{"id":9786,"date":"2025-06-25T18:23:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9786"},"modified":"2025-06-25T18:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:23:27","slug":"us-cdc-vaccine-presentation-cites-study-that-does-not-exist-author-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/06\/25\/us-cdc-vaccine-presentation-cites-study-that-does-not-exist-author-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US CDC vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/us-cdc-report-shows-no-evidence-linking-thimerosal-containing-vaccines-autism-2025-06-24\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;s outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study&#8217;s author said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report, called &#8220;Thimerosal as a Vaccine Preservative&#8221; published on the CDC website on Tuesday, is to be presented by Lyn Redwood, a former leader of the anti-vaccine group Children&#8217;s Health Defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It makes reference to a study called &#8220;Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain,&#8221; published in the journal Neurotoxicology in 2008, and co-authored by UC Davis Professor Emeritus Robert Berman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But according to Berman, &#8220;it&#8217;s not making reference to a study I published or carried out.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berman said he co-authored a similarly named study in a different journal &#8211; Toxicological Sciences &#8211; that came to different conclusions than those suggested by Redwood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We did not examine the effects of thimerosal in microglia&#8230; I do not endorse this misrepresentation of the research,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" xqjLCC  yOvajPx\"> xqjLCC  yOvajPx<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters 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&#8217;s outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study&#8217;s author said. The report, called &#8220;Thimerosal as a Vaccine Preservative&#8221; published on [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-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\/9786","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=9786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9787,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions\/9787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}