Ville Magazine l Insider Access for City Lifestyle May/Jun 2016 / Health & Fitness Issue | Page 37

HEALTH CHECK
In 2013, Dr. William Thompson placed a phone call to
biologist Dr. Brian Hooker and confessed that the CDC had
omitted crucial data in the 2004 study of the (MMR) vaccine
and its link to autism. Dr. Thompson was the Senior Scientist
at the U.S. CDC at that time and led the study that found no
link between autism and vaccines. However, the truth was in
their final report that showed a causal relationship between
the MMR vaccine and autism. The information led to the
production of Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe.
MMR is a vaccine intended to prevent kids and adults from
developing the measles, mumps, and rubella viruse