Topic: Cdc Fraud

The segment explores Colleen Boyle’s history with the 1980s Agent Orange studies, where she allegedly helped clear Monsanto of wrongdoing by prematurely ending research. Grundvig argues that Boyle used the same template of "finding no association" for Agent Orange to later dismiss vaccine-autism links. This history of corruption is presented as the reason for her continued promotion within the CDC.

John Rappaport details the story of William Thompson, a CDC scientist who confessed to omitting data in a 2004 study regarding the MMR vaccine and autism. Thompson claimed that he and his co-authors cooked the data to hide a significant link between the vaccine and autism in certain populations. Rappaport highlights the total media blackout on this admission of internal research fraud at the CDC.