It was a stupendous gaff. Some strange woman she doesn’t know from Eve comes up to her and tells her this story and she runs with it? Unbelievable.
It was no gaffe. There are HUGE numbers of people in this country who suspect these things have negative side-effects. There may not be any scientific proof, but they darn sure believe it. And that 2/3 of the required immunizations are on the list because some politician took a payoff. One thing we seem to have learned from this is that Merck had meetings where they discussed how many states would have to make Gardisil mandatory before they could recoup their R&D costs.
She is mining a potentially large pool of votes with this issue.