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Fight Over Vaccine-Autism Link Hits Court
Jeff wrote:
Kevysmom wrote: BTW, the special masters have already ruled that they will apply Daubert standards to evaluate the evidence. Mark, What does that mean? Would you be happy if these kids never receive justice? Donna It has not been determined that the kids were damaged by their vaccines. In fact, there is very little evidence that vaccines cause autism and much that vaccines don't cause autism. As sorry as I feel for these kids and their families, I don't see why vaccine companies should pay when the vaccine don't cause autism. The vaccine companies have already paid into a fund to cover the awards for real vaccine damage. The fund is over-financed and keeps growing and growing... I would not mind it if the fund financed programs to help families and kids without any reference to vaccines, etc. |
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Fight Over Vaccine-Autism Link Hits Court
Mark Probert wrote:
Jeff wrote: Kevysmom wrote: BTW, the special masters have already ruled that they will apply Daubert standards to evaluate the evidence. Mark, What does that mean? Would you be happy if these kids never receive justice? Donna It has not been determined that the kids were damaged by their vaccines. In fact, there is very little evidence that vaccines cause autism and much that vaccines don't cause autism. As sorry as I feel for these kids and their families, I don't see why vaccine companies should pay when the vaccine don't cause autism. The vaccine companies have already paid into a fund to cover the awards for real vaccine damage. The fund is over-financed and keeps growing and growing... I would not mind it if the fund financed programs to help families and kids without any reference to vaccines, etc. That's what happens with lawsuits. Facts are not an issue. Jeff |
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Fight Over Vaccine-Autism Link Hits Court
"Jeff" wrote in message news:TQkbi.604$or4.76@trnddc06... It has not been determined that the kids were damaged by their vaccines. In fact, there is very little evidence that vaccines cause autism and much that vaccines don't cause autism. As sorry as I feel for these kids and their families, I don't see why vaccine companies should pay when the vaccine don't cause autism. http://www.whale.to/vaccines/vax_autism_q.html "Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."----Goethe |
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Fight Over Vaccine-Autism Link Hits Court
Kevysmom wrote:
BTW, the special masters have already ruled that they will apply Daubert standards to evaluate the evidence. Mark, What does that mean? It means they're going to have to use actual science to support their case. Which is going to be hard. Would you be happy if these kids never receive justice? Donna I'd rather see the kids receive effective treatment and their parents paying attention to their kids needs in stead of focussing on this courtcase. |
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Fight Over Vaccine-Autism Link Hits Court
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"Jeff" wrote in message news:TQkbi.604$or4.76@trnddc06... It has not been determined that the kids were damaged by their vaccines. In fact, there is very little evidence that vaccines cause autism and much that vaccines don't cause autism. As sorry as I feel for these kids and their families, I don't see why vaccine companies should pay when the vaccine don't cause autism. http://www.whale.to/vaccines/vax_autism_q.html "Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."----Goethe These scientists look at the real data and concluded that there was very little data to back up the conclusion that vaccines cause autism: http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3793/4705/20155.aspx The people at the US Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences know far more about vaccines and autism than John does. Or I do. Jeff |
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Fight Over Vaccine-Autism Link Hits Court
It means they're going to have to use actual science to support their
case. Which is going to be hard. Im glad its going to court. Now the REAL science will prevail! Not just pharma "paid" science! Donna On Jun 12, 6:58 am, JohnDoe wrote: Kevysmom wrote: BTW, the special masters have already ruled that they will apply Daubert standards to evaluate the evidence. Mark, What does that mean? It means they're going to have to use actual science to support their case. Which is going to be hard. Would you be happy if these kids never receive justice? Donna I'd rather see the kids receive effective treatment and their parents paying attention to their kids needs in stead of focussing on this courtcase. |
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Fight Over Vaccine-Autism Link Hits Court
Kevysmom wrote:
It means they're going to have to use actual science to support their case. Which is going to be hard. Im glad its going to court. Now the REAL science will prevail! Not just pharma "paid" science! If you really think that the court case has everything to do with science, you're incorrect. The court case has everything to do with winning the case and little to do with science or finding the truth. Science is not decided by a judge. It is decided by evidence and data. Jeff Donna On Jun 12, 6:58 am, JohnDoe wrote: Kevysmom wrote: BTW, the special masters have already ruled that they will apply Daubert standards to evaluate the evidence. Mark, What does that mean? It means they're going to have to use actual science to support their case. Which is going to be hard. Would you be happy if these kids never receive justice? Donna I'd rather see the kids receive effective treatment and their parents paying attention to their kids needs in stead of focussing on this courtcase. |
