Vaccine experts are gobsmacked to learn that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. has appointed David Geier — who does not have a medical degree and who was disciplined by the State of Maryland’s Board of Physicians for practicing medicine without a license — to conduct a study looking for the missing link between vaccines and autism that Brainworm Boi has long believed exists.
Geier, along with his father who lost his medical license in several states, promoted claims that thimerosal in vaccines led to an increase in autism. In the early 2000s the pair were granted access to CDC data for the purposes of investigating adverse events following the DTaP vaccine. After manipulating that data to try to show the vaccine triggered higher autism rates in children, their access was revoked.
The Geiers profited off their claims over the course of several years.
The two set up corporate entities aimed at research and treatment for autism.
Other entities were described as a “medical-legal consulting and biochemical-epidemiological research,” as the two also testified as expert witnesses in cases where plaintiffs claimed vaccine injury.
For a time, the two treated autistic children with unproven therapies, including a drug licensed for prostate cancer that induces chemical castration.
Several studies have refuted the allegation of any link between vaccines and autism, and the rates of autism diagnoses has not decreased with the absence of thimerosal in most vaccines.
Those who have followed Geier’s activist career draw comparisons of Geier to Andrew Wakefield, the British doctor who started the vaccine/autism theory, whose studies were debunked and retracted. Wakefield lost his medical license for his unauthorized research.
