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Old March 7th 10, 10:15 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.health,sci.med
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Default 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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Old March 7th 10, 10:48 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.health,sci.med
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Default 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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Old March 7th 10, 11:12 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.health,sci.med
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Default 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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Old March 8th 10, 07:32 AM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.health,sci.med
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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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Old March 8th 10, 12:23 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.health,sci.med
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Default Danish Scientist Absconds with $2 million, Poul Thorsen "Proved" Vaccines Don't Cause Autism

http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/03/d...e-autism-.html


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Old March 8th 10, 12:25 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids.health,sci.med
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Default 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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Default First Fraud: Dr. Poul Thorsen and the original “Danish Study”

Age of Autism made this one up:
http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2010/03/story-true/
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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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"dr_jeff" wrote in message
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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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"dr_jeff" wrote in message
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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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