No,
Who funded the study?
CDC folks cannot take any outside money--from you, from me, or from Merck.
"Funding: This work was supported by CDC grant U50 CCU522351 to AAP and by National Institutes of Health awards AI57158 (Northeast Biodefense Center-Lipkin), HL083850, and NS47537. Role of Study Sponsors: Members of the funding organization (AAP) and its sponsor (CDC) participated along with experts in virology and neurovirology, autism pathogenesis, and vaccine design and safety; representatives of the autism advocacy community; and study collaborators in an Oversight Committee that reviewed and agreed to all aspects of study design prior to data collection. The final decision to submit for publication was the responsibility of all study collaborators."
The story said: "...the work published in PLoS One, the online journal of the Public Library of Science." All articles from the Public Library of Science are free, open access to the public. I linked the article in comment# 34.