A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study's author said.

The report, called "Thimerosal as a Vaccine Preservative" published on the CDC website on Tuesday, is to be presented by Lyn Redwood, a former leader of the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.

It makes reference to a study called "Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain," published in the journal Neurotoxicology in 2008, and co-authored by UC Davis Professor Emeritus Robert Berman.

But according to Berman, "it's not making reference to a study I published or carried out."

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[–] 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Holy shit I think someone at the CDC used an AI to do their report on a vaccine and didn't proof read it.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago

    the CDC is a captured entity. they are completely compromised and should not be listened to. default to the WHO instead. there's no regulatory capture there.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not at all surprising. Didn’t I just read about another CDC study that says using this preservative had no correlation to autism?

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    AI slop, probably. AI is good at inventing "sources" to bolster it's hallucinations.

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  • The CDC is sadly not trustable anymore. No one should be taking their advice or their meetings. US will prob have to rebuild the whole agency from scratch someday in order to have it function again.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    No, AI did exactly what it does: predict which words were most likely to appear next to each other given a specific context/prompt.

    The humans involved aren't "fucking up" either because this is all intentional. They know the evidence is fabricated, they just don't care because it provides them an excuse to indulge their biases.

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    [–] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That’s all well and good, but the people leading these organizations believe that science = jumping to a vibes based conclusion and then smashing a bunch of shit together calling it a process. It doesn’t matter if the sources are just made up or simply not there. Actual data driven results are for egghead gay communists who think chem trails are fake.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just wait until that son-of-a-bridge RFK Jr. gets to it. I hear he has a fresh shipment of Sharpies from the White House to make sure it is totally accurate.

    He will start by editing out the "not" in the above quote. See? Science works!

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Breaking News from RFK Jr: 100% of people who have Autism and have this shot, had this shot! It was the shot!

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    But what does a panel of con artists, quacks, cranks and influencers say?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Definitely surprised that the incompetent administration allowed this.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    US CDC report shows no link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism

    ~RFK Jr

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    That's just going to make the nutjobs believe it more...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Tomorrow:

    Oops typo
    -RFK Jr

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    Too many people can’t grasp that autism symptoms show up around the age these vaccines are given, and that it often causes your child to regress to a degree. But no, they don’t want to accept a complicated answer that doesn’t let them blame somebody.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I don't think this headline belongs to this article.

    The article is talking about how the study referenced a non-existent source

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    If the evidence doesn't support your cause: lie

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I'm inclined to believe it, but the CDC has very little credibility right now

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Thats the great thing about science, you don't have to 'believe' it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Indeed, but if just one person is caught fudging numbers to get desired results, all of their work gets called into question. Without transparency, all you can go on is credibility and "believing".

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Thats..not how science works.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    It isn't, but not all scientists can maintain scientific integrity when faced with significant external pressures (from people like RFK, for example). Those that can't dont stay scientists for long.

    All findings can eventually be reproduced or disproven, but not without time and money. In the short term, trust and credibility is paramount.

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