{"id":189520,"date":"2010-03-16T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/16\/anti-vaxxers-handed-another-well-deserved-defeat\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T03:08:00","slug":"anti-vaxxers-handed-another-well-deserved-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/16\/anti-vaxxers-handed-another-well-deserved-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Vaxxers Handed Another Well Deserved Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 3 judge panel has ruled that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/13\/science\/13vaccine.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">there is no scientific basis for claims of a link between thimerosal and autism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>In a further blow to the antivaccine movement, three judges ruled Friday in three separate cases that thimerosal, a preservative containing mercury, does not cause autism.<\/p>\n<p>The three rulings are the second step in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding begun in 2002 in the United States Court of Federal Claims. The proceeding combines the cases of 5,000 families with autistic children seeking compensation from the federal vaccine injury fund, which comes from a 75-cent tax on every dose of vaccine. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Understand that there is a fund, which can, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">does <\/span>pay out for things like allergic reactions, and judges ruled that there is no factual basis for this at all:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>In the three cases brought against the government, by the parents of Jordan King, Colin R. Dwyer and William Mead, all three special masters used strong language in dismissing the expert evidence from the families\u2019 lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>The master in the King ruling emphasized that it was \u201cnot a close case\u201d and \u201cextremely unlikely\u201d that Jordan\u2019s autism was connected to his vaccines. The master in the Dwyer case wrote that many parents \u201crelied upon practitioners and researchers who peddled hope, not opinions grounded in science and medicine.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is judge speak for, &#8220;Get out of here, you nut jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, if only we could get Jenny McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy, Jr. off of Huff Po before they do any more damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 3 judge panel has ruled that there is no scientific basis for claims of a link between thimerosal and autism: In a further blow to the antivaccine movement, three judges ruled Friday in three separate cases that thimerosal, a preservative containing mercury, does not cause autism. The three rulings are the second step in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,1074,1069],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-medical","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}