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To: Black Agnes
There was data showing a link

Really? Then where is the data? Thompson sat silent for 10 years and all of a sudden feels guilty for what he (and his colleagues) did? He feels so bad, in fact, that he's hiding behind the whistle blower laws. And this is the kind of guy the anti-vaccine industry wants to hold up as their proof? Good grief, you people will believe anything.

Thompson is quick to indict his coworkers even though there’s no evidence that they did anything wrong. Unless, of course, you believe that disagreeing with Thompson on how to analyze the data is criminal. Thompson has turned a scientific disagreement into allegations of unethical behavior based on accusations he is also running from - “Reasonable scientists can and do differ in their interpretation of information.” Wow, Thompson disagrees on how to interpret data? This is hugh and series. He claims, after 10 agonizing years of wrestling with his conscience, that the data allegedly omitted is significant. His colleagues disagree. We have never seen anything like this in modern science before. No wonder the mommy-bloggers are on the warpath!

Never does Thompson claim that he expressed any reservations to his colleagues that this data was not included in the paper before it was published. He says “I believe the protocol was not followed”.....I believe...? With such certitude from the accuser how could anyone doubt the veracity of this man's claims?

But Thompson is an amiable guy who also believes, like every other scientist worth the paper his degree is printed on, that CDC decision-making and analyses should be transparent.

And the crowd goes wild!

The best part of this story is that it confirms what we have known to be true for a long time: Brian Hooker is a gutter dweller who will say and do anything to advance his junk science driven cause.

This doctor has guys like Hooker, Wakefield and Thompson figured out:

Same as it every was.....*yawn*....and the panic of the Luddites continues.

165 posted on 02/03/2015 12:20:22 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase

Plenty of people feel guilty for years before they finally cop to bad behavior. Deathbed confessions aren’t unheard of by any means.

Why do you think he would toast a heretofore fine career otherwise?

Perhaps he met an African American child with severe autism and had personal experience with the results of his data exclusion.

Perhaps he had a medical scare of some sort and feared meeting his maker with this on his conscience.

It’s difficult to believe he would have wanted to ‘wakefield’ himself for no purpose.

The only question is, how many of his OTHER papers are suspect now. Was there an understanding that such things were tolerated or even expected?

This same sort of ‘coming out’ has happened many times in the climate science industry as well.

Corrupt science eventually falls apart.


167 posted on 02/03/2015 12:25:40 PM PST by Black Agnes
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