Understand that his so called study was then used to toss 5000 lawsuits from victims. In science, this is as bad as it gets and the rap sheet is a go to list to use when uncovering statistical fraud.
It is really pretty sad, but someone also paid for this result to appear and certainly influenced this chap. He never acted alone as no personal motive would exist. And the meta stats always pointed elsewhere.
Early days saw this in the mining industry until the regulatory level got serious and established real tools to make it dead difficult. One drillhole does not make a mine, but one hundred checked and confirmed will.
Yet simply tossing out some unwanted data can totally wreak a data set. The tossing out is easy to excuse but values need to be reported side by side, with and without. Mines have been built and operated on the nugget effect.
Nicolas Hulscher, MPH’s Post
Epidemiologist & Foundation Administrator at the McCullough Foundation2d
BREAKING: Fugitive Vaccine Researcher Behind Infamous “No Autism Link” Study ARRESTED
for Stealing $1 Million from CDC Poul Thorsen, once placed on the OIG’s “Most Wanted Fugitives” list under HHS, was taken into custody in Germany this summer after more than a decade on the run. Acting on an INTERPOL red notice, German authorities arrested Thorsen, who now faces 22 counts of wire fraud and money laundering in the U.S. for embezzling over $1 million in CDC grant funds. That money was earmarked for studies on autism, cerebral palsy, fetal alcohol syndrome, and genetic disorders. Instead, prosecutors allege, Thorsen siphoned it into his personal accounts with fake CDC invoices. Yet this same researcher co-authored the 2002 Danish study in NEJM — the so-called “gold standard” that CDC and the National Academy of Medicine leaned on to declare there was “no link” between vaccines and autism. It was used to dismiss over 5,000 autism injury claims in federal court. The study itself was riddled with fatal flaws — outdated autism prevalence data, diagnostic delay bias, statistical over-adjustment, reclassification tricks, and undisclosed CDC funding conflicts. Now, with Thorsen’s arrest, those flaws are joined by an undeniable fact: the study’s architect was also a fugitive fraudster. https://lnkd.in/ggtuTvGi
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