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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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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 ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches

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James Ottar Grundvig is a first generation Norwegian-American, who lives and works in New York City. As an investigative journalist, he covers technology, sustainability, energy and business, and their intersections. James has outmaneuvered mainstream media in breaking stories, from the political red-tape with the BP Oil Spill, to the Zika money grab by the CDC.

James has published dozens of articles in the Huffington Post, the Financial Times Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) magazine, the Epoch Times, Law.com, and GreenMedInfo.com, among other media outlets.

His three published books span a broad range of subjects in the novel "Dolphin Drone" and non-fiction titles "Master Manipulator" and "Breaking Van Gogh."

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Customers find the book well-researched and insightful, providing a good source document on the internal workings of the government. They describe it as an easy read with a nice narrative style. However, opinions differ on the subject of corruption, with some finding it well-documented and informative, while others consider it a disturbing tale of waste, fraud, abuse, and lies.

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Customers find the book informative and well-researched. They find it interesting for anyone interested in health or working in the health professions. The premise is interesting and the book provides useful information about the CDC.

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"...It's an excellent source document and beginning - may others be as persistent and thorough as Grundvig in standing up to the tyranny of big pharma..." Read more

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Customers find the book easy to read and engaging. They say it's well-written and a quick read. The book is described as a must-read for parents expecting children.

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Customers have different views on the book's corruption coverage. Some find it a well-documented account of how politics and greed affect the CDC and other institutions. Others describe it as an expose of government waste, fraud, abuse, and lies.

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MT GRANNY / Colorado
Not for the faint of heart
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2020
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This is not the “anti vaccine “ book I thought it was. It is about the corruption destroying our babies. Well documented. The technology has long been available to have a safe vaccination program, other countries have taken the safe route decades ago, but our government chooses to poison our babies for profit. Only comment on author - allowed his raw emotional anger to affect his “descriptions”, understandable, not helpful to his cause, Glad I read the book.

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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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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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Thomas J. Busse
A Disgusting Tale of Government Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and LIES
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2021
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Unlike the other reviewers, I came to this book not as a health critic, but as a forensic accountant. The author dramatizes an astonishing lack of internal controls and puts the psychology of embezzlement and fraud in prime position. This is rarely done, and quite hard to do - yet it is at the heart of how organizations can become prey to psychopathic leaders. If the CDC allowed this fraud to happen and if the internal controls did not work - something else is going on - and the author makes a plausible case that the weak oversight was deliberate as a means to allow a corrupt science prepare a fraudulant scientific study to underpin the CDC's agenda. If the CDC is lying about this and the FBI is collaborating, can we really believe anything the US Government says?

My criticism of the book is that occasionally the author could use an editor to fix the narrative's flow so he doesn't repeat himself, but as a self-published and self-marketed book, the author has done an excellent job. Also, the author fails to pick up on CDC as a uniformed service subject to Military law - in other words, in its cover-up of Agent Orange, the CDC is protecting its Military Industrial cronies. The Author is suitably conspiratorial on the vaccine issue, but he fails to broaden this skepticism and blindly accepts the official narratives on ISIS, 9/11, etc.

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