{"id":9766,"date":"2025-06-25T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9766"},"modified":"2025-06-25T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T15:20:53","slug":"presentation-for-cdc-advisers-appears-to-cite-nonexistent-study-to-support-claims-about-risk-of-vaccine-preservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/25\/presentation-for-cdc-advisers-appears-to-cite-nonexistent-study-to-support-claims-about-risk-of-vaccine-preservative\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation for CDC advisers appears to cite nonexistent study to support claims about risk of vaccine preservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/06\/24\/health\/cdc-vaccine-adviser-thimerosal-presentation\">CNN<\/a> A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/acip\/downloads\/slides-2025-06-25-26\/05-influenza-redwood-508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"presentation, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">presentation<\/a>&nbsp;slated to be shared at this week\u2019s meeting of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed that a study in animals suggested that use of the vaccine preservative thimerosal can have \u201clong-term consequences in the brain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the study doesn\u2019t appear to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lyn Redwood, a former leader of Children\u2019s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group that lists US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a founder, is scheduled to give the presentation Thursday at a meeting of the CDC\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN A&nbsp;presentation&nbsp;slated to be shared at this week\u2019s meeting of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed that a study in animals suggested that use of the vaccine preservative thimerosal can have \u201clong-term consequences in the brain.\u201d But the study doesn\u2019t appear to exist. Lyn Redwood, a former leader of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9767,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}