ATSC, Guishon's thinly veiled twisting of the term whistleblower to suit her agenda to attack parents who don't want to follow the vaccine schedule or perhaps who have ever given a home remedy rather than a pharmaceutical medicine is horrifying. Someone should blow the whistle on this "bioethicist."

Mr. Ogden

Please see the very last sentence on page 9 as it explains the surge of influenza related cases since 2005

Earlier on and even before VICP, DTP (whole cell) vaccine was frequently used and was quite reactogenic when compared to other pediatric vaccines we administered resulting in related deaths and serious injuries that kept the courts busy.

When we went to the acellular DTaP, we had less reactions, less litigations but more whooping cough outbreaks as you know.

Recently the increasing rates of Influenza vaccination among adults and the elderly and the many thousands of doses of vaccine given again and again (every year) have been accompanied by more litigation....

I hope I understood your question and answered it

Dr. Yazbak: I've seen this before, but what really stands out for me are three things:
1. The percentages of claims compensated vs. dismissed for:
Tdap 91.5%
Influenza 89.5%
Meningococcal 88.6%
IPV 2.9%
HPV 0%
2. The sheer volume of claims for two of them in particular: DTP and Influenza.
3. They apparently don't list any of the OAP cases, as if the slate was wiped clean by magic.

When I read this I was reminded of the OJ Simpson trial. The defense brought in a PCR expert whose job was to find "problems" and "contamination" in the crime lab and make them into Mt. Everest even if they didn't amount to a hill of beans, even if they were irrelevant.

But, as Dr. Yazbak pointed out, the kind of sandbagging we have here wouldn't be allowed in a real court.

Gary

I fear the good news is old news - the story about British copies of a defamatory book by Dr Offit being pulped is several years old.

Thank you Dr. Yazbak for this in depth look at OAP and what I consider misconduct by the DOJ. Thank you Age of Autism for giving us this forum for discussion. Thank you to all the families and the heartfelt comments.

Justice was not served in the US or the UK. Thousands of children suffered a tremendous loss of their health, some their lives as well. It's shameful what has been done to try to turn the tables on the truth, the children and the families.

God will not be mocked. Justice will be served one day for all the precious lives affected.

@British Autism Mother "My honest opinion of Brian Deer is not printable but I will content myself by describing him as a slovenly hack who didn't do enough historical research into the MMR itself."

Brian Deer was plainly paid by a number of 'vested interests', to discredit Dr Wakefield's research. Since even the GMC, did not dispute the veracity of the 1998 Wakefield et al Lancet early report, Deer resorted to personal slurs slanderous lies, and presenting 'cherry picked' so called evidence out of context.

The GMC convoluted 3 year hearing, which was mostly based on Deer's 'evidence', found Dr Wakefield and his 2 clinician colleagues guilty of 'conspiring' to subject children to unnecessary invasive medical procedures for unethical purely research purposes. Deer's GMC evidence was completely discredited by Judge Lord Justice Mitting, following Professor Walker-Smith's successful February 2012 High Court Appeal. The Judge had some harsh comments about the GMC's 'superficial and inadequate' and in many cases plain WRONG examining of the evidence against the three doctors, all of whom were simply doing their jobs.

In the UK, it is all to easy to discredit persons, with trumped up accusations and slanderous slurs, which stick like dung and persist for years. A 'fraudulent research paper?' NOT. A money making scam involving a 'rival' vaccine to the MMR? NOT - Dr Wakefield's immunotherapy product was designed to ameliorate the effects of live measles virus, particularly in immune compromised children who cannot be vaccinated. The controversy over whether MMR vaccine damaged children have live vaccine derived measles virus in their guts continues, but this product would help them. Sadly, the unused patent still languishes at the Royal Free. Any profits would have gone to them.

Brian Deer, has NO Scientific or Medical qualifications whatsoever, just a mediocre philosphy degree from an English 'red brick' University. He plainly had 'carte blanch' to write whatever he liked about Dr Wakefield, protected by an establishment, including high ranking politicians and powerful pharmaceutical industry lobbyists. Plainly no qualified doctor or scientist was prepared to put their names to this. The biggest scandal to my mind were Deer's BMJ articles. Dr Wakefield unsuccessfully attempted to sue Deer and the BMJ in Texas, over these slanderous articles but was prevented over 'jurisdiction'. A purely British business? NOT.

There's one laugh over this sorry business which you will like. Dr Paul Offit's UK launch of his new book 'Deadly Choices' including book signings etc, had to be cancelled and the books pulped after the UK lawyer, involved in the original MMR class litigation, threatened to sue both Offit and the publisher, for reiterating the BMJ lies and fabrications of Brian Deer.

To whom it may interest:- may I point out (not for the first time on this website) that the change in terminology from "acquired autism" to "regressive autism" forms part of the cover-up.

