Posted on 09/15/2011 1:35:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's story about a woman who claimed that her daughter suffered "mental retardation" after receiving a vaccine against HPV could fetch the woman's family thousands of dollars. But the family can only collect if Bachmann or the unnamed woman can prove the story is true.
Two bioethics professors have offered to pay more than $10,000 for medical records that prove the anecdote Bachmann told after Monday night's Republican presidential debate is true, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:
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.
"'These types of messages in this climate have the capacity to do enormous public health harm,'" Miles said of why he made the offer. 'The woman, assuming she exists, put this claim into the public domain and it's an extremely serious claim and it deserves to be analyzed.'"
Bachmann told the story after she criticized opponent Texas Gov. Rick Perry for using an executive order in 2007 to mandate that all girls entering the sixth grade receive a vaccination against the Human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer.
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I didn’t know Michel LeGrand died of AIDS. He did write some very beautiful music. Not Windmills of Your Mind, of course, (sorry, Mozart!) but you can’t win them all.
Who would have thought all those retired Engilsh teachers post on FR???
You got the F’in point, but still failed to refute my point on its merit or lack thereof.
Unless you want to have an operation you won't know what I am talking about. You cannot see the forest for the trees.
I can’t remember what your effen point was.
I can honestly say that I’ve never seen a thread quite like this in my 7+ years on FR. I’ve actually never seen the misogyny charge leveled on FR from one FReeper to another, either.
Talk about eating our own...
Being raised with 6 brothers and 4 sisters and a really strong Mother helped me convince doubters.
And you so egotisticly thought I cared for an opinion. You like your sisters don’t seem to be able to answer the questions or counter-points presented. You remain wrong on both your claims.
Boy, did we hit your angry button! Why don’t you go lay down with a cool compress on your head?
This new-found victimhood from conservative women FReepers is a relatively new thing, isn’t it?
How do you know anything about what anyone has gone through. I have one for you. Out of 20 people in my job in 2009, 10 lost their jobs. All 10 were men; 8 of the 10 who kept their jobs were women.
You’re embarrassing yourself, samantha.
“You obviously do not know what in the hell you are talking about. Are you a woman involved in Politics? No? Well I am and have been for decades”.
Have you ever considered the possibility that your not very freakin good?
That’s FLINTLOCK to you missy, but then this is an old “drug around the world” laptop, is it locking too easily for you?
Usually, when you falselyu accuse a person of being either a misgynyst or a racist, they tend to get a bit angry.
I’m not sure what’s going on at FR these days, but it’s ugly.
Truly, Dusty, if you want people to answer your questions rationally, you have got to frame them rationally and in a language we can all understand. I don’t have a clue as to what you are trying to say.
Making my point.
I believe we'll still hear some about the Gardasil issue, and that SHOULD be reviewed. Rick Perry also needs to go through his vetting on this and everything else as well.
What bothers me though is that this has taken all eyes off Romneycare. Did you notice how one opt-out vaccine took the world by fire while Mitt Romney got off practically scott free in that debate and in the conversations that followed.
Maybe it actually Mitt Romney that owes Michele Bachmann big time.
You two are just ridiculous.Just STOP!
Herman Cain was right-we seem to have lost our sense of humor in this country.
No doubt.
The subject of race has never come up on this thread except when it was introduced by people denying that misogyny existed on FR.
As far as I know, not one person has been singled out as a woman hater tonight. We are speaking generally. But I know some of the names of the women haters here on FR - one of them was here tonight and made only one or two comments. Look for his remarks on the first page.
Yes, it is ugly here sometimes on FR. Now you know what it’s like to read all the truly horrible things being said about Conservative women candidates every single damn day.
I’ve seen examples of your sense of humor, so I tend to agree with you!
Herman Cain said we were uptight, by the way. He didn’t say we were humorless. There’s a difference.
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