{"id":20709,"date":"2015-08-21T14:08:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T14:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=20709"},"modified":"2015-08-22T23:17:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T23:17:39","slug":"carly-fiorina-banned-from-republican-debates-because-of-honest-anti-vaccine-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=20709","title":{"rendered":"Carly Fiorina Banned From Republican Debates Because Of Honest Anti-Vaccine Stance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fiorina has been curiously excluded from major
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SOTN Editor’s Note<\/strong><\/p>\n

Make no mistake about it — Carly Fiorina has been unfairly censored by the all male Republican debate club. \u00a0In addition to being afraid of being shown up by a woman, these guys are all about appeasing any and all corporate interests. \u00a0It doesn’t get any bigger than advancing the interests of BIG PHARMA<\/em>\u00a0before an epochal presidential election that requires mega-donations and endless campaign cash to even survive the process.<\/p>\n

THE VACCINE<\/i> CONSPIRACY: U.S. Government Colludes With BIG Pharma<\/em> To Poison The America People<\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps the most profitable revenue streams in the history of the pharmaceutical industry now come from their vaccine lines. \u00a0The number of profit centers which now dot the globe from their many foreign vaccination initiatives is growing by the day.<\/p>\n

Even Bill Gates has become a glorified vaccine salesman; after all, it has become his #1 job these days. \u00a0He went from putting a PC in every home and office to sticking a needle into every child on the planet … as many times as possible before they’re 6 years old.<\/p>\n

India To Prosecute Bill Gates For Using Tribal Children To Conduct Illegal Vaccine Test<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

We take no position on Carly’s candidacy for president; only that she has been blackballed by the GOP establishment because of her more reasonable approach to the current outrageous vaccination schedules.<\/p>\n

One only needs to read the absurd subtitle of the utterly ridiculous and falsehood-ridden article below to see how desperate BIG PHARMA<\/em> is to not let this BIG cat out of the bag. Carly is like a very smart Tigress who will literally tear these guys up given the chance … especially where it concerns vaccine safety and effectiveness in certain application.<\/p>\n

Here’s classic hit piece below:<\/p>\n

Carly Fiorina’s Fuzzy Vaccine Claims Debunked<\/h1>\n

All of the CDC\u2019s recommended immunizations, including those for HPV in preteen boys and girls, are highly effective at preventing communicable and dangerous diseases.<\/h2>\n
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The following post first appeared on FactCheck.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Carly Fiorina\u00a0recently said some unnamed vaccine-preventable diseases are \u201cnot communicable\u201d and \u201cnot contagious,\u201d and some immunizations are not \u201cnecessary\u201d for school-age children. The fact is that every immunization\u00a0recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0covers a highly communicable disease.<\/p>\n

Fiorina, a former businesswoman, is running for the Republican presidential nomination. Though her campaign did not respond to repeated requests to clarify which diseases and vaccines she meant, Fiorina on two occasions suggested the vaccine for human papillomavirus, or HPV, should not be mandatory for children. However, the HPV virus is highly communicable through many forms of sexual contact, and the vaccine has been proven to prevent its transmission and thus help prevent cervical cancer as well.<\/p>\n

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Fiorina spoke at a town hall event in Alden, Iowa, and afterward addressed reporters. According to multiple media outlets, including Time<\/a><\/em>\u00a0magazine and CNN<\/a>, she\u00a0addressed the idea of parental choice with vaccinations:<\/p>\n

Fiorina, Aug. 13:\u00a0<\/strong>When you have highly communicable diseases where you have a vaccine that\u2019s proven, like measles or mumps, then I think a parent can make that choice, but then I think a school district is well within their rights to say, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, your child cannot then attend public school.\u201d \u2026.<\/p>\n

I think when we\u2019re talking about some of these more esoteric immunizations, then I think absolutely a parent should have a choice and a school district shouldn\u2019t be able to say, \u201csorry, your kid can\u2019t come to school\u201d for a disease that\u2019s not communicable, that\u2019s not contagious, and where there really isn\u2019t any proof that they\u2019re necessary at this point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We sent multiple emails and left a voicemail with Fiorina\u2019s campaign asking for clarification on which vaccines are \u201cesoteric,\u201d which diseases are not communicable or contagious, and for which vaccines we do not have proof of their necessity. We did not get a response, and we will update this post if we do.<\/p>\n

