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Scientist Absconds with $2 million - More Info

Danish Scientist Absconds with $2 million More Info - Key character

who " proved " vaccines don't cause autism.

A Danish scientist who was a key researcher in two studies that

purport to show that mercury used in vaccines and the

measles-mumps- rubella (MMR) vaccine do not cause autism is believed

to have used forged documents to steal $2 million from Aarhus

University in Denmark according to reports in the Copenenhagen Post

Online and a statement from Aarhus University.

Poul Thorsen, MD PhD, headed up a research unit at Aarhus University

that was hired by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to

prepare a series of studies that would exonerate thimerosal, a

mercury-based preservative and adjuvant used in vaccines, and the MMR

vaccine from any role in causing autism. The veracity of the three

studies he co-authored is now in doubt.

These studies formed the foundation for the conclusions of several

Institute of Medicine reports that claimed that it was highly

unlikely that thimerosal or MMR were implicated in autism.

In a statement Aarhus University officials said that believe Poulsen

forged documents supposedly from the CDC to obtain the release of $2

million from the University. Poulsen resigned abruptly in March 2009

and left Denmark. Since then Thorsen has held several jobs in the US,

first at Emory University in Atlanta and then at Drexel University in

Philadelphia. Documents show that as late as January 22, 2009.

Thorsen was employed at Drexel. Any reference to Poulsen has now been

deleted from the Drexel website.

Investigations also revealed that while employed full-time for the

University of Aarhus in Denmark, Poulsen simultaneously held a

fulltime position at Emory University in Atlanta, and drew salaries

from both Universities despite a contract with Aarhus forbidding

outside employment. According to the statement from Aarhus University.

Autism advocacy groups have published extensive analyses on Thorsen's

studies and found many problems in methods, assumptions and

conclusions that are supported by the data. And Thorsen is the

lynchpin in the series of studies used to dismiss concerns about

thimerosal and MMR causing autism.

See SAFEMINDS analysis of Thorsen's role in the discredited studies

here:

http://www.safemind

s.org/news/ pressroom/ press_releases/ 20040518_ AutismAuthorsNet

work.pdf

See the Copenhagen Post Online article at:

http://www.cphpost.

dk/news/internat ional/89- international/ 48229-researcher -accused-

of-cheating- uni-out-of- millions. html

See the statement from Aarhus University

http://www.rescuepo

st.com/files/ thorsen-aarhus. pdf

Read more at Age ff Autism at: www.ageofautism. com

The two studies now in doubt include:

Thimerosal and the occurrence of autism: negative ecological evidence

from Danish population-based data. Madsen KM, Lauritsen MB, Pedersen

CB, Thorsen P, Plesner AM, Andersen PH, Mortensen PB, Pediatrics.

2003 Sep;112(3 Pt 1):604-6.

A population-based study of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination and

autism.

Madsen KM, Hviid A, Vestergaard M, Schendel D, Wohlfahrt J, Thorsen

P, Olsen J, Melbye M., N Engl J Med. 2002 Nov 7;347(19):1477- 82.

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