{"product_id":"master-manipulator-the-explosive-true-story-of-fraud-embezzlement-and-government-betrayal-at-the-cdc-9781510786400","title":"Master Manipulator: The Explosive True Story of Fraud, Embezzlement, and Government Betrayal at the CDC","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaster Manipulator\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow available for the first time in paperback, \u003ci\u003eMaster Manipulator\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Skyhorse Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781510786400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.94d","brand":"James Ottar Grundvig","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52604444672181,"sku":"9781510786400","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/master-manipulator-the-explosive-true-story-of-fraud-embezzlement-and-government-betrayal-at-the-cdc-9781510786400","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}