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This is a Media Representation thread. Today I did not pick & choose which stories to post, I posted all of them. I do not have a position on these issues. I am reporting the fact that this is what's being reported. I hope I got all the links right.

Case Stokes Debate About Autism, Vaccines
NPR Fri, 07 Mar 2008 6:03 AM PST
The federal government has agreed to award damages from a special vaccine compensation fund to the family of a girl with symptoms of autism. Officials deny they are admitting a link between vaccines and autism, but activists are using the case to back up their claims.

Case Stokes Debate About Autism, Vaccines
NPR Fri, 07 Mar 2008 6:08 AM PST
Morning Edition , March 7, 2008 · The federal government has agreed to award damages from a special vaccine compensation fund to the family of a girl with symptoms of autism.

Still no autism-vaccine link, say health officials
Reuters via Yahoo! News Thu, 06 Mar 2008 3:33 PM PST
Federal health officials said on Thursday the government has not conceded that vaccines cause autism even after a Georgia girl won federal compensation in a case arguing a vaccine led to her brain damage.

Vaccine case draws new attention to autism debate
CNN.com Thu, 06 Mar 2008 3:39 PM PST
The parents of a 9-year-old girl with autism said Thursday that their assertion that her illness was caused by childhood vaccines has been vindicated by the federal government's decision to compensate them.

Debate Rages Anew on Vaccine-Autism Link
ABC News Fri, 07 Mar 2008 6:09 AM PST
Government concession does not amount to vaccine-autism connection, experts say.

Research scarce on possible ties linking autism and vaccines, scientists say
Detroit Free Press Fri, 07 Mar 2008 5:54 AM PST
ATLANTA — For those convinced that vaccines can cause autism, the sad case of a Georgia girl, daughter of a doctor and lawyer, seems like clear-cut evidence. The government has agreed to pay the girl's family for injury caused by vaccines.

Officials try to calm fears about vaccines, autism
Los Angeles Times Fri, 07 Mar 2008 0:12 AM PST
In an unusual case, a federal agency links a girl's disorder to shots. Officials with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scrambled Thursday to reassure the public that childhood vaccines were safe after news spread that an agency had acknowledged a link between a child's autism and the shots she received as a toddler.

Case renews debate on vaccine-autism link
CNN.com Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:33 AM PST
(AP) -- Government health officials have conceded that childhood vaccines worsened a rare, underlying disorder that ultimately led to autism-like symptoms in a Georgia girl, and that she should be paid from a federal vaccine-injury fund.

Autism–Like Symptoms Linked to Vaccines
MedicineNet.com Fri, 07 Mar 2008 0:25 AM PST
Title: Autism–Like Symptoms Linked to Vaccines Category: Health News Created: 3/6/2008 Last Editorial Review: 3/6/2008

Federal Court Rules Vaccines Caused Girl's Autism
CBS 13 Baltimore Fri, 07 Mar 2008 5:58 AM PST
It's a huge victory in federal court for a nine-year-old girl whose parents believe her childhood vaccinations led to her autism.

There is no doubt that there is danger in issuing vaccines willy nilly to the population.

The fact that the girl displayed "Autism-like symptoms" in no way links vaccines to Autism any more than all the rest of the research has ever managed to do.

Regardless of what the Eugenics promoting machines would like the world to believe, simply stating there is a connection, still doesn't make one.