“ONE OF THE GREATEST CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY THIS CENTURY”: The BMJ Exposes the mRNA Safety Cover-Up
The BMJ reveals federal health officials knowingly relied on a broken surveillance system to mask vaccine harms while ordering internal whistleblowers to “cease and desist.”
The foundational narrative of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout has collapsed.
A devastating investigation by The BMJ reveals that the CDC and FDA were not merely “incompetent”, they were actively deceptive.
Armed with the knowledge that their primary safety-monitoring algorithm was mathematically incapable of detecting harm, federal officials suppressed the truth to maintain an illusion of vaccine safety.
The facts, now exposed through internal emails and Senate investigative records, confirm a coordinated betrayal of the American people:
MATHEMATICAL MASKING: The FDA utilized an empirical Bayesian algorithm that they knew was broken. Because the system was flooded with reports for mRNA vaccines, it suffered from “masking”, effectively silencing alerts for heart inflammation, neurological damage, and sudden death.
DELIBERATE IGNORANCE: As late as 2022, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted the agency had not even performed standard PRR analyses for over a year. When those standard, functional analyses were finally run, they immediately flagged hundreds of severe safety signals that the government had previously claimed didn’t exist.
THE SILENCING OF DISSENT: When career medical officer Dr. Ana Szarfman and statistician William DuMouchel attempted to fix the flawed methodology, they were muzzled by FDA leadership. Dr. Peter Marks and others explicitly ordered them to “cease and desist,” fearing that accurate safety data would damage “vaccine confidence” and provide ammunition to critics.
A CALCULATED BETRAYAL: Officials knew their system had blind spots; they were warned repeatedly by their own staff; and yet they continued to cite the “lack of signals” to reassure the public and clinicians. They traded the bodily safety of millions of Americans for the protection of a government-mandated pharmaceutical campaign.
Americans were not just misinformed; they were systematically lied to by the very agencies tasked with their protection.
This report provides the documentation of a profound breach of trust, a calculated suppression of medical evidence that denied the public the right to understand the risks they were forced to take.
Footnotes
Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
Competing interests: This account is adapted from an upcoming book about covid-19 and the vaccines, written by David Willman and Peter Doshi. Doshi is senior editor, The BMJ Investigations Unit. (See top link for entire article and references)
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**Comment**
Before the first COVID shot, Sayer Ji warned that FDA’s own safety watchlist made rigorous post-market surveillance indispensable. A key detection system with a now proven and documented blind spot should have been a shot over the bow at the time, but senior officials instead worried about ‘public confidence’ in ‘vaccines’ and Meta records show pressure to restrict truthful side-effect information. ‘Vaccine” censorship was (and still is) prolific.
In 2021, Israel’s Ministry of Health sent out an alarm that they were seeing “a large number of reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people.”
These warnings went nowhere.
Pfizer, a private company and the manufacturer of the vaccine, received detailed case-level reports of hospitalizations and deaths. The public, and independent scientists, did not. The underlying record was never made public. The authors had to publish an anonymized version themselves as a supplementary file so that others could examine the evidence.
Five years. That’s how long this took to surface. Source
“This is the smoking gun for turbo cancers,” Nicolas Hulscher, an epidemiologist, tells Dr. Drew and Dr. Kelly Victory.
He says a new case study shows synthetic Pfizer mRNA vaccine plasmid fragments recovered directly from the aggressive tumor of a 35-year-old male.
“He received these mRNA injections. And then about 100 days later, he went to the ER and they found a giant cardiac sarcoma that was filling up his left atrium,” says Hulscher. “He got a booster, and then it spread to his brain, and he died because of bleeding into his brain stem.”
The paper, titled “Fatal Cardiac Intimal Sarcoma in a 35-Year-Old Male Following COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination,” details a previously healthy man whose tumor demonstrated an explosive 10-day doubling time. Tissue testing identified three synthetic spike-encoding fragments and the plasmid origin-of-replication sequence embedded within the tumor tissue.
“These were literally inside of that tumor,” says Nic. “We find the weapon at the scene of the crime now. And so turbo cancer is not a myth. It’s very real.”
