GOP Science Chair Didn’t Vaxx His Kids

[DonViejo]

Source: TDB/Mother Jones

Rep. Barry Loudermilk, the Republican chairman of the House Science and Tech subcommittee, didn’t vaccinate his kids. The Georgia representative divulged the fact during a town-hall meeting last week, when a woman asked about a potential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scheme to cover up information linking vaccines to autism. Loudermilk responded by saying, “I believe it’s the parents’ decision whether to immunize or not… Most of our children, we didn’t immunize. They’re healthy.”

Read it at Mother Jones

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Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/02/27/gop-chair-i-didn-t-vaccinate-my-kids.html

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[DetlefK]

1. Btw, a toddler just died from measles in Berlin.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/toddler-dies-measles-berlin-first-death-outbreak

[GeorgeGist]

2. Loudermilk is a Republican.

Republicans lie.

[mountain grammy]

3. How fucking depressing..

our country run by idiots..

[Coventina]

5. Anti-science idiots.

[sakabatou]

4. Not surprised.

[drm604]

6. How do you fight this kind of ignorance and pig-headedness?

Between this and Inhofe's snowball nonsense (and hundreds of other incidents) I despair for reason and enlightenment.

Saying that your unvaccinated children are healthy is like saying "I never wear a seatbelt and my neck's not broken".

I wish I could just laugh and say "look at the idiots" but these people are in positions of power and therefore are a danger to our future.

[lastlib]

16. Well, here's one idea:

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[sofa king]

20. An amusing observation:

In 1668, the Archbishop of Canterbury assigned someone who assigned Christopher Wren to build St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

It was built in an astonishingly short 40 years and was 111 meters high. The prayer-built building was the tallest in London

In December 1968, 300 years later, American scientists launched a building 111 meters high toward space, and sent 3 men into lunar orbit. The space program that built the launch vehicle was less than 10 years old. While orbiting the Moon, on Christmas Eve, the astronauts conducted a religious service, reading from the Book of Genesis, heard by listeners on earth all around the globe. Then the three men were returned safely to earth.

Which means that Science built a cathedral that was 300,000,000,000 meters tall, and conducted one of the most-heard religious services in the history of humanity.

While religion, in the meantime, stacked a pile of rocks that happened to be the exact same height... and couldn't top it for 250 years.

[lastlib]

28. I like that!

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[JDPriestly]

32. lastlib, your post made my day. Maybe made my life. ++++++++++++++++

[lastlib]

33. Glad you liked it!

Most kind of you, my friend! .

[Skittles]

36. I see it right here on DU

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=990826

[awoke_in_2003]

37. Anti Vaxxers...

pose more of a threat to this country than those idiots in ISIS do.

[Scruffy Rumbler]

7. This response may belong in Creative Speculation.

I wonder if the leaders of the GOP are as stupid as they come across or are they playing their fellow party members? Maybe they have come to realize that breeding like rabbits and using up the planets resources has had a larger impact than thought possible and now are trying to reverse events.?They say they have not vaccinated their children and promote an anti-vaccination mindset in order to have the children of the uninformed die off. Are they trying to cull the herd in their own miserable way?

[Buenaventura]

15. I suspect that they're culling their own herd, whether thru ignorance or lack of intention. n/t

[lastlib]

17. Mark Twain:

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is run by geniuses who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it."

Personally, I suspect the latter. (that used to be my sig line.)

[MynameisBlarney]

8. He needs to be removed from that position ASAP!

If he's that damn stupid he should not hold that chairmanship.

[olegramps]

9. His kids are healthy because other kids were immunized.

These people are a pain in the ass. The don't give a rat's ass if their kids are putting others in jeopardy, such as infants, if they should become infected.

[greymattermom]

10. Ebola scare

So, if Ebola really did start spreading in the US, and if a vaccine were available, what would he do?

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. "Most of our children, we didn’t immunize. *Nevertheless*, they’re healthy"

There you go, Loudmouth, Loudermilk, I gave you the word you forgot. Your children were lucky - but they'd be luckier if they had a different father.

