Lupron is a drug that suppresses sex hormones (a gonadotropin-releasing hormone [GnRH] agonist) and is used to treat prostate cancer, endometriosis, and precocious (early) puberty. It can also be used for chemical castration.
In a linked case, the state physician’s board also found that David Geier, who worked closely with his father, was practicing medicine without a license. He was issued a civil fine of $10,000.
“Numerous conceptual and scientific flaws”
The two Geiers have published a long list of questionable studies in obscure journals claiming to find harms of vaccines and links to autism. One focus of their work has been to claim that thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative previously used in vaccines, causes autism. No credible evidence of harms from thimerosal has been found, according to the CDC. And regardless, the preservative was largely removed from vaccines in 1999.
Many of their articles have drawn widespread criticism from scientific and medical experts, including the American Academy of Pediatrics. In 2003, the AAP blasted one of their articles that claimed to find a link between thimerosal and autism. The AAP said the paper “contains numerous conceptual and scientific flaws, omissions of fact, inaccuracies, and misstatements.”
When the Post reached David Geier for comment on his role in the HHS and how he was hired, Geier said, “I don’t have any comment to say. Talk to the secretary [Kennedy]. He’s the person that’s in charge.”
To experts, the conclusion of Geier’s upcoming CDC study on vaccines and autism is a foregone one.
“It seems the goal of this administration is to prove that vaccines cause autism, even though they don’t,” Alison Singer, president of the Autism Science Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds autism research, told the Post. “They are starting with the conclusion and looking to prove it. That’s not how science is done.”
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