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Louis Proyectwrote
So Jill Stein comes along and challenges this system. But this is not
acceptable because of her positions on vaccines and Syria. If overnight
she changed her mind on vaccines and Syria, the Hillary Clinton
traveling circus of Lesser Evil Politics will dig into every single
speech she ever made and find some other reason to crucify her.
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I assume that this bit on vaccines is all irony, Lou, but for those who
don't know:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/29/jill-stein-on-vaccines-people-have-real-questions/
When she sat with The Washington Post's Sarah Parnass and Alice Li,
Stein explained her stance on something that had flared up during a
Reddit AMA. Did she think vaccines were harmful?
"I think there’s no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical
in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases — smallpox, polio, etc. So
vaccines are an invaluable medication," Stein said. "Like any
medication, they also should be — what shall we say? -- approved by a
regulatory board that people can trust. And I think right now, that is
the problem. That people do not trust a Food and Drug Administration, or
even the CDC for that matter, where corporate influence and the
pharmaceutical industry has a lot of influence."
[The origins of Donald Trump’s autism/vaccine theory and how it was
completely debunked eons ago]
Stein's warning about corporate influence in the vaccine approval
process is often voiced by "anti-vaxxers." In reality, most members of
the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee work at
academic or medical institutions, not drug companies. But for Stein, the
fact that people saw corporate and lobbying influence running rampant
meant that some skepticism was warranted.
"Monsanto lobbyists help run the day in those agencies and are in charge
of approving what food isn’t safe," said Stein, whose platform calls for
a moratorium on genetically modified organisms (GMOs). "There is rampant
distrust of our institutions of government right now. The trust level
for the presidency is somewhere around 15 percent. The strong confidence
in Congress is somewhere around 4 percent, and the same is true of our
regulatory agencies."
Stein went on to explain that she'd studied the value of vaccines and
come out with questions.
"As a medical doctor, there was a time where I looked very closely at
those issues, and not all those issues were completely resolved," Stein
said. "There were concerns among physicians about what the vaccination
schedule meant, the toxic substances like mercury which used to be
rampant in vaccines. There were real questions that needed to be
addressed. I think some of them at least have been addressed. I don’t
know if all of them have been addressed."
[As Green Party’s Stein woos Sanders backers, some see unhappy
flashbacks to 2000]
The point, she said, was that the voters who doubted that government
could be trusted to make clear decisions, without meddling by lobbyists,
needed to be heard. Even when it came to vaccines.
"We have a real compelling need for vaccinations," Stein said. "It
requires an agency that we can trust to sort through all of those
concerns. To assure the American public, whether it’s vaccinations,
whether it’s administering estrogen to, you know, treat symptoms of
menopause, or at one point it was the solution to prevent Alzheimer's
and then it was discovered — oh, my goodness — it may actually
contribute to Alzheimer's — it's really important that the American
public have confidence in our regulatory boards so that all of our
medical treatments and medications actually are approved by people who
do not have a vested interest in their promotion. In my experience, this
is not a radical idea. This is basic common sense."
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