Taylor has published a contribution she made to “Narrative Symposium: To Vaccinate or Not? Parents’ Stories” – a piece produced by Johns Hopkins Hospital in their journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics. Johns Hopkins has a tremendous reputation – indeed it was where Leo Kanner did his work on Autism. So one assumes they gave equal time to both sides of the vaccine argument. Not something that I would have done, but with America’s First Amendment Johns Hopkins probably felt they had no choice. They tried to temper any objections with the tag “The goal of this symposium is to aid in a more constructive conversation between pro-vaccination/anti-vaccination groups”. I know through experience that a constructive conversation with an anti vaxxer is impossible. Taylor is a case in point.
In this contribution, she described mainstream medicine abandoning her. In more recent times this can be put down to the penalty she is paying for lying about vaccines and about the origins of Autism. If she had just gone with the flow on the Autism diagnosis instead of fighting to have the claimed injury recognised, she would have got the services her son needed a lot sooner and it may have cost less as well. The other thing she won’t do is reveal the details of the alternative treatment so it could be investigated so that the true source of the sensory overload could be found. She had that chance when I wrote the last entry here, but like every other parent she didn’t follow through with it IN FULL.
She then goes to the Vaccine Court and rants about that. She mentions the Supreme Court decision Bruesewitz v Wyeth but thankfully doesn’t go down the path of other anti vaxxers and tries to claim that the Supreme Court admitted that vaccines are unavoidably unsafe. She claims that the 7th Amendment of the US Constitution is not being upheld in the Vaccine Court process. Here’s what the Amendment says;
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Now I assume the Supreme Court ruled that the Vaccine Court is outside the common law because it is a compensation provider. Not only that, it’s rules of evidence are wholly different to that of a regular court – jury or not. So the decision was right. Taylor holds the following views against the entire thing and wants the Vaccine Court closed for good;
1. The CDC recommended schedule having risen from 24 doses to 69 with no safety testing. There is no proof that there hasn’t been any testing done by the CDC so that doesn’t hold any water. Wanton speculation in the absence of proof is not proof but rather assumption.
2. The Vaccine Court rejects the majority of cases before it. Well perhaps that’s because they DON’T have a case? Did you think of that, Taylor? Of course you didn’t!
3. States and families pay for vaccine injury cases that are the responsibility of the federal government. That isn’t true for the successful claims. The money comes from a pool of money that is kept up by – the pharmaceutical companies. Not the states, families or Washington DC.
4. Health and Human Services hold patents for vaccines creating a conflict of interest in approvals and also make the decisions in the Vaccine Court. What rot! That’s Robert Kennedy Junior’s line and it’s BS. The Vaccine Court Special Masters are not employed by the Health Department, and the CDC CAN’T own patents themselves. Individuals who work for them could and if there is a COI that is where the attack should be concentrated.
5a. Enough has been said about William Thompson for us to know that there is nothing to see there.
5b. The Thorsen indictment has nothing to do with his work for the CDC. It is a separate matter that should not be mixed up with CDC operations. The man is a fool who should give himself up.
5c. I looked briefly for the Merck whistleblower lawsuit and found some of the charges were thrown out in 2014. But there is one matter outstanding and the last action was on December 6 a little over a month ago. If I remember it I’ll keep track of that.
5d. This case involving the University of Utah and a former employee doesn’t appear to have anything to do with the CDC as such so I don’t know why this was even brought up. That case is also subject to a partial shutdown and is ongoing with the last action more recent on December 30.
5e. This last claim of proof that vaccines cause Autism contrary to the CDC’s correct statement otherwise goes to Taylor’s 124 study repository, which I am hopefully finally in the process of shutting down once and for all as it needs to be.
I won’t bother with the rest of that drivel, but I will say this. While I support the idea that the Vaccine Court should be shut down, it’s for different reasons. It’s funny that Taylor wants it put before a jury in a civil court. What she doesn’t realise is that the rules for evidence in that setting go against the claimants and will increase the number of rejections and not reduce them. So in fact from that point of view alone, Taylor’s desire would end up being costly for her side. That’s how stupid she is. The rules of evidence have to be high – this is science we are dealing with here. Experts have to be properly qualified and they have to have all the evidence before them to make a proper call. Until now, parents like Taylor are denying them this information – to the detriment of those who claim to want justice.
And you wonder why Taylor gets no respect outside of the nutcases in the anti vaccine community.