On June 7-8, 2000 at the Simpsonwood Retreat Center in Norcross, Georgia, vaccine bureaucrats and vaccine makers came together for a secret meeting titled the “Scientific Review of Vaccine Safety Datalink Information”. [1, 2, 3]
The leaked transcript from the meeting, know as the Simpsonwood documents, was received by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and it exposed “the cozy relationship between government and industry and the lengths to which they’d go to hide data from the public about the vaccine-autism connection. The CDC knew about the dangers of thimerosal in childhood vaccines in July 1999.
All because of this paper: “Increased risk of developmental neurologic impairment after high exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccine in first month of life” by Verstraeten, Davies and DeStafano, who look at the automated data of over 400,000 infants between 1991-97 in the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) database. [3]
- CDC’s Frank DeStafano is no stranger to hiding data, as was revealed in the Vaxxed documentary.