Also, for many years the State of California Department of Developmental Services has kept accurate records of numbers of people on the autism spectrum. The last time I looked, they didn't count children under three years or age or people with diagnoses of Asperger's Syndrome (this was before DSM V was implemented).

My honest opinion of Brian Deer is not printable but I will content myself by describing him as a slovenly hack who didn't do enough historical research into the MMR itself.

Ms Bishop

Indeed

Carol, Re the high and low copies: I hope I also made that clear
BTW:
Notice that Fitzpatrick talks of the O'Leary lab and the lab inspection three years earlier and NOT of Michelle's test when he says:
"Testimony in a US court last week by London-based molecular biologist Stephen Bustin comprehensively exposed the unreliability of O’Leary’s findings, based on an investigation of his laboratory carried out in early 2004. ‘It has been incredibly frustrating’, Professor Bustin told me on his return from the USA. ‘For three years we have been unable [for legal reasons] to reveal our findings. Now, based on the publicly available information, I want to get the message out about the O’Leary/Wakefield research: there’s nothing in it.’
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/3562#.VyJ2etQrLMo

"Dr. Bustin’s testimony, once again, actually supports the reliability of the O’Leary lab with respect to Michelle’s test result. At the hearing, he attempted to show that another laboratory (Dr. Finbar[r] Cotter) in London was unable to replicate the O’Leary lab’s results (i.e. detecting measles RNA in samples) using the O’Leary techniques. However, as Dr. Bustin’s power point presentation showed, Dr. Cotter’s lab was able to replicate the O’Leary results using the O’Leary techniques for test results with SILs [substantial inflammation levels].

Although this critical fact was discounted by the special master and Judge Wheeler, it remains in the record that Dr. Bustin agreed that his dispute was only with the O’Leary lab’s MILs [minimal inflammation levels], and he did not deny that Michelle had SILs."

http://www.rescuepost.com/files/cedillo-circuit_brief.pdf

"Petitioners contend that British researcher Dr. Finbar[r] Cottor[sic] was able to replicate the Unigenetics testing, and that he was able to reach similar results to those achieved by Unigenetics. Petitioners argue that the Special Master erred in discounting his work as evidence supporting the reliability of the Unigenetics testing. We see no error in the Special Master’s treatment of the evidence concerning Dr. Cottor’s work. The only evidence concerning Dr. Cottor’s work consisted of conflicting statements made by both parties’ experts, who disagreed as to whether or not Dr. Cottor’s laboratory was able to duplicate the Unigenetics results. No records of Dr. Cottor’s work and no testimony or statement from him were presented. Also, Dr. Cottor’s work was never published. Given the limited record concerning Dr. Cottor’s work, the Special Master reasonably concluded that 'it is simply impossible to draw any conclusions either way' about Dr. Cottor’s work."

http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/cedillo.fedcir.pdf

Thank you all for your very kind words.

They are most appreciated.

The axing of over 5,000 cases may be the greatest injustice in the history of our jurisprudence.

Michelle Cedillo was and is certainly and beyond a doubt vaccine-injured.

Then there is this testimony by Rolf Hazelhurst, a father in one of the test cases In the Omnibus Autism Proceeding, and Assistant District Attorney General, State of Tennessee, who presents the case against the VICP and calls for reform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4CwROrKG8A Really, a must watch if you want to see the face of corruption more clearly.

And these documents re Hannah Poling, who was removed from the test cases because she clearly had autism caused by vaccine injury: https://www.scribd.com/doc/115393727/Andrew-Zimmerman-Poling-v-HHS-Exhibit-3

Of course, the government saved more than $500 billion dollars in damages from denying coverage for regressive autism (at least 150,000 kids with regressive autism times $3 million each). If all autistic kids (who have been injured by vaccines, but not so obviously as to regress) were compensated, it would run to trillions. When people talk about $3 billion paid, out, that's nothing — trivial really -- compared to what it should be.

Thank you, Dr. Yazbak, for this detailed account of the sordid doings and dealings going on behind the scenes of the OAP.

From the inception of the OAP, it NEVER made sense...determine the fate of thousands, and beyond, via trying LESS than a handful of cases? Beyond ridiculous in both theory and practice. The proceedings were rigged from the beginning.

I think Ronald Kostoff's comment is excellent, too.

Thank you, Dr. Yazbak. I knew what they did to the Cedillo family was horrible, but not the details. This case damns the DOJ completely as a tool of industry that never again can be trusted, in a decision rendered mere weeks after the inauguration of our new hope, change, the science is settled president.

Ed

The plotting is endless.

Such an obvious 'stich up' and the odious Brian Deer very much involved again. I hope the film re 'Callous Disregard' comes to fruition and brings all this into the open, with appropriate action resulting against the criminals involved.