Who is Poul Thorsen, The Rogue Danish Scientist Arrested?

By James Grundvig

September 24, 2025

 

Quoting Shakespeare, I thought, was 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 starting off the third act with a 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 21^st century. Not only did the architects of the great scientific hoax pray that the Danish Health Registry would support the “vaccines are safe” pillar, but also hoped that they could use it later, down the road, to 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, and that my book, “Master Manipulator,” covered the health agency’s international fraud when it sponsored Danish scientist, Dr. Poul Thorsen, to carry out its dirty work.

 

Sure, my book’s title was singular, not plural. 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 more about their pensions than the health and well being of humanity.

 

The Danish Health Registry

Dr. Poul Thorsen was far more than a lousy scientist on the level of a “used car salesman.” This is according to 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 the CDC campus and located in Druid Hills, Georgia. The thimerosal crisis, which 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. This was a  subset cohort that would continue to grow exponentially over the next 25 years, with autism rates exploding from 1-in-2,000 to 1-in-31 today, according to CDC statistics.

 

Executives at the CDC also knew they neither had the time nor the luxury to “pause” vaccines in a moratorium to do a double-blind, peer-review study on thimerosal-containing vaccines vs placebos. That would take years and millions of dollars.

 

CDC’s Dr. Coleen Boyle and others panicked. Instead, they launched an international search for countries that owned health databases of their own citizens going back to birth. Finding such a goldmine of health records would allow them to back-test the data to show “no causation.” By the end of summer, the CDC shortlisted Japan and Denmark as the prime candidates.

 

With visiting Danish scientist Poul Thorsen in-house at the CDC headquarters, the choice was easy. He had become intimately friendly with CDC epidemiologist Dr. Diana Schendel—her boss was Dr. Boyle. Thus, 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, and 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”), a three-hour train ride outside of Copenhagen. Bringing in millions of dollars and world-renowned recognition in working with the CDC earned Thorsen a stamp of approval. He then used that clout to enrich himself. The used car salesmen had another weakness: he was a fame whore.

 

It was the two Danish studies, followed by others, published in NEJM (2002) and Pediatrics 2003, that laid the groundwork for Poul Thorsen to up his game.

 

By 2004, Thorsen began the steal of more than $1 million. He stole it from the CDC in tranches over the next four years. The money laundering ruse was simple.

 

It probably went down like this:

 

• On CDC letterhead, he invoiced Aarhus University for payment.

• The invoice directed Aarhus to send the wires to a CDC Credit Union bank account, which Poul Thorsen had open with U.S. taxpayers’ money.

• Rinse and repeat three or four times a year.

 

At the end of Dr. Julie Gerberding’s career as the CDC director, when she left office days before President Obama’s January 2009 inauguration, I believe she dropped the dime on Poul Thorsen. She allegedly instructed a go-between to inform the university about Poul Thorsen and the theft of the research money. In turn, that led Aarhus University to launch an internal investigation. That probe, however, stalled in April 2009 when Aarhus replaced deans of the university due to other financial issues.

 

On January 22, 2010, the new dean at Aarhus University published an open letter “disowning” the rogue scientist Thorsen in the most public, humiliating way.

 

A year later, on April 13, 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted Poul Thorsen with 22 counts of wire fraud (9) and money laundering (13).

 

Over the past 17 years, CDC’s former Director Dr. Julie Gerberding pulled multiple ripcords on her golden parachutes to ensure she was paid for her role (bribe?) to carry out the autism-vaccine epidemic to its end. Her first executive suite post out of the CDC was with Big Pharma giant Merck, which hired her to run its Vaccine Safety division (2010 – 2022).

 

When Dr. Gerberding officially retired from Merck, on March 1, 2022, she became the CEO of the  Foundation for the NIH 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 vaccine-inured autistic son, who was one of the 5,400 cases kicked out of Vaccine Court, the next bit of news made my day. It also provided hope that justice would be served, this year or next, and that the truth would emerge about how vaccines played the central role in destroying a generation of children.

 

Stealth Arrest of Thorsen

Two weeks ago, I received a call from a scientist friend, who alerted me that Poul Thorsen had been arrested in Germany. The fugitive from justice was finally apprehended. I was shocked by the speed at which HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. moved, in coordination with President Trump’s White House and Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.

 

All last week, articles on the arrest and coming extradition of Thorsen popped up everywhere — in Breitbart, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler’s Popular Rationalism Substack, Focal Point, Children Health Defense (CHD), and the MAHA Report, among several others.

 

A few podcasters interviewed me, with more to come the next few weeks, including The Flame newspaper.

 

There were a few wrinkles in taking down Poul Thorsen. Interpol’s “red list” team arrested Thorsen in Germany, not in his homeland of Denmark. The arrest occurred back in June, not recently. Another wrinkle: Why did the U.S. DOJ decide to arrest the fugitive in Germany and not Denmark? Could it be that the U.S. State Department will have a more expedient, less politically hot extradition process with Germany? I believe so.

 

Denmark’s scientific community has everything to lose if it’s proven that Danish scientists aided and abetted the Thorsen fraud, including changing the parameters of the study midstream to appease the paymasters at the CDC.  

 

When Thorsen arrives in the US, he will be presented with an ultimatum: cooperate or spend the rest of his life in a U.S. prison. At 64 years old, would the Dane turn down a plea deal? No way. He will point fingers at any and all CDC co-conspirators, for their roles in the fraud of the century.

 

If that comes to fruition, how long will Dr. Julie Gerberding last as CEO of NIH Foundation with HHS Secretary Kennedy in charge? I say not long at all.

 

Who is Poul Thorsen?

A decade ago, when I went to Denmark to research Poul Thorsen and other Covid Death Cult (CDC) figures, AI use didn’t exist in the public domain. A decade later, I use AI frequently in my investigative work.

 

So, I decided to pull from the CDC playbook and “back study” my own book, Master Manipulator, to see what it would conjure regarding the snake head  of Pharmakeia (“sorcery” in Revelation 18:23).

 

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 political and professional career to go lead the charge in saving America’s children.

 

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