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“My blood platelets had gone down to zero… I didn’t know if I was going to live.”
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It is NVIC’s position that the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act should return to its original form before the vaccine safety, civil liability and compensation provisions were destroyed by weakening congressional amendments, agency rule making changes, and the tragically flawed U.S. Supreme Court decision effectively removing product design defect liability from vaccine manufacturers.
This week on What the Morgs?, host Britt Girvan sits down with Dr. Raphael Stricker, a physician at Union Square Medical Associates in San Francisco and longtime advocate for patients with Lyme disease and tick-borne illness. Dr. Stricker is a past President of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), serves on the board of LymeDisease.org and the Lyme Disease Advisory Committee, and has authored more than 200 medical publications.
In this episode, Britt and Dr. Stricker discuss the challenges surrounding Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment, chronic Lyme symptoms, current vaccine research, tick-borne co-infections, Morgellons disease, and the barriers many patients face when searching for answers and appropriate care.
Topics Discussed:
-Lyme disease diagnosis, chronic symptoms, and common misconceptions
Dr. Stricker discusses the limitations he sees in current Lyme disease testing, what can make diagnosis difficult, how chronic symptoms are defined, and why patients with persistent symptoms may struggle to receive appropriate care. He also shares his perspective on the current Lyme disease vaccine landscape.
-The connection between Lyme disease and Morgellons disease Britt and Dr. Stricker explore Morgellons disease, the physical symptoms patients experience, research examining Morgellons fibers and skin lesions, and the history of patients being dismissed or characterized as delusional. They also discuss the importance of clinicians taking patients’ experiences seriously and continuing to investigate the condition.
-Co-infections, treatment approaches, and neurological symptoms Dr. Stricker discusses current research into tick-borne co-infections such as Babesiosis, his use of combination antibiotic therapy, and approaches used in his practice for patients experiencing neurological symptoms such as brain fog and cognitive difficulties. He also explains why treatment can vary significantly from one patient to another.
About What The Morgs? Podcast: What The Morgs? is a podcast for people navigating Lyme and Morgellons disease. Hosted by Britt Girvan, the show is built on a mission to support, educate, and empower those affected—turning personal struggle into shared strength and purpose. What The Morgs? Website: https://whatthemorgs.com/
Another Lyme OspA Vaccine Whitewash The meta-analysis by Zhao and colleagues comes to the conclusion that “the OspA vaccine against Lyme disease is safe and its immunogenicity and efficacy have been verified.” The authors arrive at this sunny conclusion by excluding 99.6% of published articles that demonstrate potential problems with the OspA vaccine. Furthermore, the authors ignore peer-reviewed studies, FDA regulatory meetings and legal proceedings that point to major problems with OspA vaccine safety (1-3). This whitewash bodes ill for future Lyme vaccine candidates because it fosters disregard for vaccine safety among Lyme vaccine manufacturers and mistrust among potential Lyme vaccinees.
Former CDC Scientist Whose Studies Were Used to ‘Debunk’ Vaccine-Autism Link Will Plead Guilty
Poul Thorsen, 65, is finalizing a plea deal with prosecutors relating to charges stemming from a 2011 federal indictment charging him with wire fraud and money laundering. Thorsen’s research was used to dismiss over 5,000 claims filed by the parents of children with autism who were injured by vaccines. An assistant U.S. district attorney confirmed that prosecutors are working with Thorsen on a plea deal, but declined to comment for The Defender on details of the deal.
This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.
Poul Thorsen screenshot via the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General YouTube page.
A former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist who played a crucial role in research rebutting any link between vaccines and autism is expected to plead guilty next week to wire fraud and money laundering.
Poul Thorsen, 65, is finalizing a plea deal with prosecutors relating to charges stemming from a 2011 federal indictment, Nathan Kitchens, assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, told The Defender.
Thorsen, who began working for the CDC in the late 1990s, faces two counts of wire fraud and nine counts of money laundering related to over $1 million in CDC grant money. The funds were earmarked for autism and public health research, but Thorsen allegedly used them to buy a home, two cars and a motorcycle.
