Wales measles epidemic traced to antivaccination lunacy

It looks like the antivaccination movement has yet another cause to celebrate:

More than 800 people have been diagnosed with measles in Swansea[, Wales] in this recent outbreak. People are lining up to get their vaccinations, and a campaign has been started to get more people vaccinated, which is a good thing; I just hope it’s in time. But with so many people contracting the illness, serious repercussions are almost inevitable.

Wales has had low Measles/Mumps/Rubella (MMR) vaccination rates for some time … since about 1998, in fact, when Andrew Wakefield published his bogus study in the Lancet falsely linking the MMR vaccine to autism.

Once again, he, Jenny McCarthy and the various Orwellianly-named vaccine “safety” groups out there must be ever so proud.

Another young victim of vaccine-preventable disease

Another family falls victim to anti-vaccination hysteria, another young child pays the ultimate price:

Orange County health officials said a baby died from whooping cough last week.

This is the first whooping cough death the county has seen in decades. Officials said it's been at least 20 years or more since someone died of the disease.

[…]

Officials said the family chose not to vaccinate their child. Some parents are choosing not to fully vaccinate their children because they worry there is a link between the vaccinations and autism.

Vaccines are safe, they’re usually cheap (when not free), and they work. This is scientific fact. The only people pretending otherwise are dingbats who don’t know any better and frauds focusing on their bottom line, both at the expense of an easily misled public.

Get your damn kids vaccinated, people.

(via @mistressmousey; RT: @BadAstronomer)

Australia: Vaccines (once again) proven safe and effective

It’s more restating the obvious, but that doesn’t make it less worthwhile:

Some good vaccine news for a change: A vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) appears to be working. HPV causes genital warts, and can lead to cervical cancer in women. In Australia, which began use of the HPV vaccine in 2007, cases of genital warts in young women aged 12 - 26 dropped 59 percent, and 39 percent for men. Not only that, but cervical abnormalities dropped as well—a glimmer of hope that for these vaccinated women, their chance of getting cervical cancer is dropping as well.

Meanwhile, US scientists and medical workers are still struggling to get the American populace to understand that Gardasil will not turn teenaged girls into sex-crazed nymphos by demonic possession or something. Then again, this is the same country that’s facing more and more outbreaks of easily preventable diseases (some of them deadly) because of baseless and endlessly disproven fears that shots turn children into Rain Man, so you can only expect so much in the end.

A little comparison between the two vaccine camps

Herein is a tale of two sides in the vaccine manufactroversy. On the one hand, we have the reality-based camp, which just got renewed confirmation via yet another study:

A new study published in the Journal of Pediatrics Friday may put [worried parents] at ease. Researchers found no association between autism and the number of vaccines a child gets in one day or during the first two years of the current vaccine schedule.

The research was led by Dr. Frank DeStefano, director of the Immunization Safety Office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Together with two colleagues, DeStefano and his team collected data on 256 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 752 children who did not have autism. The children were all born between 1994 and 1999 and were all continuously enrolled in one of three managed-care organizations through their second birthday.

The researchers not only counted how many vaccines a child was given, they also counted how many antigens within the vaccines children were exposed to over three different time periods: birth to 3 months, birth to 7 months and during the first two years. They also calculated the maximum number of antigens a child would receive over the course of a single day.

[…]

"When we compared those roughly 250 children with ASD and the roughly 750 children who did not have ASD, we found their antigen exposure, however measured, were the same," said DeStefano. “There was no association between antigenic exposure and the development of autism."

The researchers also found no association between antigenic exposure and ASD.

And on the other hand, we have anti-vaccinationist fear-monger David Kirby, lying about a vaccine-related court case at (where else?) The Huffington Post. Orac reports in his wonderfully thorough (if long-winded) fashion:

2012 saw largest vaccine-preventable outbreak in 60 years

Here’s a headline to surely make antivaccination cranks everywhere proud:

The details are chilling:

The nation just suffered its worst year for whooping cough in nearly six decades, according to preliminary government figures.

Whooping cough ebbs and flows in multi-year cycles, and experts say 2012 appears to have reached a peak with 41,880 cases. Another factor: A vaccine used since the 1990s doesn't last as long as the old one.

