Amid Fraud Allegations, Researchers Say Vaccine Science Solid

by Jocelyn Kaiser on 15 March 2010, 3:59 PM | 0 Comments

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The anti-vaccine movement has been buzzing over a fraud investigation involving Poul Thorsen, a Danish scientist who co-authored key papers in 2002 and 2003 that found no link between childhood vaccines and autism. After discovering "a considerable shortfall in funding" involving a U.S. grant that Thorsen administered, Aarhus University in Denmark referred the matter to police. A Philadelphia Inquirer story from Friday quotes the senior and lead authors on the two papers saying that Thorsen's contributions were minor and he could not have skewed the results.