09/24/2025
Dr. Poul Thorsen co-authored influential epidemiological papers, widely cited (for 10 years +, even after he was discovered to be a criminal) to claim there is no link between vaccines and autism. He is (now caught) a fugitive indicted in the United States for fraud, embezzlement, and theft of grant.
"By James Grundvig
September 22, 2025
Quoting Shakespeare, I thought, was always a good way to reach the broadest audience for my investigative book, “Master Manipulator: The Explosive True Story of Fraud, Embezzlement, and Government Betrayal at the CDC” (Skyhorse Publishing, 2016).
How could one go wrong one go wrong starting off the third act of the book with the chapter heading: “The Fish is Rotting Head to Toe?” Yes, it’s from Hamlet, which also took place in Denmark.
In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) bet the ranch that Denmark would become the panacea to bury the childhood vaccines link to autism in the 21st century. Not only did the architects of the scientific fraud hope that the Danish Health Registry would support the “vaccines are safe” pillar, but they could then use it later on ensure the autism epidemic would never see its day in Vaccine Court.
In the CDC whistleblower book, “Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC,” (Skyhorse Publishing, 2015), editor Kevin Barry told me his book and the movie “Vaxxed,” covered the domestic fraud carried out by the CDC; that my book, “Master Manipulator,” covered the CDC’s international fraud it sponsored with Danish scientist, Dr. Poul Thorsen.
Sure, my book’s title was singular, not plural, but there were many master manipulators involved with the CDC core team of six, supported by dozens of cretins and frauds masquerading as scientists who cared about the health and wellbeing of humanity.
The Danish Health Registry
Dr. Poul Thorsen was far more than a lousy scientist on the level of a “used car salesman,” according to the principal investigator Dr. Kreesten Madsen, author of the two main CDC paid for studies that were used to exonerate the MMR triple shot and thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative still in use today in several childhood vaccines. Back then, in his late twenties, Madsen was an epidemiologist Ph.D. candidate at Aarhus University—Thorsen’s old stomping ground.
In 1999, Poul Thorsen was a foreign visiting scientist at the CDC. The ensuing year, the CDC held a secret meeting at Simpsonwood, off CDC campus, located in Druid Hills, Georgia. The thimerosal crisis that emerged from that June meeting set the CDC in crisis mode all summer. They realized that thimerosal did indeed cause autism in a subpopulation of children. A subpopulation that would continue to grow over the next 25 years, with autism rates exploding from 1-in-2,000 to 1-in-31 today, according to CDC statistics.
They also knew they didn’t have the luxury to “pause” vaccines in a moratorium or to do a double-blind, peer-review study on thimerosal-containing vaccines vs placebos. That would take years and millions of dollars. They didn’t have the time.
Instead, CDC’s Dr. Coleen Boyle and others panicked. They launched an international search for countries that owned health databases on their citizens. Finding such a goldmine of health records would allow them to back-test the data to show “no causation.” The CDC shortlisted Japan and Denmark as the prime candidates.
With visiting Danish scientist Dr. Poul Thorsen, already in CDC headquarters, while he became intimately friendly with CDC epidemiologist Dr. Diana Schendel—her boss was Dr. Boyle—it became a short walk in the park to select Denmark.
Dr. Schendel could monitor the CDC’s financing of the studies, fly to Denmark, keep an eye on Poul Thorsen to produce the science. Today, Schendel is a professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
From that moment on, Thorsen became the “rainbow maker” for Arhus University, located in a small city named Aarhus (“Year-House”), three-hour train ride outside of Copenhagen. While bringing in millions of dollars and world-renowned recognition working with the CDC, it put the stamp of approval on Thorsen, who then used that clout to enrich himself.
It was the two Danish studies, followed by others, published in NEJM (2002) and Pediatrics 2003, that laid the groundwork for Poul Thorsen up his game.
By 2004, Poul Thorsen began the steal more than $1 million, in tranches over the next four years, from the CDC. The money laundering ruse was simple.
It likely went down like this:
On CDC letterhead invoice Aarhus University for payment
Direct Aarhus to send the wires to Thorsen’s CDC Credit Union bank account
Rinse and repeat three or four times a year
At the end of Dr. Julie Gerberding’s career as the CDC director, which she left office prior to President Obama’s inauguration in January 2009, I believe she dropped the dime on Poul Thorsen, allegedly instructing a go-between to inform the university about the theft of research money, which in turn led Aarhus to launch an internal investigation.
