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Minnesota professor offers $1,000 for Bachmann's HPV vaccine victim
StarTribune.com ^ | 9/14/11 | Jeremy Herb

Posted on 09/14/2011 7:37:41 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

A University of Minnesota bioethicist is offering $1,000 for medical proof that a woman’s daughter suffered mental retardation from the vaccine for human papillomavirus virus, a story that was told by Rep. Michele Bachmann after Monday’s debate.

Bachmann has come under fire from the medical community for suggesting the vaccination for the HPV virus, a sexually transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer, is linked to mental illness.

Steven Miles, a U of M bioethics professor, said that he’ll give $1,000 if the medical records of the woman from Bachmann’s story are released and can be viewed by a medical professional.

His offer was upped by his former boss from the University of Minnesota, Art Caplan, who is now director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics. Caplan said he would match Miles' challenge and offered $10,000 for proof of the HPV vaccine victim.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bachmann; hpv; perry
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To: presently no screen name

She slanted Perry, who she endorsed.

I think that could be an issue.


141 posted on 09/14/2011 10:17:40 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: presently no screen name

You talk about facts, yet you don’t mention the opt-out clause mentioned in Perry’s own press release announcing this dumb EO.

It’s been posted her dozens of times. If you don’t want to educate yourself, that’s a ‘you’ problem, isn’t it?


142 posted on 09/14/2011 10:17:40 PM PDT by Carling (DeMint to Obama: I want to read the bill, not listen to talking points off a TelePrompter.)
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To: NeoCaveman

>> “She kind of needs to produce the mother who told her this” <<

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Bullshit!

There is over a gigabyte of data on the hazards of Gardasil on the healthranger web site. There are so many hazards known that its approval was completely unlawful.


143 posted on 09/14/2011 10:21:06 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Sarah Palin - 2012 !)
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To: presently no screen name

Perry has admitted his mistake on the EO.

Personally I think we have some desperate candidates and wanna be candidates out there


144 posted on 09/14/2011 10:21:33 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: Carling

Oh you have a way of making me sound horrible. I was looking at the fact that Michele will be exonerated from this witch hunt. That is all.


145 posted on 09/14/2011 10:23:49 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: ncalburt; mazz44

>> “Your posting real crap from a weirdo site !
Shame on you” <<

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No, a factual site, shame on you for attacking the facts with adhominem crap.


146 posted on 09/14/2011 10:24:11 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Sarah Palin - 2012 !)
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To: editor-surveyor

Exactly! Funny how people only accept that reality only when it fits or does not fit their argument.

The money trail is real in medicine. Its been growing exponentially as of late. Especially through commercials telling us to ask our doctors about drugs. It should be the other way around. It must be stopped. It will take our FREEDOMS away and our wealth. It silences whomever dares to challenge the status quo.

For example, why is it that America has the 3rd worst infant mortality rate of industrialized nations. From 1900 to 1941 the majority of births were done at home. Since the 1940’s those numbers have now changed to over 95 percent performed in the hospital. Heck, you take a chance of being thrown in jail if you dare have a in home birth, yet our infant mortality rate is still among the worst.

That should be telling everybody something.


147 posted on 09/14/2011 10:27:14 PM PDT by mazz44
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To: editor-surveyor

Sue the Bush FDA, then. They approved the drug.

Do you even know what a pharma company has to do to get a drug approved? Or, did Rupert Murdoch pay for Gardasil like he paid for Rasmussen’s poll?


148 posted on 09/14/2011 10:27:49 PM PDT by Carling (DeMint to Obama: I want to read the bill, not listen to talking points off a TelePrompter.)
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To: napscoordinator

I think the “Perry wants kids to die for $5k” angle sounds even more horrible.


149 posted on 09/14/2011 10:28:54 PM PDT by Carling (DeMint to Obama: I want to read the bill, not listen to talking points off a TelePrompter.)
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To: mylife

And what about MB and the rest? She didn’t slant him - she was inquiring. She’s a private citizen and has a right to know. You got a problem with that - you want things under the cover? Get used to it - you want him vetted or not? One night and you are already complaining about the heat - are you afraid he couldn’t survive one month of what SARAH went through. What’s wrong - are you implying Perry’s brain isn’t engaged?


150 posted on 09/14/2011 10:28:54 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Carling

Maybe but that is not what she meant at all. She was just mentioning that he was in bed with the corporation.


151 posted on 09/14/2011 10:30:44 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Carling

is that his poll?


152 posted on 09/14/2011 10:31:23 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

MB has a right to know? Does she know how to research a Stage III FDA trial, and what it means for FDA approval for use? This is basic stuff.

Do you know what the FDA stages are, and how drugs get approved by the FDA? I doubt it, based on your posts on FR.


153 posted on 09/14/2011 10:32:24 PM PDT by Carling (i)
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To: napscoordinator

You and others are trying to make Perry look like an ogre without proof.

He was looking out for the public health and trying to make it so that taxpayers didnt foot the bill


154 posted on 09/14/2011 10:32:24 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: napscoordinator

Well, “maybe” doesn’t cut it, does it?

Maybe Palin is just stringing along supporters to fatten up her PAC coffers. Just saying “maybe”, of course.


155 posted on 09/14/2011 10:33:54 PM PDT by Carling (i)
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To: editor-surveyor

Thank you, Mr. Surveyor.

Sorry for the typos. I am using my smartphone, without glasses and long finger nails.(LoL)

Have a great night!

Stay Strong and In Great Health...


156 posted on 09/14/2011 10:35:19 PM PDT by mazz44
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To: ncalburt

“Palin should have kept out of the tired story
Palin was involved in the same Merck program and stuck the US tax payers with the AK bill.
What was she thinking ?”

But Palin did not MANDATE Gardisil like Perry tried to do. HUGE difference.

Palin agrees with Bachmann, when Bachmann said it should be an Opt-IN vaccine, not an Opt-OUT vaccine.


157 posted on 09/14/2011 10:35:33 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: All

Beyond all that, Rick perry knows when to admit he made a mistake via the EO.

Bachmann is doubling down.

I dont need hysterical Bs


158 posted on 09/14/2011 10:36:12 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: napscoordinator; Carling

Carling lives for looking for ways to turn the truth into a lie, and a lie into the truth.

One of the most dishonest postors we have here.


159 posted on 09/14/2011 10:40:21 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Sarah Palin - 2012 !)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I’ve never had a flu shot. And I’ve never had a seasonal flu.

Same here, and darned few allergies, too.

160 posted on 09/14/2011 10:40:59 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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