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Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again

Posted by Soulskill on from the but-were-any-court-members-in-playboy dept.

barnyjr writes "According to a story from Reuters, 'Vaccines that contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own, a special US court ruled on Friday, dealing one more blow to parents seeking to blame vaccines for their children's illness. The special US Court of Federal Claims ruled that vaccines could not have caused the autism of an Oregon boy, William Mead, ending his family's quest for reimbursement. ... While the state court determined the autism was vaccine-related, [Special Master George] Hastings said overwhelming medical evidence showed otherwise. The theory presented by the Meads and experts who testified on their behalf "was biologically implausible and scientifically unsupported," Hasting wrote.'"

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  1. This won't change anything... by silverpig · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...because Jenny McCarthy can't read.

  2. look at the amish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    the amish don't get vaccinated so autism is virtually unknown amongst them
    http://www.whale.to/vaccine/olmsted.html

  3. Re:This won't stop... by martas · · Score: 3, Funny

    darwin award, perhaps?

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  4. How to cope. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    There is way for them to cope.

    If i had an autistic kid, when he hit, say, three, I'd put a deck of cards in his hand and grandually build up to ten decks or so and teach him how to remember and calculate the odds for BlackJack. I would also buy him underwear from K-Mart. Then, in about 15 years when he's old enough to be in a casino, profit!

    In a Jim Gaffigan whisper: "He's so insensitive!" He hates handicapped people! Hooooot pockets!"

    Those parents are just too short sighted. I mean, just exactly what is a healthy kid? Normal?

  5. Re:This won't stop... by phantomfive · · Score: 1, Funny

    To paranoid people this sort of thing is only more proof that the government is owned by corporations and drug companies. These sorts of people never stop to consider evidence to the contrary, it just flies by their head without ever entering. Dangerous state to get into.

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  6. Re:Let me be crystal about this by benjamindees · · Score: 3, Funny

    You don't think getting jabbed with a needle constitutes environmental stress?

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  7. Re:Litigious society by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 3, Funny

    You have made an informative and unbiased post. Report immediately to the /. reeducation facility.

  8. Re:Litigious society by Martin+Blank · · Score: 1, Funny

    Aw, dammit... The scars--I mean, educational beauty marks just healed from the last time that happened. :(

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