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Archae

(46,763 posts)
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 02:19 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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Warpy

(113,130 posts)
1. That oaf has never met a nutty conspiracy theory he didn't love
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 06:00 PM
Jun 2016

if he didn't think it would get a bunch of loonies to vote for him.

yellowcanine

(36,328 posts)
2. "Ben Carson as secretary of Health and Human Services, Chris Christie as the U.S. attorney general"
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 02:56 PM
Jun 2016

GAWD save us all!

HuckleB

(35,773 posts)
3. As a backpacker, I start thinking of places I can go and hide in the mountains.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 03:52 PM
Jun 2016

Yeah, I'm becoming a friggin' "survivalist!"

At least in thought.

WTF?

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