CDC Autism Whistleblower Admits Vaccine Study Fraud

[Craig Weiler]

Update on the retraction of the Hooker paper: http://www.translationalneurodegeneration.com/content/3/1/22

Thanks for finding this. I can't see any reason to take this at face value. The influence of big pharma is well known and vaccines are one of their biggest cash cows. I'm very skeptical of the retraction. It seems monetarily motivated to me.

 

[Matt²]

Update on BioMed Central Breaking Policy Guidelines by Retracting Brian Hooker’s Study That Did Not Violate ANY Retraction Guidelines.

Above is a summary of the reasons that justify a possible paper retraction, according to Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)’s retraction guidelines that are also used by BioMed Central (BMC). However, none of the above reasons were even mentioned in BMC journal Translational Neurodegeneration’s below justification for retracting Dr. Brian Hooker’s study, “Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young Black male children: a reanalysis of CDC data”:

Clear evidence of unreliability, duplication, plagiarism and unethical research are all valid considerations for retracting a paper, but “concerns” are not according to the very retraction guidelines BMC says it follows. Such considerations do not include “undeclared competing interests” either. Although alerting readers to such non-disclosures may serve as a purpose of a retraction according to COPE, they are not justification for a retraction.

BMC’s retraction of Dr. Hooker’s paper is only the latest of policy breaches by the publisher after it deleted his article from its website in breach of policy on the permanency of articles. Citing a then-pending investigation, BMC refused to comment on that violation when contacted by Autism Investigated. Now with the paper retracted in breach of yet more policies supposedly followed by BMC, the publisher has even more explaining to do.

This is now the 2nd instance where COPE retraction guidelines were not followed and violated in order to have a paper silenced and removed. The 1st was the GMO Study By Gilles-Eric Seralini. This study didn't violate any guidelines either, yet it was also silenced and removed.

Of course it's quite easy to see why and what these papers have in common, they are daring to question, reveal hidden dangers, challenge, and, the most important reason, they rebuke corporate trust, reliability, and cause profit loss.

I expected some move like this against Hooker. No surprises there. So, yet another scathing condemnation of societies brainwashed complicity and it's further decline into moral and ethical decay.