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Master Manipulator: The Explosive True Story of Fraud, Embezzlement, and Government Betrayal at the CDC Hardcover – May 31, 2016

by James Ottar Grundvig (Author), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Introduction), Sharyl Attkisson (Foreword)

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The explosive true story of fraud, embezzlement, and government betrayal. An insider’s view of what takes place behind the closed doors of agencies and drug companies, and the people tasked to protect the health of American children.

In 2000, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) carried out a secret mission to bury, skew, and manipulate data in six vaccine safety studies, in a coordinated effort to control the message that “vaccines do not cause autism.” They did so via secret meetings and backtesting health-care data. The CDC invested tens of millions of dollars in a foreign health-care data analytics startup run by Danish scientist Poul Thorsen, a move to ensure that no link ever surfaced. But fate had other ideas. The agency soon learned it couldn’t control Thorsen. In 2011, the US Justice Department indicted him for the theft of more than $1 million of CDC grant money.

Master Manipulator exposes the CDC’s hidden agenda for the cover-up. Influenced by Big Pharma money, future high-paying jobs, and political lobbyists, CDC executives charted a course different than what the findings of earlier vaccine safety studies revealed. The CDC needed an outsider to “flatten” the results of the data, while building an exit strategy: a fall guy in case the secret plan was exposed. Thorsen fit the bill nicely, conducting studies overseas. But the CDC’s plan backfired, as Thorsen took the money to the bank and the power went to his head. It would take years for his fraud scheme—funneling CDC grant money to a Danish university and then back to a CDC bank account he controlled—to play out.

Master Manipulator is a true story of fraud and betrayal. It’s a cautionary tale of the dangers of blind trust in the government and the health-care industry.

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May 31, 2016
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About the Author

James Ottar Grundvig is an investigative journalist who has been published in the Huffington Post, the Financial Times Foreign Direct Investment (fDi) magazine, Law.com, and the Epoch Times, among other media outlets. He has written extensively about technology, autism, and the CDC’s failure to contain the runaway epidemic — all of which comprise the foundation for Master Manipulator. He resides in New York City.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper, and president of Waterkeeper Alliance. He was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes for the Planet” for his success in helping restore the Hudson River, and he continues to fight for environmental issues across the Americas. He is the bestselling author of Crimes Against Nature.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skyhorse (May 31, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 151070843X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1510708433
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.14 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches

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acuaustin

Enough already

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2016

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So let me get this straight. We have a CDC that manipulted data in order to deny the link between the Agent Orange used in the Vietnam war and the cancers of our soldiers so that we wouldn't have to care for them? Then the CDC pays a mercenary Dane, Poul Thorsen, to manipulate the "Danish Studies" to show no link between the thimerosal mercury in vaccines and autism so that "autism" could be taken off the list of side effects of vaccine damage so that we wouldn't have to pay out the billions owed to the almost 5000 kids with autism that were petitioning the so called "vaccine court"? And then the CDC promotes Colleen Boyle, the sleezeball in charge of both these travesties, to head up the NCBDDD (National Center of Birth Defects and Developmental Disorder)??? And we have a Department of Justice that has indicted this other sleezeball, Poul Thorsen, for the million dollars that he stole from the CDC, but refuses to send the papers to extradite him from Denmark to stand trial? Are they afraid he'll spill the beans on the whole sordid affair and be the final crack in our precious vaccine program and expose it for what it really is- a deadly cooperation between "the monolith of CDC-FDA-IOM-NIH and sub-agencies fused to the pharmaceutical industry, with no wall separating big pharma from former agency executives, such as the one-time director of the CDC, Dr. Julie Gerberding, who today works as president of Merck's Vaccine Division"?
I join the author, James Grundvig, in asking exactly how high must the autism rate climb (1 in 10???) before we have a president and Congress who will finally dismantle this rotten to the core CDC? Let's demand they start by subpoenaing William Thompson, the whistle blower in the CDC, that has admitted to fraudently manipulating the data in yet another study to show no link between vaccines and autism. And then let's demand we finally have a study comparing fully vaxxed vs fully un-vaxxed.
This book will make you cry but I hope it will also make you furious enough to demand "NO MORE!!!!"

