A central figure behind the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) claims disputing the link between vaccines and autism and other neurological disorders has disappeared after officials discovered massive fraud involving the theft of millions in taxpayer dollars. Danish police are investigating Dr. Poul Thorsen, who has vanished along with almost $2 million that he had supposedly spent on research.
Thorsen was a leading member of a Danish research group that wrote several key studies supporting CDC's claims that the MMR vaccine and mercury-laden vaccines were safe for children. Thorsen's 2003 Danish study reported a 20-fold increase in autism in Denmark after that country banned mercury based preservatives in its vaccines. His study concluded that mercury could therefore not be the culprit behind the autism epidemic.
His study has long been criticized as fraudulent since it failed to disclose that the increase was an artifact of new mandates requiring, for the first time, that autism cases be reported on the national registry. This new law and the opening of a clinic dedicated to autism treatment in Copenhagen accounted for the sudden rise in reported cases rather than, as Thorsen seemed to suggest, the removal of mercury from vaccines. Despite this obvious chicanery, CDC has long touted the study as the principal proof that mercury-laced vaccines are safe for infants and young children. Mainstream media, particularly the New York Times, has relied on this study as the basis for its public assurances that it is safe to inject young children with mercury -- a potent neurotoxin -- at concentrations hundreds of times over the U.S. safety limits.
Thorsen, who was a psychiatrist and not a research scientist or toxicologist, parlayed that study into a long-term relationship with CDC. He built a research empire called the North Atlantic Epidemiology Alliances (NANEA) that advertised its close association with the CDC autism team, a relationship that had the agency paying Thorsen and his research staff millions of dollars to churn out research papers, many of them assuring the public on the issue of vaccine safety.
The discovery of Thorsen's fraud came as the result of an investigation by Aarhus University and CDC which discovered that Thorsen had falsified documents and, in violation of university rules, was accepting salaries from both the Danish university and Emory University in Atlanta -- near CDC headquarters -- where he led research efforts to defend the role of vaccines in causing autism and other brain disorders. Thorsen's center has received $14.6 million from CDC since 2002.
Thorsen's partner Kreesten Madsen recently came under fierce criticism after damning e-mails surfaced showing Madsen in cahoots with CDC officials intent on fraudulently cherry picking facts to prove vaccine safety.
Leading independent scientists have accused CDC of concealing the clear link between the dramatic increases in mercury-laced child vaccinations beginning in 1989 and the epidemic of autism, neurological disorders and other illnesses affecting every generation of American children since. Questions about Thorsens's scientific integrity may finally force CDC to rethink the vaccine protocols since most of the other key pro vaccine studies cited by CDC rely on the findings of Thorsen's research group. These include oft referenced research articles published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the New England Journal of Medicine and others. The validity of all these studies is now in question.
Citations
1. http://www.cphpost.dk/news/international/89-international/48229-researcher-accused-of-cheating-uni-out-of-millions.html
2. http://www.safeminds.org/news/pressroom/press_releases/20040518_AutismAuthorsNetwork.pdf
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/opinion/06sat3.html
4. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/time-for-cdc-to-come-clea_b_16550.html
5. http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/03/poul-thorsens-mutating-resume.html
6. http://www.rescuepost.com/files/thorsen-aarhus.pdf
7. http://www.cphpost.dk/news/international/89-international/48229-researcher-accused-of-cheating-uni-out-of-millions.html
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Thank goodness for honest & influentua
And Sean. You have my deepest sympathy. I hope you get well soon.
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A greater than 92% decline in cases and a 99% or greater decline in deaths due to diseases prevented by vaccines recommende
For those of you who have access to the full text article, I recommend reading it in its entirety.
It would also save $10 billion in direct costs and $33 billion in indirect costs (productiv
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You can rely on your doctor if the doctor reads that journal. You cannot rely on vaccinatio
In 2000, the 7 strain Pneumococc
What did this vaccinatio
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With an intended audience of pediatrici
Next step, check if strain 19A is included in the 13-valent vaccine. Research starting point: Wikipedia, which states 19A should be iincluded in Prevnar 13. Jjust to be sure, check the authoritat
I'm Canadian, so check for Canadian status. Canada approved Prevnar 13 a few weeks earlier: http://www
This comment illustrate
It took a lot of time before I realized the simple truth: Wakefield'
I explained to him, more than once, that it was the doctor's intent, at that time, that mattered
I pointed him to my blog
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He quoted me: "It was still medical research, because of the intent of the doctors to publicize, publish, to generalize new knowledge.
These are two factual questions which I have answered with excellent references
It is now your turn: Please supply specific quotes and references dating from 1990 or later that contradict
'Reporting
There we have it. Dr. Pegg identifyin
Mr. Crosby, once again, please do the impossible
My comment above asked Mr. Crosby to "please supply specific quotes and references dating from 1990 or later that contradict
Instead, Mr. Crosby makes a feeble response elsewhere. The relevant part of his comment is "..Dr. Pegg said that only research that is of risk to the child. If they conducted non-clinic
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From CNN Health: "Federal health authoritie
A few comments.
1. "The FDA learned about the contaminat
Trashes the conspiracy view. Somewhere, somebody invents something and tests lots and lots of vaccines. They tell GSK. GSK confirms and tells the FDA, who confirms the result.
2. "Hamburg stressed that the suspension applies only to the United States." European and other countries, with the same facts, continue to use the vaccine. Different countries make different decisions. How did Big Vaccine let this happen?
