Scientist Who Claimed No Link Between Autism And Vaccines Disappears With University Money

Dr Poul Thorsen, the lead author of a key study used by EU and USA health bodies as evidence that mercury in vaccines does not cause autism, vanished after it emerged that he fraudulently claimed 10 million crowns in funds from his university in Denmark.

The data in the study called Population-Based Study of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism and published in the New England Journal of Medicine appears to show that autism rates went up after mercury was removed from vaccines, and was used in many subsequent studies justifying the use of mercury. However, the study has come under criticism for evidence that data has been manipulated to bolster the pro vaccine cause.

The close links and email communication between Thorsens' colleague Kristeen Madsen and CDC researcher Dr. Diane Simpson have come be fiercely criticised for appearing to show that Madsen and Simpson looked for data to suit their theory. The revelation that a key author of key pro thiomersal study has apparently vanished over a case of fraud involving the CDC funds is sure to reignite the dispute about the validity of these studies and the dangers of thiomersal.