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• Omnibus hearing: Closing statement, petitioners, etc

  Published: July 1, 2007, 12:02 am

  Tags: Cedillo, Measles, Hearing, Omnibus, Vaccines, Trial, Mercury, Mmr, Autism, Thimomersa, Thimerosal, Hhs

  Mr. Matanoski spoke for about 25 minutes when his turn came to wrap up what he considered the high points. The closing statements were supposed to be in part for those who weren't in the courtroom. In fact, Mr. Powers for the petitioners said at one point that he was speaking directly to those in the media who weren't in the courtroom, but who

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• Arthur Allen in Slate magazine

  Published: June 29, 2007, 8:13 pm

  Tags: Cedillo, Measles, Hearing, Omnibus, Vaccines, Trial, Mercury, Mmr, Autism, Thimomersa, Thimerosal, Hhs

  Here are some quotes from:True BelieversWhy there's no dispelling the myth that vaccines cause autism.By Arthur Allen....Another explanation for the refusal to face facts is what cognitive scientists call confirmation bias. Years ago, when writing an article for the Washington Post Magazine about the Tailwind affair, a screwy piece of journalism

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• Omnibus hearing: Griffin

  Published: June 29, 2007, 7:44 pm

  Tags: Cedillo, Measles, Hearing, Omnibus, Vaccines, Trial, Mercury, Mmr, Autism, Thimomersa, Thimerosal, Hhs

  Transcripts, including the one for day 11 of the Autism Omnibus (vaccine) hearing are available here. Dr. Diane Griffin basically "wrote the book" on measles (page 2747 of the day 11 transcript). She is an editor of the major English language book on virology, Fields Virology and she has written the chapter on measles for this book for it's last

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• Omnibus hearing: Fombonne on epidemiology

  Published: June 28, 2007, 5:01 am

  Tags: Cedillo, Measles, Hearing, Omnibus, Vaccines, Trial, Mercury, Mmr, Autism, Thimomersa, Thimerosal, Hhs

  This will be a less detailed post about the information from Day 11's transcript. The transcripts are available here. There's a definition of the difference between prevalence and incidence beginning on page 2504. From pages 2530 and 2531 Ms. Ricciardella says to Dr. Fombonne:Q. I want to discuss now studies that have been done that

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• Omnibus hearing: Chadwick and Brent

  Published: June 26, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Cedillo, Measles, Hearing, Omnibus, Vaccines, Trial, Mercury, Mmr, Autism, Thimomersa, Thimerosal, Hhs

  Before we get into day 10 of the hearing ... going back to July of 2006, the Petitioners' Steering Committee (PSC, the lawyers for the parents) finally settled on June of 2007 for the Omnibus hearing. At that time the PSC wrote to Special Master Hastings:The PSC proposes to present its case for general causation in June 2007. Given the number of

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• LA Times on the Omnibus hearing

  Published: June 26, 2007, 12:53 am

  Tags: Cedillo, Measles, Hearing, Omnibus, Vaccines, Trial, Mercury, Mmr, Autism, Thimomersa, Thimerosal, Hhs

  In July of 2006, the Petitioners' Steering Committee (PSC, the lawyers for the Omnibus parents) after a couple of years of doing what a cynical person might call stalling, finally settled on June of 2007 for the Omnibus hearing. At that time the PSC wrote to Special Master Hastings:There are approximately 5000 claims in the Omnibus Proceeding,

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• Omnibus hearing: Hanauer and McCusker

  Published: June 24, 2007, 5:07 am

  Tags: Cedillo, Measles, Hearing, Omnibus, Vaccines, Trial, Mercury, Mmr, Autism, Thimomersa, Thimerosal, Hhs

  As usual, transcripts and audio recordings of day 9 of the hearing are available here. Dr. Stephen B. Hanauer is a professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago. Board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. Inaugural Chair of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation's Clinical Alliance (page 2078 of

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