By Greg Piper | Just the News
Preprints.org, operated by open-access publisher MDPI, cited its “withdrawal policy” as a whole, but no specific reason, for removing the paper by Children’s Health Defense researchers. They found worse risks by race and sex.
Twelve years after a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted through his lawyers to withholding a “statistically significant finding” on black babies from his peer-reviewed study finding no link between autism and vaccination, a preprint server that hosts research before peer review erased a study that also found a racial vaccination link.
Preprints.org, operated by the Swiss open-access publisher MDPI, took down the study, “Increased Mortality Associated with 2-Month Old Infant Vaccinations,” three weeks after it was posted by Brian Hooker and Karl Jablonowski, who are scientists with Children’s Health Defense, founded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Jan. 14 withdrawal statement on the preprint even disappeared between Thursday morning, when Just the News viewed it and asked Preprints.org and MDPI for an explanation, and the afternoon, when the entire manuscript page displayed a 404 error message. It was restored without changes sometime late Thursday.
It says Preprints.org‘s advisory board, which has more than 300 identified members, requested its removal under the withdrawal policy, without specifying what grounds within the policy the board invoked. Only the title, author information and withdrawal statement remain.
The editors and advisory board can withdraw approved manuscripts for author misconduct such as plagiarism and data fabrication, “serious scientific errors that cannot be corrected by updating the paper” and “serious concerns to which the readers should be alerted.”
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