Families make case for vaccine link to autism
Parents claiming that childhood vaccines cause autism should not be rewarded by the courts when the scientific community has already rejected any link, government lawyers argued Monday on the first day of a hearing in federal court.
Overall, nearly 4,900 families have filed claims with the U.S. Court of Claims alleging that vaccines caused autism and other neurological problems in their children. Lawyers for the families are presenting three different theories of how vaccines caused autism. The theory at issue Monday was whether vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal caused autism.
Lynn Ricciardella, a Justice Department lawyer, said that theory has not moved beyond the realm of speculation. She said that the Institute of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have rejected any link between thimerosal and autism.
"There is no scientific debate," Ricciardella said. "The debate is over."
Autism is a developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life and affects a person's ability to communicate and interact with others. Medical experts don't have a comprehensive understanding of what causes autism, but they do know there is a strong hereditary component.
Thimerosal has been removed in recent years from standard childhood vaccines, except flu vaccines that are not packaged in single doses. The CDC says single-dose flu shots currently are available only in limited quantities.
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Posted By: Evax @ 05/12/2008 7:52:32 PM
Comment: An arcane reason underlying the demise of the Roman Empire was lead poisoning of Royal Romans because only corps d'elite in that society at that time could affort drinking vessels made from lead (an expensive item) and they had no idea that they were paying for slow death. Regardless of the full impact of thimerosal and alum on health, these artifical additives should be forever banned from vaccine formulas. A new generation of vaccines in compliance with evolutionary medicine has been developed. Why are we still bothered by the unknown risks associated with thimerosal?
Posted By: Victory0404 @ 05/12/2008 3:34:41 AM
Comment: Maxism
0. Corruption is the enemy number one of the humankinds.
1. Only science and ethics have developed and can develop the world.
2. Traditional Chinese medicine and chiropractic should be eradicated from the world (like Japan).
3. Only the strongest military power can make the political negotiation.
4. Without the strongest naval power, any country cannot be an empire.
5. Just nuclear weaponry cannot make one country an empire.
6. If you want peace, always understand and prepare for war.
7. In war, there is no option without victory.
8. The tree named democracy grows by bloody nutrition.
9. Only America is a democratic empire with charity.
10. The end goal of the empire must not be destruction and/or genocide. It must be freedom, democracy and guarantee of human rights.
11. The most important factor is the human factor.
12. Absolutely no more nuclear proliferation is possible forever after 9.11.
13. Education is the most powerful methodology to develop the world from generation to generation.
14. Democracy must overcome enemy tactics in guerrilla war.
15. Golan Heights must not be returned eternally to Syria for the world peace.
16. Japanialization of the national industry and the food style is best to develop every country.
17. Definitely and absolutely, nuclear weapon cannot be used offensively by any normal people except the psycho.