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Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:07:35 PM

Forged documents and a scientist who absconds with $2 million puts Autism

studies in doubt

England

March 07, 2010

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.

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. "

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,

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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Is story spread by Age of Autism true?

In the last few days Age of Autism have made not one but two articles alleging

that one Dr. Poul Thorsen, author of several studies debunking an autism-vaccine

link, a) has disappeared, secretly worked for two universities at the same

time when he wasn’t supposed to, c) sometime prior to his disappearance stole

millions of dollars from former employer Aarhus University and d) faked data

against an autism-vaccine link in exchange for money from the CDC/Big Pharma

conspiracy. They currently appear to be bogged down by the fact that a) Thorsen

has been located and other anti-vaxxers say a different doctor stole the

money and disappeared. While I have a work in progress to give a thorough

necropsy this train wreck, I deem it most important to provide a briefer

analysis of just one facet: AoA’s source for this nonsense, a document

allegedly released by a representative of Aarhus. (NOTE: I have a report that

the link is no longer active! Fortunately, I saved the file on my computer.) On

examination, I am satisfied of two things. First, this document is,

substantially, a forgery. Second, it is not a single work, but a pastiche of

what I believe to be at least three originally independent documents.

Certain portions of it can be excised from the rest, to form a whole which is in

no way negative in portraying Thorsen. I offer the following as nothing more or

less than a possible form of an original and authentic communication:

Aarhus University has decided to issue this statement in response to a number of

requests on the part of CDC Denmark project partners. The Danish Agency for

Science, Technology and Innovation (DASTI) has been a grant recipient as part of

a cooperative agreement with the US National Center for Birth Defects and

Developmental Disabilities, CDC, since 2001. The grant has been administered by

Odense University Hospital and Aarhus University (AU) under the direction of Dr.

Poul Thorsen. The grant has multiple components and involves collaborators at

other institutions in Denmark, including the University of Copenhagen and SSI

(Statens Serum Institut). This successful collaboration has resulted in numerous

valuable scientific results, and many more are forthcoming.

In March 2009, Dr. Thorsen resigned his faculty position at Aarhus University.

Aarhus University wishes to confirm that Dr Poul Thorsen no longer has any

connection to Aarhus University, and that Aarhus University will not be able to

collaborate with Poul Thorsen in the future. To the extent that other parties

collaborating with Aarhus University wish to draw on Poul Thorsen’s expertise,

Aarhus University will only accept such collaboration if it has the purpose of

securing data or protecting the interests of participating researchers and

funding agencies.

Provenance

Several details stand out to me as casting doubt on the authenticity of the

document as an “official†statement from a representative of Aarhus

University:

1. As presented at theflucase.com, it is accompanied by external text with

numerous errors, most conspicuously: Aarhus is misspelled Aarhaus. An article

published in 2003 is dated to 2002, and two authors are indicated instead of

seven. “Side 2/2†appears in the body of the text.

2. The identified author of the document is “Jørgen Jørgensen, Managing

Directorâ€. I have been able to verify that this is a real person, currently

employed by Aarhus. However, his most current title is “Director of

Administrationâ€.

3. It is also anomalous that “ Jørgen Jørgensen†is the only appearance

of non-Anglic figures in the document. This is consistent with the body of the

document originating outside of Denmark.

4. At one point, Thorsen is misspelled “Thomsenâ€.

5. A key statement that “Dr Thorsens double Full-time employment was

unauthorised by Aarhus University…†contains three typos in rapid

succession: “Thorsens†without apostrophe; “Full-time†capitalized

unnecessarily, and “unauthorised†instead of “unauthorizedâ€. The last is

strictly speaking not an error but a variant spelling, consistent with an

English-speaking author from the UK rather than the US. (Note that this would

mean the forger is probably NOT a member of AoA!)

Allegations

The claims of wrongdoing currently being aired by AoA and others center upon two

extended passages which strike me as tangential to and difficult to harmonize

with the rest of the document and with each other. The first and obviously most

serious is this: “In investigating the shortfalls associated with the grant,

DASTI and Aarhus University became aware of two alleged CDC funding documents as

well as a letter regarding funding commitments allegedly written by Randolph B.

of CDC’s Procurement Grants Office which was used to secure advances

from Aarhus University. Upon investigation by CDC, a suspicion arose that the

documents are forgeries. DASTI conducted an internal investigation of the

authenticity of the documents and have filed a police report with no specific

person named in the filing.†The last comment (italics added) is sufficient to

establish that, even if the information is authentic, its presence in the

document is not. Assuming that the event happened at all, there is no

conceivable point in mentioning it here except to implicate Thorsen. If his

ex-employer had had not had enough evidence to do that in a police report, they

certainly would not be doing so here, where expressing even well-justified

suspicion could easily provide cause for a defamation lawsuit.

