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An anti-vaxer in the White House?

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http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archi...se/493916/

EXCERPT: From the perspective of presidential politics, the question of vaccine safety seems like the pseudoscientific issue that might never die. Though a connection between vaccines and autism has been debunked at the highest levels for at least six years, the issue keeps creeping into public debate.

[...] Last week, Green Party nominee Jill Stein made headlines for equivocating on the safety of vaccines. [...] On Saturday, Colin Meloy, the singer and guitar of the Decemberists, tweeted at Stein, bluntly asking whether she believed vaccines cause autism. Stein clarified that “I’m not aware of evidence linking autism with vaccines.” Some Twitter users reported that she had first sent and then deleted an earlier tweet in response to Meloy, which more clearly stated that there was “no evidence” linking the two. In an email, Stein’s spokeswoman told me that “The deleted tweet was the result of a miscommunication among staffers.” [...] Stein tweeted again, saying “I support vaccinations,” on Monday. There simply aren’t many votes to win by pandering to anti-vaxers.

But Stein is not the only candidate to address vaccines this election cycle. As first pointed out by the Twitter user @mcclure11, three of the four media-receiving presidential candidates have appeared to pander to anti-vaccine advocates....
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