Cover-Up at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention!

   My title is wrong or a little misleading. It should be “cover-ups” at the CDC because there have been many. Here are just a few of them.

   It seems ineptitude, ineffectiveness, insensitivity have always been the norm at the CDC. In 2014, the CDC senior research scientist, Dr. William Thompsonm, publicly admitted that he and his coauthors committed research fraud during the agency’s 2004 autism-MMR study. Republican Congressman Bill Posey pleaded with Congress to do an investigation — without success. The intrepid politicians and mainstream media moguls were not interested in an investigation that would embarrass the health officials.

   My critics will declare that the autism-measles connection has been settled; however, even if true, that is not the issue. The issue is the admitted cover-up.  

   While the scientists at the CDC are all highly credentialed with MDs and Ph.Ds., they often act like a bunch of elementary students. An October 25, 1986, UPS article revealed “infighting so severe among CDC researchers that some were sabotaging the experiments of their rivals. There were reportedly squabbles over who would get credit for writing certain papers. Some researchers charged high-level CDC officials with suppressing research. For example, one paper showing that commercially available spermicides will kill the AIDS virus within 60 seconds was blocked ...

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