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Amy

Must read

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016

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Third generation nurse and we are still under the unwritten gag rule. So glad to see the Truth finally coming to the surface. This is an excellent read. I can only digest about 5 - 10 minutes at a time, still working on letting go of how health care is all about money.

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Kent Heckenlively

Eye-Opening Look at the CDC: No Honor Among Thieves!

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2016

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I wanted to spend some time praising James Ottar Grundvig's wonderful new book, "Master Manipulator: The Explosive True Story of Fraud, Embezzlement, and Government Betrayal at the CDC" because I think it is something unique in the canon of autism literature.

We have had the personal stories of families dealing with autism, and we have had some fine books dealing with various medical and scientific issues, but we haven't really had a book which examines at length the political culture in which this epidemic has been allowed to happen. Many of you are aware of Poul Thorsen, the Danish researcher who worked for the CDC and is now a federal fugitive for embezzling more than a million dollars to generate studies exonerating vaccines from causing autism. But what you don't know is how that happened behind the scenes at the CDC.

The Thorsen depicted in this book is certainly an intelligent man, figuring out how to data-mine a rich vein of medical information in the Danish health registry. But there is also something else in Thorsen's personality, a need to ingratiate himself to powerful patrons, and give them what they want. It is not an uncommon failing, and may be something particularly American. Grundvig makes the argument that more than anything else, Thorsen wanted to make it big in America, and saw pleasing his superiors at the CDC as just the way to do it. And he also wanted to live large, buying a limited edition Harley, Audi Quattro, Honda SUV, as well as a half-million dollar home in a tony suburb of Atlanta. That money should have been spent doing honest autism research.

Grundvig has a nice, easy to read style, and at a little more than 250 pages it is a quick read. I believe this is an important story which needs to be widely read in our community and beyond. I encourage people to read it, not to be depressed about how we have been betrayed, but to understand how fragile the facade is which keeps our children in their autism prisons. I'm reminded of what one teacher jokingly told me one day. She said, "You know, there's more than a thousand kids at this school, and only fifty of us. If they decided to stop listening to us, we'd be screwed."

People should read this book to understand one simple fact: Our enemies aren't that strong. They have been flailing for years, trying to keep this story from breaking, and I don't think anybody is more surprised at their success than they are. They know that eventually they will lose. We just need to keep the pressure on. I also have to commend Grundvig for his easy-going, even humorous story-telling. He seems like the kind of guy you'd want to hang out with, have a beer, and swap some stories. If Thorsen represents the worst of America, Grundvig's honest reporting represents the best of American traditions.

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me

Must Read for all- but mostly any parent expecting

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2016

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GREAT BOOK- why we are still having this discussion is unbelievable to me. I have followed and studied this topic since 1999- my son was born in 2000. My wife and I forced our pediatrition to break up the MMR to three shots and administer over time. We also waited longer then the schedule recommended and declined quite a few vaccines- thankfully we have a healthy child. If I read this book first- I would have waited even longer and declined more. This book explains the corruption and current situation at the CDC and every parent, doctor, polititian should read it- now. Thank you Mr. Grundvig.

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The Devil's in the Details

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2016

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If you want to understand how the CDC could have gotten vaccine science so very wrong, this is the book for you. Grundvig gives us a detailed, blow-by-blow description of how Dr. Thorsen manipulated data, ingratiated himself with decision makers on both sides of the Atlantic and helped to corrupt the science on which the US's, and to great extent the world's, childhood vaccine program rests. I learned how other key figures in the CDC's vaccine program committed scientific fraud, and not just on vaccines, but on prior cover-ups like health problems from Agent Orange. This is THE book that explains how the CDC concocted its fraudulent evidence of a non-link between vaccines and autism.

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Anon

VACCINATION IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW. THE CDC IS ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 15, 2017

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VACCINATION IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW .
THE CDC IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW .
OUR GOVERNMENTS ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW.
This is the biggest crime of all history .

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Jim

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2020

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Rune Soderman

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2017

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Excellent reportage but needs proofreading.

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