[…]

Last year, cases were up in 48 states and outbreaks were particularly bad in Colorado, Minnesota, Washington state, Wisconsin and Vermont.

I’m sure it’s a coincidence that these states have also been seeing declining vaccination rates for years, which is also giving rise to other easily preventable epidemics.

Here’s what apparently counts as the silver lining:

The good news: Despite the high number of illnesses, deaths didn't increase. Eighteen people died, including 15 infants younger than 1.

The bad news: There’s no good reason for those deaths to happen at all.

Meanwhile, this is being blamed on the vaccines, themselves:

For about 25 years, fewer than 5,000 cases were reported annually in the U.S. But case counts started to climb again in the 1990s although not every year. Numbers jumped to more than 27,000 in 2010, the year California saw an especially bad epidemic.

Experts looking for an explanation have increasingly looked at a new vaccine introduced in the 1990s, and concluded its protection is not as long-lasting as was previously thought.

I propose an alternative hypothesis: A rising number of worried yet naive parents are avoiding proper vaccines under the deluge of persistent misinformation from discredited cranks parading around as a health movement.

(via The Words on What…)

Daily Blend: Monday, October 01, 2012

Jack Wu [source]

The king always feels he is being wronged when the starving peasants rise up and oust him from his throne. #MaleDecline

Stephanie Coontz at The New York Times destroys the myth that men are being treated as inferior to women in this modern society. I wonder if I’ll receiving some more amusing anti-feminist attempts to refute established facts in my Twitter @mentions feed.
(via atheismplus | Reddit)

Massive earthquakes in Indonesia signal the impending break-up of the Indo-Australian tectonic plate … over the next few million years.
(via The Daily Grail)

“If you're mainstream, you're going to hell”: Westboro Baptist Church attendee ^[pictured] runs for Kansas Board of Education seat.
(via @BadAstronomer)

Australia’s ABC program Media Watch rips into WIN News’s false-balance-driven promulgation of “vaccines cause autism” garbage from Meryl Dorey from the antivax Australian Vaccination Network.
(via @BadAstronomer)

And finally, the Discovery Channel is set to embarrass itself again, this time with an ode to the U.S.’s gun craze hosted by reactionary flywheel Ted Nugent.

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: Stephanie Coontz • men • women • male decline • tectonic plates • Indo-Australian plate • earthquakes • Jack Wu • Westboro Baptist Church • Topeka, KS • Kansas State Board of Education • ABC News • Media Watch • WIN News • Meryl Dorey • Australian Vaccination Network • AVN • Discovery Channel • Ted Nugent • Ted Nugent's Gun Country

Daily Blend: Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Whitney Kropp

Antivaccinationists can revel in their latest victory as a record-shattering outbreak of pertussis (whooping cough) sweeps through the United States. 14 are already dead, most “among infants younger than 3 months of age”.
(via Rob F)

Today’s crack Daily Caller exposé: Retired military official posts his opinions about government corruption on the Internet! Also, he likes Keith Olbermann, so he’s obviously a hostile operative.

“Carrie with a happy ending” ^[pictured]: Michigan high school full of losers trumped by small farm town full of awesome.

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: pertussis • whooping cough • antivaccinationists • antivaccination • Daily Caller • Mike Russell • Keith Olbermann • Whitney Kropp • West Branch, MI

Daily Blend: Monday, September 10, 2012

James Yoakley

Guess what happened to a Tennessee high school teacher ^[pictured] who dared to defend atheist and LGBT students’ rights to free speech from their social-conservative administration? (Bittersweet ending.)

Oldie, but Dr. Rachael Dunlop has an awesome, all-in-one debunking of nine antivaccination lies and myths. (Includes bonus self-defeating antivaxxer attacks in the comments.)
(via Bad Astronomy)

And finally, give every U.S. President in history a combat knife, restore them to their peak physical condition, and throw them in an arena. Who would win? (Teddy FTW.)
(via @radleybalko)

@joemcken: I see him as the kind of guy who'd get revenge for nicking him by stabbing you in the eye twelve times with your own knife, and then call you a coward for not living to fight longer.

