Tag: anti-vaccies

Michele Bachmann: Embracing Teh Lefty Anti-Vaccy Crazy?

Look, let’s start off by me noting I didn’t care for the way that Congresswoman Bachmann went after Governor Perry over Gardasil last night, frankly: I recognize that there’s a core issue there about choices for your kids, but the central issue is more complicated than either side wants to admit, and it’s heavily partisan-tinged at this point.  But put that aside.  This isn’t beanbag.  Forget it, Moe: it’s politics.  And, as Erick Erickson originally pointed out, it’s effective politics, too.

This (via @bdomenech*), on the other hand, is not politics, effective or otherwise. If the Congresswoman really believes this, it’s crazy-time. Continue reading Michele Bachmann: Embracing Teh Lefty Anti-Vaccy Crazy?

#rsrh The Left’s War on Science, Part MMXVII.

The next time one of ’em wants to whine and moan to you about all those awful right-wingers out there and their literal belief in Genesis, look ’em in the eye and say “Young-Earth Creationism doesn’t kill kids*.”

Doctor Andrew Wakefield – anti-vaccination nut – killed kids.  And elements of the progressive and radical Left ate that stuff up with a spoon.  Which they will now pretend to have never done.  So I don’t think that I’m particularly obliged to listen to the smug sneers of anybody who doesn’t want to face that particular unfortunate truth…

Moe Lane

*At some point during this post I’m expected to issue a pro forma disavowing of Genesis literalism, thus showing that I’m hip to the culture or something.  You know something?  Forget that: Young-Earth Creationists don’t put my kids at risk.  I’ll worry about their religious beliefs when they start impacting on my actual daily life, thanks.