Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson has tweeted “No to mandatory vaccines.” And Donald Trump linked vaccines to autism in a GOP primary debate last fall, before being corrected on-stage by the surgeon Ben Carson. As first pointed out by the Twitter user three of the four media-receiving presidential candidates have appeared to pander to anti-vaccine advocates. There simply aren’t many votes to win by pandering to anti-vaxers.īut Stein is not the only candidate to address vaccines this election cycle. Stein tweeted again, saying “I support vaccinations,” on Monday. Stein has repeatedly articulated her support for vaccination,” and accused the Washington Post piece of being “framed to cast doubt on that question.” In an email, Stein’s spokeswoman told me that “The deleted tweet was the result of a miscommunication among staffers.” She added that “Dr. Stein clarified that “I’m not aware of evidence linking autism with vaccines.” Some Twitter users reported that she had first sent and then deleted an earlier tweet in response to Meloy, which more clearly stated that there was “no evidence” linking the two. On Saturday, Colin Meloy, the singer and guitar of the Decemberists, tweeted at Stein, bluntly asking whether she believed vaccines cause autism. “It was utterly clear, without any ambiguity at all, that the statements in the paper were utterly false,” said the Lancet editor who first published it, after a 2010 debunking. The only clinical research ever to make a connection-an infamous 1998 study- has since been widely debunked and retracted by The Lancet, after its author was found to have a mess of financial conflicts and to have falsified research data *. Multiple and well-publicized studies over the past two decades have found no connection between vaccinations and the development of autism.
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I don’t know if all of them have been addressed.” I think some of them at least have been addressed.
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“There were real questions that needed to be addressed. “As a medical doctor, there was a time where I looked very closely at those issues, and not all those issues were completely resolved,” she told The Washington Post. Last week, Green Party nominee Jill Stein made headlines for equivocating on the safety of vaccines. From the perspective of presidential politics, the question of vaccine safety seems like the pseudoscientific issue that might never die.Though a connection between vaccines and autism has been debunked at the highest levels for at least six years, the issue keeps creeping into public debate.