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Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award

Posted by timothy on from the welcome-to-a-jury-of-your-peers dept.

An anonymous reader, quoting from CBS News, writes "'The first court award in a vaccine-autism claim is a big one. CBS News has learned the family of Hannah Poling will receive more than $1.5 million for her life care, lost earnings, and pain and suffering for the first year alone. In addition to the first year, the family will receive more than $500,000 per year to pay for Hannah's care. Those familiar with the case believe the compensation could easily amount to $20 million over the child's lifetime. ... In acknowledging Hannah's injuries, the government said vaccines aggravated an unknown mitochondrial disorder Hannah had which didn't 'cause' her autism, but 'resulted' in it. It's unknown how many other children have similar undiagnosed mitochondrial disorders. All other autism 'test cases' have been defeated at trial. Approximately 4,800 are awaiting disposition in federal vaccine court.' How did this happen when all the scientific data points otherwise?"

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  1. The force be with you... by Ssherby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This maybe explains how those Jedi can afford to be flying all over the galaxy in their personal space crafts.

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  2. Re:What? by Kilrah_il · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry to be unsupportive, but only you are punished for this. I'm from Israel, we have our own different fuckups :)

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  3. Re:Put Penn & Teller next to Cleo & Robin by ChienAndalu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hope Moxie CrimeFighter Jillette kicks your stupid ass one day.

  4. Re:What? by Khyber · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "To me it just doesn't make logical sense to have a $50/hour doctor doing appendectomies when a $25/hour tech could do the job just as well."

    Neurosurgery.

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  5. Re:Please start questioning! by gingertaylor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And I don't know why slash dot turned my post into a big blob of words. Sorry.

  6. Re:Please start questioning! by gingertaylor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks!

  7. Re:Vaccines are a great idea. by GameboyRMH · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Plus the GP forgets the entire Ferengi race who are all depicted as 100% greed-driven. Yeah they were in TNG too, not just DS9, if you skipped that (can't blame you).

    And +1 for Q being a massive psychopath.

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