In last night’s GOP presidential debate Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann lambasted Texas governor Rick Perry for his executive order, which never went into effect, that sixth grade girls should receive a vaccine to prevent HPV, a sexually transmitted disease that causes cervical cancer. Bachmann knocked Perry down a notch, arguing that the episode was an example of crony capitalism (Perry’s former chief of staff was the chief lobbyist for the drug company that manufactured the vaccine).
But last night on Fox News, Bachmann seemed to go off the deep end, alleging that the vaccine can cause “mental retardation.”
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