Originally published at: Cassidy Asks Trump’s MAHA Surgeon General Nom to Say Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism. She Wouldn’t
Dr. Casey Means — President Donald Trump’s pick for the surgeon general and a leader in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement — appeared in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Wednesday morning and refused to unequivocally say that vaccines do not cause autism. When asked by committee Chair…
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Lysenkoism: Junk science supporting political views.
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“But Brawndo has what plants crave! It’s got electrolytes!
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Cassidy is a physician himself. He knows that vaccines have saved countless lives over the years. Reducing vaccinations to please vaccine theorists will lead to deaths. The question for Dr. Cassidy is how many dead young children is he willing to sacrifice on RFK jr’s altar.
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“…we do not know, as a medical community, what causes autism."
True.
Perhaps it’s ManTan.
Or KFC.
Maybe monster trucks.
We oughta look into those.
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As a pale vegetarian who rides public transportation: “Whoa, dodged those bullets!”
As a parent of an autistic child: “Hope to G#d that they have had enough of this MAHA bullsh#t.”
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“I do accept that evidence. I also think that science is never settled,”
Science is never settled so long as there’s a financial incentive to refute the evidence.
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Why would anyone expect the nominee to reverse the policy that got her the nomination in the first place? Because she’s a vax confabulator, she is in that seat as the Surgeon General nominee. She’s not going to make the mistake of saying she doesn’t believe the policy on which she was nominated.
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But, we do know that addled brains are caused by sniffing cocaine off of a toilet seat.
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So Cassidy is a YES vote then???
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We really ought to look into what causes stupidity instead. Thwarting the epidemic of that in our ruling class of Republicans should be job one in the current environment, I would think.
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Which was entirely in play in the original “study” linking the two.
This constant LYING MUST stop.
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“The reality is that we have an autism crisis that’s increasing …"
Why does the r/w always avoid the obvious, better diagnoses protocols?
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Good lord, I did not have Collins is asking her about psychedelic mushrooms and hearing voices.
M: In my meditations I had a sense something ominous was coming
To be fair, her mother was dying of pancreatic cancer. But I have to add, when my mother was dying of breast cancer, downing a few psilocybin did not enter my thoughts.
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He is exhasperated. Will he do anything about it? He’s already getting attacked in the primaries by ‘MAHA’ folks from his right flank there in LA. You can’t really win as a man of science in a party of tribal warlords and conspiracy BS. He’s very possibly going to lose the GOP nomination for not kowtowing to RFK Jr.
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Good Lord, she doesn’t accept the extensive research on the safety of vaccines. But falls back on ‘we need to be researching this’ to support her various quack therapies. These people are vile; people who listen to them are stupid.
p.s., I do think there should be research into psychedelics, but not by faux researchers who have predetermined agendas!
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Then he might as well save his soul & do the right thing!
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I thought it was settled science that autism is passed genetically due to the haphazard consumption of candy cigarettes and/or Pixy sticks during childhood by wildly irresponsible progenitors.
Damn hippy grandparents!
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the overall MAHA movement has pushed the baseless idea that MMR vaccines can cause autism in children.
If Republicans had simply embraced the incredible COVID vaccine, Trump could have slept the next four years and still have been considered a great President. He just can’t not… ETTD
But the site was updated in November to suggest, without evidence, that possible links between vaccines and autism were “ignored by health authorities.”
That. Right there. The showbiz President knows full well you never do this. It’s damaging to a brand.
Put It On The Website
“Trump Org - Our buildings can’t poison you, but we’re not sure because we ignored data.”
“Trump Org - Be the best you can be and always admit your failures.”
“Trump Org - Mistakes happen. We make them a lot.”
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