In response to the claim that the CDC destroyed and suppressed evidence that the MMR vaccine increases the rates of autism within a certain demographic, I agree with Dr. Woolwine’s conclusion. Woolwine believes that the bulk of evidence shows that the Center for Disease Control didn’t misrepresent its findings, that it didn’t commit fraud and that none of the claims discussed that vaccines cause autism are supported. I too am not sure if Hooker was intentionally fraudulent in his paper or simply incompetent in his methodology, because there doesn’t seem to exist any public evidence proving one conclusion or the other. Due to the fact that fraud does happen during peer review, the non-expert can judge claims in the mass media that conspiracies
