Let me start out by saying that I'm always reticent when a court makes a ruling on science. It's a little disconcerting that someone with a JD is now an expert on anything from particle physics to microbiology. That being said, finally a court has ruled that there is no connection between the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella) and autism. This has been a nut job conspiracy theory for years now. "Well, maybe mercury in the vaccine might have caused autism." And maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt. No one has ever demonstrated why there would be a connection between the two.
As someone who has been around autistic and handicapped people all his life, I sympathize with these families. But most of them just wanted money, maybe to help their families, but still. This ruling was also a slam at the trial lawyers. And hopefully, there will be fewer people who do not vaccinate their children because of some pseudo-scientific rot gut.
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2009/02/13/health-buzz-court-rules-on-vaccines-and-autism-and-other-health-news.html
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Don't know if you saw it or not, and it maybe referenced in the article you referenced, but the main "scientific" study about the autism-vaccine link was proven to be found on false data. I think that came out a day or so before the court made this ruling
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