CDC's Dr. William Thompson: “I just think there has to be a mantra. The mantra should be “We know thimerosal causes tics” That’s been demonstrated. That’s been demonstrated in the big studies. And just keep saying that, “We know thimerosal causes tics” Cuz the CDC never said that thimerosal doesn’t cause tics. The CDC always says thimerosal doesn’t cause autism. You have to take it off that. You have to take it off that. And I really do think it’s a public relations campaign. 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 are 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. It scares the crap out of people when they hype those two types of outbreaks. I think as they teach you at the CDC, you have to stay on message. And the message I think to start getting out and then you wouldn’t have the press jumping on you saying well vaccines don’t cause autism. If you said, yeah, that’s true, but vaccines do cause tics. And then eventually, eventually you could get the message over to oh tics are like 5 times as common among kids with autism.”
