During the campaign trail for 2008, the trio of Barack Obama, John McCain, and Hillary Clinton all pandered to the crowd by irresponsibly paying lip service to "vaccine-causes-autism" theories. And in 2012 it was Michele Bachmann's ridiculous comments on the subject of the HPV vaccine (she linked it to "mental retardation"), that pretty much ended her candidacy in 2012. Such "leaders" then became indirectly responsible for the subsequent outbreaks of preventable diseases such as whooping cough, and the measles. Those outbreaks, which have claimed lives, should have ended the discussion, right?
Wrong, None of this mattered. Study after study keeps coming out, denouncing over and over again "vaccines-cause-autism" theories. Yet too many want to believe, and too many journalists want to cover them.
