(Wollpullover. Es waren immer die Wollpullover, die Autismus verursachten. Ich meine, habt ihr schon jemals einen Autisten gesehen, der keinen Wollpullover getragen hat? Eben. Und dahinter steckt natürlich die neuseeländische Schafswollmafia, die die Weltherrrschaft will. Und so.)

Ack!

Well, so much for Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s reputations for supposedly being well-informed about scientific issues. True, they didn’t sink as far into the stupid as John McCain did about vaccines and autism, but what they said was bad enough.
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In essence, both candidates accepted some of the major pillars of the mercury militia’s fantasies as being true. These include claims that:

* there is an autism “epidemic.” (Arguably, there is very likely not.)
* there is a scientific controversy over whether vaccines cause autism. (There really isn’t; it’s a so-called manufactured controversy. There is no good evidence that vaccines cause autism, David Kirby’s bloviations and pontifications otherwise notwithstanding. Multiple large epidemiological studies have failed to find even a hint of a convincing link, and the publicizing of the Hannah Poling case as some sort of “smoking gun” by antivaccinationists is nothing more than a rebranding of autism and more evidence of the incredibly shrinking vaccine claim.)
* that vaccines are somehow unsafe or that children are “overvaccinated” and eceive too many vaccines. (Again, there is no good evidence that either of these is the case.)¹

1. Respectful Insolence - Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton join John McCain in pandering to antivaccinationists [↩]