Blogger Subpoenaed for Criticizing Trial Lawyers

Cutie Pi writes "Katherine Seidel, mother of an autistic child and an avid blogger has been subpoenaed for her "family's bank records, tax returns, autism-related medical and educational records, and every communication concerning all of the issues to which [she] has devoted [her] attention and energy in recent years." The lawyer in question is representing a mother who is suing Bayer for $20M with the claim that mercury in their vaccines caused her child's autism. In her blog Seidel has spoken out against lawyers trying to cash in on thimerosal lawsuits, noting that the thimerosal-autism link has been debunked in several studies. But Seidel herself has had no direct involvement in the lawsuit."

Comments

I nothing Sacred these days?

[jameskojiro]

Oh I guess Lawyers are, my bad, nevermind.

Re:I nothing Sacred these days?

[Anonymous Coward]

I love US. Thank God I don't live there :)

Twofo Goatse

[Anonymous Coward]

Goatse.[goatse.ch]

You nerds love it.

Silent Spring all over again

[Anonymous Coward]

It's chilling to think that with vaccines it's like Carson's Silent Spring all over again, except this time instead of damaging birds we're hurting our own children.

Re:Silent Spring all over again

[sm62704]

My oldest daughter Leila has a measured IQ of 65. She's now on SSI disability. She was diagnosed with mental retardation, but as her dad who broiught her up I knew better - her reasoning abilities aren't at fault. I tried to tell each and every one of her teachers that, was ignored, and at the end of the year every one admitted that yes, I was right and the tests were wrong. I've since come to realise that she's autistic. Nobody who meets her now can believe that her IQ only measures 65.

Her development as an infant was advanced by every measure - until she recieved the MMR shot. She screamed and cried all day, and in a panic we called the doctor (now retired, maybe dead) who assured us that it was normal and there was nothing to worry about.

She was never the same again. The spark was gone from her eyes. Her life changed the day she got that shot. She now lives on government disability payments, in poverty, and will never hold a job.

Her sister's IQ is 132, well above normal. You're not going to convince ME there was no link. I was there. Show me all the studies showing red is really green you want and I'll be convinced that the researcher is color blind or dishonest.

I had measles and mumps, and I'm fine. Leila isn't. My friend Mike had polio (which has been completely eradicated in this country so there's no excuse for polio vaccinations here any more) as a child and he walks with a limp and one hand doesn't work well, but he has a productive job. Small pox and diptheria are gone, no need to vaccinate against them either. I knew kids with strep throat, none of whom developed pneumonia. AFAIK there is no vaccine for meningitis.

Cost benefit ratio, you say?

And besides, your straw man is on fire. The problem isn't the vaccine, it's the thimerisol.

-mcgrew

"I've got no sympathy, none at all. Throw them out of the airlock" - Prosthetic Vogon Brian Jeltz (IIRC)

Re:Silent Spring all over again

[sexconker]

Right - because it made the shells of the Peregrine Falcon eggs extra thin, and the birds died.

Except that there is no evidence that DDT caused the thinning, and, in fact, the shells have continued to thin long after DDT use had stopped.

DDT didn't cause the thinning. It's still banned though, because people fear global warming and other such nonsense.

Re:Logic and evidence be damned

[Anonymous Coward]

holy hell, you just described religion!