The centers for disease control and prevention are expected to deliver multiple sets of vaccine safety data to an discredited researcher with a history of propagation of erroneous information that vaccines cause autism, according to two sources familiar with the plan. Both learned about the matter during recent meetings at CDCs, but were not authorized to talk about it publicly.
David Geier, who appears in the board of the Department of Health and Human Services as a “senior data analyst,” according to reports, will analyze the data. Geier has repeatedly stated that vaccines cause autism, a link that has already been completely discredited.
“If this individual is involved, the validity of any analysis that comes out of this work is based on an immediate issue,” said a former CDC official who was informed about the plan before recently abandoning the agency.
Dr. Richard Besser, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former interim director of the CDC, called Geier a “deeply irresponsible choice” to lead this effort, since “it does not have a medical title and a long history of promoting discredited theories about vaccines and autism.”
“Families affected by autism deserve credible research efforts that explore possible possible causes and treatments for autism,” Besser said in a statement. “They are not helped when our tax dollars and research funds are wasted when repeating a question that has already been answered.”
Geier’s hiring was first reported on Tuesday night by Washington Post. It was not clear on Wednesday if the plans had changed since then. Neither HHS nor Geier responded to requests for comments.
It occurs when a growing measles outbreak is spreading in at least three states: Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Until Wednesday, 377 cases had been confirmed in these states: the vast majority in children not vaccinated in Texas. It is the largest measles outbreak in the United States since 2019. Two people have died, including a 6 -year -old girl.
Earlier this month, it was reported that the CDCs would launch a new investigation by analyzing possible links between vaccines and autism. On the other hand, the Department of Health and Human Services, led by the anti -vaccin activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., requested unprocessed data linking the Vaccine Safety Data link of the CDC and three other sources. The CDC is part of HHS.
David Geier and his father, Maryland’s geneticist, Dr. Mark Geier, were a couple of researchers known for their poorly designed and retracted studies that use government safety data that have widespread erroneous information about vaccines.
According to an account in the 2005 book “Evidence of damage”, the then Dave Weldon Congress, whose nomination for the CDC director was abruptly retired two weeks ago, intervened to help the GEIERS access to the vaccine safety data link, a data set with the home of the CDs that contained patient health records. These unprocessed data are available to researchers, but are not public due to privacy concerns, data misrepresentation and labor.
The Geiers said in a panel of the Institute of Medicine in 2004 that the CDC data showed that vaccines were linked to autism, an affirmation that was refuted by scientists at the meeting and in tens of studies published since then. At the same IIM meeting, a scientist explained how Geiers’s findings had managed to take age: children with more vaccines only seemed to have higher autism rates because they were older and had more time to diagnose. (Children on average are diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder around 5 years)
The GEIERS conducted investigations from an improvised laboratory in their Maryland suburban basement with carpeted wood panels; published several studies, many of which were retired; and promoted an unproven treatment for autism that cost families tens of thousands of dollars and included Lupron injections, a medication used for prostate cancer and early puberty. In children, it is only approved for early puberty and comes with side effects that include bone damage, heart problems and seizures. They diagnosed the children with early puberty without adequate evidence and the parents cheated to think that they were enrolling for an approved autism therapy. An investigation of the Board of Physicians of Maryland 2011 found that the GEIERS violated care standards.
Mark Geier, who theorized that autism resulted from an interaction between Mercury and Testosterone, was stripped of his medical license by Maryland’s regulators in 2012. Maryland’s regulators also disciplined David Geier for practicing medicine without a license.
