This guy belongs in jail and his research belongs in the garbage. What a travesty that this important news story is totally absent from the networks.

Even Roman Polansky got mentioned numerous times a year while he was in exile.

Thorsen makes off with nearly 2 million in US taxpayer dollars and it's pure crickets. No followup reports. No repeated condemnations from the CDC, no ongoing efforts to retrieve this large sum of money.

Nothing. Now, why is that?

Somebody out there with a conscience must be ready to talk. If you're out there, you can tell your story anonymously you know.

I bet Dan would take your story, maintain your privacy and 30 years from now, you can "come out" and be remembered in the history of autism as a hero.

Go ahead, pick your pseudonym. Be the historically important "Deepthroat" of the autism tragedy.

You know it's the right thing to do. And you'll feel better for doing it.

Wikileaks does have info on pfizer

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/17/wikileaks_cables_pfizer_targeted_nigerian_attorney

http://www.robertfkennedyjr.com/docs/ThimerosalScandalFINAL.PDF

Tobacco Science and the Thimerosal Scandal
by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

This extensive research document produced by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in 2005 should have been more than enough to get the attention of the government authorities and congress regarding Thimerosal, but obviously the corruption runs very deep into the halls of our nation's leadership. Here are a few paragraphs from this 66 page document, entirely and legally referenced [R.F.Kennedy is an attorney]

See entire document and references at link here: http://www.robertfkennedyjr.com/docs/ThimerosalScandalFINAL.PDF

Tobacco Science and the Thimerosal Scandal
by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

"During the 1990s, there were a significant number of reports filed into VAERS (The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) from doctors, public health regulators, and parents of children whose autism seemed directly linked to the vaccines. In response, in the autumn of 1999, the CDC asked its employee Thomas Verstraeten to perform the first large study of over 100,000 American kids whose vaccine and medical records were stored in CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD). Verstraeten provoked alarm within the vaccine industry community when his data showed clear causative links between thimerosal and neurological damage, including autism. “The harm,” Verstraeten observed, “is done in the first month of life by thimerosal in vaccines.” He wrote in a December 17, 1999 e-mail to Robert Davis, a leading pharmaceutical industry consultant, that despite “running, rethinking, rerunning, and rethinking” the damaging effect of thimerosal persisted. He titled his 1999 e-mail, “It just won’t go away.” [39]

When Thomas Saari, a spokesperson for American Academy of Pediatrics reviewed Verstraeten’s data, he panicked. “What if the lawyers get hold of this?” he wrote in an e-mail to his colleagues, “There’s not a scientist in the world that can refute these findings.” [40]

As word of Verstraeten’s findings spread, panicked public health agencies who had green-lighted thimerosal began warning each other of the study’s implications. In a June 1999 e-mail memo to CDC’s Jose Cordero and Robert Bernier, Peter Patriarca, the director of FDA’s Division of Viral Products and an American Association of Pediatrics Infectious Disease Committee member (both AAP and FDA had strongly supported the vaccine regimen), worried that “the greatest point of vulnerability on this issue is that the systematic review of thimerosal in vaccines by the FDA could have been done years ago. The calculations done by FDA are not complex.” [41] (By then, the FDA had calculated that a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine would result in mercury exposure nearly 38 times the EPA safety guideline. Referring to huge cumulative doses of thimerosal that children were now receiving in the multiple vaccinations, Patriarca observed, “We must keep in mind that the dose of ethyl mercury was not generated by ‘rocket science … [It] involves ninth grade algebra. What took the FDA so long to do the calculations? Why didn’t CDC and the advisory bodies do these calculations when they rapidly expanded the childhood immunization schedule?” He added, “I’m not sure if there will be an easy way out of the potential perception that the FDA, CDC and immunization policy bodies may have been ‘asleep at the switch’ re: thimerosal until now.[42]

Then Patriarca pointed out the seminal problem that helped provoke this public health crisis in the first place, and that would steer government officials into a shameful conspiracy to cover up the greatest public health scandal in American history; the ubiquitous conflicts of interest—financial and otherwise—that infect relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and the public health authorities. “It will also raise questions,” he cautioned, “about various advisory bodies regarding aggressive recommendations for use [of thimerosal in child vaccines].” Many members on the advisory bodies who review vaccine science have financial ties to industry. The agencies tainted by these conflicts include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”), the agency charged with investigating medical issues; the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), the agency charged with regulating vaccines; the Institute of Medicine (“IOM”), which examines policy issues for the National Academies; and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

