Congress Holds An Anti-Vaccination Hearing

In a time of high unemployment, government health care over-reach, the President claiming he can kill American citizens for merely being suspected of being terrorists, an out of control TSA, and approaching fiscal crisis, glad to see these bozos focused on the real issues:

Congressman Burton used this hearing to rehash a series of some of the most thoroughly discredited anti-vaccine positions of the past decade. Burton is a firm believer in the myth that vaccines cause autism, and he arrogantly holds the position that he knows the truth better than the thousands of scientists who have spent much of the past decade doing real science that proves him wrong.

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First he claims that mercury from vaccines “accumulates in the brain”, a statement with no scientific support at all. Then he claims that chelation therapy is the solution – a radical, potentially very harmful treatment that no sensible parent would ever force on their child.

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Congress needs fewer people like Dan Burton.

Wallstreet,

I wouldn't call what Rep Burton did an open discussion.

He's a propagandist.

Remember the H1N1- swine flu fiasco in 2009 ?

More people died from the vaccination than from swine flu. ..the swine flu vaccine killed 25 people, and the flu killed one 61 yr.old woman in Ohio ...

Now there's a new strain of swine flu this year ...called H3N2  it's also caused by a  pig-to-human transmission...maybe that council woman in Detroit might want to rethink asking for "bacon' from Obama ..when he visits the Motor City this coming Monday ..

Dan Burton's "point of view" is the equivalent of saying smoking doesn't lead to lung cancer.

What don't you understand? What Burton said has no basis in fact or science what so ever.