Children's Health Defense
The Washington Post on Tuesday published a preemptive hit piece on David Geier, a researcher the Post claims has been tapped by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to lead a study of possible links between vaccines and autism.
The Post reported that Geier was “hired to head” the study, quoting anonymous federal health officials who said that Geier — an experienced data analyst — ”would be the one analyzing the data.”
At press time, the HHS and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had not confirmed that Geier was tapped to lead the study or work on it. Geier did not respond by deadline to a request by The Defender for confirmation.
Geier is an expert on thimerosal — a mercury-based preservative used as an adjuvant in vaccines — and on the connections between toxic exposures and autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
He has conducted extensive analysis on the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink, a nonpublic database with data on more than 10 million patients. The CDC uses the database to monitor vaccine adverse events.
Geier is also the lead or second author of hundreds of peer-reviewed articles on these and related topics.
However, the Post and other mainstream news outlets described him solely as a “vaccine skeptic” who has “long promoted false claims about the connection between immunization and autism…
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