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Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again
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.'"
how is this a matter for the courts, thats retarded.
The link between autism and vaccines will never be officially acknowledged even if it truly exists, as the ramifications will be devastating to the established government institutions.
I personally find the abundant anecdotal evidence of such a link quite disturbing, requiring thorough investigation, though this is unlikely to happen due to the above reason.
Not only that, but why should the parents be entitled to "reimbursement" even if the immunization did cause the autism? Yes, the product should be immediately pulled, but do they have a right to get rich because of some hitherto unknown side-effect of a well intentioned vaccine? I don't think so.
I'm sorry, but you must be new here.
And no, I don't mean new here, but new to the last decade or three. Dunno if you know this or not, but there have been radical developments in greed and corruption over the last couple of decades, which in turn have flooded our court systems and practically gave birth to a whole new breed of Government. It's sickening, really.
It can all be solved and summarized in two simple words; loser pays. That would likely flush out 80% of the crap clogging the system today.
So Autism is vaccine related?
and Mercury? that cannot be healthy.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Some of us were just skepitcal. I held out on the shots, because I weighted the relative risks. Since my children and I are in a relatively low risk group for catching the diseases, I decided that unimmunized had a better probability * damage profile than immunization. At the time, it appeared that getting autism from the vaccine was a higher probability than getting the disease itself. For most of these diseases, Autism is more life altering the actual disease (assuming access to first world health care, which I have).
But now that studies have been completed, the probability has dropped (maybe to 0%, maybe not, but definitely lower). Upon re-evaluation, getting the shots is the lower risk option, so we will.
I'm not completely convinced that there is no link between the shots and autism. The probability of contracted autism has been shown to be lower than the probability of catching the disease being vaccinated against, so I'll guard against the higher probability risk.
2010:
"It's absolutely impossible that a few children may have an allergic reaction to MERCURY or multiple-series of IMMUNE SYSTEM MANIPULATION proteins being injected into them."
2005:
"It's absolutely impossible that a soldier inhaled the smoke from the BURN PITS in Area 51 or Iraq or Afghanistan may develop health problems!"
2001:
"It's absolutely impossible that anyone exposed to the carcinogens in the air at GROUND ZERO may develop lung cancer!"
1998:
"It's absolutely impossible for a teenager on PSYCHOTROPIC drugs to develop depression or go on a psychotic killing spree!"
1995:
"It's absolutely impossible that soldiers or civilians who inhaled the DUST of URANIUM shells used in Iraq may develop cancer or reproductive problems!"
1970:
"It's absolutely impossible that soldiers exposed to AGENT ORANGE may develop cancer."
1960:
"It's absolutely impossible to develop lung cancer from SMOKING cigarettes."
1959:
"It's absolutely impossible that anyone would have an allergic reaction to FOOD DYE and die!"
1950:
"It's absolutely impossible that a soldier may develop cancer as a reaction to RADIATION in nuclear testing."
(ng anymore.) [Stupid short subject lines!]
If that “medical evidence” came from Elsevier, or Monsanto, etc, it’s worth shit.
Medicine has no credibility anymore. Because the whole system is based on only rewarding them who keep people sick for the longest time. You get money for treating people. For selling meds. But not for healing them. You even get punished for it, since they won’t need to come back and pay more.
And no, that does not mean I’m saying anything about the statements being right or wrong. I‘m saying that the source is not trustworthy either way. Unless some big time proof of trustworthiness appears.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.