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ecib  ·  4539 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit
>The fact that you think this is "out of left field" illustrates your casual knowledge of the anti-vax movement.

I was referring to your introducing political affiliations into the discussion as out of left field and irrelevant. Not the antivax movement.

Also, you're completely incorrect to suggest that Bachman didn't preach an anti-science message, and that it was only a problem of overreaching government. She got on the Today Show and told millions of viewers about how it could cause mental retardation (her source, a tearful mother). Let's be real here for a second and not pretend this didn't happen, and what her message was.

Finally, all it takes for antivax to not be branded a 'disease of the left' is for the right to share in it. Kind of takes away your ability to honestly brand it that way. Again, not that this whole left/right thing has anything to do with the climate change deniers being appropriately labeled as such.