THE AUTISM EPIDEMIC:
IS ORGANIZED MEDICINE HIDING THE TRUTH?
Part One
By Kathleen Deoul
(Page: 13 of 14)

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As it turns out, Dr. Thomas Verstraeten, the lead researcher on the project had left the CDC two years prior to the final report's release to go to work for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the huge multinational pharmaceutical firm. Moreover, his new employer, as one of the largest vaccine manufacturers, was facing a potentially multi-billion dollar liability in regard to TCVs.

Yet, despite its own policy of listing the potential conflicts of interest of any authors whose studies it published, in the case of Dr. Verstraeten, Pediatrics failed to do so! Not only that, but the Journal even misidentified him as a CDC employee!

By hiding this critical piece of information, the Journal left readers with a false sense of credibility that would clearly not have been there if they were fully aware of the blatant conflict that existed!

Still, this failure should not have come as a surprise. Earlier studies of the autism-thimerosal link had been fraught with similar conflicts of interest that had also been ignored.

The Autism Epidemic:
Is Organized Medicine Hiding The Truth?
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