Personal Injury Law

Judges Rule Against Claims That Vaccines Cause Autism

By Edward Bills

Three judges ruled last week against families in three separate cases that claimed a vaccine preservative caused autism in their children. The judges ruled in all three cases that there was little or no chance that the children?s autism were caused by the vaccines, and one judge wrote that the families ?relied upon practitioners and researchers who peddled hope, not opinions grounded in science and medicine.? The anti-vaccine group lost three similar cases in early 2009. The three rulings are the second step in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding begun in 2002 in the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).