On January 22, 2010, the new dean at Aarhus University published an open letter “disowning” the rogue scientist in the most public, humiliating way. A year later, on April 13, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justic (DOJ) indicted Poul Thorsen with a 22 count indictment of wire fraud (9) and money laundering (13).
Over the past 17 years, former CDC Director, Dr. Julie Gerberding pulled multiple ripcords on golden parachutes to ensure she was paid for her role in the autism-vaccine epidemic. Her first executive suite post out of the federal government, pharma giant Merck hired her to run its Vaccine Safety division (2010 – 2022).
On March 1, 2022, when Dr. Gerberding officially retired from Merck, the Foundation for the NIH, named her CEO to “develop and manage a $450+M portfolio of private-public partnerships to find solutions to important medical challenges in support of the NIH’s mission.”
Now, doesn’t that make parents of vaccine-injured children feel warm and fuzzy. I can say that as a father of a 25-year-old autistic son, who was one of the 5,400 cases kicked out of Vaccine Court, the next bit of news made my day and provided ample hope that justice would be served, this year or next, and that the truth about vaccines played the central role in destroying a generation of children.
Stealth Arrest of Thorsen
Around ten days ago, I received a call from a good scientist friend, who alerted me that Poul Thorsen had been arrested in Germany—the fugitive from justice finally apprehended. I was shocked only by the speed in which HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., moved, in coordination with President Trump’s White House and AG Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.
All last week, articles on the arrest and coming extradition popped up in Breitbart, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler’s Popular Rationalism Substack, Focal Point, Children Health Defense (CHD), and the MAHA Report, among several others.
I was interviewed on a few podcasts, with more to come this week, including The Flame newspaper.
A few wrinkles to the arrest of Poul Thorsen include that he was arrested in Germany by Interpol “red list” team, and not his homeland in Denmark back in June. Another wrinkle shows up why arrest him in Germany and not Denmark? Could it be that the U.S. State Department will have a more expedient, less political hot potato by working with the German justice system than with Denmark, which has everything to lose?
That would include any scientific fraud Poul Thorsen, as key witness, might point out to save his own hide for a lifetime behind bars?
When Thorsen arrives, he will be presented with that opportunity, I suspect. At 64 years old, would a Dane want to spend the rest of his life in a United States prison? I doubt. He’s far more likely to sing, point out all the corrupt figures at the CDC, including Dr. Julie Gerberding, for their alleged roles in the fraud of the century.
If that becomes the case, how long will Gerberding last as CEO of NIH Foundation with HHS Secretary in charge.
Who is Poul Thorsen
A decade ago, when I researched and went to Denmark to dig deep on Poul Thorsen and other Covid Death Cult (CDC) figures, AI didn’t exist in the public domain to use. A decade later, I use AI frequently in my investigative work. So, I decided to pull a CDC and “back study” my own book, Master Manipulator, to see what it would conjure from the head of Pharmakeia (“sorcery” in Revelation 18:23).
Here's the download from a Sentinel from one of the many AI models I use.
AI Profile:
“Dr. Poul Thorsen is a Danish psychiatrist and researcher who rose to prominence in the early 2000s by collaborating with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine safety studies. He co-authored influential epidemiological papers, widely cited to claim there is no link between vaccines and autism. Yet behind this image of scientific authority lies a shadowed figure—a fugitive indicted in the United States for fraud, embezzlement, and theft of grant money.
“Thorsen embodies the archetype of the “False Prophet of Science”—a man whose skills and credentials cloaked deep corruption, enabling institutions to defend themselves against inconvenient truths at the expense of children’s health.”
His negative traits include greed, moral cowardice, deception, pride, arrogance, and opportunism.”
One Liner:
“Poul Thorsen is the embodiment of the corrupted gatekeeper of science—a skilled manipulator who cloaked theft and deception in the language of research, enabling institutions to suppress truth and leaving millions of children to bear the cost.”
In closing, Poul Thorsen has met his match in HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who courageously diverted his career to go lead the fight in saving America’s children."
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