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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Witch hunt?
She brought it on herself.
Rut roh....
Holy Wart Infestation, Batman!
She may as well drop out now and go to work for Mitt Romney.
agree.
I’m sorry but Bachmann deserves it. She tried a Democratic cheap trick to try to gain points because her campaign is faltering. However, she was doing well into the debate before she started resorting to Dim tricks.
I really hated how she did it, because she came off like a trial lawyer chasing a personal injury client. Yuck. Maybe she should stick to asbestos cases...
So, let her produce her plaintiff.
Obviously, this so called “perfessor” is making way too much money.
It’s a darn shame too.
As an executive you don’t get any mulligans /s
on the other hand, she could be right.
You know people refused the pig flu vaccine because they weren’t sure what the gov’t had put in it........
That “poor little innocent girl” who got all retarded because of Gardisil...sounded like John Edwards channeling a dead plaintiff.
Now she’s starting to sound like Jenny McCarthy, good ass, nice boobs, total nubjob
Additionally, she should rent a competent staff to fact check before she opens her mouth. How many flubs has it been? I used to favor her, but not now as she has caught Democratitis.
Nobody was FORCED to take Gardasil
Fair enough. She’ll deliver the data right after we obtain a carcass of one of Al Gore’s polar bears that have drowned trying to reach land.
Big time unforced error with absolutely no chance of getting a “let” from the umpire.
I bet she wishes she could put that genie back in the bottle.
Don't think so. Someone came up to her and told her this right before the debate. Her error was not taking time to check it out.
That person (assuming they weren't there to sabotage her); needs to come forth and back up Bachmann.
Indeed.
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