Kitchens declined to comment on whether Thorsen will plead guilty to all or some of the charges.
Thorsen has been held in federal custody without bail since his extradition from Germany to the U.S. in May. The case is being heard at a federal court in Georgia, where the CDC is headquartered.
Researcher James Grundvig, the parent of a child with autism who was vaccine-injured, called the expected guilty plea “a very big deal.”
Grundvig, who wrote “Master Manipulator: The Explosive True Story of Fraud, Embezzlement, and Government Betrayal at the CDC,” which focused on the Thorsen case, praised U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for extraditing Thorsen “in record speed.”
He said Thorsen likely understands that the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice have “all the goods” to prosecute him.
“I guess Thorsen’s realizing, since he’s in American jail already and has no chance for bail, he might as well make a plea deal,” Grundvig said.
Dr. Dave Weldon, a physician and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives between 1994 and 2009 — and who President Donald Trump nominated to lead the CDC in late 2024 before retracting his nomination in March 2025 — welcomed the plea agreement but said it isn’t enough.
“It would be a miscarriage of justice if a plea deal failed to include a thorough investigation of allegations of scientific fraud,” Weldon said.
Danish independent vaccine safety researcher Vibeke Manniche, M.D., Ph.D., said some of the federal funds Thorsen is said to have misused may have been intended for vaccine-autism studies. Manniche said the guilty plea calls Thorsen’s research into question.
“An obvious question is whether he also has been cheating with data to achieve the results he sought,” Manniche said. “That we don’t know. A good rule in gold-standard science is replication, and it would be wise, for so many reasons, to replicate his work,” independently of the institutions Thorsen had been affiliated with.
Grundvig noted that the Thorsen indictment included unnamed co-conspirators, suggesting that the investigation may implicate more people — and also the controversial autism research that Thorsen helped publish in 2002 and 2003 that was cited as proof of no link between vaccines and autism.
“I think that’s going to be the second part of the story,” Grundvig said. “It could be an avalanche of bad news for both pharma and the CDC.”
Thorsen studies cited in dismissing over 5,000 vaccine injury claims
Despite questions around how those studies were conducted, the Madsen-Thorsen papers were used in 2011 to dismiss over 5,000 claims filed by the parents of autistic, vaccine-injured children. The claims were part of the Omnibus Autism Proceeding pending before the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
In “Master Manipulator,” Grundvig — whose son’s case was one of the claims dismissed as a result of Thorsen’s research — described Thorsen as “a world-class villain whose manipulation of health data gave CDC and big pharma what they wanted: a report clearing thimerosal of any possible role in the autism crisis.”
According to Weldon:
“The real crime is not absconding with research dollars, but unresolved allegations around his research which served as the basis for the CDC and the U.S. government dismissing vaccine injury claims by thousands of injured children. These actions set back vaccine safety research by more than two decades.”
Grundvig suggested the Thorsen investigation and his guilty plea may call into question the dismissal of the omnibus cases, as it would “then make all of those vaccine omnibus proceedings completely fraudulent because it was based on a fraud, and that should reopen the cases.”
Hooker, whose omnibus claim for his son was also dismissed, said Thorsen likely didn’t act alone in misusing federal money or misrepresenting vaccine-autism research — and that the role of some of his key collaborators should be examined.
“There should be a separate investigation against Dr. Diana Schendel, who was Thorsen’s direct grant supervisor and lover and approved all of his invoices for expenditures from his CDC grant money. Dr. Schendel undoubtedly knew of Thorsen’s activities but did not report them to the authorities and could have spent some of the stolen grant money as well,” Hooker said.
Schendel maintained an inappropriate romantic relationship with Thorsen and later accepted a position at Denmark’s Aarhus University to lead autism research there. She remains employed at Aarhus University — and at Drexel University — today.
“Other co-conspirators who knew of the inappropriate relationship between Thorsen and Schendel over the seven-year grant history at CDC include Coleen Boyle, Ph.D., former director of the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities), and Dr. Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsop, former branch chief of the Developmental Disabilities Branch at the CDC.
