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Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award 594

An anonymous reader, quoting from CBS News, writes "'The first court award in a vaccine-autism claim is a big one. CBS News has learned the family of Hannah Poling will receive more than $1.5 million for her life care, lost earnings, and pain and suffering for the first year alone. In addition to the first year, the family will receive more than $500,000 per year to pay for Hannah's care. Those familiar with the case believe the compensation could easily amount to $20 million over the child's lifetime. ... In acknowledging Hannah's injuries, the government said vaccines aggravated an unknown mitochondrial disorder Hannah had which didn't 'cause' her autism, but 'resulted' in it. It's unknown how many other children have similar undiagnosed mitochondrial disorders. All other autism 'test cases' have been defeated at trial. Approximately 4,800 are awaiting disposition in federal vaccine court.' How did this happen when all the scientific data points otherwise?"
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Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award

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  • by Ssherby ( 1429933 ) on Saturday September 11, 2010 @06:19AM (#33543630)

    Oh the irony!

    I got moderated as redundant. By the Department of Redundancy Department no doubt.

    I got moderated as redundant. By the Department of Redundancy Department no doubt.

    How ironic is that?

  • by Ginger Unicorn ( 952287 ) on Saturday September 11, 2010 @06:43AM (#33543700)
    the B is for Bargain!
  • Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Seumas ( 6865 ) on Saturday September 11, 2010 @06:47AM (#33543708)

    Hare dare you question Jenny McCarthy! She has been a playboy model **AND** squirted out a child, so she is clearly far more qualified in the field of science, research, and analysis than any of us!

  • by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 11, 2010 @07:16AM (#33543806)

    I myself had serious side-effects of vaccinations traced to my school performance throughout grade-school. Other friends and family of mine immediately noticed their slightly "detached" or whimsical inability to concentrate without linking it to the vaccines. In the case of myself and some relatives, when the nurse or doctor says you are "behind" in your vaccinations then they just start injecting you with it all at once expecting your body's immune system to just adapt all at once with little close-contact study. All the vaccination complications and death have been linked to the host having a low Vitamin D3 content in their body. The main complication is auto-immune response to your own bodyily organs and nerve channels that it causes your brain to simply disable, immune system to degrade the myolin sheaths insulating nerves, unusual food allergies, random organ failure, metabolic changes, mutations, and a number of combinations of these complications in the right order is just like that final bricke a game of tetris that can knock-off all your blocks. In my case, I have amnesia in certain circumstances, over the course of a 2-year period my heart detectable stopped 3 times to my immediate knowledge and I thank the Unknown for it starting again in each instance, and an entire slew of others just from doctors thinking our body is like a Windows Operating System that can accept any patch they give without reading the lengthy disclaimer and anomalies. My nearest of kin was always having seizures and such throughout his childhood and nothing scared the shit out of us as witnessing it after concluding until 3am on a halloween night drive to another state for festivities.

    Some friends and family allowed tests to be performed similar to an MRI, while induced into the sleep-levels where these seizures arrived from, and the scans show all kind of unsual nervous system activity that should otherwise be the "rest" and "re-calibrating" cycles associated with the sleeping cycles. In terms of remedy against vaccines, we make the mistake in calling them just that when they are in-fact nothing more than Innoculations regardless of what someone's propoganda asserts as being a "weakened strain" of a deadly parasitic organism. It boils down to this: is your diet so poor that your bodily PH-level is at a low number that makes every cell on your body receptive to a virus penetrating it's wall, are you not wearing a static-charge device to electrify your blood, are you not giving your body immediate immunte system feedback and anti-gen reclaimation in avoiding small amounts of your urine with your daily water ration? If you want to catch the diseases in a controlled environment, then get Innoculated, otherwise don't eat the junk food and keep your PH level of your body high with plenty of propery oxygen therapies and urine therapies and lymph-channel massage therapies.

