Central Figure in CDC Vaccine Cover-Up Absconds With $2M by Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert..._b_494303.html

Kennedy Jr., Robert F. March 11, 2010

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.
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3. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/opinion/06sat3.html
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert...a_b_16550.html
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