Oh Geez, Trump now thinks he's a doctor. Jumps on the Vaccine causes Autism bandwagon

[LynneSin]

Trump warns Fox News viewers: Autism caused by vaccines


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/02/trump-warns-fox-news-viewers-autism-caused-by-vaccines/

Business mogul Donald Trump chose the fifth annual World Autism Awareness Day to reveal that he “strongly” believes that autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are linked to exposure to vaccines.

In a Monday interview on Fox News, the reality star explained that a series of casual observations had led him to the conclusion that “monster” vaccinations cause autism.

“I’ve gotten to be pretty familiar with the subject,” Trump said. “You know, I have a theory — and it’s a theory that some people believe in — and that’s the vaccinations. We never had anything like this. This is now an epidemic. It’s way, way up over the past 10 years. It’s way up over the past two years. And, you know, when you take a little baby that weighs like 12 pounds into a doctor’s office and they pump them with many, many simultaneous vaccinations — I’m all for vaccinations, but I think when you add all of these vaccinations together and then two months later the baby is so different then lots of different things have happened. I really — I’ve known cases.”


“You know that most physicians disagree with that,” co-host Gretchen Carlson noted. “And the studies have said that there is no link. It used to be thought that is was the mercury in those vaccinations, which they have not had for years and, yet, we are at the highest number in recent time of autism. So, maybe it’s environmental

I'm starting to think massive combovers can lower your IQ. My proof is the fact every year Donald Trump proves he's dumber than the last!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. "YIUUUUUGE this a YIUUUUGE story!"

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Were his kids vaccinated?

[Lucy Goosey]

3. I love that Trump seems to be claiming the theory as his own.

And that he his so oblivious he doesn't know how completely, thoroughly, totally the vaccine-autism thing has been debunked.

[drm604]

4. The guy's a publicity hound.

Anything to get noticed. I wonder if he even believes half the nonsense he spouts.

[Walk away]

5. Guaranteeing a smaller audience for FOX news in the future! nt

[KamaAina]

6. We Autistic people are so over "Autism Awareness Day".

Today is Autism Acceptance Day!

http://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/04/celebrate-autism-acceptance-month-2012/

[Odin2005]

16. Whenever I hear "autism" and "awareness" together, I assume that...

Autism Speaks or some other idiotic Curebie group is involved.

[pinboy3niner]

7. When Trump jumps on a bandwagon...

...it's time to jump off.

[claire2]

8. the children in the study received mercury!!

Gretchen said, "the thimerosal was removed years ago". She is correct, HOWEVER, the children involved in this CDC count were born in 2000, they were 8 at the time of the study, receiving thimerosal in their vaccines. Currently these children are age 12.
Again, Gretchen said the vaccine issue has been debunked. The latest I have heard is that Walker-Smith has had his medical license restored, and Wakefield is in line as well. The court reviewed and found NO FRAUD ! Yet our pediatricians use this particular case over and over in combination with that word "debunked" They use,as well, a Denmark study where children suffer autism at the rate of one in fourteen hundred, nothing to compare with the USA where one in 54 boys is autistic. Our CDC sponsored this study with full knowledge that it could well make the issue of thimerosal go away. The scientist did go "away" Paul Thorsen with 2 million of our dollars.
The Donald may be full of himself, and certainly not qualified to give medical advice, in fact his "friends" the Wrights likely will not back him on this issue as they have pharmaceutical ties, however his gut says this, and so does mine. Sadly this issue is money fed and the pharmaceutical companies are winning by strong arming the media...and it works!

[onenote]

23. While its true that Walker-Smith had his license restored, that doesn't mean his findings have been

upheld. To the contrary. The court that reinstated his license specifically stated that "there is now no respectable body of opinion which supports [Dr Wakefield’s] hypothesis, that MMR vaccine and autism/enterocolitis are causally linked.’

[RZM]

9. From birther to anti-vaxxer . . . seems like a logical move, actually

Both are stupid conspiracy theories with no real evidence that people just can't seem to give up.

What's next? Mini-nukes in the twin towers and building 7? No plane hitting the Pentagon? Kennedy shot by super-intelligent genetically-modified squirrel assassin?

[claire2]

12. these are our children..no one's faking

In the USA ,even with watered down stats out of Alabama, one boy in 54 has autism. In the state of NJ it's ONE boy in 27. It's time it is recognized as the huge epidemic it is. The statistics in this study indicate that only 60 to 70% of children are identified within the system, giving us more frightening numbers as possibilities. Our past head of NIH has spoken out on this issue, Robert Kennedy Jr. wrote an expose on the thimerosal coverup years ago, this is not a conspiracy theory, it is truth and it is our children. The conspiracy lies in the memos from Sebelius to make this "go away" and in the fraudulent studies sponsored by pharmaceuticals with twisted numbers and sign offs from "ghost writers with degrees".

[RZM]

13. I loved you as the host of MTV's 'Singled Out' n/t

[Odin2005]

17. What horsehit.

[arcane1]

28. Did you ever stop and think of what is THE most likely cause?

Chemtrails, obviously!

[GeorgeGist]

10. This is a man who bankrupted a CASINO!

He's extra special STUPID.

[hobbit709]

11. My theory is that whatever it is on top of his head is eating what's left of his brain.

[BeeBee]

14. If it is, it's starving. n/t

[Odin2005]

15. Fuck off, ferret-head.

[trollhouse cookies]

18. Most kids these days are on the autism spectrum.

I feel sorry for the parents. The kids melt down for no reason whatsoever.

[KamaAina]

20. Most kids?

I've only heard maybe 1 in 50 boys, less for girls.

Would that it were so! If we were in the majority, I'd be President and Odin would be VP.

[CBGLuthier]

21. Oh there's a reason all right. Discerning it, however, that is the challenge

[Paulie]

19. He has a hypothesis

A theory is something else in this case.

I have a theory about him and it's unkind.

[SamG]

22. Vaccines and Autism: The Evidence

A two part video produced by a physician reviewing that last 10 years of worldwide research after the Wakefield "study" of 1998.

[NeverEnuff]

24. Autism

Leave them alone, let them not vaccinate there children. Without modern predators it is the only way to remove dumb genes from the pool.

[SamG]

25. I think you forgot the sarcasm tag.

But I imagine most people here assume you meant to put it there.

[Viking12]

34. Except that effects the herd immunity...

...making vaccines less effective for those of us smart enough to have our kids vaccinated.

[spanone]

26. 'a series of casual observations'...hell, i'm convinced...bwahahahahahaaa

[anti-alec]

27. Tell me. Dr. Trump

where are you licensed in the United States?

Diploma mill certificates aren't accepted.

Otherwise, shut the hell up.

[LynneSin]

31. I heard you can get a medical degree from Trump University now

[mnmoderatedem]

29. It's obvious isn't it?

He's trying to horn in on Jenny McCarthy.

Or he's just plain stupid. Probably a combination.

[LynneSin]

32. Jenna is going to be 40 this year - that's a bit out of The Donald's range for wives

Usually when they hit that age he's turning them in for a newer model.

[hifiguy]

30. Another candidate for Emperor of Dumbfuckistan

STFU, Chump. This is bogus bullshit, speaking as someone diagnosed on the spectrum.

[ecstatic]

33. What if it's cell phones or wifi combined with monster vaccinations?

Maybe there's a unique interaction going on... back in the 80s, we didn't have this level of technology in the home. Or it could be our modern day "food" supply.