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Forged documents and a scientist who absconds with $2 million puts Autism studies in doubt
Forged documents and a scientist who absconds with $2 million puts Autism
studies in doubt by Christina England March 07, 2010 http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/144727 Autism Action Network have reported that the key scientist involved in studies proving that there was no link to thimerosal in vaccines and autism has forged documents and absconded with $2 Million. Poul Thorsen MD Phd, a scientist at the Unversity research unit originally hired by the CDC and Prevention to prepare a series of studies, to rule out any link with the preservative thimerosal in vaccines, the MMR and autism has disappeared from the University of Aarhas with $2 million and is being investigated by the Danish police for fraud which puts the results of the studies in doubt. Autism Action Network report the following:- "In a statement Aarhas University officials said that they believe Thorsen forged documents supposedly from the CDC to obtain $2 Million from the University. Thorsen resigned abruptly in March 2009 and left Denmark." The Copenhagen Post online reported that the scientist has possibly committed fraud to the value of 10 million kroner against several of the Universities research partners. The studies that he took part in and that are now in doubt are Thimerosal and the occurrence of autism: negative ecological evidence from Danish population-based data And A population-based study of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination and autism Professionals around the world have believed for years that thimerosal, the preservative added to vaccines in the 1930's by Eli Lilly, is the key to autism in children. Robert F Kennedy says that before thimerosal was added to the vaccines in the 1930's, autism was virtually unknown. However, almost immediately after the preservative was added to the vaccines, cases of autism began to emerge. In 1989 the vaccine schedule was increased from around 10 vaccines to around 24 vaccines all containing thimerosal says Kennedy he added that thimerosal is a mercury based compound stating that no one has even bothered to check how an accumulative of mercury could affect our children. In 2006 Boyd Haley Ph.D said "I think that the biological case against thimerosal is so dramatically overwhelming that only a very foolish or a very dishonest person with the credentials to understand this research would say that thimerosal wasn´t most likely the cause of autism." Lisa Blakemore-Brown has always been convinced that thimerosal in vaccines has led to more cases of autism. She was so convinced that she included the fact in her book on autism 'Reweaving the Autistic Tapestry'. In her book she advised parents to go to lawyers if they thought their children had been affected by vaccines giving a list of lawyers she recommended. She wrote:- "Law firms handling claims against manufacturers on the basis that autism has been caused by mercury and in particular thimerosal in vaccine". She then listed firms dealing with claims. Her book was written in 2000/2001 Yesterday in a twist to the tale a report came out about pets showing sign of autism and autistic type behaviour after vaccines. The Daily Mail reported that in Chichester West Sussex England UK a dog was showing signs of autism after he had his vaccines. Charlie an apparently happy and friendly springer spaniel pup was reported to have had a personality change over night, after receiving his vaccine. His owner reports that she believes that his behaviour now mirrors behaviours that have been seen in children with autism. This is not unknown as autism was reported to have been seen in monkeys in the 1990's when they were given the same vaccines as human infants have. After research I found this on Unlock Autism "The first research project to examine effects of the total vaccine load received by children in the 1990s has found autism-like signs and symptoms in infant monkeys vaccinated the same way. The study´s principal investigator, Laura Hewitson from the University of Pittsburgh, reports developmental delays, behavior problems and brain changes in macaque monkeys that mimic "certain neurological abnormalities of autism." What will it take for the governments to realise that vaccines could be the reason why autism is on the increase? Instead of introducing yet more vaccines to an already overcrowded schedule perhaps a careful look at the vaccines already said to be damaging our children is long overdue. |
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Forged documents and a scientist who absconds with $2 millionputs Autism studies in doubt
http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/201...age-of-autism/
Oopsie, the source John cited was wrong. What a surprise. |
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Forged documents and a scientist who absconds with $2 million puts Autism studies in doubt
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 21:15:48 -0000, "john" wrote:
Forged documents and a scientist who absconds with $2 million puts Autism studies in doubt Except for the fact the article is probably entirely wrong. Poul Thorsen MD Phd, a scientist at the Unversity research unit originally hired by the CDC and Prevention to prepare a series of studies, to rule out any link with the preservative thimerosal in vaccines, the MMR and autism has disappeared Thorsen has not vanished, is not missing, and was on a DSM5 workgroup as of January this year, and is being investigated by the Danish police for fraud which puts the results of the studies in doubt. What is being investigated (since early last year) is "Several media today report a case of possible forgery in connection with a research project involving both the University of Aarhus, Odense University Hospital, Research and Innovation Agency, and the American health authority, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The case was transferred to the East Jutland Police in May, 2009. Details will be released when the police are ready. The matter is related to an international study of pregnant women’s lifestyle and its influence on a child’s brain function. It is still unknown who is behind the possible forgery, and no criminal charges have been brought." Now the results of that study have just been published "Kesmodel et al., “Lifestyle during pregnancy: neurodevelopmental effects at 5 years of age. The design and implementation of a prospective follow-up study,” Scand J Public Health. 