Rep.-elect Mark Green (R-TN), a physician, is walking back his statement about vaccinations possibly causing autism after sharp backlash, according to a Wednesday night Washington Post report.
Green made a comment at a town hall this week that he would get the “real data” on vaccines, suggesting that some of it had been “fraudulently managed.”
He tried to soften that on Wednesday. “I want to reiterate my wife and I vaccinated our children, and we believe, and advise others they should have their children vaccinated,” he said in a statement.
The idea that vaccines cause autism is patently false and has caused the preventable deaths of children nationwide.
However, this isn’t the first time Green has stirred up controversy — per the Post, he was intended to be President Donald Trump’s Army secretary nominee until his inflammatory comments about Islam, LGBTQ issues and evolution took him out of the running.
Well I certainly hope all the old Trumpsters forgo the flu vaccine.
Putting his two statements together, it is clear that the voters of Tennessee should have voted for his wife instead.
So in his district in TN there are not Muslims or LGBTQ folks? As for evolution I’m sure that there are very fine people on both sides.
A witch Dr.?
I think in his case it caused Assburger disorder.
Sadly there’s no test in medical school to evaluate an ethereal concept like “wisdom”. If there was, not only would we not have this tool… I’d have to deal with fewer physicians just like him on a daily basis.
(to be fair, most of the physicians I deal with are totally cool)