🚨NEWS: Researcher behind study claiming no link between MMR and autism extradited:

Poul Thorsen co-authored the most widely cited study used to dismiss any link between the MMR vaccine and autism. That study was used to shut down more than 5,000 autism injury claims in federal vaccine court.

Thorsen was indicted in 2011 on 13 counts of wire fraud and 9 counts of money laundering for stealing over $1 million in CDC grant money. He spent 15 years evading arrest in Denmark before being extradited to the United States last week.

The fraud charges relate to grant money, not the science itself, and Thorsen has not been convicted of anything. But a 2025 reanalysis of the Madsen et al. study he co-authored found that its unadjusted results do not support rejecting a causal link between the MMR vaccine and autism, and the authors called for the release of the raw data to ensure transparency.

The CDC updated its own website in November 2025 to state that the claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out that possibility.

The cornerstone study used to close the door on this question for two decades was co-authored by a man now standing trial for research fraud. The full article has everything.

https://thehighwire.com/news/vaccine-autism-researcher-accused-of-stealing-1-million-from-cdc-extradited-to-u-s/

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