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HEALTH Call 1—Highlights of the May 8, 2014, call REFERENCE: http://www.ageofautism. com/2015/06/the-battle-for-californiapart-4-the-nation-of-islam-and-thechurch-of-scientology-join-the-fight- 1. D  r. Thompson wants to “stop lying” about omitting significant data which suggested an elevated risk of autism in a subpopulation (African American males) from a 2004 MMR paper he coauthored. 2. D  r. Thompson says “thimerosal causes tics,” thimerosal-containing vaccines “ should never be given to pregnant women,” and that he would never give a thimerosal-containing vaccine to his own wife. Flu shots with thimerosal are on the recommended vaccine schedule for children, pregnant women, and adults. 3. D  r. Thompson describes how the CDC stonewalls Congressional requests for documents and how the CDC stonewalls requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act. 4. D  r. Thompson says how the CDC and media “love” to “hype” measles and polio outbreaks in order to “scare” the public. In May 2014,Thompson essentially predicted how the CDC and media reacted to the measles outbreak at Disneyland in late 2014. 23 | NEW CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW 5. Dr. Thompson says autism research is a “political hot potato” inside the CDC. 6. Dr. Thompson discusses in May 2014, some seven months before the CDC, drug companies, and the press fanned the fires of measles hysteria, that they love to hype and scare people: “But I also have to say these drug companies and their promoters, they’re making such a big deal of these measles outbreaks and they now they’re making a big deal that polio is coming back and polio comes back all the time in third world countries. It’s like a never-ending thing where the press loves to hype it and it scares people.” Call 2—Highlights of the May 24, 2014, call 1. Dr. Thompson says what the CDC has been denying for years: “There is biologic plausibility right now, I really do believe there is, to say that thimerosal causes autism-like sy