@VeritasKnight: No, he's more like...well, since we have to fight, then kills you, and laments the sad nature of human combat in a lusty voice.

(I just had to share that.)

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: Lenoir City High School • Krystal Myers • Zac Mitchell • James Yoakley • student journalism • student newspapers • vaccination • antivaccine • antivaccination • antivaccinationists • antivax • antivaxxers • Rachael Dunlop • U.S. President • POTUS

Daily Blend: Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Andrew Wakefield

Predictably enraging, but Stephanie Zvan at Almost Diamonds showcases some of the sexist victory laps over Jen McCreight’s leave.

In the single most shocking development of all time, Democrats cave in and re-insert ‘God’ into their party platform, with sources saying President Obama himself was behind the move. Almost makes all their hype about inclusivity seem the tiniest bit disingenuous.

And finally, the always-useful Cracked.com provides a decent rundown of antivaccination hero Andrew Wakefield’s ^[pictured] disgrace (and four other lies that fooled the world).

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: Jennifer McCreight • Blag Hag • Stephanie Zvan • sexists • misogyny • misogynists • atheists • atheist movement • Democratic Party • Democrats • God • Barack Obama • Cracked.com • Andrew Wakefield • antivaccination • antivaccinationists • antivaccine • antivax • antivaxxers • MMR vaccine

Daily Blend: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 – Catch-up edition

Savannah Dietrich

Howdy there! Live from my paint-reeking, half-patched-up bedroom, here’re a few quick links to keep y’all from dying of missing me:

Update: Teenage girl ^[pictured] no longer faces prison for revealing the names of the boys who sexually assaulted her on Twitter.
(via @BreakingNews)

“You are the Osama bin Laden of this travesty”: Washington Times columnist blames Dark Knight Rises director Christopher Nolan and Hollywood at large for Aurora, CO shooting. Had to happen eventually.
(via @owillis)

Antivaccination crank Meryl Dorey reconsiders the appropriateness of pestering grieving families, reminds us all that she’s a reprehensible ghoul.
(via @BadAstronomer)

Wall Street Journal crony bullshits all over the history of the Internet to try and reclaim it for anti-government conservatives.

And finally, here are five restaurant chains to avoid. I find it amusing none of them even exist near me (except for Domino’s, which is also best avoided just in general).

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: Savannah Dietrich • sexual assault • contempt of court • Charles Hurt • The Washington Times • The Dark Knight Rises • Christopher Nolan • Sean Penn • Warner Brothers • Hollywood • Osama bin Laden • Aurora, CO shooting • Meryl Dorey • Australian Vaccination Network • AVN • antivaccination • antivaccine • antivaxxers • antivax • Internet • U.S. Government • Gordon Crovitz • The Wall Street Journal • Chick-fil-A • Carl's Jr. • Domino's Pizza • White Castle • Waffle House • restaurants • conservatives

Daily Blend: Sunday, July 22, 2012

Savannah Dietrich

I’ll be helping to paint the apartment (under duress!) for the next few days, so blogging may be light to nonexistent until the place looks like the ruddy rainbow my mother apparently wants it to be. (The fact that I’m also beginning work on a brand-new Minecraft castle whilst being simultaneously hooked on Burn Notice – all the curses to Zon! – has nothing to do with it. Like, at all. Nope.)

Anti-vaccination propagandists help create the worst whooping cough epidemic in 70 years.
(via @mims (@ebertchicago)

17-year-old ^[pictured] publicly outs the boys who sexually assaulted and humiliated her, now faces jail time.
(via @radleybalko)

“You still eat with your hands?” Oprah Winfrey visits India. India wishes she wouldn’t.
(via @ebertchicago)

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: whooping cough • pertussis • antivaccination • antivaccine • antivax • antivaxxers • Washington, USA • Savannah Dietrich • sexual assault • rape • Oprah Winfrey • India • slums • Bollywood • Rajyasree Sen • Oprah's Next Chapter: India

Daily Blend: Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Msgr Charles Pope

Some days, you just don’t give a crap about what idiot said what stupid thing. This is one of those days. Oh, lethargy, how I’ve (not) missed you.

