CDC senior scientist: 'We trashed data showing vaccine-autism link in African-American boys' | Eastern NC Now

All the authors and I met and decided sometime between August and September 2002 not to report any race effects for the paper.

Sometime soon after the meeting, where we decided to exclude reporting any race effects, the coauthors scheduled a meeting to destroy documents related to the study.

The remaining four coauthors all met and brought a big garbage can into the meeting room and reviewed and went through all the hard copy documents that we had thought we should discard and put them in a huge garbage can. However, because I assumed it was illegal and would violate both FOIA and DOJ requests, I kept hard copies of all documents in my office, and I retained all associated computer files.

Read  the full statement by current CDC Senior Scientist on Vaccine-Autism questions: Dr. William Thompson.