Fw: Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted for Fraud and Money-Laundering

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Subject: " Autism and Vaccines Researcher for CDC, Indicted for Fraud and

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Date: Sunday, April 17, 2011, 4:32 PM

" Now You Know " the CDC.

http://www.actionlyme.org

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http://pharmalive.com/News/index.cfm?articleid=774819 & categoryid=32

SafeMinds demands long-overdue independent review of vaccine/autism research for

data manipulation and conflicts of interest. Vaccine safety remains

questionable.

ATLANTA, April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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 States and

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. Thorsen, and

documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that support

SafeMinds' concerns are available on our website, www.safeminds.org.

SOURCE SafeMinds

KMDickson