In a move that could significantly weaken the position of plaintiffs who claim antidepressant Zoloft causes birth defects, a federal judge has rejected the testimony of the plaintiffs’ main causation expert.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe, presiding over the multidistrict litigation, said the expert did not demonstrate that the use of nonstatistically significant findings is accepted in her scientific field.

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