Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uokvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!emjej From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Jurisprudence and Science Message-ID: <2200085@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Dec-84 11:44:00 EST Article-I.D.: uokvax.2200085 Posted: Sat Dec 29 11:44:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jan-85 00:58:16 EST References: <750@sjuvax.UUCP> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:sjuvax:-75000:uokvax:2200085:000:788 Nf-From: uokvax!emjej Dec 29 10:44:00 1984 /***** uokvax:net.flame / cadre!geb / 8:35 am Dec 27, 1984 */ Because of the enormous settlements for the children who get post-vaccinial encephalopathy (a complication that is unavoidable and statistically predictable) no one is willing to make the vaccine unless the government will indemnify them against the suits. So how many infants will have to die? Who can they sue? Maybe there should be a class action suit against lawyers by the parents of those who die of whooping cough. /* ---------- */ Ah, but is it the lawyers who are at fault, or those who demand perfect safety and harmlessness of everything (at least everything that isn't "natural")? (If this should be in net.politics, I apologize. There is fire beneath the rhetorical question, though...) James Jones