Of these, CDC is particularly compromised. CDC has the extraordinary power to guarantee a market and profits to vaccine makers. But the people who make these decisions often have a financial stake in their outcomes. According to a February 2004 report by UPI investigative journalist Mark Benjamin, members of CDC’s vaccine advisory committees often share vaccine patents, own stock in vaccine companies, receive payment for research or to monitor vaccine trials, and funding for academic departments. Furthermore, CDC itself each year receives money from vaccine makers from licensing agreements and for work on collaborative projects and CDC scientists regularly leave the agency to work for vaccine manufacturers.[43]

Despite his professed efforts to manipulate the data to reduce the effect, Verstraeten’s confidential report of February 2000 concluded that there was a ten-fold increased risk of autism and related neurodevelopmental problems, resulting from the mercury in the vaccines.

By June 2000, Verstraeten had prepared his study for publication showing thimerosal’s causative relationship to neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism.[48] Instead of publishing the article, however, he shared his findings that month at a secret meeting with sixty pharmaceutical industry representatives and public health officials at the Simpsonwood Retreat center in Norcross, Georgia. The meeting was held with no public notice and apparently convened at Simpsonwood to avoid the reach of the Freedom of Information laws which public health officials interpreted to cover only meetings at government offices. Attendees included numerous high ranking CDC and FDA representatives, vaccine officials from WHO (World Health Organization), and representatives of vaccine makers GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Wyeth, and Aventis, all of whom are named defendants in lawsuits by the parents of autistic children.[49]

Transcripts of those discussions were first obtained by a Congressional committee investigating thimerosal and more recently by Safe Minds, a group of anti-thimerosal advocates. Those transcripts paint an unsavory picture of frantic scrambling by vaccine makers and CDC reps who had seen Verstraeten’s unpublished study. We see leaders at the highest level of America’s medical community charged with protecting public health, hatching a plan with pharmaceuticals to hide the dangers of thimerosal from the public, protect the pharmaceutical manufacturers of the chemical and the regulatory agency bureaucrats who had approved its use from liability.

Dr. Verstraeten, who shortly after that meeting announced that he had accepted a job working for thimerosal vaccine maker GlaxoSmithKline, introduced his research as “the study that nobody thought we should do,” and summarized his findings [50]: “we have found statistically significant relationships between” thimerosal exposure and neurological disorders.[51]

….the Congressional Record published “The Mercury in Medicine Report” on May 21, 2003 by Weldon’s committee. The committee report made a specific finding that: “The CDC in general and the National Immunization Program in particular conflicted in their duties to monitor the safety of vaccines, while also charged with the responsibility of purchasing vaccines for resale as well as promoting increased immunization rates.” [135]

The report faulted CDC which, it said, was plagued by “bias[es] against theories regarding vaccine-induced autism,” had therefore selected researchers “who also worked for vaccine manufacturers to conduct population-based epidemiological studies.”[136] The report condemned the IOM studies as “of poor design, under-powered, and fatally flawed.”[137]

The report concluded that:

“Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is likely related to the autism epidemic. This epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding the lack of safety data regarding injected Thimerosal and the sharp rise of infant exposure to this known neurotoxin. Our public health agencies’ failure to act is indicative of institutional malfeasance for self protection and misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry.”[138]

Dear Bob Moffitt:

You are so right. Parents and organizations should get on the CDC's case with their Senate and Congress representatives.

At the same time use this as reason to cut the Dept of HHS budget.

The CDC, NIH, IACC, and FDA (Dept of HHS)are the appendex of the Federal government.
When it is inflamed it is USELESS and should be cut off.

Thanks for writing about this. Where tf are the mass media on this story?!? Dr. Wakefield gets worldwide coverage simply for listening to parents and doing a simple case series study on 12 children with autism and severe GI issues, but Dr. Thorsen is ignored after absconding with millions. No doubt the CDC would hate for him to go on trial, as their relationship with him would be made public. But are all reporters in the pocket of the CDC and pharma?!?

Where is Mr. assange when you need him??? Blow this corrupt pile of crap out of the water. We want healthcare wikileaks!

I am wondering about the time frame. Did all this happen under Gerberding's watch?

