Court rules autism not caused by childhood vaccines
February 12th, 2009From the Washington Post, New York Times, AP/MSNBC, CNN:
Thousands of parents who claimed that childhood vaccines had caused their children to develop autism are wrong and not entitled to federal compensation, a special court ruled today …
The long-awaited decision on three test cases is a severe blow to a grass-roots movement that has argued — predominantly through books, magazines and the Internet — that children’s shots have been responsible for the surge in autism diagnoses in the United States in recent decades. The vast majority of the scientific establishment, backed by federal health agencies, has strenuously argued there is no link between vaccines and autism, and warned that scaring parents away from vaccinating their youngsters places children at risk for a host of serious childhood diseases.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 10:21 am
The fact that the courts ruled against this only establishes further how powerful drug companies are. Who makes money from vaccines and who benefits? Need I say more.