3. Is it a health problem? Just on the facts, it is very unlikely because it is not a pig virus, only DNA informatio
4. Anti-vaxer
"This really shows what a sham the "scientifi
1. You have yet to show any evidence that there was a problem with the research that was done. Compare that to Wakefield, whom you defend, where there was a money problem, deliberate unethical research on children and a paper (plus replies to the paper) that he knew would have an effect on public health and yet was found, beyond a reasonable doubt to be dishonest, misleading and contrary to his obligation to be accurate.
2. The thimerosal test cases show, that even if you accept the numbers from the plaintiffs
3. I had a ex-politic
2. Sure, amounts of ethyl mercury that exceed 99x the EPA limit for methyl mercury when ethyl mercury is shown to be more likely to cause chronic poisoning.
3. I agree, let's just let corporatio
The National Vaccine and Informatio
I strongly advocate informed consent and the sanctity of parental authority. The study above speaks to the informatio
If this is true, then the study is almost certainly already a waste of time and money if it is to have any merit beyond the stalwart vaccine causes autism crowd. The study has to be done as independen
She has several times been asked for a reference for this claim, and none has been provided. So I am trying again:
Tara, can you provide a reference (remember as agreed, only citations to scientific publicatio
What other explanatio
It couldn't possibly be that she is hoping they will somehow be forgotten if she ignores them, could it?
Both Sheldon and Dyson may be interested in this
We are Vaccine Safety Advocates
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Yeah, right!
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We on the side of truth and justice, love to call anti-vaxer
They prefer to parade under the false colors of vaccine safety advocate or green vaccine advocates or similar.
We thank you for being honest and forthright
1879 First vaccine for cholera - "A vaccine for cholera is available in some countries, but prophylact
1896 First vaccine for typhoid fever - "There are two vaccines currently recommende
1927 First vaccine for tuberculos
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So - vaccines are developed, we are forced to use them and then they are abandoned - without mass casualties
Your argument is therefore a strawman (you catching this Schwartzz?
Some diseases can be tackled in a combinatio
Now there are other common infectious diseases which will not just disappear because we have tap water. These are diseases spread through close contact and the airborne route. They are all the diseases you or your parents had as a kid like measles, mumps, pertussis, and so on. Vaccinatio
Without vaccinatio
Who "else" are you Dyson?!? Perhaps - Josephius?
Also didn't you tell me earlier that morbidity statistics were invalid and only the amount of cases mattered?
In terms of the diseases you claim cannot be improved with sanitation (you're actually quite wrong about that, BUT), that's where hygiene and nutrition come into play to eliminate disease.
Incidence of the diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella were not different then to the rates 30 years before. If you recall, the antivax call is that EVERYONE gets these diseases.
I am pointing out that without vaccines, everyone would get them again, and with that would come a level of morbidity (illness) that we would find unacceptab
More recently, there have been very effective vaccines used for HiB nad meningococ
You would have us return to the days in the 1980s/1990
Frankly, I find that attitude repulsive.
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Telling me you don't "believe" in regressive autism registers with me just as if you had told me you don't believe grass grows.
The paper you point to is was published in 1999, over a decade ago. A lot of work has been done on the causes of autism since that time. I don't know what the consensus was in 1999 regarding the existence of regressive autism, all I can report is a much more recent consensus as put forward at the trials..
I suggest the following. Look to recent secondary sources (en.wikipe
The decisions in the autism cases are also reviews of what the experts have to say. http://www
It's pretty easy to differenti
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My point was not whether vaccines in the past that were contaminat
Because if this argument is true then it applies equally to vitamins and supplement
Remember what is on the label for many of those vitamins and supplement
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So take your pick. Rely only on what has been tested properly or recognize that we can look beyond what is on the label or product insert. Guess which approach Big Alternativ
First of all, you're the one who made the incorrect, global statement that "Over time, studies were done that concluded that SV-40 did not cause cancer in humans. "
Second of all, you have demonstrat
Third, you have demonstrat
When you make a statement, dismissing something someone else has stated, as if it is a fact when it is not, who are you to decide what is etiquette? Acting as if you are the authority and treating people like they are your inferiors is not "etiquette
Some people appreciate the links. Others do not. You don't have to read them. And it appears you did not.
F Edward Yazbak writes in Red Flags in 2005:
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I have left out some of the qualificat
Quote: "Three basic points concerning the causation of autism, which are well-accep
..."The first basic point is that there is a very strong genetic component to the causation of autism...[
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Here is the first sentence again, "Three basic points concerning the causation of autism, which are well-accep
I was surprised, to say the least. I haven't been following the causes of autism carefully. I knew it was strongly genetic but this surprised me.
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And on page 40.
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Many, many parents are hoping to get compensati
THE EXPERTS TESTIFYING ON THE PARENTS BEHALF, LIMITED THEIR CLAIM TO REGRESSIVE AUTISM, whatever that means.
THE EXPERTS TESTIFYING ON PARENTS BEHALF, LARGELY AGREED WITH THE DEFENDANTS EXPERTS THAT AUTISM IS PRE-NATAL. They struggled to find ANY evidence that it was post-natal at all.
I suspect this comes as a shock to many. I certainly was surprised. Go read the King decision.
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Science and medicine have moved beyond what many vaccines cause autism believers realize.
SHELDON: "No vaccine has ever been tested for it's carcinogen
The SV-40 example of testing for carcinogen
Perhaps if there actually WAS carcinogen
He's too busy defending pharma.
If you believe that, you would also have to believe the FDA warning on supplement
And you certainly could not approve off-label use of a drug, especially Lupron, the chemical castrating drug given to some ASD kids.