Posted on 02/27/2020 8:17:28 PM PST by karpov
For nearly 20 years as an up and coming politician, Bernie Sanders supported ideas on what causes cancer outside of the mainstream, such as sexual inactivity as a cause of breast cancer.
"The manner in which you bring up your daughter with regard to sexual attitudes may very well determine whether or not she will develop breast cancer, among other things," Sanders wrote in an essay headlined "Cancer, Disease and Society" in 1969. "How much guilt, nervousness have you imbued in your daughter with regard to sex?"
The essay, published in The Vermont Freeman and previously reported, extensively and approvingly cites studies suggesting a relationship between "inhibited sexuality" and cancer risks. "In other words, did women who develop breast cancer have certain similar psychological traits which might lead one to see a connection between emotional health and cancer," Sanders wrote.
It's part of a vast written record of many of his views – some well outside the mainstream – that are coming under scrutiny again as he emerges as a front-runner in the 2020 race for president.
When the issue first arose in the 2016 presidential campaign, a Sanders aide dismissed the comments as dated. “These articles were written more than 40 years ago,” Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs told Mother Jones in 2015. “Like most people, Bernie’s views on many issues have changed over time.”
But his commentary on the subject of cancer and its causes suggest his beliefs about links between the disease and human sexual behavior continued well into the 1980s.
ABC News did not immediately receive a response from the Sanders campaign on this story and how in particular his views may have evolved.
In that early published essay, Sanders cited numerous medical studies that claimed to have found a relationship between cancer and human sexual behavior.
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Trump’s right. Burny is crazy.
Bernie has theories so wild, I have never even _heard_ of them.
Guess I need to go back to conspiracy theory boot camp!
Don’t be so uptight Daddyo!!
The “experts” back in the 60s claimed “free love” and losing all those fuddy-duddy old fashioned notions about sex and marriage would completely & totally eliminate incest and rape and the rest of it. Utopia to follow.
Really.
What an idiot.
He had it backwards. Promiscuity causes some kinds of cancer.
Anyway, yeah! Go, Crazy Man! President Trump vs. Crazy Man!
Hey, Bernie? What causes communists?
There is something weird about Bernie.
Am I getting this right, you’re supposed to encourage your daughter to be promiscuous as a way of preventing cancer?
I’m not buying it.
Bernie is a cancer!
Communists cause Cancer.
Bernie also believes that working at an honest job causes cancer.
That’s why he has never even attempted to have one.
Bull Shit Bernie is a psychopath and a moron. It’s obvious to me.
All joking aside, if Bernie Sanders was sent to a mental health facility for evaluation, his frantic eyes, hand gestures, tight lips, red face and verbal rantings would be enough for a doctor to admit him.
He looks and sounds like an agitated chimpanzee to me.
Hail To The Chief, President Fruitcake!
Good luck with that, Dims.
I can’t wait for the GOP ads if Bern’s the nominee.
The MSM and dems and liberals will excuse everything crazy Uncle Bernie has had to say, totally ignoring the fact that he has not changed and he’s still crazy.
Bernie is a loon. He will say anything to get a vote. Who is paying the bills to keep feeding his ego? The people in Vermont must be very uninformed.
Of course he’s nuts. The Dems and their mouthpieces (ABC) are just saying it out loud now because he has become a threat to them.
I remember. Sanders could’ve plagiarized this tripe from the propaganda put out at the time by Playboy,Hustler, Penthouse, etc
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