BREAKING: Fugitive Vaccine Researcher Behind Infamous ‘No Autism Link’ Study ARRESTED for Stealing $1 Million from CDC

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ER Editor: The Breitbart News article linked to below is worth reading. We have no problem with this report in any way except the timing of it, which seems curious. It’s as if many things are building to a head right now. From Breitbart —

A Danish researcher central to the debate over vaccines and autism — and sought for a decade by U.S. authorities — has been arrested in Germany and faces extradition to the U.S. to be tried on charges of stealing a million dollars in research money, Breitbart News has learned.

Poul Thorsen, 64, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2011 on 22 counts of wire fraud and money laundering, but has escaped prosecution in the U.S. because Denmark has chosen not to extradite him, according to previous reports.

The arrest is especially significant to the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement because Thorsen, who is also a physician, is one of the authors of a 2003 study considered the “gold standard” in determining there is no link between autism and vaccines containing a preservative called thimerosal.

A reminder that Trump just put out a communication on all vaccines being ‘poison’ using the thimerosal/mercury ingredient as a case in point. All vaccines have a variety of toxic ingredients in them, it should be added —

A Historic Signal: President Trump Breaks the Silence on Vaccine Toxicity 

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Breitbart News has reported that Poul Thorsen, the Danish researcher whose work has been used for two decades to dismiss any link between vaccines and autism, has finally been arrested in Germany after more than a decade as a fugitive.

Thorsen, 64, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta in 2011 on 22 counts of wire fraud and money laundering. Prosecutors allege that from 2004 to 2010, he stole more than $1 million in CDC research funds—money intended to study autism, infant disabilities, genetic disorders, and fetal alcohol syndrome. According to the indictment, Thorsen funneled funds into his own accounts using fraudulent invoices on CDC letterhead.

He has been on the HHS “Most Wanted” list for over a decade. Acting on an INTERPOL red notice, German authorities finally took him into custody in June. The Department of Justice is now working with Germany to extradite him for trial in the United States.

Thorsen wasn’t just any researcher. He co-authored the infamous 2002 Danish study (published in NEJM) that became the CDC’s so-called “gold standard” for dismissing any link between vaccines and autism. That paper was cited by the National Academy of Medicine, weaponized to shut down more than 5,000 federal vaccine injury claims, and is still rolled out by officials today.

But the study itself was riddled with fatal flaws and fraud:

• Outdated autism rates that undercounted true prevalence, artificially muting signals.
• Diagnostic delay bias, since most unvaccinated children were too young to receive an autism diagnosis, suppressing their case counts.
• Overadjusted statistical models that diluted any association into noise.
• Immortal time bias and reclassification tricks that miscounted exposures and broke the basic rules of causality.
• CDC co-authorship and funding conflicts that were never properly disclosed.

That’s what makes Thorsen’s arrest so significant. The fact that a man now facing trial for embezzlement and fraud was central to one of the most influential vaccine safety studies ever conducted raises profound questions.

The very foundation of the “no autism link” narrative rests on research tainted by both criminal activity and scientific fraud.

At the McCullough Foundation, we are finalizing one of the most comprehensive and rigorous analyses ever conducted on the vaccine–autism connection — untainted by the fraud and bias that corrupted past research. Stay tuned.

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Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Epidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough Foundation

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