    The Innoculations are just to divert the complication of an immediate unregulated infection from diverting your time from crucial work, and as the case with children we see that it's the compelled association to fellow classmates of otherwise "squallid" origin that are a vector, and that itself to disuade from compelled association and coerced contract is a divine providence that Home Schooling resolves to keep the many micro-cultures of neighboring populations from just being a relay of Medical Service workers becoming carriers.

  • Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Kilrah_il ( 1692978 ) on Saturday September 11, 2010 @08:49AM (#33544240)

    Yes, there is. Troll gets modded -1 Troll for a good reason, while sarcasm gets modded -1 Troll without one.

  • by Convector ( 897502 ) on Saturday September 11, 2010 @09:35AM (#33544524)
    Yes, that's it! Everyone wants the big payout, so they'll get their kids vaccinated. Ha! That'll show the medical industry! Soon our kids will be immune to all kinds of diseases and live longer and healthier lives! Oh, wait...
  • Re:What? (Score:0, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 11, 2010 @10:15AM (#33544774)

    I'm a Doctor (Chiropractor) and always tell my patients to not trust their MDs or the toxins they get kickbacks to inject.

    Vaccines cause autism! The proof it out! The veil covering the conspiracy has been lifted!

    All you need for proper health are:

    Nutrition

    Vitamins

    Exercise

    Regular Chiropractic adjustments to keep your nervous system healthy

  • by Skater ( 41976 ) on Saturday September 11, 2010 @10:21AM (#33544806) Homepage Journal
    People don't care about relevant studies. They care about what their friend Nancy's brother's ex-wife's uncle said.
  • Re:What? (Score:0, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 11, 2010 @04:56PM (#33547924)

    The current "jackpot jury" system is sot irrevocably broken it's not even remotely funny. As a "health care provider" constantly staring at the business end of lawsuits it's clear to me that serious reform is necessary. Monetary awards merely increase costs without addressing quality of care issues.

    As it stands, medical experts duel in front of a layman's jury. The jury isn't qualified to evaluate the data presented and inevitably comes to ridiculous conclusions. All malpractice/medical injury claims should be decided by a committee of practicing doctors to decide if there was actually malpractice. Decision could include requirements for additional training, suspension or revocation of license. After all, the goal ought to be to improve the quality of care given to the public.

    The only ones winning now are the lawyers who make a business of malpractice cases.

    I think that the real concern here is that most parents don't know or don't think they can learn about the vaccines that the State Health broads say your child MUST have.... Do we really as parents know what are child is getting? Or do many of us just say "well the Doctor knows best! It's our job as parents to know everything that is going in to or child. I understand that this can be a huge task just look at the list of "required" vaccines for my state TX, You want to put your child in to school or daycare... just give them

    Hepatitis A,
    Varicella (the chickenpox vaccine),
    Hepatitis B,
    Mumps (MMR),
    Rubella (MMR)
    Measles (MMR)
    Diphtheria/Tetanus/Pertussis (DPT, DTaP),
    Poliomyelitis (Polio)

    That just for School and daycare! What are even in these? Who makes them? What are the risks? Most people just say OK if that's what's best for them! But do we really ask the questions? If that Vaccine was going in to an Adult I bet the Adult would be asking a few Questions! There is a list this long for a new born and one more for children 18 month and older. I'm not saying that these are bad or that you should not take them! But when I, as a parent am backed in to a corner because my child can't be Born, Go to daycare, or go to school without these State Required Vaccines.... you bet I would be looking for a lawsuit if something I was "forced" in to giving to my child gave them something that would impair them for life. I love how aurispector (530273) puts it

      "As it stands, medical experts duel in front of a layman's jury. The jury isn't qualified to evaluate the data presented and inevitably comes to ridiculous conclusions."

      Ridiculous conclusions..... A Child's life has been derailed! Do you have a child with autism! Put everything else aside and let that fact sink in, There is a baby that because of Mandatory Vaccine has developed autism. Now that is Ridiculous!

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