James Ottar Grundvig - Master Manipulator

Copyright 2016 by James Ottar Grundvig

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ISBN: 978-1-5107-0843-3

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Printed in the United States of America

DEDICATION

to my son Fridrik
and his million brothers and sisters on the Autism Spectrum

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This author wants to thank Louis Conte and Skyhorse Publisher Tony Lyons for providing the spark and resources, and for championing this book above and beyond the standard of such deeply researched projects. And for their continued support beyond the books publication to uncover the truth, in all its stark reality, on a U.S. Department of Justiceindicted fugitive, who still today has not been extradited from his native Denmark to stand trial for his lead in the theft, money laundering, and racketeering crimes that diverted precious U.S. health grant money intended for autism research.

I would like to thank Danish journalists Jens Ramskov of Engineering Magazine and Peter Mller of Denmarks TV2 news station for their local research and professionalism. In the United States, I would like to thank the parents from all professional backgrounds in providing the insights, information, and research avenues to explore and drill down to the truth. They include my editor Michael Lewis at Skyhorse Publishing and Stephen Gregory the publisher of the Epoch Times newspaper, as well as Dr. F. Edward Yazbak, Helena Hjalmarsson, Mark Blaxill, Lyn Redwood, Sallie Bernard, Kim Mack Rosenberg, Robert Krakow, Dr. Brian Hooker, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, and Age of Autism editors Kim Stagliano and Dan Olmstead. In the United Kingdom, I want to thank John Dan Stone and David Thrower for their insights and years of research they have done on this most important issue.

And thanks to Fridriks mother Lourdes Campos-Grundvig and to my late mother Gudrun Odfjell Grundvig for their support over the years.

I especially want to thank Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his tireless support on one of the greatest stealth crises of our time, for bringing his energy, passion, and expertise to reverse a society-crippling epidemic, which as of the publication of this book marked 1 in 45 babies born in the United States acquired some form of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Mr. Kennedy has sacrificed a lot and given his all to the growing autism community. He understands better than most that if we are capable of polluting the rivers, streams, land, air, and the oceans of the world, then we can environmentally contaminate infinitely smaller reservoirs and systems in babies, infants, and children before they have a chance to develop in the most crucial years of their healthy young lives.

Playing politics with the health of newborn babies is no longer an answer to solving and reversing the skyrocketing rates of children with autism. Not finding the root cause of the problem today will drain society of its resources and natural talent, while permanently removing future professionals from the labor force or ever becoming a productive member of this great nation.

CONTENTS

FOREWORD BY SHARYL ATTKISSON

Today fraudulent research and corruption are sadly becoming more commonplace. The case of Poul Thorsen, for example, stands out in terms of shameless audacitystealing grant money meant for autism research. His actions only add to the questions of alleged corruption surrounding the Danish Studies designed to erase any association between vaccines and autism, sponsored by the worlds premier public health agency: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

One might expect fraud and corruption in government, but many Americans will be surprised to hear of it inside the CDC, the same agency that fumbled the arrival of Ebola virus on US shores in 2014. The fact that the CDC would contract with the likes of Dr. Thorsen on crucial research of vaccines and autism, and never consider setting aside his findings after his twenty-two-count criminal indictment, speaks to the waning credibility of the worlds premiere public health agency.

INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.

Statistics dont lie, the saying goes, but statisticians do. As an environmental lawyer and veteran of hundreds of legal battles with some of the worlds biggest polluters, I know that statisticalor epidemiological studiesare the go-to weapon of industry junk scientists. These hired gunsso called tobacco scientistsknow that fixing the science or an epidemiological study is as easy as lighting up a smoke. For example, one could easily design an epidemiological study to prove that sex does not make one pregnant. The trick is simply to get rid of all the pregnant people before one analyzes the data. Now you have a study that shows lots of people having sex without consequence. Voila! Thats one of the many tricks CDCs star biostitute, Poul Thorsen, used to deceive the public about the evidence linking mercury laced vaccines to autism. Prior to conducting his MMR study, Thorsen used exclusions to eliminate children with autism from the target population. Employing this and an inventory of other magician subterfuges, Thorsen authored a Danish study that CDC, for years, has been presenting as its gold standard evidence that thimerosal doesnt cause autism.

This is a story of how CDC used a con man to gull the public and ended up getting conned itself! Poul Thorsen is a world-class villain whose manipulation of health data gave CDC and big pharma what they wanted: a report clearing thimerosal of any possible role in the autism crisis. His story merits a book length expose because the fraud he casually helped orchestrate has had a monumental impact on the health of millions of children globally.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) most often cites Poul Thorsens crooked research as the final word on the controversy linking vaccines to autism. CDC rarely mentions that Poul Thorsen is the subject of a twenty-two-count, 2011 indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice for wire fraud and money laundering in connection with more than $1 million in research grants that he pilfered from CDC while he ginned up fraudulent studies to prove that vaccines dont cause autism. Thorsens former employer, Aarhus UniversityDenmarks university hospital systempermanently expelled him from practice in 2010. The fact that he is roaming free in Denmark and is easy to find, despite the federal indictment, indicates a lack of enthusiasm by HHS to file the necessary extradition papers and press for his capture. The agency has good reason to fear that a public trial would expose the pervasive corruption throughout CDCs vaccine division and the fragility of the science supporting CDCs claims about vaccine safety.