@Catie - Sorry, but go stuff it! Really? How cold and callous can you be?

If I had known the f*g risks up front and the amount of pain this would cause my child then I would have never done the vaccinations. And to add insult to injury, now no one has the right for compensation because our wonderful f*g gov't is in bed with pharma.

Sorry, I've dumped literally over $100,000 in medical treatments, doctors and therapies so far with my son and he's only 7!

Take your comments somewhere else and shove it.

Sorry for the foul language, but I can't stand it when someone says something stupid like that!

Sarah, I didn't mean to imply that people age 60+ are right about polio--just that there are so many of them, and that they are in such influential positions, that the view of vaccines as the Almighty Discoveries that Saved the World from Polio!! will only go away when all those people are dead/retired. We'll have more Sotomayor and less Scalia/Breyer.

For instance, my view of the current vaccine situation is influenced by the insanity of the varicella vaccine. Every kid in my class got the chicken pox, and none of us got necrotizing infections, or whatever extremely rare event is being used to push the varicella vaccine on kids today. I would bet that no one on the Court (except maybe Sotomayor and Roberts--and we all know about Roberts' conflict-of-interest) knows the CDC's recommended schedule. They hear "vaccine," and they think, "polio!" and their brains just turn off. They make "unavoidable" mean "avoidable" in a pathetic attempt to cover their ***es. It's maddening.

erratum in previous post about aspartame: Samuel Skinner went to work for Sidley & Austin, not what I said.

More haste, less speed....

We all need to remember, that at every juncture the system failed Hannah Bruesewitz and her parents. While the Supreme Court decision is what is before us now, it was Donna Shalala's actions during the Clinton administration that eviscerated the table of injuries which enabled the government to reject between 3 in 4 or 4 in 5 injury cases including Hannah's. Hannah Bruesewitz has the classic DPT-induced residual seizure disorder which started with in hours of being vaccinated. Perhaps this document is worth reviewing, but if you read it and the history of the DPT lot she was given, and what Wyeth knew, you better have a vomit pan nearby. http://www.criminaldefensebarassociation.com/publiced/preview/briefs/pdfs/09-10/09-152_Petitioner.pdf

On April 3, 1995, the Bruesewitzes filed a
petition in the Vaccine Court, seeking compensation
under the NCVIA for their daughter’s injuries. See
JA1. Just one month before her petition was filed,
new regulations eliminated “residual seizure disorder”
from the Vaccine Table for DTP. See Bruesewitz,
2002 WL 31965744, at *1 n.1. In December 2003,
the court dismissed the petition with prejudice after
concluding that Hannah suffered only non-Table
injuries and had not proved that the DTP vaccine
caused her injuries. Id. at *17; but cf. Andreu ex
rel. Andreu v. Secretary of HHS, 569 F.3d 1367,
1374-75 (Fed. Cir. 2009) (reversing special master’s
finding that parents failed to show causal relation....

The vaccine dose Hannah received came from a
lot associated with an unusually large number of
adverse events. By the time of her inoculation,
VAERS reported 1 death and 30 adverse events, including
8 reports of convulsions, from the lot; those
numbers later rose to 2 deaths and more than 60
adverse events (including 39 emergency room visits).
See JA202-03. Wyeth and Lederle apparently took
deliberate steps to obscure adverse events associated
with particular lots of vaccine. Internal correspondence
in the 1970s suggested that the company
report adverse events individually rather than in
a summary fashion, stating that “[w]e would not
want several cases in a summary [to] be discovered
by Plaintiff’s counsel.” JA267; see also JA252-53.
Another internal memorandum was written after
eight children in Tennessee died within one week of
receiving the DTP vaccine. See JA268-69; see also
JA252-53. It noted that, after the incident, senior
management agreed to “limit[] distribution of a large
number of vials from a single lot to a single state,
county or city health department.” JA268. Hannah’s
physician testified that she would not have administered
the particular vaccine dose to Hannah had she
known that it came from a lot associated with such a
large number of adverse events. See JA203.

You're welcome Theresa...autism is a much greater threat to children than polio ever was even at it's peak in the 1950's. The autism crisis is different...Senior Scientists from EPA, NIEHS and US Davis MIND Institute testified on the record before a US Senate panel las August that environmental factors (toxins) wee involved...see webcast of hearing on the link below.

This is not an infectious disease situation like polio..this is mass poisoning.

US Senate Hearing on Autism: It's The Environment Not The Gene Pool - AoA

http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/08/us-senate-hearing-on-autism-its-the-environment-not-the-gene-pool.html

Subcommittee on Children’s Health hearing entitled, "State of Research on Potential Environmental Health Factors with Autism and Related Neurodevelopment Disorders." Aug 3, 2010

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=1ab3cf42-802a-23ad-4a3a-686da83bf6d0

Paul Anastos, US EPA Testimony:

http://www.epa.gov/ocir/hearings/testimony/111_2009_2010/2010_0803_pa.pdf

Linda Birnbaum, NIEHS testimony:

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/about/congress/testimony-birnbaum-aug032010.pdf

Dr. Isaac Pessah testimony, UC Davis MIND Institute

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=459832807867

In my previous post I wrote about aspartame approval, Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan and the FDA. (I'm wondering if this is the watershed moment when the FDA became merely a rubber stamp for big corporations.)

But it's even worse because I forgot to mention that the Searle's safety studies were so blatantly fixed that the matter was referred to the U.S. Attorney for possible prosecution. During the grand jury hearings, Searle's law firm, Sidney & Austin, started courting the U.S. Attorney, Samuel Skinner. Skinner stalled the investigation and went to work for Sidney & Austin.

It appears to be the case that it was after aspartame (which caused aggressive brain tumors in mice) was approved for soft drinks that brain cancer started booming in the American population.

meanwhile, the Supreme court just voted in favor families allowing them to sue Mazda in seat bealt deaths...it all comes down to who you know I guess

Court: Family can sue Mazda over seat belt death

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7442989.html

The US government all the way up to the Supreme court is in collusion with the Pharmaceutical companies, they are anti-famly, anti-child and guilty of child abuse.

This decision sets a very dangerous precedent. If you or I injured a child, even by accident, we would be liable for those injuries. With the blessing of the Supreme court, Pharma, on the other hand, can design products that hurt children with no reprocussions. Such double standards.

Since we can't rely on the Supreme Court to protect us, the only thing American consumers can do is refuse their products.

Scalia sold some of his pharma stock so he could vote their way on this.

Score another blow for "The Corporation." Heartless.

Change is gonna come... unfortunately it looks like more kids might be getting sick first...... I pray the American public won't take this. It is so absurd that these pharma people have absolutely no liability. They can mix up any pile of $%#! and shoot the world up with it. That is some awesome power. I will continue to pray for those mixing up the magic potions. And also pray for the politicians who are throwing away common sense.

This in unbelievable!!!! Even our Supreme Court has been bought out by Big Pharma? I figured this was going to be their ruling. If you read the ruling, what they are basically saying is that they are more worried about the vaccine makers being sued than protecting people from faulty vaccines? This just can not happen, to give them a free ticket to bring defective vaccines to the market with no threat of a lawsuit is outrageous. When are we going to get some justice?
I agree this is only going to back fire on them and I believe will only make people more concerend about vaccine safety. It is so obvious that the court wants to protect big business!!!!

Time to protest the courts and companies. Such BS that they could walk away free because they would go bankrupt if one even one case went though the courts and won.... Yes this is America and we have our issues.... Actually, I'd like to know who sits on the bench and works/used to work for the drug companies...