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Comment on Vaccines and the Republican War on Science by Gwen Rothberg

Gwen Rothberg — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:11:45 +0000

I’m waiting for the intersection between corporate policy making and teabaggery to blow up in a mulit-car pile up. In Indiana, we have mega university based health care system firing RN’s for vaccine refusal based on religious objection in Goshen, where a large population of German Baptists live and farm. At the same time, we have a tea-monkey governor and mega majority legislature that was put in place by the religious single issue voters who vowed to make the Catholic care model the law of the state and shut down clinics that provide RU-486 and refuse even emergency-theraputic abortions. The mega-corporate hospital gets to trump the religious objection of vaccine deniers at the intersection where they are both care provider and patient, and they all got fired. And yet the catholic health system gets to deny care and impose their will on patients by their practice of religion. I see at least 2 vehicles heading towards each other on the state supreme court highway. Republican’s are driving both cars – can’t wait to see them try and figure it out.

Comment on Vaccines and the Republican War on Science by Links 4/25/13 | Mike the Mad Biologist

Links 4/25/13 | Mike the Mad Biologist — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:44:23 +0000

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Comment on Vaccines and the Republican War on Science by Immune to School Controversy: Why Hasn’t Anti-Vaccination Influenced Teaching? | Trying Biology

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:32:46 +0000

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Comment on Vaccines and the Republican War on Science by Lyr

Lyr — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:28:16 +0000

Ya know…if vaccines caused autism, you would think autism or autism-like symptoms would show up at similar levels in other species that are vaccinated, like dogs, cats, and horses. Oh, those species that get vaccinated all the time don’t show autism-like symptoms? Um…..

Comment on Vaccines and the Republican War on Science by Meredith

Meredith — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:23:53 +0000

There was no such thing as DTaP in the 1990′s, first of all. It was DT only then, and later DTP. Secondly, it’s haemophilus influenza B, or Hib. And you need to link your peer-reviewed source for the mercury analysis, and what kind of mercury it was.

Comment on Vaccines and the Republican War on Science by RobMcCune

RobMcCune — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:02:37 +0000

Not to mention that the concentration in solution (a few ml) doesn’t equate with the concentration in the child (several liters).

Comment on Vaccines and the Republican War on Science by Polls and the line between truth and conspiracy theory – Thoughts from Kansas

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 04:13:17 +0000

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Comment on Vaccines and the Republican War on Science by Grant C

Grant C — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:29:01 +0000

Umm…

“President Bush intentionally misled the public about the possibility of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to promote the Iraq war” ”

That’s reached the status of established historical fact, how exactly did it get included in a list of “conspiracy theories”? Bush and his administration constantly made public statement about WMDS in Iraq that were in no way backed by evidence from the intelligence assessments, and disregarded that evidence wherever it contradicted their narrative.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/12/bush.wmd/index.html

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2006/04/23/4980/60-minutes-cia-official-reveals-bush-cheney-rice-were-personally-told-iraq-had-no-wmd-in-fall-2002/

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-01-11-oneill-iraq_x.htm

And on, and on, and on, and on…

Comment on Vaccines and the Republican War on Science by Josh Rosenau

Josh Rosenau — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:48:02 +0000

Tom: I think you should learn the difference between ethyl and methyl mercury.

Comment on Vaccines and the Republican War on Science by Vaccines and the Republican War on Science | Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:30:18 +0000

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