CDC vaccine report cites study that does not exist, says scientist listed as author
Source: The Guardian
Tue 24 Jun 2025 19.44 EDT
Last modified on Tue 24 Jun 2025 19.54 EDT
A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study’s author said.
The report, called Thimerosal as a Vaccine Preservative published on the CDC website on Tuesday, is to be presented by Lyn Redwood, a former leader of the anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense.
It makes reference to a study called Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain, published in the journal Neurotoxicology in 2008, and co-authored by UC Davis professor emeritus Robert Berman. But, according to Berman, “it’s not making reference to a study I published or carried out”.
Berman said he co-authored a similarly named study in a different journal – Toxicological Sciences – that came to different conclusions than those suggested by Redwood. “We did not examine the effects of thimerosal in microglia … I do not endorse this misrepresentation of the research,” he said. Reuters is the first to report on the inaccurate citation from Redwood’s planned presentation.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/cdc-vaccine-presentation-autism
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