We need to e-mail talk show host Re: this corrupt judge

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--Doesn't anyone care that are kids are getting the shaft again?

- In , " sammysouthie "

<sammysouthie@...> wrote:

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> Guys, We need to do something about this. Isn't it unconstitutional

> to hear one sides evidence and not the others? I wonder how much $

> this corrupt judge recieved from wyeth? Why can't the public

see/hear

> this evidence is it too damning to the defendants[drug co.]Since

when

> does a judge have any credentials to decide what is and is not

> science?

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> MADISON, N.J., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wyeth announced

> today that The Honorable Stuart R. Berger of the Circuit Court for

> Baltimore City in Baltimore, land, has granted Wyeth's motion

to

> preclude plaintiffs' expert witnesses in an alleged vaccine injury

> case from testifying that exposure to thimerosal-containing

vaccines

> can cause autism. The court's decision, in the case of Blackwell,

et

> al. v. Sigma Aldrich, Inc., et al., followed a 10-day evidentiary

> hearing held last August.

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> Judge Berger found that " thimerosal in vaccines does not cause or

> contribute to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, " noting

> that " it is generally accepted in the relevant scientific community

> that autism is genetic in origin except in rare instances of

prenatal

> exposures to certain substances at defined periods during

pregnancy. "

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> Judge Berger held that plaintiffs had failed to show that the

> methodologies underlying their expert witnesses' opinions are

> generally accepted as reliable in the scientific community. He also

> held that plaintiffs' expert witnesses were not qualified " by

> knowledge, skill, experience, training or education " or that they

> could not set forth a sufficient factual basis to support the

> causation opinions that plaintiffs wished to present to the jury.

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> " We believe that the court's decision is in complete accord with

the

> overwhelming scientific evidence that there is no link between

> vaccines and autism. The court correctly applied land law to

bar

> unfounded opinion testimony on scientific issues, " says J.

> ch, lead trial counsel for Wyeth in this litigation, who is a

> partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.

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