[randr]

12. Republicans are unhealthy for children and other living things

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Home schooled, so they're as ignorant as him. Bonus: laughs at putting IEDs on Mexican border

Said Loudermilk:

“I believe it’s the parents’ decision whether to immunize or not. And so I’m looking at [my] wife – most of our children, we didn’t immunize. They’re healthy. Of course, home schooling, we didn’t have to get the mandatory immunization.”

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The full video of Thursday’s town hall is here, via georgiapolitics.org. Here you can watch Loudermilk’s response to a suggestion that the U.S. place improvised explosive devices at the Mexican border to solve the problem of illegal crossings:

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2015/02/24/barry-loudermilk-most-of-our-children-we-didnt-immunize-theyre-healthy/

After laughing, he doesn't point out that would kill Mexicans; he points out it might kill Americans too. Wanker.

[longship]

14. His kids will attend the Jenny McCarthy University.

Where they will learn how to eat boogers on MTV, become a Playboy Playmate, and other ignorances.

Of course, there will be no biology in their edumacation, other than the booger eating that is.

[LynneSin]

18. What - you don't get medical advice from a former Playboy Bunny?

Consider this - this is a woman who has spent years now injecting Botulism Toxins into her forehead and she is telling us that measles vaccines are dangerous.

[longship]

22. Botulism toxin, one of the most toxic biologicals on the planet!

Indeed, she has said that she loves Botox.

Un-fucking-believable. Eh?

Jenny McCarthy, a mind untroubled by thought.

[LynneSin]

29. Here's the thing, I doubt doctors would even bother injecting Botox if it wasn't safe

But for a gal who refuses to listen to the logic of science in regards to a vaccine that has been proven safe and a research paper that has been prove false, you'd think she'd be on TV preaching against women who are essentially injecting what can also be used by terrorist as a biological agent of terrorism.

Just saying....

[longship]

34. Indeed, Botox has many valid uses.

However, I caught the irony of your observation. I merely wanted to highlight it.

Best regards.

[snort]

19. Welcome to Disneyland!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. .....

sigh

[tclambert]

23. But he probably prayed for them not to get sick, which is just as good, almost

according to lots and lots of people who aren't scientists, but will happily cite dodgy research into the efficacy of prayer on recovery times. Actually in Catholic churches they pray for all the sick people at every Mass. It's a standard part of the service. I guess God just fast forwards through that part. And researchers who study the efficacy of prayer just ignore the fact that every sick person does get prayed for. So their studies are really about the efficacy of non-Catholic prayer.

[rurallib]

24. "most of our children" What an odd phrase

had dig deep to find he has three kids.
Therefore, it sounds like one of his kids must feel pretty lucky he got the family vaccinations.

[deurbano]

25. That is odd phrasing. So... "most" means 2 out of 3?

[LynneSin]

30. I question if those kids are vaccine free

Can he prove it?

Or is he saying it to cater to the idiots.

[frylock]

35. thanks for doing the leg work..

I, too, was curious as to how many kids he had.

[deurbano]

26. omg

[jmowreader]

27. Keep something in mind

The party that made Barry Lowdermilk head of the science subcommittee also made James Inhofe head of the environment subcommittee.

I don't feel like looking up the offshoring proclivities of the Labor committee chairs or the antigay sentiments of the equal rights committee members, but it's pretty clear they're putting people who hate whatever it is a committee's about to be on those committees.

[JDPriestly]

31. This is what is so disgusting about Republicans.

HIS kids are healthy, so everything is OK>

Never mind that his kids can infect BABIES NOT OLD ENOUGH TO BE VACCINATED.

And in some cases kill them (not intentionally but unintentionally).

Social responsibility, taking care of others, is just beyond some Republicans.

Democrats, I hope, take their social responsibilities seriously. That's what our party is about. No matter how we feel about individual candidates or even certain issues, I hope we are all united in the belief that we have certain responsibilities to each other and to our society.

I think that is what defines Democrats -- the belief that we have to work together, take care of each other to create a better society.

Immunization is where the rubber hits the metal. If you don't care enough about other people's children to immunize your children, you are pretty egotistical and narcissistic, and I don't want you writing the laws in my country. I want all Americans to be as healthy and safe as they can be. I want everybody in the world to enjoy health and safety to the greatest extent possible.

I'm a Democrat.

[awoke_in_2003]

38. With the people we elect

I have no doubt that, one day, we will elect a president that will make Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho look presidential.