When will some insiders at NANEA or Aarhus send some material to Wikileaks??! (To say nothing of those aware of insider information at CDC and elsewhere.) Exposing fraudulent excuses to go to war is all well and good, but there is a massive human rights need for good Wikileaks about this subject!!

In some parts of the the world, (and the US) and with some of the bigger & better politicians...

One is "considered honest" if they will admit to stealing the money...

I'm just waiting for the pro-vaxxers to come out and say that just because he engaged in ethics violations among other things that doesn't mean the science is wrong.

So I can then use that and say "You then have no right to attack Andrew Wakefield, because you can say the exact same thing about his work." And then wait for that deer in the headlights look that really never gets old.

:D

"Do not judge, lest yee be judged. For by that measure you use, so shall it be measured to you." -Bible

Does anyone see a pattern of criminal conduct here? From a non-attorney’s perspection, in RICO parlance, in order to prove a conspiracy one needs to show relatedness and continuity of predicate acts, and an agreement to violate the substantive RICO Act. Motive can be inferred by the totality of circumstances. Who has the motive, means, and opportunity to do the crime? How much more of a smoking gun does the public require? Predicate acts can be vertically-related or horizontally-related.

"...it is clear that just as in Bingham v. Zolt, 66 F.3d 553, 562 (2d Cir. 1995), there were a variety of schemes which were related only in their ultimate goal which resulted in “new injuries.” The underlying predicate acts of each scheme, however, were related and continuous."

Why don’t we start with the Simpsonwood transcript? Here’s a link to a video clip of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, titled “The Mercury-Autism Cover Up”, wherein he talks about the Simpsonwood transcript and the “sickest generation of American children in the history of our country” which began in 1989.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/644.html

Then let’s consider the subject of this post, the CDC, WHO, and ask what, if any, was Thorsen’s role in the scheme. Then let’s consider the role of the WHO, CDC, and ask what, if any, was Dr Albert Osterhaus’s role in the scheme.

http://www.oilgeopolitics.net/Swine_Flu/Flu_Pope/flu_pope.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/z027279_pandemic_swine_flu.html

Let’s consider how pharma gained (a) liability waivers for vaccine injuries, worldwide, (b) Advanced Market Commitments from governments worldwide to sell their pandemic “flu” inoculations, and ( c) a pharma-favorable re-definition of “pandemic” from the WHO. Pharma, CDC, and WHO need only “fan the flames” of pandemic flu hysteria each year and push for mandated flu jabs, globally - all for “the greater good”, of course. It’s a “perfect storm”.

"The US health agency CDC was the multi-million sponsor for Poul Thorsen’s research center NANEA ..."

Poul Thorsen's fraudulent research scam did not steal money belonging to the CDC .. his fraudulent research scam stole money belonging to the PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.

So .. the highest levels of the CDC who were responsible for "sponsoring" Poul Thorsen's research center NANEA .. are now reponsible for prosecuting him in the name of THE PEOPLE FROM WHICH HE STOLE.

Should the CDC continue to fail their responsibility to seek justice through criminal prosecution of Poul Thorsen .. they .. themselves .. should be investigated by the US Justice Department as possible co-conspirators in this fraudulent research scam.

Thank you Ulla!!!

I was just wondering what happened to Thorsen.
Wow, wouldn't you be working hard to get your money back or at least ensure this man was jailed for theft- if he stole YOUR money.

The CDC doesn't seem to care. Can you even imagine if a DAN! doctor stole $5 million from the CDC? He never would have gotten bail. The CDC are so free and easy w/ taxpayer money yet they complain and complain that their budget is too small. Well here is there big chance to retrieve $5 million but they have not done a thing.

Hmmmmmm.... I wonder why?

No one died from this fraud?
I wonder if the lady I use to correspond with 10 years back who lost her little girl would think so?

The story is she was a army wife, the daughter received a vaccine and her heart became very slow, probably from mitochondrial stress. She died in the army hospital emergency room, down in South Carolina.

Or how about the little boy from Middlesburo, Kentucky that died from his vaccine injuries.

Pictures of these children are what needs to be seen!

Never mind life long brain injuries. Just dead body counts!

That is about $1.8 million US, I wonder how many other cases of fraud on such a scale have taken so long to be prosecuted in Denmark. The natural assumption is there is a desire at the highest levels to avoid the publicity of a trial.