s documents,

as well as the involvement of the CDC,

a hearing and a thorough
investigation is warranted.

So I ask, Mr. Speaker, I beg, I implore my
colleagues on the Appropriations Committees

to please, please take such action.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I yield back.

It�s now been seven months
since Congressman Bill Posey

urged the Congress to
subpoena Bill Thompson,

and they have done nothing.

Bill Thompson wants to be
subpoenaed by Congress.

As the CDC employee from
the federal government

he cannot speak voluntarily because
of the threat of jail time.

Absolutely William Thompson
needs to go before Congress.

He needs to go before
the whole nation.

Everybody needs to see
what he has to say.

He needs to be deposed in front
of a committee in Congress,

and Julie Gerberding has
to be brought in and deposed

because this is a very, very,
very disturbing revelation.

For this researcher
to come forward and

be saying now that they were indeed
deliberately concealing critical information

about an MMR/autism link --

a horrible, horrible development.

Deviation from an analysis plan,

omission of crucial data,

destruction of documents,

obstruction of justice,

misleading the Congress,

grievous harm to innocent children

� this has to be investigated.

You and I are in agreement. Vaccine
safety should not be in the CDC.

Absolutely. And, of course, an agency like the
National Transportation Safety Board.

The next thing they need to do is they need to --
somebody needs to re-introduce the Weldon-Maloney bill.

It needs to be very,
very quickly enacted

and you need to take all of the vaccine
safety responsibilities out of the CDC.

These children have been maimed
by the actions of Coleen Boyle,

Frank DeStefano, Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsop
and Tanya Bhasin.

My son has been debilitated for 17 years.

I think jail time is too good for these
individuals who have perpetrated such fraud.

The notion of vaccinating children,
protecting children against serious infectious disease,

with vaccines that are safe and effective

is laudable.

You hear about measles
outbreaks in Disneyland

and then they try and sell you MMR.

We didn�t see autism being reported as a consequence
of the single vaccine,

only of the triple vaccine.

So my feeling is that we need to review
vaccination policy across the board.

But in the first instance, I do believe
that we can make the problem

far less

if we separate those vaccines

out into their single measles, mumps and rubella.

I just cannot imagine what it will
be like if we really do face

a future in which half the children born
end up on the autism spectrum.

I mean, it will be so disruptive
of the school system.

There�ll be so little money to be able to spend on the normal
children to help them, to bring them up and to educate them.

We�re just going to have
extremely sick children

and parents that will
be so distracted by

the challenge of bringing up
these children that are so sick

that our society will not
be able to focus on anything else.

The implications of that for our country, for
competitiveness as a nation, for economy, are massive.

They must know and they do know
that there�s a national emergency.

I mean, this is going to be a complete
catastrophe if we just let it happen.

What will you say

the next time a mother sitting
there with her baby in her hands

says: �Dr. Rachel, is the MMR vaccine safe?�

I�m going to tell her. I�m going to say, �You know, honestly,
I�m not going to give the MMR vaccine to my babies

and here�s why��