Or thirds, or whatever.
It is NOT appropriate scientific protocol to exclude a subgroup of subjects in a clinical trial after the results come in and are known, and not disclose it and the reasons for it in the published study. That is a HUGE no no, and any attempt to sugar coat it by trying to associate insistance on standard scientific protocol with some sort of antivacc movement is completely bogus. We need hearings on exactly what happened. We, the taxpayers are paying the CDC to conduct scientific experiments with appropriate protocols, not to skirt around appropriate scientific protocol in order to ensure that the Director ends up with a cushy job at Merck.
I am thankful for at least one top CDC researcher with a conscience that disclosed this travesty of science. He tried to do it anonymously but that didn't fly after his conversations were tape recorded and disclosed. I wish him well. He won't talk to reporters but he is willing to testify at Congressional hearings. If by some miracle those happen, then we hopefully will get to the bottom of what happened and why, rather than just speculation. He was one of the authors of the study, and must have felt pressure to agree to exclude this group. Why, and by whom? He has a whistleblower lawyer of course.
If there was intellectual honestly on this subject (vaccines), the whole study would be retracted.
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