CDC vaccine report cites study that does not exist, says scientist listed as author

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Source: The Guardian

Tue 24 Jun 2025 19.44 EDT
Last modified on Tue 24 Jun 2025 19.54 EDT


A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 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”.

Berman said he co-authored a similarly named study in a different journal – Toxicological Sciences – that came to different conclusions than those suggested by Redwood. “We did not examine the effects of thimerosal in microglia … I do not endorse this misrepresentation of the research,” he said. Reuters is the first to report on the inaccurate citation from Redwood’s planned presentation.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/cdc-vaccine-presentation-autism

[mgardener]

1. Using a journal article

That is 18 years old is very questionable, using an article that one of the authors says he did not participate in is malpractice.

[mwmisses4289]

2. Don't the anti vaxxers have a history of making things up

and citing studies that don't exist or misinterpreting existing studies?

[mdbl]

5. Most of their misinformation came from Qanon

That should tell us all we need to know.

[70sEraVet]

3. Time to call it what it is:

Putting a white lab coat on 'Making-Shit-Up-As-You-Go-Along' does not make it Science.

[Joinfortmill]

4. What lying liars. Thank you, The Guardian.

[highplainsdem]

6. Sounds like another AI-generated error. Trump's people are incompetent and unwilling/unable to

do the work themselves.

[yardwork]

23. This one sounds intentional.

[Prairie Gates]

7. Again?

Good God.

[PatSeg]

8. They lie about everything, pretty much all the time

It feels like we're seeing the end of truth. Now everything is just 'make it up as you go along'.

[twodogsbarking]

10. Oh yeah, so prove it. Show me once they didn't lie.

[PatSeg]

11. Ha, ha, ha!

If they do tell the truth it is usually accidental. I'm not sure they know the difference anymore.

[Attilatheblond]

13. GOP has become MSU

Grand Old Party now Make Shit Up.

[PatSeg]

14. They always were a little deceitful,

but they learned from Trump that they could say anything, no matter how ridiculous, and there would be no repercussions. Life goes on.

Of course, if they do get accused of lying, they just deflect and claim that Democrats are the liars.

[Karasu]

22. They've always been the Party of Magical Thinking. Becoming the Party of Completely Made-Up Shit is their natural

final evolution.

[twodogsbarking]

9. There could be a study and you think there is. There could be a study but you didn't think there was.

There was no study but you thought there was. There was no study and you didn't think so.
Paraphrasing Epictetus. I think it was the last one.

[republianmushroom]

12. typical republican governing.

Need it, doesn't exist, fake it, the rubes won't know.

[IbogaProject]

15. Sue for defamation

RFK is sitting on some family money.

[Martin68]

16. MAGAts are anti-science and total liars. Bad mix.

[C Moon]

17. If you gotta lie, if you gotta hide, you're on the wrong side.

[BoRaGard]

18. republicons just keep on lying to Americans

[louis-t]

19. They HAVE to lie.

They HAVE to cheat. It's the only things repugs know.

[Ruby the Liberal]

20. "I do not endorse this misrepresentation of the research"

Looking forward to the day where comments like this (and 'strongly worded letters') go the way of the rotary phone.

Not looking for the crassification of society, but repeated "they are bald-faced lying" responses are long overdue.

[Kid Berwyn]

21. Fake Science

Fake News

Fake President

Same faking thing.

[Canada Kid]

24. Rewriting fact and creating fiction...never mind the consequences!

Just make shit up as you go along! This is the NEW American way!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

25. MAGAts are nothing without their lies.

Facts are an existential threat to the entire Republican party, all of whom seem to have become MAGAts.

[LudwigPastorius]

26. Good to see that the head of the fucking Department of Health is relying on artificial intelligence to...

put together "evidence" to support his brainworm's beliefs.

We are all going to die in an epidemic, aren't we?

[riversedge]

27. Lyn Redwood,--is a dangerous person. PERIOD!!!