WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 30, 2010 – Despite compelling evidence to the contrary, a federal appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling that vaccines are not to blame for autism.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a decision last year by a special vaccine court, which concluded there's not enough evidence to support claims of a vaccine-autism link.
Scientist years ago reached that conclusion, but more than 5,500 families sought compensation through the government's Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
Friday's ruling came in the case of Michelle Cedillo of Yuma, Arizona, who is disabled with autism, inflammatory bowel disease and other disorders that her parents blame on a measles vaccine given at 15 months.
In its ruling Friday the appeals panel said, "We have carefully reviewed the decision of the special master and we find that it is rationally supported by the evidence, well-articulated, and reasonable. We, therefore, affirm the denial of the Cedillos' petition for compensation."
Earlier this year the so-called vaccine court also concluded that the additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, an added setback in a long-running battle by parents convinced there is a connection.
It is an affront to all decency that the U.S. courts’ convoluted rules and greedy and unprincipled attorneys – who are officers of the court first and foremost and must do whatever the court asks regardless of what may be good for their clients – have resulted in denial of citizens’ legitimate petitions for damages, especially considering the government mandates or at least pressures its citizens to take the same vaccines that caused their afflictions.
Ed. Note: So the government can order you to poison your children; then, when the poison makes your children autistic, or worse, kills them, that same government denies you any compensation for the damages you have sustained. When is enough, enough? Revolution Now! Independence Forever!
