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Vaccine-autism battle shifts to federal court
Lindy — (archived)

How odd you bring this up, just as it shifts into the higher courts.

>"Advocates of the theory that vaccines can cause autism have argued that the increase in cases was triggered by a mercury-based preservative in vaccines that, they say, is toxic to children's brains.

Under pressure from the advocates and to keep the issue from disrupting vaccination programs, U.S. officials began phasing out the additive, thimerosal, in children's vaccines around 1999 while maintaining that there was no hard evidence that it was dangerous.

About 20 experts are expected to testify in the case, which will involve a staggering amount of complicated epidemiology and biochemistry. Gary Golkiewicz, chief special master in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, said a ruling could be a year off.

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