That is not a very good standard of viability. I would say they’d need to be polling nationally at around 15%, and even that would be a stretch.

The problem is, with Clinton or Johnson, you can at least look at the things they have actually done in politics and their careers in public service to see whether they tend to carry out their beliefs or listen to constituents. With Trump, you can look at his behavior as a public person and business person, however…

If those were the only issues that the POTUS ever dealt with then I wouldn’t feel comfortable with supporting the Greens or Stein. But I’m pretty sure that the POTUS deals with a lot of issues, particularly of foreign policy importance but also (through the process of nominating Supreme Court justices) all kinds of…

Here’s the thing though. Jill Stein is selling herself as the principled candidate for people who want to vote their conscience.

Many Clinton supports know our vote is a pragmatic choice for the least bad option. And that’s fine.

If you’re already in a position to rationalize your vote for a person who thinks…

I wouldn’t expect any less from Texas.

Since there is literally no downside to this program, and since it will clearly decrease the need for the abortions that conservatives despise, I look forward to hearing exactly how they will denounce this donation without actually coming out and saying that they think women should be punished for having sex.

Wow way to go. This made me smile for the first time this morning. Hope more foundations see this and pick up the idea.

Her statement implies that somewhere there may just be proof that autism and vaccines are linked and that she is keeping an open mind about it. This is wrong and encourages people to keep wasting more money to disprove a theory that has already been debunked and was based on falsified data in the first place. The fact…

An actual doctor running for President is pandering to anti-vaxxers for the sole purpose of reaching that 5% for federal funding of the Green Party.

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…

It’s sort of like changing your tweet “The Earth isn’t flat” to “The Earth isn’t flat as far as I am aware” because you definitely aren’t trying to pander to flat Earthers.

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…

If it was indeed “almost identical,” your reaction sure seems a touch hypersensitive.

There has been some science addressing this, and though I forget the source at this time, I recall hearing that the human body could withstand around 200 vaccinations at the same time before the immune system would be considered impaired in any way by the process. You have to remember, even without our interferrence,…

There are studies addressing that. The “too many vaccines” theory is a way for people who don’t have science on their side to cling to some plausible way to question the safety of vaccines. Ben Carson pulled that one out!

Worry no longer, there have been numerous studies by both the Federal government and universities and pediatricians, in order to determine the proper vaccine schedule.

Haven’t you heard? Jenny McCarthy is also pro-vax now. So is Robert De Niro, the person who pushed the Tribecca Film Festival to show Andrew Wakefield’s anti-vax movie. All the cool anti-vaxxers are pro-vax now - more specifically, they’re “pro-vaccine choice.”

Leaving aside her pandering to the anti-vaxxers (which is despicable considering that she is a physician), her entire platform is frankly incoherent. From her stance on student loans (outright cancelling the debt) to her policy on the Fed Reserve to GMOs, none of her ideas make any sense and are all half-baked. It…

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…

I think she’s a total quack. When I started reading about her after the Bernie or Bust crowd started fawning all over her, I saw her use the phrase “Big Pharma,” saw her wishy washy stance on vaccines, and found out that she’s all about homeopathy and went NOPE. Fuck no. You’re supposed to be an actual doctor and you…