2010 Mar;38(2):208-19. Epub 2010 Jan 11. PMID: 20064917 [PubMed – in process]" Why would Dr. Kesmodel and the other co-authors from Aarhus have included Dr. Thorsen as an author on this paper if Aarhus were accusing him of wrongdoing in connection with this project? "In a statement Aarhas University officials said that they believe Thorsen forged documents supposedly from the CDC to obtain $2 Million from the University. No they didn't. The Copenhagen Post online reported that the scientist has possibly committed fraud to the value of 10 million kroner against several of the Universities research partners. Actually it said _a_ person, it named no one. Professionals around the world have believed for years that thimerosal, the preservative added to vaccines in the 1930's by Eli Lilly, is the key to autism in children. Rubbish. She wrote:- "Law firms handling claims against manufacturers on the basis that autism has been caused by mercury and in particular thimerosal in vaccine". She then listed firms dealing with claims. Her book was written in 2000/2001 The case collapsed in 2003 as no evidence to support it could be produced by the claimants. The Daily Mail reported that in Chichester West Sussex England UK a dog was showing signs of autism after he had his vaccines. Accusing the Daily Wail of either accuracy or scientific knowledge is going rather far even by the execrable standards of accuracy found on whale. |
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Forged documents and a scientist who absconds with $2 million puts Autism studies in doubt
the danish studies shredded http://whale.to/a/danish.html
"The greatest evil is... conceived and ordered in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice." |
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Danish Scientist Absconds with $2 million, Poul Thorsen "Proved" Vaccines Don't Cause Autism
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First Fraud: Dr. Poul Thorsen and the original “Danish Study”
First Fraud: Dr. Poul Thorsen and the original “Danish Study”
http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/03/f...ish-study.html First Fraud: Dr. Poul Thorsen and the original “Danish Study” By J.B. Handley In my last post Frantic: CDC’s Dr. Diane Simpson Travels the World to Find Dr. Poul Thorsen, I detailed the desperate world travel of Dr. Diane Simpson, a CDC employee tasked with proving, at all costs, that thimerosal in vaccines was not causing autism. If desperate times call for desperate acts, than there is no desperate act more extreme than the study ultimately published due to Dr. Simpson’s world travel, Thimerosal and the Occurrence of Autism: Negative Ecological Evidence From Danish Population-Based Data . More than any other, this study has been used to club our community over the head that thimerosal couldn’t possibly cause autism. Of course, it was published in Pediatrics, a journal that appears to have no standards whatsoever if a paper written by anyone anywhere exonerates vaccines. A few years ago I took the time to read every published study that “proved” vaccines don’t cause item. Knowing this “Danish study” was the biggie, I started here. It’s hard to put into words how dishonest and outrageous a study this is, and I knew after reading it that we were in for a long fight: if scientists will lie this explicitly and call it a study and if Pediatrics will publish something this dishonest, they are playing to win at all costs. Herewith, an analysis of the original Danish study, prepare to be disgusted and outraged: Thimerosal was removed from Danish vaccines in 1992, and the original Danish study published in Pediatrics in 2003, Thimerosal and the Occurrence of Autism: Negative Ecological Evidence From Danish Population-Based Data (with co-author Dr. Poul Thorsen) proclaimed that not only did autism rates not go down after its removal, they actually went up! The study's lead other, Kristeen Madsen, had been one of the Danish researchers Dr. Diane Simpson reached out to early on in her world travel of 2001. This study was highly fraudulent for the following reasons: The data as it was captured was blatantly obscured. The study looked at data between 1970-2000. In 1995, the Danish registry added "Outpatient Clinics" to their count of autism cases. It turns out that Outpatient Clinics are where 93% of Danish children are diagnosed with autism, so the number of autism cases before 1995 did not include the clinics. More surprising, the authors even note this in the study: "since 1995 outpatient activities were registered as well...the proportion of outpatient to inpatient activities was about 4 to 6 times as many outpatients as inpatients...this may exaggerate the incidence rates." Exaggerate the incidence rates? It is the equivalent of doing a study on "Divorce Rates in North America" and counting Mexico and Canada only for the first few years, then adding in the United States, and noting that divorce rates went up. As a SafeMinds critique of the study noted, "Therefore, their purported increase after 1994 can be explained entirely by the registration of an existing autism population that did not require hospitalization." To compound the problem, Denmark also changed the diagnostic code they used, to the more universal ICD10 code, beginning in 1993, which would have further raised the rates. Dr. Madsen, in his communications with Dr. Diane Simpson two years earlier, actually noted this discrepancy in Danish data in an email exchange: Dr. Simpson: "Did they [autism rates] increase after 1993??" Dr. Madsen: "Yes but not very dramatically and there could be more reasons for that. First of all we had a change from ICD8 to ICD10 in 1994 and furthermore our outpatient clinics were registered in our surveillance from 1995." The rates of autism in Denmark and the number of vaccines and amount of mercury received in children are markedly lower than the U.S. Danish children receive 75% less Thimerosal than American children, they receive immunizations when they are older, and the U.S. autism rate is TEN TIMES the rate of Denmark (Denmark is 1 in 1,600, U.S. is 1 in 166). As an example, here is an email exchange back in 2001 discussing data from Great Britain between Dr. Verstraeten, the author of the CDC's internal analysis, and Robert Chen. Dr. Verstraeten notes that the British numbers will probably not be helpful because the Thimerosal received by British children is too low relative to American children: "The maximum exposure is indeed relatively low...it may not be worth doing this after all." Denmark's Thimerosal was as low or lower than Britain, but they proceeded with the study anyway. The study authors were conflicted, and the conflicts were not reported in the study, as they should have been. Of the seven co-authors of the study, three had received direct funding from the CDC on vaccine-safety related projects. Two of the authors were employees of Statens Serum Institute, a Danish vaccine manufacturer. Here's SSI's Annual Report . Interestingly, page 28 shows that sales of vaccine products to the U.S. were particularly high in 2002. None of these conflicts are mentioned anywhere in the study. CDC actually wrote a letter to Pediatrics recommending publication of the study. This letter , written prior to the official date of submission, reveals how involved in the study CDC was (remember, one of their employees was a co-author). Jose Cordero, Director of the Division of the CDC responsible for developmental disabilities, oversees the CDC's efforts to fight autism. He notes, "its findings provide one strong piece of evidence that thimerosal is not causally linked to autism." Dr. Cordero, too, had seen the Generation Zero data and attended the meeting in Simpsonwood. (Author’s note: it is always Pediatrics that is willing to publish these studies, for obvious reasosns.) The public health establishment seems to have a simple strategy: get anything published, and then spin the hell out of it and confuse the public, and they perhaps never did it better than with this original “Danish study” which is still cited as proof by many that “vaccines don’t cause autism.” * * As you can imagine, when the study was published in 2003 it was criticized by our community, and for good reason. Here’s AoA’s Mark Blaxill back in 2003, from this great analysis, Danish Thimerosal-Autism Study in Pediatrics: "A report by Madsen et al. published by the American Academy of Pediatrics in their journal Pediatrics1 claims to provide evidence against a link between autism rates and the mercury in thimerosal, a preservative used in childhood vaccines. Unfortunately, the study analysis is full of flaws and inaccuracies, invalidating the conclusions regarding thimerosal. The study adds little of value to the scientific literature on autism and mercury. The report provides information on autism rates in Denmark that is distorted and misleading. These distortions allow the authors to make assertions about a rising trend in autism "incidence" in the 1990s that has no basis in fact." And, here’s Boyd Haley, Ph.D., recounting his experience with the 2004 IOM when he tried to explain the fraudulent nature of this work (a work which was cited as one of the primary studies behind the 2004 IOM’s conclusions): “I have been calling this work fraud every since it came out, even at the 2004 IOM Committee meeting where Dr. Marie McCormick ended my questioning of Dr. Hviid, who was presenting the Danish data, because he would not, or could not tell me the autism rates in the USA vs Denmark---he feigned not understanding my question because the maximum rate of autism was less than 4/10,000 in Denmark in 2000 whereas in the USA the rate was 67/10,000 having increased from about 3-4/10,000 from 1985 and earlier. This makes all the Danish studies invalid, it is like studying the effect of mosquitoes on the spread of malaria and doing the studies in Alaska instead of the Panama…This data was manipulated to appear to cause an increase in the autism rate after the removal of thimerosal. One educated in epidemiological sciences has to be really incompetent to not find this deceptive utilization of the Danish data-----this apparently includes the responsible individuals at the CDC and in the AAP.” When I first read this study I remember wondering, “what the hell kind of scientists would even put their name next to something like this?” As we learn more about Dr. Poul Thorsen, I think we’re finding out. J.B. Handley is Co-Founder of Generation Rescue. |
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Danish Scientist Absconds with $2 million, Poul Thorsen "Proved"Vaccines Don't Cause Autism
john wrote:
http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/03/d...e-autism-.html http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2010/03/story-true/ As you can see, Age of Autism made it up. |
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Danish Scientist Absconds with $2 million, Poul Thorsen "Proved" Vaccines Don't Cause Autism
"dr_jeff" wrote in message ... john wrote: http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/03/d...e-autism-.html http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2010/03/story-true/ As you can see, Age of Autism made it up. http://whale.to/vaccine/leitch_h.html |
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First Fraud: Dr. Poul Thorsen and the original “Danish Study”
"dr_jeff" wrote in message ... Age of Autism made this one up: http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2010/03/story-true/ http://whale.to/vaccine/leitch_h.html |
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