“There’s a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that vaccine. She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result of that vaccine.”
“Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann on Tuesday questioned the safety of a vaccine used to protect girls from a sexually transmitted infection that can cause cervical cancer.
During an interview on NBC’s “Today” show, the Minnesota congresswoman referred to the vaccine as “what potentially could be a very dangerous drug” and recounted an exchange she had Monday night with a woman after the debate among GOP presidential candidates in Tampa. The debate included a sharp exchange between Bachmann and Gov. Rick Perry (Texas), who tried to mandate the vaccine in his state.
“I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Fla., after the debate and tell me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter,” Bachmann said.
“It can have very dangerous side effects. The mother was crying when she came up to me last night. I didn’t know who she was before the debate. This is a very real concern, and people have to draw their own conclusion,” she said.”
“Deaths
As of June 22, 2011 there have been a total 68 VAERS reports of death among those who have received Gardasil® . There were 54 reports among females, 3 were among males, and 11 were reports of unknown gender. Thirty two of the total death reports have been confirmed and 36 remain unconfirmed due to no identifiable patient information in the report such as a name and contact information to confirm the report. A death report is confirmed (verified) after a medical doctor reviews the report and any associated records. In the 32 reports confirmed, there was no unusual pattern or clustering to the deaths that would suggest that they were caused by the vaccine and some reports indicated a cause of death unrelated to vaccination.”
Cassi Creek:
All politicians can be fed incorrect information. Intelligent, rational politicians who have been informed that their information is incorrect act accordingly and admit that they were wrong.
Sarah Palin, caught peddling misinformation, digs in more deeply and piles misinformation around her like a barricade as in the Paul Revere affair.
Michelle Bachmann apparently believes that her voter base is unconcerned with reality and accuracy. She may well be right about that. She certainly is spinning misinformation about HPV immunization. She used the vaccination recommendations to attack Rick Perry last Monday. She appeared incensed that 12-year-old girls were being “forced to undergo government injections.”
Following the “debate,” she claims to have met a woman who stated her daughter became mentally disabled as the result of being vaccinated for HPV. It is hard to understand how a birth defect can be attributed to a vaccination given a decade or more after birth. One has to have absolutely no knowledge of genetics, biology, and other sciences; or one has to really want Tinker Bell to live.
Bachmann just seems to be willing to insert lies as fact in any campaign speech or at any other appearance. Unfortunately, for the nation, she appeals to a populace that lives in a monosyllabic universe where fairy tales and invisible cities in the sky still intrude into politics, where the enlightenment has yet to take place, and where truth is whatever someone heard a socio-politico-religious figure head last pronounce.
Given access to enough beer, football, and basketball, her voter base will flock between the stadia and the churches like good little middle schoolers. They will never need STD vaccinations because the figureheads all maintain that their voter base doesn’t stray from Old Testament regulations. CDC will not receive infection reports and the United States will continue to move in a retrograde manner back to the dark ages.
Update: found the bad neighbor at home this morning. He claimed it was not his dog. Then he agreed to pay the damages.
He is convinced that we are trying to run him out of the valley. He is incensed that we called animal control. There will be no peaceful resolution between him and us.
As for me, this incident is over.
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