Anti-Vaxx Pediatrician Ordered To Identify Patients In Study

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An Oregon Medical Board investigation of a Beaverton pediatrician who opposes some federal recommendations on vaccines for children has landed in court, with the state filing a lawsuit to obtain some of the physician’s records.

The board, through the Oregon Judicial Department, PDF iconsued Dr. Paul Thomas in July in Washington County Circuit Court over his failure to turn over documents it had subpoenaed in August 2020.
The subpoena stemmed from a complaint against Thomas alleging he had conducted “unethical” research, court documents said. The subpoena directed Thomas to turn over the names and birthdates of more than 1,200 children in his study of autism rates that compared children who had received childhood vaccines according to the federally recommended schedule with those who had shots delayed or weren’t vaccinated at all. The results were published in a book — “The Vaccine-Friendly Plan: Dr. Paul’s Safe and Effective Approach to Immunity and Health-From Pregnancy Through Your Child’s Teen Years” — that he co-wrote with author Jennifer Margulis, who’s also written about addiction and parenting.

The subpoena also demanded documents related to a separate study by Thomas that was never published.

The pediatrician has refused to comply. In court records, he said he had no records related to the second study and that revealing patient names and birthdates would be unethical. Documents filed by Thomas’ attorneys accuse the medical board of overstepping its authority in a “frontal assault” to “destroy” his medical practice.

According to the complaint, the medical board is investigating whether Thomas “engaged in unethical conduct or otherwise violated standards of conduct” in connection with his studies on the impact of alternative vaccine schedules for vaccines such as the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, shots.

Oregon’s immunization schedule, which follows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, calls for administering the first MMR dose between the ages of 12 and 15 months and the second dose at age 4 through 6. The shots are required by Oregon schools, though parents can obtain an exemption.

Thomas’ schedule recommends that parents consider giving the first MMR shot at age 3. If the family travels through an area where measles is prevalent, he recommends giving the first dose at 1 years old. PDF iconHis schedule does not mention a second shot.

At issue in the lawsuit is Thomas’ retrospective study of autism rates among more than 2,200 of his patients. Nearly 900 were vaccinated following CDC guidelines, more than 200 received no vaccines and about 1,100 followed Thomas’ schedule, court documents said.

The Oregon Medical Board wants the names and birthdates of those patients over concerns that some of them received the MMR vaccine later than Oregon Health Authority recommendations, court records said.

The documents from both sides said Thomas gave the board a spreadsheet showing dosage and other information but had declined to turn over the names or birthdates.

Doing so would violate the terms of the study’s protocols, Thomas’ lawyers argued in court filings. The protocols were approved by an independent review board, something that is standard practice in science to ensure that no one is harmed in research. The review board approved the study on the condition that Thomas keep patient identifying information secret, court documents said.

Thomas said that abiding by the medical board's request would cause him to violate his professional commitment to the review board, PDF iconhis answer to the complaint said.
The Western Institutional Review Board that approved Thomas’ protocols has since merged with another board, which did not respond to a request for comment.

Thomas also maintained in court documents that revealing patient names would violate federal privacy laws.

In December 2020, the board suspended Thomas’ license, citing the cases of eight patients who were allegedly harmed by his vaccine schedule. In June, it issued a new order allowing Thomas to provide acute care only. It said he could not talk to parents about vaccine schedules and could not perform any research involving patient care.

The lawsuit said that OMB wants the patient information for internal use in the investigation and that it would not publicly disclose any patient identities. Judge Sims’ order in favor of the state stipulated that the medical board cannot contact any of the patients or their parents or guardians as part of its investigation without approval by the court.

Anti-Vaxx seesm a pretty common name for any people who doubt the government and who oppose to the Big Pharma invasion on your behavior. That's a way to point fingers. At some point, there were racism, religion wars.. but people are of competitive nature and like to have an easy target to hit on, so it'll just keep that way as long as the media propaganda points to whom is the enemy, surely not the ones who fund these same tv channels (the government).