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Archae

(46,262 posts)
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 03:20 PM Jun 2016

Looks like the anti-vaxxers have their candidate...

Trump.

Anti-Vaxxer: President Trump 'Absolutely Will Investigate' Phony Autism Link

Submitted by Miranda Blue on Wednesday, 6/1/2016 1:12 pm

A vocal anti-vaccination activist explained last week that she is supporting Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy because she is confident that President Trump, with the help of Ben Carson as the secretary of Health and Human Services and Chris Christie as the U.S. attorney general, “absolutely will investigate” what she believes is a Centers for Disease Control cover-up of a link between vaccines and autism. In a Republican debate last year, Trump suggested that vaccines cause autism, a myth that has no scientific backing, and in 2014 he insisted that “the doctors lied” about vaccination. Meanwhile, Carson has presented scientifically inaccurate information about spacing vaccines and Christie has been less than forceful about the need for vaccination. Tamara Scott, an Iowa conservative activist and Republican National Committee member, invited Eileen Dannemann, who runs an anti-vaxxer website called the Vaccine Liberation Army, to her “Truth for Our Time” radio program last week to discuss Dannemann’s concerns about vaccines. (Scott has invited anti-vaxxers onto her program before; in a previous interview with Dannemann, she alleged that “socialistic teaching” in schools, not parents who refuse to vaccinate their children, is causing disease outbreaks.) Dannemann told Scott that attempts to investigate a CDC vaccine cover-up have so far been quashed, but that things will be different in a Trump presidency.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-vaxxer-president-trump-absolutely-will-investigate-phony-autism-link#sthash.ECJbqpkr.dpuf

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Looks like the anti-vaxxers have their candidate... (Original Post) Archae Jun 2016 OP
It would really suck if the country went down the drain KamaAina Jun 2016 #1
Oh, FFS!!!!! HuckleB Jun 2016 #2
I would listen to Dr. Carson about spacing out things. He's an expert. Bucky Jun 2016 #3
Kick. HuckleB Jun 2016 #4
Once a conspiracy dipshit, always a conspiracy dipshit Major Nikon Jun 2016 #5
 

KamaAina

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1. It would really suck if the country went down the drain
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 03:22 PM
Jun 2016

because enough people thought autism was a fate worse than death to elect the vulgar talking yam.

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