RFK: CDC covered up study showing autism link to Hep B vaccine
The federal government buried a study that found a 1,135% increase in autism among children who had the Hepatitis B vaccine, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said on Monday.
Hepatitis B is a disease primarily transmitted through sexual contact or drug use. Nevertheless, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends the Hep B vaccine for newborn babies.
‘They kept the study secret’
In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Monday, Kennedy revealed that the CDC conducted an internal study in 1999 on a possible link between the Hep B shot and autism. The researchers, led by Thomas Versraten, were “shocked” by the findings.
“They looked at children who had received the hepatitis vaccine within the first 30 days of life and compared those children to children who had received the vaccine later or not at all, and they found an 1,135 percent elevated risk of autism among the vaccinated children,” said Kennedy. “And it shocked them.”
The reason this is unknown to the public, Kennedy revealed, is that the CDC buried the data.
“They kept the study secret,” he said. “And then they manipulated it through five different iterations to try to bury the link. And we know how they did it: they got rid of all the older children essentially, and just had younger children who were too young to be diagnosed.”
The health secretary said the CDC “did a lot of other tricks” as well to hide the data.
Kennedy has previously maintained that the CDC’s recommendation of Hep B vaccines for infants came as a favor to Big Pharma. The federal government had asked pharmaceutical companies in the 1970s to develop a vaccine for the gay community, where drug use and unsafe sex had become rampant. But once the vaccine was developed, there was low uptake among homosexuals. After the drug companies complained about the lost revenue, the CDC agreed to add the vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule.
The only infant vaccine to be properly reported showed a link to autism
The study on the Hep B shot was not the only evidence on autism and vaccines that was discarded. Kennedy stated in his interview with Carlson that the diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP) vaccine was also linked to autism, based on data from the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which the agency uses to monitor vaccine safety. But when VAERS showed a link to autism, the medical community dismissed the data by claiming VAERS was “unreliable.”
“[W]hat they were saying—the Institute of Medicine [now the National Academy of Medicine], which is part of the National Academy of Sciences . . . [was] that the only system CDC has to study vaccine injury is so bad that any study done on it we’re not going to count,” Kennedy said.
The Institute of Medicine reportedly admitted that out of over 10 shots given to infants within the first six months of life, DTaP is the only one that was studied for links to autism.
Kennedy promised to provide the American people with “definitive answers” on the link between vaccines and autism within the next six months.
