Bachmann Can't Pony Up

[thesummerqueen]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/09/...ge-expires



How about this Bachmann - do what a sensible politician would and get script writers and fact checkers, and quit using a compilation of bronze-age myths swiped from prehistoric superstitions as your reference material.

Oh...and by the way? Skeptic societies across America would have been happy to keep you from sounding like an idiot. You just had to get on the internet.

[Faith No More]

At this point at least, she knows that she made a completely ridiculous and unsubstantiated claim against a vaccine she knew nothing about. Seeing how she's been challenged by several scientists who even offered money to debate her, she knows she is out of her league and won't do it. And I can assume as a Republican she will not publicly admit she was wrong and apologize for the mess she made.

Stupid really is the new Republican.

[Shell B]

It's funny how many people will take the word of a politician over a scientist. It's like the more qualifications you have to speak on a topic, the less people listen.

[Minimalist]

Skeptic societies across America would have been happy to keep you from sounding like an idiot.

Summer, my dear, you're forgetting that she is running for the nomination of a political party which contains the biggest collection of fucking fools since the Know-Nothings in the 1840's.

She doesn't need the votes of skeptics....they aren't republicans. She needs the votes of idiots...they are.

[Epimethean]

She's been a joke since go, but at least she is making the punchline better every few weeks.

[Anomalocaris]

I don't think we should be too gleeful just because some out and out yahoo from the republican party seem be discrediting the party with idiot extremism. The American political process will weed her out and put in some other yahoo who is more cunning about how to debase this country in the eyes of everyone who values thought, measure and facts.

[Shell B]

I begrudgingly agree with her about forced gardisil injections, though. While I believe she pulled the retard thing out of her ass, something that is not contagious through "normal" contact should not warrant mandatory vaccinations. Something potentially epidemic, yes. I don't want people to get cervical cancer, but I also don't think douchebag politicians should be able to tell parents to inoculate their kids against something they probably won't catch from the other kids while at school.

[Minimalist]

The American political process will weed her out

I disagree, Chuck. The American political process created her.

[Anomalocaris]

I begrudgingly agree with her about forced gardisil injections, though. While I believe she pulled the retard thing out of her ass, something that is not contagious through "normal" contact should not warrant mandatory vaccinations. Something potentially epidemic, yes. I don't want people to get cervical cancer, but I also don't think douchebag politicians should be able to tell parents to inoculate their kids against something they probably won't catch from the other kids while at school.

Should we remove Florine from tap water? Tooth decay is not contagious either.

I personally don't think most parents are qualified to determine what vaccination to give. Parenthood does not cause competence to materialize, and in most cases competence never does. It's silly to follow the pussy footing political line, concocted in attempt to suck up to the below average, in pretending at the expense of their children that the incorrigibly incompetent chaff somehow remain the most unassailably competent authority that trumps systematically accumulated modern medical knowledge. In an idea world, not only should a government tell what vaccine parents must give, but must also be empowered to put children into foster care in more serious cases.

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The American political process will weed her out

I disagree, Chuck. The American political process created her.

The fact that political system created her doesn't bother me. She has no chance in a general election and any popular political system is bound to produce quite a large load of chaff. It's the fact that our political system will ultimately also sideline her in favor of someone just as disgraceful, but more finely attuned to the exact blend of idiosyncrasies of the boarder electorate, that bothers me.

[Shell B]

Should we remove Florine from tap water? Tooth decay is not contagious either.

I'm pretty sure fluorine is not comparable to an injection, as tooth decay, which is fucking inevitable without tooth care, is not comparable to HPV, which is preventable through use of condoms.

I personally don't think most parents are qualified to determine what vaccination to give. Parenthood does not cause competence to materialize, and in most cases competence never does. It's silly to follow the pussy footing political line, concocted in attempt to suck up to the below average, in pretending at the expense of their children that the incorrigibly incompetent somehow remain the most unassailabcom authority.

So, instead of leaving parents with the choice, we just assume they're all retards, force them to vaccinate their children against a virus that is transmitted sexually and just fucking strong arm the world into doing what the smarter elite think is right?

I am well aware that the moment a child is born, competence doesn't suddenly become the intellectual position of the parent. My position is not one of sucking up to the below average, as you so histrionically put it. It is one of leaving what doesn't harm society up to the individual. And, yes, I will aver that refraining from giving children gardisil is not harmful to society in and of itself, whereas not vaccinating against meningitis is harmful.