re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There is plenty of crazy surrounding that guy.

Sen. Bill Cassidy defends vaccines after state lawmaker makes autism claims: ‘That’s fake news’ (Baton Rouge Advocate, April 30, 2019)

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy firmly pushed back Tuesday against a Louisiana state lawmaker for spreading a long-debunked claim about vaccines and autism that health officials have linked to a recent spike in measles cases.

“That’s fake news that’s being said on the Senate floor,” Cassidy, a Baton Rouge Republican who is a medical doctor, said of hearing about state Sen. John Milkovich’s anti-vaccination remarks this week.

Milkovich, D-Shreveport, took to the Senate microphone on Monday during a debate over a bill related to a voluntary immunization database to launch into his broadside about vaccines, suggesting they are dangerous and can cause autism, which Cassidy and other experts say is not true.

“There is a very contentious scientific debate that’s going on right now in America and has been for decades,” Milkovich said. “Many are saying that these vaccinations pose danger.”

“For example, when (I was) growing up autism did not exist,” he continued.

He went on to claim that tissue from aborted fetuses is used to make vaccines and that vaccines contain dangerous neurotoxins.

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