“Vaccines are probably the most studied public health intervention in history. That’s why we know, beyond any doubt, that there is no causal connection between vaccines and autism.”
(via @BadAstronomer)

Hemant Mehta responds to Catholic goober ^[pictured] who isn’t happy about hearing the truth about his faith (and how adherents are leaving it in droves).

Finally, while I sympathize with frustrations about outsider changes to classics, I can’t help but love how ever-so-pissed Vox Day is with the addition of a female character in the upcoming Hobbit.

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: Rob Schneider • Seth Mnookin • antivaccination • antivaccine • antivax • antivaxxers • Hemant Mehta • Charles Pope • Catholicism • Catholics • Catholic Church • Hobbit • women • misogyny • Philippa Boyens • The Lord of the Rings • LoTR • Vox Day • Theodore Beale

AVN hack accuses grieving activist parents of being vaccine shills

Dana McCaffery

As if the paradoxically-named Australian Vaccination Network weren’t already despicable enough, it’s managed to sink to new lows in actually attacking the motives^* of parents who speak out against the anti-vaccination lunacy that’s responsible for the death of their infant:

Grieving parents who lost a baby to whooping cough have lashed out at a University of Wollongong researcher who questioned their motives for going public with their story.

Judy Wilyman, a PhD student and former Illawarra high school teacher, questioned whether Toni and David McCaffery had been paid to promote the whooping cough vaccine.

Ms Wilyman said the State Government was using four-week-old Dana's death and "the mantra of seeing sick babies gasping for air" to push the vaccine.

Dana died of whooping cough, or pertussis, in March 2009. Her parents have since worked with health authorities to raise awareness about the infection and gave permission for their story to be used on a NSW Health Department campaign.

On the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) website, Ms Wilyman said she was "concerned to know if the McCafferys have received any money either directly or indirectly for promoting this cause".

"Can you assure me that the McCafferys have not received any money from the skeptic groups or any other lobby group for vaccines?" she asked.

Because the only logical reason why mourning parents would want to do everything in their power to raise awareness regarding what killed their child is that they’re in the pockets of Big Pharma and Big Government.

My, the AVN sure knows how to make friends, doesn’t it?

(via @BadAstronomer)

* There’s apparently a browser pop-up blocker or some such that prevents some from viewing the article at the link. Just use another browser; Google Chrome worked fine for me.

Tags: Australian Vaccination Network • AVN • Meryl Dorey • University of Wollongong • Judy Wilyman • Toni McCaffery • David McCaffery • Dana McCaffery • anti-vaccination • anti-vaccine • antivax • antivaxxers

Daily Blend: Wednesday, June 06, 2012

PZ Myers

Yet another federal judge rules the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. How many has that been by now?

PZ Myers ^[pictured] satisfyingly crushes Vox Day’s ghoulish attempt to “scientifically” defend the brutal oppression of women.

Meanwhile, Orac at Respectful Insolence thoroughly obliterates Vox’s recent “vaccines cause sudden infant deaths!” WorldNetDaily piece. (I had been wondering what to call that “motivated reasoning” phenomenon.)

Boring: New Jersey now allows fines of up to $1,000 for failure to buckle up. New: Law applies to pets.
(via The Agitator)

Attention-whoring liar to headline conference of attention-whoring liars to celebrate recently deceased attention-whoring liar.

60,000 brain-dead (or trolling) Californians actually voted for birther queen Orly Taitz before she lost her bid for Senate.
(via Joe. My. God.)

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: Edie Windsor • PZ Myers • Theodore Beale • Vox Day • women • acid throwing • Orac • antivaccination • antivaccine • antivax • antivaxxers • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome • SIDS • Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System • VAERS • New Jersey • seat belts • pets • fines • Sarah Palin • Andrew Breitbart • RightOnline • conservatives • far-Right • far-Rightists • wingnuts • Orly Taitz • California • California Senate • elections

Anti-vaccine propagandists claim another young victory

Antivaxxers must be so proud. Here’s the latest statistical blip they can add to their list of victories over the evil Big Pharma:

Francesca Marie McNally

February 24, 2012 - May 17, 2012
Resided in Franklin, MI

FRANCESCA MARIE McNALLY, May 17, 2012, of complications from Pertussis. Age 3 months.

