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Dear Mr./Mrs. [surname]:
On Aug. 27, 2014 a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control, William W.
Thompson, PhD, publicly admitted (1) that he and other CDC officials, including the
CDCs current Director of Immunization Safety, Frank DeStefano, MD (2) published
a study about MMR vaccine safety in 2004 (3) that omitted statistically significant
information and did not follow the final study protocol. He said the study
omitted relevant findings in a particular study for a particular sub group for a
particular vaccine and added that there have always been recognized risks for
vaccination and it is the responsibility for the CDC to properly convey [vaccine]
risks.
I could not agree more. It was serious scientific misconduct for CDC officials
deliberately to withhold information from the public about vaccine risks that may
be greater for some children than others. Congress must do the following:
1. Investigate the allegations of the CDC's scientific misconduct in omitting data
from its study that led to its 2004 paper in Pediatrics (4).
2. Direct the CDC to hire independent researchers to conduct a retrospective study
of the health outcomes of vaccinated vs unvaccinated people, a study it has never
conducted.
3. Propose measures to reform the CDC in its role of investigating and reporting
vaccine safety to ensure transparency, impartiality, and adherence to the highest
standards of scientific conduct.
4. Propose legislation addressing conflicts of interest between the Department of
Health and Human Services and industry. It is a conflict of interest for DHHS to be
in charge of vaccine safety and also license vaccines, take money from drug
companies to fast track vaccines (5), partner with drug companies to develop and
share profits from vaccine sales (6), and make national vaccine policies (7) that get
turned into state vaccine laws (8) while also deciding which children will and will
not get a vaccine injury compensation award (9). That is too much power for one
federal department. That is putting the fox in charge of guarding the chicken coop.
Unfortunately, CDC officials have a long history of limiting transparency (10, 11)
and being less than honest with the American people about what it does and does
not know about vaccine risks (12, 13). This is a big problem for parents being
ordered to give their children every CDC recommended vaccine, especially parents
of children from potentially susceptible subgroups, some of whom have already
suffered vaccine injury (14). The American public relies on the CDC to provide
trustworthy information, but clearly trust in the CDC is eroding, as shown by the
increasing number of well-educated people opting out of some or all vaccines (15).
The CDC's recent handling of the ebola epidemic has not helped matters (16).

Incidents such as the omission of study data only serve to further erode that trust.
"The CDC can't be trusted regarding investigating vaccine safety," Rep. Bill Posey
of Florida has stated. "Huge conflict of interest. I think the CDC should be
investigated" (17).
The Obama Administration has repeatedly shown a lack of transparency in many
areas, despite President Obama's promise to increase transparency. The CDC's lack
of transparency and outright fraud regarding vaccines for our children is just one
more example. The allegations of scientific misconduct against the CDC are quite
grave, and Congress must get to the bottom of them.
[Complimentary close],
[your signature]
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2 Attkisson S. (Audio) CDC Addresses Allegation on Vaccine-Autism Link Omission.
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