{"id":814,"date":"2002-12-18T04:07:19","date_gmt":"2002-12-18T20:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/18\/whos-protecting-eli-lilly\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:45:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:45:38","slug":"whos-protecting-eli-lilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/12\/18\/whos-protecting-eli-lilly\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s protecting Eli Lilly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15613,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.lilly.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260305094303\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.lilly.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:22:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:22:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15614,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/deptofhomeland\\\/analysis&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/deptofhomeland\\\/analysis&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15615,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tompaine.com\\\/feature.cfm\\\/ID\\\/6844&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050207020705\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.tompaine.com:80\\\/feature.cfm\\\/ID\\\/6844&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:22:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:22:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15616,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tompaine.com\\\/op_ads\\\/opad.cfm\\\/ID\\\/6945&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20040402123828\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.tompaine.com:80\\\/op_ads\\\/opad.cfm\\\/ID\\\/6945&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:22:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:22:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15617,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tompaine.com\\\/feature.cfm\\\/ID\\\/6932&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050923135352\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.tompaine.com\\\/feature.cfm\\\/ID\\\/6932&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:22:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:22:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15618,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/counterspin.blogspot.com\\\/2002_12_15_counterspin_archive.html#86182727&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240124204305\\\/http:\\\/\\\/counterspin.blogspot.com\\\/2002_12_15_counterspin_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:22:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 06:11:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 06:11:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15619,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2002_12_15.html#000069&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20120514071349\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2002_12_15.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 20:22:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 06:11:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 06:11:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Drug company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilly.com\/\" title=\"Welcome to Lilly\">Eli Lilly<\/a> is the maker of the drug Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that used to be a common ingredient in childhood vaccines. There is now substantial evidence that due to the mercury content, Thimerosal may be the cause of autism in many, many children, and Eli Lilly has been facing a number of lawsuits from parents looking for some help in caring for their children that were affected by the drug from this company.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, at the last minute, a provision was inserted into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/deptofhomeland\/analysis\/\" title=\"Whitehouse.gov: Analysis for the Homeland Security Act\">Homeland Security Act<\/a> that protects Eli Lilly from these lawsuits, moving the suits from state courts to a federal &#8216;vaccine court&#8217; where damages are capped at $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>And apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompaine.com\/feature.cfm\/ID\/6844\" title=\"TomPaine.com: Finding the answer to Washington's hottest whodunnit\">nobody knows<\/a> how this piece of legislation got into the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Now there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompaine.com\/op_ads\/opad.cfm\/ID\/6945\" title=\"TomPaine.com: Reward! For Information Leading To The Identification Of The Eli Lilly Bandit\">$10,000 reward<\/a> being offered for anyone who can identify who inserted this provision into the Homeland Security Act.<\/p>\n<p>Lots more information on the issue can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompaine.com\/feature.cfm\/ID\/6932\" title=\"TomPaine.com: Finding The Eli Lilly Bandit A Compendium Of Recent Articles\">TomPaine.com&#8217;s links to articles<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/counterspin.blogspot.com\/2002_12_15_counterspin_archive.html#86182727\" title=\"Mercury rising\">Counterspin digging into the background<\/a> a bit.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2002_12_15.html#000069\" title=\"Whodunnit\">Tom Tomorrow<\/a> for the heads-up.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is now substantial evidence that due to the mercury content, Thimerosal may be the cause of autism in many, many children, and Eli Lilly has been facing a number of lawsuits from parents looking for some help in caring for their children that were affected by the drug from this company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}