A US Court asserts vaccination does not lead to autism.

A special U.S. “vaccine court” recently ruled that there is no evidence supporting a causal link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism. Doctors and researchers have been telling us about this for years, but this ruling makes the no vaccine-and-autism link official according to the American justice system.

The Vaccine Injury Compensation Act of 1986 set up the special court to hear cases and compensate people who suffer adverse reactions to vaccines. 

Special masters appointed to hear three vaccine cases in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims denied the claims of the parents of children with autism that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccines caused their children’s autism.

In one case, special master Patricia Campbell-Smith said the parents of a boy with autism failed to provide “a sound medical theory causally connecting” the child’s condition with vaccination and that the petitioners’ theory of vaccine-related causation is scientifically unsupportable. 
These three cases, along with three cases that failed last year, are being considered by some as test cases for thousands of other pending cases.

The Coalition for SafeMinds, an autism and mercury advocacy organization, said in a statement that it regrets the ruling against three families who argued that vaccines that contained the mercury-based preservative thimerosal contributed to their children’s autism. 

”The denial of reasonable compensation to families was based on inadequate vaccine safety science and poorly designed and highly controversial epidemiology studies supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” the statement said.

Earlier this year, the medical journal The Lancet retracted a 1998 report that suggested a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. A noted Polish study also debunked the autism-MMR vaccine connection, releasing their report last month.

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