The other major charges are that “(I)t has come to the attention of Aarhus

University that Dr Thomsen (SIC) has continued to act in such a manner as to

create the impression that he still retains a connection to Aarhus University

after the termination of his employment by the university… (I)t has come to

the attention of Aarhus University that Dr Poul Thorsen has held full-time

positions at both Emory University and Aarhus University simultaneously. Dr

Thorsens (sic) double Full-time (sic) employment was unauthorised (sic) by

Aarhus University, and he engaged in this employment situation despite the

express prohibition of Aarhus University.†It is noteworthy that these charges

border on the mutually exclusive: On a certain level, emphasizing the

“termination†of his employment is going to weaken a claim to illegitimate

double employment. It is also striking that, even apart from the multiple typos,

the text is quite awkward, with a great deal of redundancy- possible evidence of

more lifting from originally separate sources.

The allegation that dual employment went against his contract is perhaps the

most improbable aspect of the document. To anyone familiar with science and

academia, this will seem counterintuitive at best: Employment at two or more

institutions, as adjunct faculty, is pervasive, at Aarhus as it is elsewhere.

Normally, it is only treated as an issue if the joint employment creates

conflict of interest, eg. Working for two competing companies. The more specific

references to “full-time employment†do much to allay suspicion: At the

least, this suggests a separate and more complex issue than simply whether he

was, and should have been, employed by a second university. But, it is still

difficult to reconcile such accusations with the apparently positive tone with

which the document closes. Thus, it is once again most probable that, even if we

are dealing with a genuine communication, its present here is an interpolation.

The source

Thanks to help from commenters at Left Brain/Right Brain on an earlier draft of

this article, I now have strong evidence of something I already suspected: that

the allegations against Thorsen are taken from an earlier document which was NOT

about him. The following story is apparently the source:

“Aarhus University has confirmed that a former head of research at its North

Atlantic Neuro-Epidemiology Alliances department has committed possible fraud

totalling up to 10 million kroner against several of the school’s research

partners… Jørgen Jørgensen, Aarhus University’s rector, confirmed that

police charges have been filed against the former researcher... Numerous

applications for funding for the research were apparently signed with forged

signatures. The scientist � " who is reportedly living and working in Atlanta

in the US � " resigned from his post last March. But he allegedly continued to

pass himself off as the head of the international project, which dealt primarily

with research into the possible causes of autism. Aarhus University also claims

that the researcher took another permanent position at Emory University in the

US while still heading the Danish-based project…â€

Many factors argue both against the identification of Thorsen as the suspect,

and against the authenticity of the document:

1. The date of the story, February 11, is later than the internal date of

“January 22, 2010†given in the document. If the document can be proven

based on the story, it is certainly forged.

2. The strongest evidence that the document is based on the Feb. 11 story is

that the story does refer to the suspect’s simultaneous employment at Aarhus

and Emory, but does not state that this was against the rules or wishes of the

former. This is consistent with the creator of the document embellishing upon an

earlier source.

3. The story does not identify Thorsen or any other suspect. In contrast to

the document, it does indicates that a suspect was identified by the university

to the police.

4. It appears from the story that Aarhus was unwilling to name the suspect to

the public, as would be expected in a sensitive and ongoing investigation. This

would indicate, as I have said, that even if Aarhus suspected Thorsen of

wrongdoing they would not publicly implicate him in the manner that the document

does. Therefore, the document is probably forged.

5. The story does not identify the project in which the alleged fraud was

committed. It suggests a project far more recent than the 2003 date of the paper

that AoA et al dispute.

6. According to Thorsen’s professional biography, from 1997-2000, he worked

as a “visiting scientist†at a CDC office in Atlanta. However, there is no

evidence that he currently lives or works there. Therefore, he does not match

the description of the suspect.

7. His biography reports that he was an “associate professor†at Aarhus,

which does not appear consistent with the document’s allegation that he had

“full-time employment†at Aarhus.

8. His biography, which is dated Jan 22, the same date that the document was

allegedly composed, indicates that he was employed by Aarhus only through 2008.

Therefore, the charge against the suspect of “ continu(ing) to pass himself

off as the head of the international project†does not apply to him. Even

worse, the document can be proven not to be a response to a claim that Thorsen

made about himself at or around the time the document was allegedly written.

Even the statement that he resigned in March 2009 does not fit with the dates in

his biography, though this could be harmonized simply as a kind of

“roundingâ€.

It can be added that these allegations, dubious as they are factually and

contextually, fall far short of the allegations made by AoA and their immediate

source. It does not say that Aarhus “`expressly prohibited’ Dr Poul Thorsen

from working for a second university, Emory.†It does not say that, “The

double role of Thorsen came to light after the university detected a shortfall

in funding.†It does not say that “The university had paid out millions of

crowns in advance to Thorsenâ€, or in any way suggest that he misappropriated

funds for his personal use. And it certainly does not say that “Thorsen

vanished in March 2009â€!

And really, what was this supposed to prove? When someone literally or

proverbially take the money and run Venezuela, the logical explanation is not

“hidden bias in the studies†that will “undermine the scientific case for

thiomersal“! It’s greed and maybe sex and/or drugs! Why is it that, for all

their outward displays of cynicism, antivaxxers can’t seem to accept that

people can be greedy, dishonest bastards without help from Big Pharma?

Last edited by Leitch to remove all accusations of hoax by anyone person

or organisation. LBRB apologises to anyone person or organisation, including Age

of Autism who was named in this piece as being perpetrators of a hoax.

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