In the Thorson case, we need to look at the underlying data he used to make his determinations. That means going back to the original Danish register extracts, rebuilding the study cohorts from scratch, and comparing what was actually run against what got published.

There's also the question of who signed off. CDC scientist Diana Schendel's name is on this research. Her full investigation and disciplinary record has never been made public.

Compare that to Andrew Wakefield, who lost his medical license over a study criticized for lacking ethics approval, no proven fraud required. Here, actual admitted theft and forgery produced research that denied more than 5,000 vaccine injury claims, work that would have cost the federal government billions if the science had gone the other way.

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