Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted for Fraud and Money-laundering

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Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted for Fraud and

Money-laundering

Poul Thorsen, the principal coordinator of multiple

studies funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

(CDC) used to deny a vaccine/autism link was indicted on April

13th on 13

counts of fraud and 9 counts of money-laundering. The charges

relate to funding for work he conducted for the CDC, which

claimed to disprove associations between the mercury-based

vaccine preservative, thimerosal, and increased rates of autism.

SafeMinds first voiced concerns

in 2003 regarding a series of epidemiology studies out of Denmark and under the

jurisdiction of Thorsen that provided the basis for the

Institute of Medicine's claim that there was no association

between thimerosal and autism. That claim has been

responsible for the continued unsafe use of mercury in

influenza vaccines in the United Statesand infant

vaccines around the world.

"The quality of this

epidemiological research has always been questionable," states Sallie Bernard, SafeMinds

president. "Many biological studies support a link between

mercury and autism, but these Danish studies have been used to

suppress further research into thimerosal. With clear

evidence of Dr. Thorsen's lack of ethics, it is imperative to

reopen this investigation."

From August to October of 2003,

three articles on the autism treatment controversy were

published in close succession, all of which used data from a

Danish registry for psychiatric research to assess the

relationship between autism trends and the use of thimerosal.

SafeMinds accessed the registry at the time and reported that

a large percentage of diagnosed autism cases are lost from the

Danish registry each year and that most of those lost cases

were older children. Since the studies were based on finding

fewer older thimerosal-exposed children than younger unexposed

children, the validity of their conclusion exonerating

thimerosal in autism was questionable and likely a result of

missing records rather than true lower incidence rates among

the exposed group.

In addition, internal emails

obtained via FOIA document discussion between the Danish

researchers and Thornsen which acknowledge that the studies

did not include the latest data from 2001 where the incidence

and prevalence of autism was declining which would be

supportive of a vaccine connection.

The emails also include

requests from Thornsen to CDC asking that the agency write

letters to the journal Pediatrics encouraging them to

publish the research after it had been rejected by other

journals.

A top CDC official complied

with the request sending a letter to the editor of the journal

supporting the publication of the study which they called a

"strong piece of evidence that thimerosal is not linked to

autism."

As fraud charges regarding

Thorsen surface, and as we believe the registry was

unreliable, SafeMinds is calling for an independent federal

investigation of these studies for data manipulation and

scientific misconduct. Further background information on

these studies, the charges against Dr.

SOURCE SafeMinds

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Wow.  Maybe open some minds up for parents to start questioning.

What a great site too.  Thanks for sharing.

Lorelei

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