Retards 4 Bachmann

As already reported, Michele Bachmann is now peddling the asinine, completely unfounded, defamatory claim that the Gardasil HPV vaccine can cause "mental retardation".  I know you all may be thinking, how many doses of HPV vaccine did Michele take, anyway?  I mean, I thought she was against the stuff.

It turns out that this stuff is old hat for the religious right.  They make lots of bogus medical claims all the time.  Many of them have been against vaccination since vaccination was invented in the 1800's.  They also claim that condoms can't prevent STDs like AIDS.  They claim that abortions increase a woman's risk of breast cancer.  All of these are false.  These people are the furthest thing from medical experts, and asking their opinion on medicine is like asking a plumber his opinion about brain surgery or rocket science.

It goes without saying that people like Michele Bachmann doesn't care about the truth in the slightest.  She will say absolutely anything.  She is just a brunette version of Michaele Salahi, and has about the same level of social grace.

This leads one to ask, who in the world could possible be dumb enough to support Michele Bachmann.  The answer has to be *people even dumber than her*.  Since most of the things coming out of Bachmann's mouth are borderline retarded anyway, apparently this would make her supporters, full-on, certifiable, D-level special ed.

However, this provokes the follow-up question of, "Why would Bachmann supporters worry about the HPV vaccine causing mental retardation when they are already mentally retarded?"  One would think they would already have immunity.  I mean, perhaps they are worried that it will drop their IQs from 2 to 1, but, seriously, it wouldn't be much of a difference.

Bachmann's RETARDED HPV Claim

Comic relief GOP candidate Michele Bachmann proved just how unqualified she is to hold any public office including dog catcher by endorsing the ludicrous claim that the HPV vaccine can cause "mental retardation".  What reams of scientific research has she produced.  None, of course.  She claims that an anonymous constituent told her that her daughter, "suffered mental retardation as a result of that vaccine."  Now, you will note, that Michele Bachmann is supposedly trained as a lawyer, albeit from a Christian school.  However, even there, they presumably teach them the difference between hearsay/gossip and actual, legally admissible evidence.  If Bachmann truly believed there was strong evidence that the vaccine caused "mental retardation" then surely she would have offered her legal services to sue the pants of Merck & Co, the makers of the HPV vaccine Gardasil.  Surely she would be proposing legislation to immediately ban the drug.  Instead, she is repeating idle gossip from a source that probably does not even exist.

Enter Bioethicist Art Caplan, who offered Michele Bachmann ten thousand dollars, donated to the charity of her choice, if she could produce this alleged constituent and her "evidence" that Gardasil had caused her daughter's mental retardation.  What are the odds that Michele Bachmann, who believes in the resurrection of a 2000-year-old super zombie named Jesus without any evidence, will be able to produce any reasonable evidence for this latest ridiculous belief?

This is the same woman whose "clinic" performed de-gay-ification therapy.  Yes, you can guilt a gay person into repressing his or her sexual desires, just as you can do with a straight person, and you can change someone's sexual orientation from gay to straight about as easily as you can change it from straight to gay, which is to say, not very damn easily.  Maybe she should see if she can get Merck to work on an anti-gay vaccine for her.  It might, of course, have the side effect of turning them into retards and fundamentalist Christians, but I'm repeating myself.