THE AUTISM EPIDEMIC:
IS ORGANIZED MEDICINE HIDING THE TRUTH?
Part One
By Kathleen Deoul
(Page: 10 of 14)

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The database they added was from the Harvard Pilgrim, or HP HMO in Massachusetts. But there was good reason to believe that the database was so flawed as to be useless!

Weldon noted:

"At the time that HP's data was brought in, HP was in receivership by the state of Mass., its computer records had been in shambles for years, it had multiple computer systems that could not communicate with one another (Journal of Law, Ethics and Medicine Sept. 22, 2000) and it used a health care coding system totally different from the one used across the VSD. There are questions relating to a significant underreporting of Autism in Mass. The HP dataset is only about 15% of the HMO dataset used in the February 2000 study. There may also be significant problems with the statistical power of the HP dataset."

In computer jargon there is an expression: "garbage in - garbage out, or GIGO." The HP database was a classic example of this phenomenon. It is difficult to believe that the experienced researchers at the CDC would not have been aware of this fact, and of the fact that any conclusions reached on the basis of analyzing the HP data were essentially meaningless.

But if they knew, or should have known that they had a seriously flawed database why would they use it?

The transcripts of a secret meeting at Simpsonwood, GA suggest that they probably were fully aware of what they were doing.

The Autism Epidemic:
Is Organized Medicine Hiding The Truth?
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