In this episode of Good Morning CHD from April 1, two papers I collaborated on are briefly discussed by the Chief Scientific Officer of Children’s Health Defense, Dr. Brian Hooker.
At the 30:33 mark, Dr. Brian Hooker discusses a paper by Guillemette Crépeaux et al. titled “Aluminium adjuvants and childhood health: a call for science”, published in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology on December 29, 2025.
At 34:50, Dr. Hooker discusses a paper that he and I worked on with Dr. Jeet Varia. It’s titled “Hviid et al. 2019 Vaccine-Autism Study: Much Ado About Nothing?”, published in the Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine on May 7, 2025.
To briefly tell the story of how my name came to appear on two papers in the peer-reviewed medical literature despite being a layperson with no educational background in science or medicine, it started in 2019 with the publication of a study out of Denmark by Anders Hviid et al.
Titled “Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study” and published in Annals of Internal Medicine, it purported to show that the MMR vaccine is not associated with autism even in genetically susceptible children.
I spent weeks poring over the study and analyzing it with a particular focus on the genetic susceptibility claim. To that end, I reached out to a number of scientists, including Dr. Hooker, who helped me better understand what I was looking at. In addition to my own observations, I incorporated several key insights from other researchers, including Dr. Hooker, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, Dr. Stephanie Seneff, JB Handley, and Elizabeth Clarkson.
I drafted a critical analysis challenging its findings on the grounds that it was systematically biased in favor of the null hypothesis. That is to say, it was designed to find no association.
My work on that paper got interrupted by the COVID‑19 pandemic and lockdown madness. Shifting my focus to fighting the medical tyranny, I put my rebuttal to Hviid et al. on the backburner.
Then last year, I finally got caught up enough on other projects to come back to it. Upon completing the draft, I shared it with Dr. Hooker, who expressed interest in collaborating on it and suggested it could be reworked for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
Naturally, I was very excited by that idea and agreed. Dr. Jeet Varia was primarily responsible for restructuring and editing my paper for submission to a scientific journal. Dr. Hooker served as senior author, overseeing the project and ensuring accuracy and strength of argument.
Our paper was published in May, and you can read my layperson summary of it in my article “Debunking the ‘Settled Science’ on Vaccines and Autism”.
Just two months later, another Danish study was published that the media similarly hailed as proving that aluminum-containing vaccines are not associated with chronic illnesses including allergic diseases, autoimmunity, and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Also published in Annals of Internal Medicine, it was titled “Aluminum-Adsorbed Vaccines and Chronic Diseases in Childhood: A Nationwide Cohort Study”. The lead author was Niklas Worm Andersson, and the senior author was none other than Anders Hviid.
Because of my past experience deeply analyzing Hviid et al. 2019, I immediately recognized numerous problems with Andersson et al. 2025 and within a day was able to write and publish a detailed rebuttal titled “How the Danish Study on Aluminum in Vaccines Was Designed to Find No Harm”.
My analysis was viewed by a number of prominent individuals, and I was contacted by French researcher Dr. Guillemette Crépeaux, who expressed her appreciation for it and invited me to join her and a team she was assembling to produce a formal response to be published in a peer-review journal.
It was published in December, the lead author being Dr. Crépeaux. The senior author is Dr. Christopher Exley, a leading expert in aluminum toxicity. The other coauthors are Jonathan B. Handley, Dr. Brian Hooker, Dr. Karl Jablonowski, Dr. Lluís Luján, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, Dr. Marika Nosten-Bertrand, Dr. Christopher A. Shaw, Dr. Yehuda Shoenfeld, and Lucija Tomljenovic.
My name also appears in the byline, and I am extraordinarily honored to have been invited to work with that team of luminaries on this important effort to set the record straight. My contribution was very modest, but a few observations from my own analysis were incorporated.
I also wrote a layperson summary of the paper titled “Danish Study Claiming Safety of Aluminum in Vaccines Slammed in New Peer-Reviewed Paper”.
On April 24, CHD.TV also featured a presentation of mine titled “A Tale of Two Studies”, which explains why the claim that studies have proven that “vaccines do not cause autism” is disinformation. It also highlights Hviid et al. 2019 and Andersson et al. 2025 as illuminating examples of how studies are designed to find no association.
Watch my full presentation “A Tale of Two Studies” on CHD.TV here.
