Homo Autistic is one of the blogs named in the subpoena against Kathleen Seidel. Please read Kathleen's full article here. I'm hoping to blog about this without making things worse (hyperlexia and legal issues seem like a dangerous mix). The running refrain "I am Kathleen" (in the article/comments) is a useful reminder that the effort to intimidate is aimed at all of us.
At the end of the list of blogs (in the subpoena) I noticed this line: "This is to include the names of persons helping, paying or facilitating in any fashion these endeavors". I don't know if the transcript of legal cases such as "Sykes v. Bayer" are public domain but the intention (or part of it) seems to be to *out* everyone, including or maybe especially those who use nicks or pseudonyms. I use my real name (thanks to experience in the gay community) so I don't know how much more intimidating the threat of exposure must feel to others.
I'll continue reading and digesting all that's out there. As above, I think I saw mention that court transcripts are publicly available (eventually) but there's enough legal advice and counter-advice out there already, I won't repeat it here. One of the best roundups I've seen is by Joseph (Natural Variation - Autism Blog) (coarse language).
Thanks to everyone who is determined to do the right thing and to see the right outcome. Thanks yet again to Kathleen, for being Kathleen.
NB: Liz Ditz/I Speak of Dreams keeps a running list of articles, here.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
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I, like you, am one of the 100+ bloggers mentioned in item 5 of the subpoena.
I am keeping a running list of responses to the Seidel subpoena at I Speak of Dreams. I've added your blog.
Thanks liz ditz, in the middle of all that reading I saw your blog/list mentioned (TMoB) and zoom, I never got there. Will link you in the article.
Hi, I thought you might want to read the rest of the story. Seidel's latest posts are what Shoemaker might have wanted to prevent:
Billing the Adversary
Numerous decisions issued over the twenty year history of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) document the extent to which the limits on attorney compensation have been tested by practitioners seeking remuneration from its taxpayer-financed coffers. The following review summarizes decisions involving the recently-sanctioned VICP specialist Clifford Shoemaker, Esq. -- a central instigator of the campaign to convince the public of the speculative, scientifically unsupported hypothesis that a significant number of cases of autism result from vaccine injury, co-founder of the Institute for Chronic Illnesses, and a founding member its Institutional Review Board, which sponsors and provides ethical oversight of medical research and experimentation on autistic children and adolescents conducted by his long-time colleague Dr. Mark Geier.
Inspecting the Outstretched Palm
The potential for procedural and billing improprieties by Vaccine Injury Compensation Program petitioners’ attorneys — especially those representing numerous clients with similar, speculative claims — is made painfully evident in Special Master Denise Vowell’s recent fee and cost decision in Carrington v. HHS, Case 99-495V (Fed.Cl.Spec.Mstr., June 18, 2008) (unpublished), posted to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims website three days ago.
Numerous decisions issued over the twenty year history of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) document the extent to which the limits on attorney compensation have been tested by practitioners seeking remuneration from its taxpayer-financed coffers. The following review summarizes decisions involving the recently-sanctioned VICP specialist Clifford Shoemaker, Esq. -- a central instigator of the campaign to convince the public of the speculative, scientifically unsupported hypothesis that a significant number of cases of autism result from vaccine injury, co-founder of the Institute for Chronic Illnesses, and a founding member its Institutional Review Board, which sponsors and provides ethical oversight of medical research and experimentation on autistic children and adolescents conducted by his long-time colleague Dr. Mark Geier.
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