Professors offer more than $10,000 for proof that Bachmann’s story about HPV is true

Yahoo News ^ | 09/15/2011 | Chris Moody

[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.

[Diogenesis]

I know you did, and actually
tried to make a ‘double entendre’ of the word
‘solution’ based on an old saying.
There are so many ways an anaphylactic
or paroxysmal immunoreaction can be fatal,
just tried to consider a classical single one of them.
Wonder what the pathology actually showed.

[Maverick68]

Nope, the bar has been lowered by the GlobalManBearPig crowd.
She simply needs enough people with the title of “Dr.” or “Professor” to back her claim....she needs NO proof.
The best part is, it can be Dr’s and Professors’ in totally unrelated fields....

[muawiyah]

Interesting thought. The "headache" incidence looked suspicious.

I'm sure there's a bunch of trial lawyers somewhere looking into that ~

[existentialist]

Rubio would be an excellent choice.

[casinva]

I am sorry the reference to women in firefighting needing to pass the same ability standards as the men to be accepted into that profession (the fairness and sensibility of that) compared with my belief that women in politics should be held just as accountable as men in their political vetting process (be they liberal OR conservative) is somehow not getting through.

That said, I won’t waste more time here trying to get it through.

Sorry to have taken your time as well.

[D-fendr]

Facts are facts, mickey.

Yes, they are. And the facts are, for example, the rest of the info at your CDC link contradicts your scare quote.

An honest discussion would benefit this site greatly. Spamming threads misleadingly does not.

Thanks for your reply.

[patriotspride]

” Rubio would be an excellent choice.”

I think he would add a lot to the ticket