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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Trump is an anti vaxxer too?
No link but I saw a tweet on it. Anyone see that?
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So Trump is an anti vaxxer too? (Original Post)
Kingofalldems
Aug 2016
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Rex
(65,616 posts)1. Can that really be a surprise?
He is a walking, talking clusterfuck.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)2. He commented on his anti vax stance during one of the primary debates
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)3. Here we go:
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/an-anti-vaxer-in-the-white-house/493916/
Four candidates, only one that's not an anti-vaxxer. I'm glad it's ours.
Last week, Green Party nominee Jill Stein made headlines for equivocating on the safety of vaccines. As a medical doctor, there was a time where I looked very closely at those issues, and not all those issues were completely resolved, she told The Washington Post. There were real questions that needed to be addressed. I think some of them at least have been addressed. I dont know if all of them have been addressed.
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But Stein is not the only candidate to address vaccines this election cycle. As first pointed out by the Twitter user @mcclure11, three of the four media-receiving presidential candidates have appeared to pander to anti-vaccine advocates. Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson has tweeted No to mandatory vaccines. And Donald Trump linked vaccines to autism in a GOP primary debate last fall, before being corrected on-stage by the surgeon Ben Carson.
Hillary Clinton tweeted in support of vaccines in February of this year. The science is clear: The earth is round, the sky is blue, and #vaccineswork. Lets protect all our kids, she said.
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But Stein is not the only candidate to address vaccines this election cycle. As first pointed out by the Twitter user @mcclure11, three of the four media-receiving presidential candidates have appeared to pander to anti-vaccine advocates. Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson has tweeted No to mandatory vaccines. And Donald Trump linked vaccines to autism in a GOP primary debate last fall, before being corrected on-stage by the surgeon Ben Carson.
Hillary Clinton tweeted in support of vaccines in February of this year. The science is clear: The earth is round, the sky is blue, and #vaccineswork. Lets protect all our kids, she said.
Four candidates, only one that's not an anti-vaxxer. I'm glad it's ours.
Warpy
(111,264 posts)4. That isn't his Twit account but he's well known to be an anti vaxxer
and used one of the GOP debates last fall to spout his horseshit about them.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2015/09/20/donald-trump-spouts-dangerous-anti-vaccine-nonsense-ben-carsons-response-is-worse/#4ee18f1a1bd5
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/09/16/donald_trump_suggested_vaccines_cause_autism_during_the_cnn_gop_debate_he.html
Two years earlier: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-autism-children-vaccinations
He's been cranking about this stuff since 2007.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)5. Carson laughed at him
at 2:30
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)6. Ugh
(not that everything about Trump isn't ugh!)
scscholar
(2,902 posts)7. So three-fourths of our candidates are anti-vaxxers!
This is an embarrassment.