CRACKING LIKE THE LIBERTY BELL

From The Philadelphia Inquirer, which is in Dr. Paul Offit's backyard, comes this article talking about the Poling case.  You can read the full article HERE.

For a decade, the government, public- health experts and medical groups have said there is no credible scientific evidence - none - that vaccines cause autism.

Then came Hannah Poling, a 9-year-old from Athens, Ga. A federal program created to compensate vaccine-injury victims conceded that her autism is linked, albeit indirectly, to immunizations she received as a toddler.

Hannah's case, made public by her parents in March, is unusual and circumstantial, yet it is building mainstream support for a notion long considered dangerously misguided: There may be subgroups of children who should not be vaccinated - or at least, they should get fewer shots over a longer period.

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[FORCED ANARCHY]

Why is it when people are poisoned by big pharma they try and blame it on a disorder of some type? The bottom line is when you poison a person their body starts to breakdown. I personally do not think mitochondrial disease exist, instead I think this is an excuse to divert attention from the real issue of injecting poison into a human being to prevent so called deadly diseases that are not really deadly unless of course you are talking about how deadly naturally having these illnesses rather than vaccinating is to the BILLION dollar vaccine industry.

[Tanner's Dad]

"This does not represent anything other than a very special situation," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Who are you going to believe the Boss doing the spin or the Judge that slipped?

The case may not be a first, said Gary Golkiewicz, chief special master for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. He oversees the special "vaccine court" which rules on requests for payments from the vaccine injury fund.
"Years ago, actually, I had a case, before we understood or knew the implications of autism, that the vaccine injured the child's brain caused an encephalopathy," he said. And the symptoms that come with that "fall within the broad rubric of autism."
And there are other somewhat similar cases, Golkiewicz says, that were decided before autism and its symptoms were more clearly defined

[Media Scholar]

8000 vaccine studies to prove his point? And how many of those studies included a Thimerosal-containing placebo?

[PhillyMom]

This is a suprisingly balanced story for the Inqy. I am really shocked that Healy was quoted rather than Offit (he is considered somewhat of a "god" in this area). Any article from the Phila area, that is at least reasonable about the need to investigate a safer vaccine schedule, I would take as a victory. Remember -- this isn't The Delaware Valley -- it is Big Pharma Valley. As for "Fast Eddy", he need look no further than the PA Department of Education records to see the freight train coming -- the "autism army" is growing strong in PA. I don't see the guv going after Big Pharma to recoup any losses; they create too much tax revenue in this state.

[Kelli Ann Davis]

“Recognizing that the most severely affected need lifelong therapy and support, Gov. Rendell announced last week that Pennsylvania is extending Medicaid-funded autism services to a few hundred people over age 21, the first state to do so.”

Well, well, well. Why am I not surprised by this “move” considering that extending services and helping parents continue to provide for these young adults *at home* is a heck of a lot cheaper for the states than taking over the full cost of their care.

Hey Governor, head’s up – maybe *NOW* would be a good time to talk to your AG and get them to start trying to recoup monies from pharmaceutical companies for the injuries caused to the future wards of your state.

If you think extending Medicaid services for a few hundred people is costly now, just wait till you have to pay for the lifetime care of thousands of individuals!!

As the ole’ saying goes, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”

[nhokkanen]

God, I hate that phrase "evidence-based" -- the latest slang for the surgical-gown set. It's code for "insurance coverage denied," and the criteria are more arbitrary than most believers realize. As if medical treatments haven't ALWAYS been based on evidence....

[Anne Dachel]

Excellent piece. It should also be pointed that while McCullough writes that the vaccine compensation program "has so far awarded about $890 million to compensate 2,140 claims, but Hannah's is the only one known to involve autism," CBS News did say, there were others.

In Vaccine Case: An Exception Or A Precedent? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/06/eveningnews/main3915703.shtml
we were told, "While the Poling case is the first of its kind to become public, a CBS News investigation uncovered at least nine other cases as far back as 1990, where records show the court ordered the government compensated families whose children developed autism or autistic-like symptoms in children including toddlers who had been called ;very smart' and 'impressed' doctors with their 'intelligence and curiosity' until their vaccinations.

"They were children just like Hannah Poling."

Anne Dachel
Media editor

[The third dot]

"Columbia University neurologist Salvatore DiMauro, an expert in disorders of cellular energy metabolism, said: "I like to say we're dealing with three dots. Two dots have been reasonably connected - autism and mitochondrial disease. The third dot - vaccines - has not been connected in any evidence-based way to autism or mitochondrial disease.""

Well, this begs the question - why has that third dot not been connected to autism when its clear that its connected to the other two. Who has obviously failed to do their job?