Comments on: Sharyl Attkisson – are you sure?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:50:56 +0000

And of course, Sharyl Attkisson would like the world to think that she dug up every one of these cases all by herself.

Maybe her bosses should be made aware of what’s going on. A little thing called journalistic integrity probably still means something.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that about 1:150 VICP payouts involved people on the autism spectrum.

That’s absolutely right. It would be odd if out of thousands of vaccine injured people, none are autistic.

By: Esther

Esther — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:43:45 +0000

Just a tiny quibble to your otherwise excellent post: MMR was first given in the USA in 1971. 1963 was when single measles shots were first given.

By: Sullivan

Sullivan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:03:43 +0000

Kathleen Seidel is so good. She manages to cite the whale without violating Scopies Law.

By: M

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:32:25 +0000

Vaccines, Encephalopathies, and Mutations
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.g.....id=1867082

By: Kev

Kev — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:06:13 +0000

Good spot Isles, thanks :)

By: isles

isles — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:22:42 +0000

(If you fix Atkinson to Attkisson, more people who are googling for her will find this post.)

So Sharyl is once again reporting news that isn’t news and doesn’t mean what she thinks it means. CBS could probably save a bunch of money without any loss in quality by hiring a few elementary-schoolers to fill her news slot.

By: Kathleen Seidel

Kathleen Seidel — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:08:17 +0000

Sullivan, that comment from Special Master Golkiewicz is exactly what inspired me to spend a day at my local college library searching Lexis for published VICP decisions that referred to autism or similar conditions. Although the list of cases in my article consists entirely of public information, I am responsible for its existence; I did all the research, read through almost one hundred cases to find the ones that were relevant, compiled the list and prepared all of the summaries. After I published my article on March 11, Paul King and Gary Goldman incorporated the list verbatim into Key realities about autism, vaccines, vaccine-injury compensation, Thimerosal, and autism-related research. Neurodiversity Weblog is cited as the source, but King and Goldman didn't bother to cite me as the author. I'm sure that the omission was deliberate; they didn't fail to note the authors of any other references. Since then, the list has traveled to various antivaccinationist sites, including Whale and Clifford Miller's site. And of course, Sharyl Attkisson would like the world to think that she dug up every one of these cases all by herself. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that about 1:150 VICP payouts involved people on the autism spectrum.

By: Sullivan

Sullivan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:23:49 +0000

Sorry for the bad blockquotes in the above comment. This whole section was quoted:

The case may not be a first, said Gary Golkiewicz, chief special master for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. He oversees the special “vaccine court” which rules on requests for payments from the vaccine injury fund.

“Years ago, actually, I had a case, before we understood or knew the implications of autism, that the vaccine injured the child’s brain caused an encephalopathy,” he said. And the symptoms that come with that “fall within the broad rubric of autism.”

And there are other somewhat similar cases, Golkiewicz says, that were decided before autism and its symptoms were more clearly defined.

By: M

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:15:15 +0000

Dravet syndrome? It is a genetic disorder, de novo mutations of the sodium-channel gene SCN1A. Children with these mutations are seemingly normal until they have the first high fever episode (it could be post-vaccination fever as well) – then the syndrome manifests with epileptic syndrome and subsequent developmental delay (encephalopathy). The genetic diagnosis was not possible until recently – the mutation was first identified in 2001.

See also: Berkovic et al. De-novo mutations of the sodium channel gene SCN1A in alleged vaccine encephalopathy: a retrospective study. Lancet Neurol 2006 Jun;5(6):488-92.

By: Another Voice

Another Voice — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:20:58 +0000

Why doesn’t someone in management at CBS insist upon an internet search being done prior to running some of these stories as investigative reports?