{"id":14708,"date":"2015-02-13T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14708"},"modified":"2015-02-13T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:08:07","slug":"warren-on-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/13\/warren-on-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren on Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have felt troubled, by the recent controversy over vaccines brought about by fools like PIGnocchio, and especially Idiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot.&#160; I had a friend tell me how dangerous vaccines have become, I explained that a duck follows Dr. Mercola (her source) around to sound the warning.&#160; Fortunately someone else is sounding the warning far better than a duck.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Warren2\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Warren2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Warren2.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"right\" height=\"213\" \/>Sen. Elizabeth Warren is not having any of your anti-vaxxer nonsense, or any of Sen. Rand Paul&#8217;s anti-vaxxer nonsense either. At a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on vaccinations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/warrens-not-so-subtle-shot-across-rand-pauls-bow\" target=\"_blank\">Warren had some questions<\/a><font color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font> for the director for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201cIs there any scientific evidence that vaccines cause autism?\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201cIs there any scientific evidence that vaccines cause \u2018profound mental disorders\u2019?\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201cIs there any scientific evidence that vaccines have contributed to the rise in allergies or auto-immune disorders among kids?\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201cAre there additives or preservatives in vaccines that can be toxic to kids?\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201cIs there any scientific evidence that giving kids their vaccines further apart or spacing them differently is healthier for kids?\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u201cIs there any scientific evidence that kids can develop immunity to these diseases on their own, simply by eating nutritious foods or being active?\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">(Answer key: No, no, no, no, no, and no.) <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Important questions, but one stood out: &quot;Is there any scientific evidence that vaccines cause \u2018profound mental disorders\u2019?&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: ; margin: 0in; line-height: normal\"><font color=\"#0066cc\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/02\/04\/1362323\/-Rand-Paul-walks-back-his-previous-vaccine-comments-Temporally-speaking-that-is\" target=\"_blank\">Rand Paul last week:<\/a><\/font><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> &quot;I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/02\/11\/1363771\/-Elizabeth-Warren-takes-on-Rand-Paul-s-profound-mental-disorders\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here she is in action:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/uHZIJ5_VCcE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The facts are clear.&#160; Bringing back diseased that we have completely controlled is insane, and too high a price to pay for for a few wing-nuts to just want to inspire fear.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have felt troubled, by the recent controversy over vaccines brought about by fools like PIGnocchio, and especially Idiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot.&#160; I had a friend tell me how dangerous vaccines have become, I explained that a duck follows Dr. Mercola (her source) around to sound the warning.&#160; Fortunately someone else is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/13\/warren-on-vaccines\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}