Michele Bachmann says HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation
After criticizing Texas Gov. Rick Perry for mandating a vaccine for school girls, Rep. Michele Bachmann added some scary charges: She claimed to have just met a woman whose daughter suffered mental retardation from the vaccine, that it has "very dangerous consequences" and that it puts "little children's lives at risk." In the CNN/Tea Party Express debate in Tampa on Sept. 12, 2011, Bachmann blasted Perry for mandating a vaccine for school girls to guard ... Full Story »
Posted by Fabrice Florin - via Dave Weigel, Ray Nichols (t), Kaizar Campwala (t)
When an ethics-free candidate wants to be in the press, they can quote a one in a million undocumented claim from a anonymous lunatic on the street and get reported in all the mainstream news media with scant critique. Bachman: strong and wrong. It is peculiar that this bird brain is posing as a champion against mental retardation.