Peter1469
07-30-2016, 07:51 AM
Jill Stein Thinks There Are 'Real Questions' About Vaccine Safety, in Case You Were Voting Green (http://theslot.jezebel.com/jill-stein-thinks-there-are-real-questions-about-vaccin-1784533166).
Of course their are. Only sheep think otherwise. All vaccines have side effects, some serious in a small subset of the population. Some vaccines have large effects on larger subsets of people. The good news is that genetic testing will soon tell us who should avoid which vaccine. Then this debate will be over. Until then it is a contest between Statists and people who insist on thinking.
The article was written by a Statist. You are not permitted to question any decision made for you by the State.
Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate and also an actual medical doctor, doesn’t appear to be anti-vaccination. But she’s sort of anti-vaxxer adjacent, giving a series of mealy statements to the Washington Post and in a Reddit AMA about whether vaccines are safe. Jill: you don’t have to do this!
It’s popular among a certain segment of establishment-wary liberals to say that it’s not that vaccines are unsafe, necessarily, but that the Food and Drug Administration oversees them. The FDA and other federal regulatory agencies can’t be fully trusted, that argument goes, and so vaccine safety is called into question.
That’s where Stein— who is, again, a physician— appears to land. In a Reddit AMA two months ago, she objected to the concept of “mandatory” vaccines (https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4ixbr5/i_am_jill_stein_green_party_candidate_for/d31ydoe)and talked about public distrust when asked about vaccination:
Of course their are. Only sheep think otherwise. All vaccines have side effects, some serious in a small subset of the population. Some vaccines have large effects on larger subsets of people. The good news is that genetic testing will soon tell us who should avoid which vaccine. Then this debate will be over. Until then it is a contest between Statists and people who insist on thinking.
The article was written by a Statist. You are not permitted to question any decision made for you by the State.
Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate and also an actual medical doctor, doesn’t appear to be anti-vaccination. But she’s sort of anti-vaxxer adjacent, giving a series of mealy statements to the Washington Post and in a Reddit AMA about whether vaccines are safe. Jill: you don’t have to do this!
It’s popular among a certain segment of establishment-wary liberals to say that it’s not that vaccines are unsafe, necessarily, but that the Food and Drug Administration oversees them. The FDA and other federal regulatory agencies can’t be fully trusted, that argument goes, and so vaccine safety is called into question.
That’s where Stein— who is, again, a physician— appears to land. In a Reddit AMA two months ago, she objected to the concept of “mandatory” vaccines (https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4ixbr5/i_am_jill_stein_green_party_candidate_for/d31ydoe)and talked about public distrust when asked about vaccination: