Yelling at cranks and conspiracy theories is not a cure or an antidote. It’s a social vaccine that keeps other people from getting infected with misinformation. Similarly, we make fun of Scientology, not to save Scientologists, but to prevent regular people from joining a cult.

This is sad, because Jill should realize that:

I mean, of course liberals are really worried about the consequences if Trump wins the election. Duh. It’s for the same reason as principled conservatives are worried abotu him.

They’re not FREE over anywhere , they happen to have universal insurance coverage that is paid for in part thru much higher taxes on just about everything. Something I think we need here, btw but let’s not pretend like it’s not paid for by the people benefiting from it.

People do mostly trust the government even when they claim otherwise. They just rarely stop and think about the thousands of ways in which it works for us everyday, because largely we don’t have to worry about it.

The difference between the left and the right is that on the left we at least try to shout down the extremists in our midst.

“Wow, liberals in the media really do seem to be particularly worried about Stein and the Green Party this year.”

Didn't she just tweet this? Isn't she representative of the Green Party by being their candidate for POTUS?

She’s also one of the wackadoo conspiracy theorists spreading distrust and lies, particularly about the FDA and CDC, so she’s not exactly noble here, either. In fact, she’s an opportunist slimeball.

I know you’re expecting logic to win out, but remember this is the same country that’s denying climate change and supporting Donald Trump.

1) This Meme is AMAZING

So if the Euros trust their government, than the vaccines are safe. But because of Big Pharma, the very same vaccines are poison over in the US?

No. If Stein wants to be taken seriously she needs to be able to handle the vetting process that comes with it.

Pandering to anti-intellectual crowds is how the GOP got taken over by the Tea Party and and we all saw how that turned out in their Primary.

“Furthermore, Jill Stein is right! We have a HUGE conflict of interest, here in America. You have big pharma running the regulatory agencies.”

Exactly. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy in that she constantly rails against “corporate interests” and “lobbyists” in government so when the CDC or FDA actually speak truthfully about the science, people distrust what they are saying because of some preconceived relationship with those “evil” entities.

What she’s saying is that people in this country don’t trust decades of thoroughly reviewed and vetted medical science, and conflating that ignorance with distrust of the two party system in an effort to make herself a more visible candidate.

People don’t trust the government (in this case the FDA) because people like her sow that distrust. Yes, the relationship between pharma companies and the FDA is a little cozy sometimes, but there is no evidence of any effect on vaccine safety. It would be very easy for Stein to say exactly that. But she’s attempting…

She’s not wrong, but one of the reasons Americans don’t trust the government on vaccines is because they constantly hear that Big Pharma controls US vaccine policy, which is a blatant lie that Dr. Jill Stein is repeating. She is dog-whistling anti-vaxxers and for her to claim otherwise is laughable.

The Benie or Bust crowd, excuse me, I mean “very genuine Green Party supporters,” keep claiming the MSM, DWS and HRC (why not CIA, too?) are behind this story. Do they not recall the Green Party had a pro-homeopathy and vaccine-skeptical platform until the entire party was swamped by the corporate-by-comparison…