Weekly Review - Dec 3, 2002: Harper's Magazine

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Dec 5

More media exposure of Vaccine Controversy and Homeland Security Act

From Harper's Magazine On Line Weekly Review:

[The Justice Department requested that documents relating to claims that the mercury-based vaccine

preservative thimerosal causes autism and other disorders be sealed; a spokesman said that the law

creating a government fund to compensate people injured by vaccines gives the government control

over such information and that the government was merely acting to preserve that right. Lawmakers,

bureaucrats, and others in Washington, D.C., were all trying to figure out who was responsible for

the inclusion of a measure in the Homeland Security bill that gave vaccine makers additional

protection from lawsuits. People who believe that vaccines caused their children's autism were

also somewhat curious.]

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