A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study’s author said.

The report, called “Thimerosal as a Vaccine Preservative” published on the CDC website on Tuesday, is to be presented by Lyn Redwood, a former leader of the anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense.

It makes reference to a study called “Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain,” published in the journal Neurotoxicology in 2008, and co-authored by UC Davis Professor Emeritus Robert Berman.

But according to Berman, “it’s not making reference to a study I published or carried out.”

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)English
      18•19 days ago

      Probably that and they know there is no evidence to support their anti-vax agenda so, have to invent it.

    • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7•18 days ago

      Or maybe they did proofread it, but nobody actually knew or cared that the data was wrong because they fired all the epidemiologists and pharmacologists and chemists and so on who know what the fuck they’re doing.

    • sylver_dragonEnglish
      3•18 days ago

      That’s my bet. This is cranks and grifters thinking no one is going to check their work, so they saw no reason to bother checking it themselves.