Anti-Vaccine Doctor: I Don't Care If My Kids Make Others Gravely Sick (VIDEO)

[DonViejo]

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Source: TPM

An Arizona cardiologist told CNN in an interview that went online Monday that he doesn't care if his refusal to vaccinate his kids gives other children grave, preventable diseases.

“I’m not going to sacrifice the well-being of my child. My child is pure,” Dr. Jack Wolfson said in the interview. “It’s not my responsibility to be protecting their child.”

Wolfson was responding to a public appeal for all parents to vaccinate their children from Arizona pediatrician Dr. Tim Sacks, whose leukemia-stricken daughter was exposed to measles after an unvaccinated American family introduced the disease into the greater population during a trip to Disneyland.

Wolfson was interviewed last week by television station KPNX as a source on the debate over vaccinations, calling himself "the paleo-cardiologist," according to the report. The doctor said that children should not avoid getting infections such as measels and mumps. "These are the rights of our children to get it," he told KPNX.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jack-wolfson-vaccines-doctor-measles

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[gregcrawford]

1. And this bag of rat excrement...

... is a fuckin' DOCTOR?!!? Yank his license!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. Arrogant sociopath

He looks like the prototype for the modern conservative.

[Peacetrain]

3. This dufus is a libertarian.. you can take that to the bank

The inability to care beyond themselves is just a hallmark of their philosophical state of mind..

[Kelvin Mace]

16. Libertarian is what conservatives call themselves these days for

"respectability", since "conservative" has become synonymous with "fascist".

[Peacetrain]

23. Good Point!!

[nichomachus]

30. "I am a libertarian" = "I am a delusional asshole" n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

4. Paleo-cardiologist? What does he do, bang rocks against people's chests?

[Orrex]

5. His children aren't as pure as he thinks they are

I can no longer sit back and allow
communist infiltration
communist indoctrination
communist subversion
and the international communist conspiracy
to sap and impurify
all
of our precious
bodily fluids.

[Piasladic]

29. Pure Children

I found his claim that his child is pure to be the most telling.

[Thav]

6. Maybe he should expose his children to smallpox and ebola

After all, he shouldn't deny his children the chance to get those diseases!

With his callous regard for other people's lives, I'd be concerned that he's not following medical practices like sterilization and proper cleaning. After all, why should he deny his patients the chance to be exposed to deadly infections?

What a loon.

[on point]

7. Quarantine his children at home 7x24 until they are vaccinated. They are danger to community

[Omaha Steve]

8. Doesn't he consider HIS kids might get gravely sick?

[irisblue]

9. this should hurt his practice, his partners are gonna be so happy

[NickB79]

10. Nails the anti-vaxxer mindset to a T

Herd immunity? Fuck herd immunity.

It's too bad the anti-vaxxers can't just buy some land, build themselves some nice anti-vax Utopias, and wall themselves off from the rest of us.

In a few years (once the pathogens have died out), we could go visit and take home souvenirs from the ghost towns.

[CanonRay]

11. What percentage of cardiologists are assholes, do you suppose?

Is it my imagination, or is it much higher than the population as a whole?

[geomon666]

12. Suspend his fucking license

Imagine if this asshat passed on the measles to a person with heart problems.

[kag]

13. "My child is pure????"

What the fuck does that mean? Does he think that since my kids (both now teenagers) got all of their vaccinations, and even get regular flu shots, they're not PURE? What does that even mean???

Idiot!

[DonViejo]

15. I'm not sure what it means but, I'd guess...

there is some religious meaning/connotation to the declared "purity."

[Iliyah]

18. in other words, my child is better than yours

[leftofcool]

26. My grand daughter is pure too

But she has damn well been vaccinated. Grandma wonders is there is a vaccination for 13 year old hormones running rampant.

[TygrBright]

14. And WHAT medical school gave this asshole a degree? n/t

[DonViejo]

17. Here...

Dr. Wolfson graduated from Midwestern University, Downers Grove. He has 2 awards.

http://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Jack_Wolfson.html#ixzz3QcWiakWZ

Just what I figured:

DO stands for "Doctor of Osteopathy," and refers to a doctor who practices medicine whose medical school training included a focus on the muscular and skeletal systems to treat problems throughout the body.

[TygrBright]

21. And that relates to cardiology HOW? Sheeesh, our system is SO busted... n/t

[msanthrope]

25. He's an osteo who has probably decided to call himself a cardiologist. nt

[eggplant]

31. A DO is equivalent to an MD.

The cardiology part is a specialization one does *after* graduating from Med School with an MD or DO.

It doesn't make him any more or less of an asshole. That's completely taken care of by his Anti-Vax idiocy.

[3catwoman3]

19. Well, I hope his patient referrals dry up.

I would certainly not entrust my heart to this heartless jerk.

[jwirr]

20. Notice this good old boy is not old enough to remember what it was like before we had vaccines.

I understand his selfishness because I have children I love also but that does not make me forget the needs of others.

[msanthrope]

22. Him ('natural' cardiologist) and his nutbag chiropractor wife sound like the worst helicopter

parents, ever.

[mountain grammy]

24. His children are "pure?" sounds a bit nutty..

they're coming out of the woodwork now, as my mom used to say.

[nichomachus]

27. Well, I'm going to make the personal choice

not to put brakes on my car and then drive around the neighborhood where his kids play. It's not my responsibility to protect his kids.

Of course, it is Arizona, which seems to have magnets that attract nuts.

[sulphurdunn]

28. Since Wolfson

feels no obligation to protect others from his family, it is the obligation of others to protect themselves and their families from him and his family. His individual rights end where the common good begins.

[MrScorpio]

32. "First, do no harm."

How soon he has forgotten.

[meow2u3]

33. Anti-vaxxers belong in their own little colony

Isolated from the rest of us. This way, they won't infect us and it can contain any epidemic that would break out.

[uppityperson]

34. Locking as not meeting LBN SOP.Please repost in VMM or GD to expose this jerk.

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