The report, titled "Thimerosal as a Vaccine Preservative" posted Tuesday on the CDC's website, is to be delivered by Lyn Redwood (NYSE:RWT), a former head of anti-vaccine organization Children's Health Defense.
It refers to one titled "Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain," published by Neurotoxicology in 2008 and co-authored by UC Davis Professor Emeritus Robert Berman.
But Berman said, "it's not referencing a study I published or conducted."
Berman indicated that he co-wrote a study of the same name in another journal - Toxicological Sciences - that drew different conclusions than Redwood's suggested.
"We did not test the actions of thimerosal on microglia. I do not support this misinterpretation of the research," he stated.
Reuters is reporting first on the misquotation from Redwood's intended presentation.
The session has grown increasingly contentious following Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suddenly firing all prior 17 members of the expert panel and appointing eight new members last week, half of whom have spoken out against vaccination.
Long-time anti-vaccine activist and founder of the Children's Health Defense, Kennedy, is a member of the expert panel.
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Republican U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Democratic U.S. Senator Patty Murray of Washington each stated that the June 25 and 26 meeting should be delayed.
The presentation's summary implied that sufficient thimerosal-free flu shots existed and that all pregnant women, children, and infants would only be given those. It was not definite if the new advisory committee would vote on such action.
Redwood's presentation was contrasted with a different report that was placed on the CDC website by CDC staff on Tuesday indicating evidence does not support a connection between autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders and thimerosal-containing vaccines.
Kennedy has been advocating for years a connection between vaccines and autism against scientific evidence.
Redwood was unavailable for an immediate comment. An HHS spokesperson stated the study in question was the Toxicological Sciences study Berman had complained was being misrepresented.
The CDC briefing document summarized some of the research on neurodevelopmental outcomes and thimerosal-containing vaccines, which have been used for many years in the United States in multi-dose containers of medicines and vaccines to prevent the germs from
growing inside them.
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