The Autism Omnibus Proceedings were formed in 2002 by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to consolidate about 5,000 claims from parents that vaccines caused their children to have autism. A series of test cases were used for theories that autism could be caused by: thimerosal-containing vaccines, in combination with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine thimerosal-containing
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Simpsonwood refers to the Scientific Review of Vaccine Safety Datalink Information conference by 51 vaccine and vaccine safety researchers and experts. A CDC conference to discuss thimerosal and vaccines, it was held over two days at the Simpsonwood Methodist retreat and conference center in Norcross, Georgia (near Atlanta) in June 2000. The AAP and FDA
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The Cutter Incident is a well known tragedy in which at least 200,000 children and adults were given a polio vaccine that was not properly inactivated. The shots were given in 1955, just after they were first approved, and actually caused 40,000 cases of polio, including 10 deaths and 200 cases of paralysis. The vaccines,
Cheaper by the Dozen was a popular movie in 1950 and was remade in 2003 by Steve Martin. It tells the true story of Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and his family of 12 children. What the movies leave out, not surprisingly, is that Mary Gilbreth, the real life second oldest child in the family, died
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