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- Dr. Robert Chen, Chief of Vaccine Safety and Development, Centers For Disease Control, Simpsonwood, GA, June 7, 2000
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For the CDC, the walls were starting to close in, particularly for the man responsible for both vaccine development and vaccine safety, Dr. Robert Chen.
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Perhaps Dr. Robert Chen of CDC summed it up best towards the end of the meeting, setting the stage for a cover-up now in its seventh year:
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- Private email from Dr. Robert Chen, Chief of Vaccine Safety, National Immunization Program, CDC, June 13, 2001
Dr. Chen was Chief of Vaccine Safety for the CDC's National Immunization Program (NIP) and the man ultimately responsible for monitoring the safety of vaccines (Dr. Chen was quietly removed from this position in early 2005, largely due to his conduct during this time.Most of the emails from Dr. Chen received through FOIA look like this, with all correspondence deleted by CDC lawyers).Dr. Chen's comments above, and the time he made them, are very revealing:
- Dr. Chen's comments are twelve months after Simpsonwood, where he and Dr. Verstraeten shared information regarding the troubling correlation between thimerosal and autism from their own data.Dr. Chen also had access to the "Generation Zero" data, which had shown an even higher correlation between thimerosal and autism.He knew there was a problem!
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- Dr. Chen was actively working to keep the CDC's data from being reviewed by outside researchers, which CDC has successfully done through today.
- Dr. Chen was involved in a worldwide search for data on autism and thimerosal, the brainchild of Dr. Roger Bernier, Associate Director for Science of the NIP and headed by Dr. Diane Simpson, the Deputy Director of the NIP.
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Dr. Simpson's actions beginning in June of 2001, the same month when Dr. Chen made the above comment, require some context.
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Further, you have the division of the CDC that is responsible for keeping vaccination rates high, the division that would be held most responsible for creating the autism epidemic, and one of the leaders of that division, Dr. Robert Chen, who had the most to lose, directly involved in a process to find data about the relationship between thimerosal and autism.
Would CDC be "frantic" to find data that would corroborate the conclusion coming from IOM, that the thimerosal-autism relationship was "biologically plausible"?No, she was frantic to find data to disprove it.In the same month, she tells a Swedish researcher in this email that they could fly to Sweden immediately to look at data, "because our IOM committee's work is in process and we expect them to issue their report in the next several weeks, we expect increased public concern and questions in the near future."In an email with another CDC employee, referring to data she may have unearthed in Denmark, she writes, "it is also possible that the data won't help us at all, but we won't know until we see it."
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2. The Chief of Vaccine Safety, Dr. Robert Chen, was on the record in 2001 referring to the thimerosal-autism hypothesis as a "red herring" and a waste of time.
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Email between Dr. Robert Chen, Chief of Vaccine Safety, NIP, and unknown recipient.
"Thus these data [referring to some anecdotal information in his email] do not support and in fact argue strongly against the allegation that the thimerosal in vaccines (or variation on this theme, increase in the number of antigens) is responsible for the increase in autism.Research into better understanding autism and its possible increase is needed, but following red herrings do (sic) not help anyone."
Dr. Chen's comments and the time he made it are revealing because: they are twelve months after Simpsonwood, when he and Dr. Verstraeten shared information regarding the troubling correlation between thimerosal and autism from their own data.Dr. Chen also had access to the "Generation Zero" data, which had shown an even higher correlation between thimerosal and autism.He knew there was a problem!
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Dr. Chen was actively working to keep the CDC's data from being reviewed by outside researchers, which CDC has successfully done through today.Dr. Chen was involved in a worldwide search for data on autism and thimerosal, the brainchild of Dr. Roger Bernier, Associate Director for Science of the NIP and headed by Dr. Diane Simpson, the Deputy Director of the NIP.
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As an example, here is an email exchange back in 2001 discussing data from Great Britain between Dr. Verstraeten, the author of the CDC's internal analysis, and Robert Chen.
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Communication between Dr. Thomas Verstraeten, head of internal analysis of CDC Vaccine Safety Data and Dr. Robert Chen, Director of Vaccine Safety, CDC.
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