Michele Bachmann says HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation

PolitiFact by Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson | Sep. 16, 2011 (Fact Check)

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 »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business, Media, Health, Community
Topics: Media and Politics, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Women, Youth, Cancer, Drugs, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Presidential Election 2012
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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Sep 16, 2011 - 2:33 PM PDT
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - Sep 19, 2011 - 12:58 PM PDT
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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 21, 2011

The story is well pursued and reported. The only aspect not included is the possibility of drug corporations exerting influence upon the scientific studies, but one expects that a truly bad number of side effects would transcend that potential influence.

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.

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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - Sep. 19, 2011
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