From the medical perspective, legal opinions have absolutely no bearing on the question of what does or does not cause any particular malady. These are empirica

From the medical perspective, legal opinions have absolutely no bearing on the question of what does or does not cause any particular malady. These are empirical questions that must be answered scientifically, not socially. I've always found it to be silly that one of the defenses of vaccines is that the courts had never awarded a payout such as the one in this article. That proved (or disproved) nothing scientifically then, and it proves nothing now.