Credit: The New York Times
Eleven presidential candidates had three prime-time hours on the national stage on Wednesday to tell the American people why they should lead the country.
Nobody forced them to be there. They were there freely, armed with the best arguments they and their policy advisers had come up with, to make their cases as seasoned politicians, business leaders and medical professionals — the Republican Party’s “A-Team,” as one of them, Mike Huckabee, said at the outset.
And that, America, is frightening. Peel back the boasting and insults, the lies and exaggerations common to any presidential campaign. What remains is a collection of assertions so untrue, so bizarre, that they form a vision as surreal as the Ronald Reagan jet looming behind the candidates’ lecterns.
It felt at times as if the speakers were no longer living in a fact-based world where actions have consequences, programs take money and money […]
At least the NYT is brave enough to print the truth about this debacle.
There are more than 100 genetic changes associated with autism. Most of them do not exist in the parents.
This means that autism is the result of something that happens to a child after it is born.
Vaccines are suspect because they inject human cells into the bloodstream. Scientists have known about transcession since 1971.
Transcession means that genes can move from one life form to another.
The Times itself recently reported on microchimerism, which is the transfer of cells from the fetus to the mother.
We need real science, not propaganda, to find out what is going on because there has been a dramatic increase in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
It would have been nice if the NYT had actually listened to the debate it had opined about. “One candidate said he felt sure that vaccines had caused an autism ‘epidemic.’ The two doctors on the dais did not seriously challenge that persistent, dangerous myth.”
The writer must have been taking a bathroom break when Ben Carson rebutted Trump with the following: “…there have been numerous studies, and they have not demonstrated that there is any correlation between vaccinations and autism. This was something that was spread widely 15 or 20 years ago, and it has not been adequately revealed to the public what’s actually going on. Vaccines are very important. Certain ones. The ones that would prevent death or crippling.” Sounds like a serious challenge to me (but apparently not to the editors of the NYT). And the NYT response to Carly Fiorina’s comment about rebuilding the 6th Fleet and missile defense in Poland? The NYT replies: “We get the message, and it’s scary.” Huh? That’s it? Oh, yes, profound news analysis, that. I’ve known the NYT to be partisan and sophomoric in the past, and this fits right in with that tradition.