“These individuals at a minimum should be brought in for questioning. Both have also been implicated in the MMR-autism fraud from the DeStefano et al. 2004 paper, where data showing a strong relationship between MMR timing and autism in Black boys was illegally destroyed.”
Thorsen’s vaccine-autism studies full of ‘irregularities’
When he first joined the CDC as a visiting scientist, Thorsen’s research focused on birth defects and developmental disabilities.
However, by the early 2000s, Thorsen shifted his focus to autism research. His work in this area left a strong imprint, fueling future narratives that autism isn’t linked to vaccines.
According to a 2017 report by the World Mercury Project — predecessor to Children’s Health Defense (CHD) — Thorsen’s influence on U.S. vaccine projects and policies “is extensive” because his studies were used to dismiss a possible link between vaccines and autism.
One of the most influential studies became known as the “Madsen study,” a population-based study of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.
Published in 2002 in The New England Journal of Medicine and co-authored by Thorsen, the Madsen study concluded that there is “strong evidence against the hypothesis that MMR vaccination causes autism.”
However, according to the 2017 World Mercury Project report, the Madsen study was “flawed” from the outset because the researchers reviewed clinical records of only 40 of the 316 children who had autism in the study’s cohort.
A peer-reviewed analysis published last year cast further doubt on the study’s conclusions.
In 2003, Madsen and Thorsen co-authored another influential study, published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The study did “not support a correlation between thimerosal-containing vaccines and the incidence of autism.”
Thimerosal is a mercury-based adjuvant used in some vaccines, which some scientists and advocates for people with autism have suggested may trigger autism.
Brian Hooker, Ph.D., CHD’s chief scientific officer, said there are “numerous data irregularities” in the Thorsen studies.
In their critique of the 2002 paper, Hooker and Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., CHD senior research scientist, found significant errors in the paper. They concluded the study’s unadjusted results “do not support rejecting the causal link” between the MMR vaccine and autism.
In a critique of the 2003 Madsen-Thorsen study, Hooker and researcher Jeffrey Allen Trelka concluded that the study’s findings “may have been skewed by participant selection and changes in diagnostic groupings.”
Other critiques of the 2002 and 2003 studies raised concerns about ethical considerations. Both studies relied on Danish population data. According to the 2017 World Mercury Project report, the studies bypassed ethical reviews required for this category of research, as required by federal law.
When the CDC discovered Thorsen hadn’t obtained the required ethics approvals, the agency didn’t report the errors, and the studies weren’t retracted. Instead, CDC officials engaged in a cover-up, the 2017 report states.
“Given these irregularities, Thorsen should also be under investigation for data fraud as he clearly withheld data and could have altered data” from Danish official sources, Hooker told The Defender.
Manniche said that if it is proven Thorsen tampered with the data in his studies, it would be a “terrible tragedy,” because “parents were told that the MMR vaccine was safe and sound and that it couldn’t harm the child.”
As of July 31, there were 1,931 reports claiming onset of autism or autism spectrum disorder following MMR vaccination contained within the federally run Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
Will Thorsen sing?
Grundvig suggested that, as part of his plea agreement with prosecutors, Thorsen may have an incentive to provide testimony or information targeting other CDC figures.
“Thorsen’s 65 years old, born in 1961 … does he want to die in an American jail?” Grundvig asked. “I don’t think so. So, I think he wants to make, and will make, a plea deal. The only way he’s going to make a plea deal is with someone like Kennedy and maybe others in the Department of Justice that look at a bigger case,” Grundvig said.
Grundvig suggested this “bigger case” may involve the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act or RICO Act.
“There’s a bigger fraud involved than just stealing money, and I think it goes back to the vaccines, it goes back to the studies that the CDC cooked up,” potentially implicating Schendel and Madsen.
“Will he be used as a star witness against the CDC old guard and all of the shenanigans that went on massaging of science, of science papers, influence on Pediatrics and other journals, in order to get all of this done back in the early 2000s in order to exonerate vaccines and erase the autism signal?” Grundvig asked.
