CA SB277 Bill Co-Sponsor Called Senior CDC Scientist a “Fraud”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters is seen in Atlanta, Ga., in a file photograph. (Tami Chappell/Reuters)

In a tweet sent to over 3,000 followers, California State Senator and vaccine exemption elimination bill co-sponsor Dr. Richard Pan called senior Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist-turned-whistleblower Dr. William Thompson “another Wakefield fraud.” Pan’s calling Thompson a “Wakefield fraud” was a reference to de-licensed British doctor Andrew Wakefield, who publicized Thompson’s identity and voice recordings without his approval in a series of videos released online. Yet the article linked to in Pan’s tweet concerned a paper authored by neither Thompson nor Wakefield, was never found to be fraudulent and which in no way detracted from what Thompson himself said in a public statement released last August:

“I regret that my co-authors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African-American males who received the [measles, mumps, rubella] MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.”

Richard Pan’s calling Thompson a “fraud” comes at a time when the California legislature is considering passing Senate Bill 277, co-sponsored by Pan. That bill would eliminate all statewide, so-called non-medical exemptions from the CDC’s recommended routine childhood vaccination schedule, which CDC defended by committing research misconduct according to a researcher who is still a senior scientist at CDC. That means that Pan’s bill would mandate that California schoolchildren be subjected to vaccine side-effects that CDC is covering up.

It is hardly any wonder why Thompson was called “another Wakefield fraud” by Pan, who in doing so proved himself as dishonest as the CDC’s ongoing fraudulent defense of its vaccination schedule. It does not matter that he is a medical doctor, because he is also a medical liar. His bill must be killed.

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