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Fight Over Vaccine-Autism Link Hits Court
I would be delighted if the cases were all
rejected. That is justice. Spoken like a true Pharma Shill! Phuck the kids as long as Pharma prevails! You are sad Mark. Donna On Jun 11, 10:22 pm, Mark Probert wrote: Kevysmom wrote: BTW, the special masters have already ruled that they will apply Daubert standards to evaluate the evidence. Mark, What does that mean? It means that the evidence presented by both sides will have to meet the standard as set forth in the Daubert case. Look it up. Would you be happy if these kids never receive justice? Depends on what you call justice. If you mean having claims paid where there is no evidence, I would be delighted if the cases were all rejected. That is justice. I would be ecstatic if the parents and the kids were able to get whatever they need, whenever they need it. You may not call it "justice", but I would call it the morally right thing to be done. Donna On Jun 10, 5:47 pm, Mark Probert wrote: JOHN wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...07/06/09/AR200... 344.html?nav=rss_nation Fight Over Vaccine-Autism Link Hits Court Families, After Having Claims Rejected by Experts, Face Lower Burden of Proof Isn't that sad! BTW, the special masters have already ruled that they will apply Daubert standards to evaluate the evidence. This is NOT a lower burden of proof. The DOJ attorneys are doing an excellent job of preparing for the trials. By Shankar Vedantam Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 10, 2007; Page A06 For more than a decade, families across the country have been warring with the medical establishment over their claims that routine childhood vaccines are responsible for the nation's apparent epidemic of autism. In an extraordinary proceeding that begins tomorrow, the battle will move from the ivory tower to the courts. Nearly 5,000 families will seek to convince a special "vaccine court" in Washington that the vaccines can cause healthy and outgoing children to withdraw into uncommunicative, autistic shells -- even though a large body of evidence and expert opinion has found no link. The court has never heard a case of such magnitude. The shift from laboratory to courtroom means the outcome will hinge not on scientific standards of evidence but on a legal standard of plausibility -- what one lawyer for the families called "50 percent and a feather." That may make it easier for the plaintiffs to sway the panel of three "special masters," which is why the decision could not only change the lives of thousands of American families but also have a profound effect on the decisions of parents around the world about whether to vaccinate their children. A victory by the plaintiffs, public health officials say, could increase the number of children who are not given vaccines and fall sick or die from the diseases they prevent. Economics and politics intersect in the case with questions of health and the deepening mystery of soaring autism rates. Advocates of the vaccine theory have argued that the increase in cases was triggered by a mercury-based preservative in vaccines that, they say, is toxic to children's brains. Under pressure from the advocates and to keep the issue from disrupting vaccination programs, U.S. officials began phasing out the additive, thimerosal, in children's vaccines around 1999 while maintaining that there was no hard evidence that it was dangerous. But thimerosal is still used in vaccines across much of the developing world. If the vaccine court decides that the preservative caused autism, parents of children in poor countries are likely to protest its inclusion, but removing it would make vaccines much more expensive and potentially put them out of reach for many. Gary Golkiewicz, chief special master in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, where the case is to be heard, said he is aware of the larger ramifications. But the court's job, he said, is only to focus on whether plaintiffs show a plausible link between vaccines and autism. About 20 experts are expected to testify in the case, which will involve a staggering amount of complicated epidemiology and biochemistry. Golkiewicz said a ruling could be a year off. Experts for the government will argue that a range of epidemiological studies found no link between vaccines and autism, as the prestigious Institute of Medicine concluded in a 2004 report. The institute, part of the National Academies that was chartered by Congress to advise the government and the public on matters of science, dismissed the vaccine-autism theory, which is mostly based on biochemistry studies on the toxic effects of mercury. Large international studies -- and preliminary evidence from the United States -- suggest that after thimerosal was removed from children's vaccines, autism rates continued to soar. If thimerosal was the cause, removing it should have sharply lowered autism rates, scientists say. Although definitive national evidence is not in -- children vaccinated after 1999 are just beginning to enter school, which is the point at which many receive a diagnosis -- data from