CDC Whistleblower's Secret Recording: "We Buried the Data on MMR & Autism, I'm Completely Ashamed." Dr. Brian Hooker secretly recorded a senior CDC scientist, Dr. William Thompson, who made a shocking admission. On those recordings, Dr. Thompson freely confessed to a massive cover-up. He admitted that he and his senior associates at the CDC had buried the damning data showing a statistical link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Thompson stated, "Thimerosal causes autism-like features." He expressed profound shame, saying, "I'm completely ashamed of what I did. The higher-ups wanted to do certain things and I went along with it." He named senior officials—Colleen Boyle, Frank DeStefano, Marceline Moulton—as participants. At the helm was Dr. Julie Gerberding, who later became president of Merck Vaccine. This is not a theory. It is a confession from a lead CDC co-author on the pivotal studies used to deny any link. The man inside the machine admitted the fraud. The public deserves the truth. The victims deserve justice.