The Cable News Network, CNN, pulled a story posted by one of their iReport devision about the possible medical abuse of African-American children. These claims are being made by a researcher for the CDC.
In a story we've been covering exclusively here at WHDT, Dr. William Thompson, an investigative scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is now speaking out. He recently revealed a study to Doctor Brian Hooker of the Focus Autism Foundation, examining data from the CDC.
The research showed that African-American children who received the MMR vaccine were more than three times as likely to develop autism. This effect was seen for children who received the inoculation before the age of 36 months.
A previous study, published more than a decade ago, is commonly used as evidence that vaccines do not lead to autism. The whistleblower and doctor state the CDC suppressed data in this report, which revealed a link.
Hooker told the press, "The CDC knew about the relationship between the age of first MMR vaccine and autism incidence in African-American boys as early as 2003, but chose to cover it up."
When Citizen journalists broke the news on CNN's iReport the story was promptly deleted from servers. One article received 17,000 shares over 19 hours before being taken offline by the news network.
A second story was available for just two hours, being read 20,000 times before being pulled.
The story was later put back online by the network, with a disclaimer that they would wait for the CDC to confirm the claims.
The CDC did release a statement admitting they omitted the data set for African-American children.