California suggest that autism rates are continuing to climb steeply. The cases are rising, experts say, primarily because of better diagnosis and services: Parents and teachers are more attuned to the signs of autism, and doctors are better equipped to spot it than they were two decades ago. Also, the boundaries of the diagnosis have expanded to include a range of problems under an umbrella known as autism spectrum disorders. The plaintiffs acknowledge that their case is far from airtight scientifically. But Kevin Conway, a Boston attorney representing the family of 12-year-old Michelle Cedillo of Yuma, Ariz., whose claim was designated the opening test case for more than 4,800 plaintiffs, said that even if the science is equivocal, he has a good legal argument, which is all he needs. "There is a difference between scientific proof and legal proof," Conway said. "One is 95 percent certainty, and the other is . . . 50 percent and a feather." Besides, Conway added, those who support the vaccine-autism theory did not put all their eggs in the thimerosal basket. They are also arguing that something else in vaccines might be making children sick. Like many other advocates of the link, Conway said he believes that vaccines in general are a good thing and have saved many lives. In an age of bioterrorism, moreover, vaccines are not just a health priority but a national security priority. But Congress's efforts to shield vaccine makers from lawsuits over the rare but inevitable side effects of vaccines have given the companies no incentive to make vaccines as safe as possible, Conway said. Congress set up the vaccine court to provide compensation for individuals harmed by those side effects, because lawsuits were threatening to put vaccine makers out of business. The law requires people claiming they were harmed by a vaccine to bring the case in the special court first, but if they lose, they can still file suit in civil courts. Scientific advocates for the vaccine-autism theory, such as the father-and-son team of Mark and David Geier of Silver Spring, say fears about damaging public health programs have prompted scientists and the government to hide evidence of a problem. Many of the families believe that the medical establishment and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have conspired in a massive coverup. Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and a biology professor at George Washington University, who has a 14-year-old autistic daughter, said the controversy has distracted from the real problem: finding services for rising numbers of autistic children and ramping up research to find a cure. "We are absolutely confident Rachel's vaccines have nothing to do with her autism," he said. "If we could roll back the clock, we would give her all the vaccines again." But the family of severely autistic Michelle Cedillo, who arrived in Washington on Friday for the trial, disagrees. Michelle was a healthy 15-month-old when she was given the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, said her mother, Theresa. The dozen or so words she had been able to speak -- including Mommy, Daddy, baby, kitty and juice -- vanished. She developed a high fever one week after the shot and went rapidly downhill. Today, she does not speak and is totally dependent on caregivers. She suffers from seizures, arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease and is nearly blind. Cedillo said she is "not anti-vaccine" and not very interested in playing the blame game or weighing in on matters of public policy. "I am not a scientist. I am not a doctor," she said in an interview. "We want to focus on Michelle and find out what happened and get the help for her that she needs."- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Fight Over Vaccine-Autism Link Hits Court
Science is not decided by a judge. It is decided by evidence and data.
What do you think evidence is?? It is scientific proof, not what the media and pharma paid data use. Donna On Jun 12, 8:02 am, Jeff wrote: Kevysmom wrote: It means they're going to have to use actual science to support their case. Which is going to be hard. Im glad its going to court. Now the REAL science will prevail! Not just pharma "paid" science! If you really think that the court case has everything to do with science, you're incorrect. The court case has everything to do with winning the case and little to do with science or finding the truth. Science is not decided by a judge. It is decided by evidence and data. Jeff Donna On Jun 12, 6:58 am, JohnDoe wrote: Kevysmom wrote: BTW, the special masters have already ruled that they will apply Daubert standards to evaluate the evidence. Mark, What does that mean? It means they're going to have to use actual science to support their case. Which is going to be hard. Would you be happy if these kids never receive justice? Donna I'd rather see the kids receive effective treatment and their parents paying attention to their kids needs in stead of focussing on this courtcase.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Fight Over Vaccine-Autism Link Hits Court
Kevysmom wrote:
I would be delighted if the cases were all rejected. That is justice. Spoken like a true Pharma Shill! Phuck the kids as long as Pharma prevails! You are sad Mark. Donna The problem is that vaccines *don't* cause autism. As sad as I am for the kids and their families, the vaccine makers had nothing to do with causing autism. Jeff PS, the word is spelled "****." |
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