2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton is now the only candidate not pandering to the anti-vaccine movement
Hillary Clinton is now the only candidate not pandering to the anti-vaccine movementUpdated by German Lopez @germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Aug 1, 2016, 1:30p
The science is clear on vaccines safety and efficacy. But the presidential candidates thoughts on vaccines? Well, theyre a mixed bag.
Over the past week, Green Party candidate Jill Stein whos a medical doctor by trade entered the heated political debate over vaccines by suggesting there are still "real questions" about the medical devices that scientists say are generally effective and safe. She later added that she supports vaccines, but has questions about how theyre regulated.
The small blow-up put attention on yet another bizarre element of the 2016 election: Out of the four big presidential candidates, only Hillary Clinton seems to be fully pro-vaccine, meaning shes the only one aligned with the scientific consensus on this issue.
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/1/12341268/jill-stein-vaccines-clinton-trump-2016

immoderate
(20,885 posts)Does anyone else want to do that?
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Major Nikon
(36,917 posts)obamanut2012
(28,230 posts)AT BEST.
stonecutter357
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workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)She just dances around the subject because she doesn't want to lose the green party anti-science nutters.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)GoDawgs
(267 posts)workinclasszero
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greymattermom
(5,798 posts)and keeping up on their tetanus shots? Is anti vaccine only for kids, or do they include themselves? Is it only for babies, or do older kids get the HPV vaccine?
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)Very long but it does give CDC statistics. Shingles vaccination rates are the lowest of all, and that one is for older adults. There are many adults who vaccinate their children, but not themselves. Would you include adults who don't get their flu shots every year in the category of anti-vaxxers? That would be half the country then.
http://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/nvpo/national-adult-immunization-plan/naip.pdf
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)You should see/hear the conspiracies they have about the HPV vax.