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I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.
Hooker said he believes the increased risk for African-American boys he found was not identified in the CDC study because the researchers, including Thompson, deliberately limited the number of participants they included in their analysis, which he said altered the results. Hooker said that by excluding children without birth certificates, the CDC study results were skewed.
Reread what you wrote. Deliberately limiting the number of participants of a study can skew results of said study and according to one of the authors of that study, the omission did skew the results of the study. Decisions were made to omit the participants and in turn skew the results. Protocol's were not followed.
Reread what you wrote. Deliberately limiting the number of participants of a study can skew results of said study and according to one of the authors, the omission did skew the results of the study.
Well sure, because vaccines can tell which kids have birth certificates.
That's what this whole ridiculous clusterduck hinges on.
It was published on August 8th so it wasn't out very long. I do hope it gets reposted somewhere as I'd like to see it for myself. Maybe in a few days it will pop up again on someone's website. I hope so. I would hate to see this story get buried before we even know many details.
It's Hooker's paper, he can withdraw it from the journal that published it (Translational Neurodegeneration - who pulled it for review after criticism) and post it on his own website, if so he wishes.
It's Hooker's paper, he can withdraw it from the journal that published it (Translational Neurodegeneration - who pulled it for review after criticism) and post it on his own website, if so he wishes.
I hope he chooses to do just that. So far though, not many (if any) of those who are claiming that his findings are "ridiculous" actually read his findings, which in turn makes their claims pretty ridiculous.
Hooker said he believes the increased risk for African-American boys he found
was not identified in the CDC study because the researchers, including Thompson,
deliberately limited the number of participants they included in their analysis,
which he said altered the results. Hooker said that by excluding children
without birth certificates, the CDC study results were skewed.
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