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comment by ecib
ecib  ·  4780 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit
>The fact that you think this is "out of left field" illustrates your casual knowledge of the anti-vax movement.

I was referring to your introducing political affiliations into the discussion as out of left field and irrelevant. Not the antivax movement.

Also, you're completely incorrect to suggest that Bachman didn't preach an anti-science message, and that it was only a problem of overreaching government. She got on the Today Show and told millions of viewers about how it could cause mental retardation (her source, a tearful mother). Let's be real here for a second and not pretend this didn't happen, and what her message was.

Finally, all it takes for antivax to not be branded a 'disease of the left' is for the right to share in it. Kind of takes away your ability to honestly brand it that way. Again, not that this whole left/right thing has anything to do with the climate change deniers being appropriately labeled as such.





kleinbl00  ·  4780 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Are you seriously suggesting that climate skepticism isn't a partisan issue? That makes as little sense as suggesting the anti-vax movement isn't a partisan issue. Climate votes in the house and senate invariably fall down party lines. And prior to Michelle Bachmann (who isn't gunning for vaccines, she's gunning for Rick Perry), not a single person on the right had said boo about vaccines.

I no longer see any point in continuing this conversation. You have a malformed idea in your head based on a limited exposure to the issue and you're going to go to the mattresses with that. Have fun. I'm out.