NEW! Audio of CDC Whistleblower Thompson's Call to Congress

[cab67]

3. Beyond my basic literacy and ability to read the peer-reviewed literature,

I hold a PhD and specialize in vertebrate biology. I work on the evolutionary history of a particular group of vertebrates based on fossil, morphological, and genomic data. That doesn't make me an expert in epidemiology, but I know enough about biology, biochemistry, and statistics to know what does and what does not qualify as a correlation.

I also know enough about the scientific community - I count myself as a member, having been a faculty member at a research university for 15 years - and would regard any claim of a conspiracy, or concerted effort by Powers that Be to silence scientific work, as nonsense. Scientists are temperamentally incapable of keeping things secret for very long. Even private corporations that limit what their employees can say (petroleum exploration or pharmaceutical companies, for example) can't keep things secret as long as non-industry-based funding is available.

If, as Dr. Thompson claims, data were omitted from an earlier paper, they should be published. There are formal mechanisms for doing that. It would be interesting to see how they match up with everything else the whole world has learned since 2004.