Inordinate amount of time? There’d be a lot less is Stein stopped making outrageous statements like wi-fi is dangerous or playing both sides of the anti-vaxxers.

The term “bashing” implies that inferences are being drawn about what Dr. Stein is saying...

She may pander to anti-vaxxers, but she’s solidly in favor of our current vaccination regimen.

You can’t win with these people. One minute they’re bitching that their candidate doesn’t get covered... the next minute they’re complaining that people are publishing her words.

Not to mention that gigantic yellowish-white thing up in the sky that keeps spewing its CANCER CAUSING RADIATION at us every day. I’ve heard that it spews radiation on ALL ENDS OF THE SPECTRUM, including POTENTIALLY HARMFUL microwave and radio waves, as well as DEADLY X-rays!

Yeah! I mean, how weird is it that a science and tech blog would point out where a candidate for President is a complete idiot on topics of tech and science?

I’d rather have a WS-connected candidate than one whose only political experience is serving for two years as a Town Meeting Rep. for Lexington, MA. Not quite commander-in-chief material.

Exactly. There was actually a video I saw on youtube by Penn and Teller that kind of showed visually why even if it did cause autism at the rate the anti-vaxers claim it would still be more beneficial to keep vaccinating people.

Uhhh...what the holy fuck now? This woman is worse than Carson. She is selling her soul to people who are willing do damage to the health of their children...everybody’s children. She is worse than Trump. She has incredible medical bona fides which makes her stance all the more horrific. Carson and Trump are just…

There was a half-assed study, published by Andrew Wakefield in the Lancet. It was later redacted, the Lancet has apologized, and Wakefield lost his medical licence in Britain. He continues to push, because it’s the only thing he has left. Countless studies have been done, and changes to formulations were made as an…

Indeed. That’s the scientific approach, and she should be praised for that, not attacked.

Except that she’s not just a regular politician. People are voting for her because she claims to be the principled progressive choice. She’s clearly not, and on an issue that is completely settled, too, which sort of makes it worse.

You’re right she’s not a flip flopper. She’s an opportunist. When called out on supporting the racist economically suicidal brexit she deleted evidence that she had ever supported it. It’s far worse than flip flopping.

No. There is no evidence. Period. Full stop. You’re acting like this hasn’t been studied to death since Adrew Wakefield’s fraudulent study was exposed, leading to the revocation of his medical license. Thousands of studies have been performed. Exactly none of them showed any hint of a link.

“Almost identically worded” has no bearing on the actual meaning of something. I mean you can take a 1500 word statement, add one “no” to it and though it’s “almost identically worded” it can mean the exact opposite.

Which is exactly the problem. It purposely leaves room for debate (as a sop to her anti-vax nut followers), on a subject where there is no debate. Vaccines do not cause autism. There is no link. They’re never was, and any evidence to the contrary is either wrong or made up of of whole cloth.

There is quite a bit of difference between “there is no evidence” and “I am unaware of evidence.”

Yeah, but no. We’re not talking about whether there is a god or not. There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism. None. That’s a fact. What she did was allow the possibility that there is evidence, just that she’s not aware of it. Except there is no evidence.

Yeah, I got whooping cough as a baby because I lived in a European country where they didn’t have the same vaccination schedule we do. Sick for a year, infected other people, the entire family was miserable and sleepless, and I still have slightly-dodgy lungs.

I’ve never understood how a vaccine could tax a child’s immune system in ways months of whooping cough, chicken pox, and measles doesn’t.