Why Is Peter McCullough’s Talking About His Autism Report Again?
Peter McCullough published a report on the “Determinants of Autism Spectrum Disorder” back in October.
Published on Zenodo, Peter McCullough teamed up with Andy Wakefield for this one!
What did People Say About Peter McCullough’s Autism Report?
So what was the response to the report?
Not surprisingly, anti-vaccine influencers laundered news of the report across their social media accounts and websites, believing it had found proof that vaccines are associated with autism.
“Antivaxxers have been flogging it as though it were actual “gold standard science,” even though the report was immediately recognizable as yet another example of cherry picking and biased presentation that includes horrendous antivax “science” to “prove” that vaccines cause autism.”
Antivaxxer Steve Kirsch unknowingly identifies the fatal flaw of an antivax “report” from the McCullough Foundation
Of course, the report proved no such association!
“Our key takeaway from this report is that these 308 references confirm what we already know! Several review papers, published in well-respected and peer-reviewed journals, have examined the majority of these references before and concluded there is no association between vaccination and autism.”
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And the McCullough report didn’t even find an association!
Plus, many of the sources used by the report were “written by known anti-vaccine advocates, retracted papers, and preprints, blogs, and other non-peer-reviewed sources masquerading as journals.”
They include papers by Mark and David Geier, Christopher Shaw and Lucija Tomljenovic, Brian Hooker, and of course, Peter McCullough.
And even worse, they threw out studies that have found that vaccines are not associated with autism.
The overall conclusion?
“By design, the McCullough Foundation Report dilutes the high quality preclinical, clinical, and epidemiological science with much lower quality preliminary reports, uncontrolled observations, and the like, all in order to be able to conclude that vaccines cause autism.”
Antivaxxer Steve Kirsch unknowingly identifies the fatal flaw of an antivax “report” from the McCullough Foundation
Peter McCullough’s autism report was poorly done, biased, and did not really prove any kind of association between vaccines and autism.
Why Is Peter McCullough’s Talking About His Autism Report Again?
So then why is Peter McCullough talking about his autism report again?
It is simply because Nicholas Hulscher claims that they asked ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Grok to analyze their report, and supposedly, they all concluded that vaccines are associated with autism.
No surprise that that is not what ‘they’ told me.
Instead, ChatGPT pointed out all the things that were wrong with Peter McCullough’s autism report!
And said that vaccines are not associated with autism.
Can we finally stop pushing the idea that they are?
The biggest tell to me that this toilet paper on zenodo was worthless is they deliberately did not disclose that the Paul Thomas/james lyonswiler IJERPH paper on vaccinated versus unvaccinated children is retracted. not in the table where they list it. not in the bibliography. they were willing to concede wakefields 1998 Lancet paper was retracted, but when it comes to the references they cherry pick. they're willing to be highly unethical and lie to the reader. disgusting.
Why? Because that's what these grifting bitches do. They never stopped waving around this paper, but all the better now that it's been retracted - more proof that "truth tellers" are being "censored."
Portions of the paper seemed decent enough - much of the literature review, kind of. But then they misinterpret, cherry pick out of context, and just lie. F-ck that repugnant group of grifters and their consistently top-3 "Health" Substack, which also spews unhinged maga and copious putin-fellation (by Kremlin tool John Leake).