Wait, what’s that you say? You mean dead babies (and the elderly, and the immunocompromised) aren’t the goal of antivaccination advocates? Then why are they trying to hard to spread all this doubt and blatant misinformation against the only form of protection we have for the vulnerable against these illnesses? Surely, no-one can possibly be that stupid and delusional?

Then again …

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I have the horrible feeling that I’ll be using this graphic more and more often in the foreseeable future.

(via @BadAstronomer)

Tags: Francesca McNally • antivaccination • antivax • antivaxxers • antivaccine • Pertussis • Whooping Cough

Daily Blend: Thursday, May 17, 2012

Carlos DeLuna

Texas executed another innocent man ^[pictured] in 1989. One wonders how many more such revelations it will take before death penalty supporters start to reconsider their selective trust in the government.
(via @radleybalko)

Maybe someday, James O’Keefe will do something that won’t leave him looking like an incompetent, lying dumbass. Maybe.

Insightful video on the importance of vaccines and the threat of antivaccination bullshit.
(via @BadAstronomy)

Smithsonian blogger stomps a hole of science right through the heart of the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens. (cc: Jen McCreight)
(via The Daily Grail)

Ottawa museum forced to raise age limit for sexuality exhibit after underestimating how prudish people are.

48 things that make you realize you’ll never never feel young again.
(via Joe. My. God.)

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: Texas • Carlos Hernandez • Carlos DeLuna • capital punishment • wrongful executions • Los Tocayos Carlos • Columbia Law School • James O'Keefe • voter fraud • antivaccination • antivaccine • antivax • antivaxxers • Dana McCaffery • Ancient Aliens • History Channel • Brian Switek • Giorgio Tsoukalos • Science and Technology Museum • Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition • Yves St-Onge • Institute for Marriage and Family Canada • BuzzFeed • nostalgia

Daily Blend: Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Derek Acorah, shameless fraud

Feeling sleep deprived, so here are some quick links to tie y’all over while I mourn today’s canceled music lesson.

The Telegraph’s Tom Chivers rips into “psychic” Derek Acorah ^[pictured] for declaring that Madeleine McCann is dead and will be reincarnated.
(via @BadAstronomer)

Meanwhile, Seth Mnookin at The Panic Virus debunks anti-vaccine bullshit from both TLC and the Chicago Sun-Times.
(via @BadAstronomer)

Norway government officially divorces church from state. (The article comments provide moderate entertainment.)
(via Rob F)

Six ways the founding of the United States was actually much more interesting than what history class told us.

If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.

Tags: Tom Chivers • Madeleine McCann • Derek Acorah • psychics • frauds • reincarnation • Seth Mnookin • antivaccination • antivaccine • antivax • Jenny McCarthy • autism • TLC • Chicago Sun-Times • Norway • Church of Norway • Storting • Cracked.com • United States • USA • Indians • Native-Americans

Donald Trump claims that vaccines cause autism on Fox News

Presenting Fox News’s latest “expert” in antivaccination lunacy: Donald Trump.

There’s no need for my usual transcript; here’s how it went down:

Donald Trump: I saw kids who were vaccinated and then turned autistic! That can only mean that vaccines cause autism!

Gretchen Carlson: I’ll be almost suspiciously rational for about thirty seconds and point out that science says there’s no link between vaccines and autism.

Trump: Didn’t you hear me? Poor little children! Shots! Autism!

Yeah … at least my opinion of Trump hasn’t sunk any lower. (Then again, that’s probably because it bottomed out ages ago.)

Tags: Donald Trump • antivaccination • antivax • Fox News • Fox & Friends • autism

Australia to strip anti-vaccination parents of tax benefits

I’m not normally one to support government intrusions into people’s personal decision-making, especially regarding their own children, but any objections I may have just float away like fairy dust when it comes to matters of public safety. And here’s a good illustration of this: The Australian government has a new policy to strip parents of over $2,000 in tax benefits per child if they don’t vaccinate their kids, which I think is a surprisingly reasonable rule on several levels:

The Government says 11 per cent of five-year-olds are not immunised and has announced a shake-up of the system which will take effect from July 1 next year.

