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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 09:22 PM
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31. I have been thinking that something fishy is going on here.
I know people whose kids are autistic and they all feel that it is from the vaccine.

So I question what they are now saying, and even more so after reading your op.
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  -Vaccine Court DID NOT decide that there was no link between vaccines and autism HamdenRice  Feb-13-09 12:42 PM   #0 
  - There is a lot of research out there, and it should not be decided by a court.  tabatha   Feb-13-09 12:46 PM   #1 
  - certainly not decided by a court appointed by the Congress to protect Big Pharma from liability  Fireweed247   Feb-13-09 12:55 PM   #4 
  - No, it has to be decided legally, not by scientists. The issue is liability  HamdenRice   Feb-13-09 01:32 PM   #8 
  - In this case it must be. This Court was set up so that people injured by vaccines  pnwmom   Feb-13-09 02:46 PM   #14 
  - I don't "automatically dismiss any link."  Occam Bandage   Feb-13-09 12:49 PM   #2 
  - Any falsified evidence would actually argue in favor of remaining claims  HamdenRice   Feb-13-09 01:19 PM   #6 
  - Thank you.  aquart   Feb-13-09 12:54 PM   #3 
  - Thank you for this OP!  Fireweed247   Feb-13-09 12:56 PM   #5 
  - Thank You  4 t 4   Feb-13-09 01:23 PM   #7 
     - what is still in question?  jljamison   Feb-13-09 01:39 PM   #9 
        - Association of American Physicians and Surgeons March 6, 2006  tabatha   Feb-13-09 02:23 PM   #10 
        - "almost nothing four years later. Autism rates ...declined at a similar rate" - so autism has gone?  muriel_volestrangler   Feb-13-09 02:26 PM   #12 
           - The original article from the Journal of the American Physicians and Surgeons is here  KamaAina   Feb-13-09 02:54 PM   #16 
           - Thank you. I hadn't seen it. n/t  pnwmom   Feb-13-09 02:57 PM   #18 
           - Government data shows autism diagnoses have continued to steadily increase  muriel_volestrangler   Feb-13-09 03:23 PM   #19 
              - I had no idea  KamaAina   Feb-13-09 03:28 PM   #20 
              - Wow! This I had not heard.  KamaAina   Feb-13-09 03:35 PM   #22 
           - There are probably a number of causes of autism,  pnwmom   Feb-13-09 02:57 PM   #17 
        - Other comments:  tabatha   Feb-13-09 02:25 PM   #11 
        - There are still many autism cases still to be decided by this court and many don't  pnwmom   Feb-13-09 02:50 PM   #15 
        - Ding, ding, ding  proud2BlibKansan   Feb-13-09 09:10 PM   #28 
  - Thank you for a clear explanation. n/t  pnwmom   Feb-13-09 02:43 PM   #13 
  - Thank you. K&R.  K Gardner   Feb-13-09 03:30 PM   #21 
  - Someone on an autism board just posted the converse hypothesis  KamaAina   Feb-13-09 03:41 PM   #23 
  - Luckily, some research has continued.  HuckleB   Feb-13-09 09:05 PM   #24 
  - Seems to me like a distinction without a difference.  lumberjack_jeff   Feb-13-09 09:06 PM   #25 
     - That is actually yet another distinct hypothesis  KamaAina   Feb-14-09 12:50 PM   #33 
        - Careful, with that kind of crazy talk, you're gonna get kicked out of the health forum.  lumberjack_jeff   Feb-14-09 02:49 PM   #36 
  - Thank you for cross posting from the Health forum. I was hoping you would.  Mike 03   Feb-13-09 09:08 PM   #26 
  - Kick and Rec! NT  Mike 03   Feb-13-09 09:10 PM   #27 
  - Thank you so much for this post.  bunny planet   Feb-13-09 09:15 PM   #29 
  - Legally, one denial can't disprove a link. One damage award, on the other hand, proves it.  lumberjack_jeff   Feb-13-09 09:19 PM   #30 
  - I have been thinking that something fishy is going on here.  jillan   Feb-13-09 09:22 PM   #31 
  - Bookmark  BrklynLiberal   Feb-13-09 09:54 PM   #32 
  - Interesting how there are few naysayers screeching their pharma giant propaganda on this thread.  earth mom   Feb-14-09 01:58 PM   #34 
  - This is the part of grief known as "denial."  Hanse   Feb-14-09 02:37 PM   #35 
 

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