Inoculated; How Science Lost its Soul in Autism

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In November of 2013, Simpson University biology professor, Dr. Brian Hooker got a call from Dr. William Thompson, a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) working in vaccine safety. Their conversations would lead to explosive revelations that top officials at the CDC engaged in a systematic cover-up of data showing that earlier administration of the MMR vaccine caused increased rates of autism in children, particularly African-American males. Thompson would eventually turn over thousands of the documents to US Congressman William Posey. Science teacher and author, Kent Heckenlively, was granted access to this unprecedented trove of documents and uses them, as well as ground-breaking interviews with many of the key players in this debate, to tell the story of how vaccines have become a thirty-year disaster since passage of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act which gave pharmaceutical companies complete immunity for damages caused by their products. Foreword 1 - The Call 2 – The Insanely Good soul of Dr. Andrew J. Wakefield 3 – The Lipkin-Hornig Team 4 – The Documents 5 – the CDC Runs Away to Simpsonwood to defend mercury in vaccines 6 – The View From Congress 7 – The legal View 8 – Retraction, Vindication, and the ‘heads down’ email 9 – Those who would oppose goliath 10 – Curious alliances 11 – De Niro, Tribeca and the real goodfellas 12 – THe battle for california, america, and my hometown 13 – Trump meets Dr. Wakefield 14 – Can science end the autism epidemic 15 - Justice About the author Endnotes Notes