Under the changes, families who refuse vaccinations face losing up to $2,100 per child in benefits.

Families will need to have their children fully immunised to receive the Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Part A end-of-year supplement.

A new immunisation check will be introduced for one-year-olds to supplement the existing immunisation checks at two and five years of age.

The FTB supplement, worth $726 per child each year, will now only be paid once a child is fully immunised at these checks.

Families are already required to have their child fully immunised to receive Child Care Benefit and the Child Care Rebate.

First of all, these issues of government interference and general well-being can always be readily summarized by that iconic Star Trek quote: “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”. This is equally true in politics and healthcare policy. Given that the only rationale for refusing to vaccinate children is solely based on either garbage pseudoscience or an irrational fear of minute risks, there really aren’t any good reasons for endangering both your own kids’ lives and other people’s families by decreasing the levels of herd immunity. True, a few unvaccinated children here and there are hardly a threat, but the danger is when this sort of thinking catches on, as we’ve seen happen in the last few years with resurgences of childhood diseases that have already led to children dying.

At any rate, this doesn’t even actually count as governmental intrusion, given that no-one is actually being forced to vaccinate their kids per se; they just lose some tax benefits if they don’t. We’re not exactly talking about jackbooted enforcers banging at the doors of non-vaccinators and hauling them off to immunization camps, here. It’s just a comparatively minor financial incentive. In addition, the new rules allow for “conscientious objectors” to receive the full benefits if only they fill out some paperwork, so even those lazy or misguided parents who don’t want no vaccinated kids still have a way out.

It really is a matter of life and death. On that basis alone, the Australian government is doing the right thing in getting people to adopt scientifically proven methods to protect the lives of their families and communities at large. We’re all pretty safe so far, but that’s only thanks to mass immunizations. If the cancer of Jenny McCarthy, the (Orwellianly named) Australian Vaccination Network, & co. is allowed to spread, Aussies (and the rest of us) will be paying a much higher price down the line than some lost tax benefits.

(via Joe. My. God.)

Tags: Australia • Australian Federal Government • antivaccination • vaccination • Family Tax Benefit • FTB

‘Funny or Die’ spoofs Bachmann’s HPV vaccine nonsense

I hear the world is still recovering from the shocking news that Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) once again said something moronic, this time about vaccines, thus inducting her into the hollowed anti-vaccine hall of shame. In case you haven’t been following along, here’s everything you need to know courtesy of Funny or Die:

My transcript: (click the [+/-] to expand/collapse →)

[−]

Hi! I’m presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. Now, I’m not a doctor-doctor or a scientist, but as a scientist, I’m concerned about Rick Perry’s one-man mission to eradicate HPV. If you didn’t know, Rick Perry, as governor of Texas, forced the HPV vaccine into the tiny, frail arms of innocent, 12-year-old girls.

Now, I have a lot of problems with this. Number one: EVERYONE KNOWS VACCINES ARE DANGEROUS! Medical professionals like Jenny McCarthy have been warning us for years.

[subdued] On my campaign trail, I met a woman whose child was made into a retard because of the HPV vaccine. Now, if a story about a woman somewhere in America isn’t proof that this vaccine is dangerous, you might wanna call a doctor, because you might be retarded.

Look, people. This is a little-known fact, but: EVERYONE has HPV! I bet you 23 million Americans have HPV coursing through their veins. You probably have it. I probably have it. And you know what? You probably have it, too. And who cares? Who cares if the HPV vaccine can prevent cancer? EVERYONE’S GONNA GET CANCER! Well, unless we find a cure. But that might be impossible, because I’m planning on cutting all cancer research funding once I become President.

So, America: When it comes to the HPV vaccine, do the right thing and let women have a choice.

[horrified look] Cut! Did I just say “choice”? Oh my gosh, who put “choice” in the script? No-no-no-no-no-no-no. [shouts around] Everyone please listen! I do not need women to have a choice when it comes to their bodies! [at camera] Is this thing on? We gotta fix this. [loudly] Are there people in there?

Them eyes … them eyes!

(via Respectful Insolence)

Tags: Michele Bachmann • Funny or Die • HPV • HPV vaccine • vaccines