Regardless of her answers to those questions, however, her statement regarding contagious or communicable diseases is inaccurate. The CDC\u2019s recommended immunization schedule for children<\/a> contains 14 vaccines (some versions only recommended for older children and certain high-risk groups),\u00a0and every one of them includes coverage against diseases considered highly communicable.\u00a0The only disease covered by\u00a0recommended vaccines that is not passed from person to person is tetanus, and that is generally covered\u00a0in a vaccine that also provides immunization against diphtheria and pertussis<\/a>, two highly contagious infections.<\/p>\n

On two occasions, Fiorina has suggested the HPV vaccine should not be mandatory for school-age children. During the town hall in Iowa, she\u00a0told a story about her daughter being \u201cbullied\u201d into letting her own daughter receive the vaccine for HPV. Fiorina\u00a0also mentioned this vaccine\u00a0in an interview with Buzzfeed in January<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Fiorina, Jan. 24:\u00a0<\/strong>I think there\u2019s a big difference between \u2014 just in terms of the mountains of evidence we have \u2014 a vaccination for measles and a vaccination when a girl is 10 or 11 or 12 for cervical cancer just in case she\u2019s sexually active at 11. So, I think it\u2019s hard to make a blanket statement about it. I certainly can understand a mother\u2019s concerns about vaccinating a 10-year-old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If her more recent comments are also\u00a0in reference to HPV, Fiorina\u00a0again has missed the mark. HPV is common and communicable, through sexual contact. The CDC says<\/a>\u00a0that \u201c[y]ou can get HPV by having vaginal, anal, or oral sex with someone who has the virus,\u201d and the virus can be spread even when no signs or symptoms are present. According to the CDC, about 14 million Americans become infected with HPV \u2014 there are about 40 types of the virus \u2014 every year.<\/p>\n

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Fiorina could have meant that \u201chighly communicable\u201d diseases, such as measles, are transmitted through the air, simply by being in proximity to infected individuals. This is true, but the other vaccine-preventable diseases are also highly communicable, though by different routes in some cases. Some of the infections are transmitted through the air, others through the fecal-oral route (i.e., unwashed hands), and others, including hepatitis B and HPV, are sexually transmitted. HPV cannot be transmitted through the air, like measles.<\/p>\n

The CDC currently recommends that all boys and girls aged 11 or 12 years old should receive the HPV vaccine, and \u201ccatch-up\u201d vaccines are recommended through the age of 21 for males and 26 for females.\u00a0The vaccine is not given to a girl at a young age \u201cin case she\u2019s sexually active at 11\u2033 \u2014 it is given then because that is before most people become sexually active. In fact, the CDC says that<\/a> \u201c[p]reteens should receive all three doses of the HPV vaccine series long before they begin\u00a0any<\/em> type of sexual activity and are exposed to HPV.\u201d The fundamental purpose of a vaccine is to administer it\u00a0before<\/em> one is at risk for the disease in question.<\/p>\n

Though one might debate whether the HPV vaccine should be required,\u00a0there is ample proof that it is effective. Multiple<\/a>\u00a0studies<\/a>\u00a0have shown<\/a> that vaccines<\/a>, including Gardasil and Cervarix, offer long-lasting protection against strains of HPV that are known to cause cervical cancer.<\/p>\n

Because the first HPV vaccine was introduced in the U.S. in 2006<\/a>, it\u00a0may take years to firmly connect declining cervical cancer rates to vaccination. However,\u00a0studies already have found<\/a>excellent<\/a> protection against<\/a> a cervical cancer precursor called cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, or CIN. A review paper<\/a> published in the journal\u00a0Vaccine<\/em> in 2012 found that \u201cthe excellent trial results strongly support the potential of the vaccines as high value public health interventions.\u201d\u00a0The CDC says that HPV infections cause<\/a> about 17,000 cancer cases in U.S. women and 9,000 cases in U.S. men every year, and vaccines could lower those rates significantly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Regardless of which immunizations Fiorina considers \u201cesoteric,\u201d there are no common vaccines that fit the profile she describes. All of the CDC\u2019s recommended immunizations, including those for HPV in preteen boys and girls, are highly effective at preventing communicable and dangerous diseases.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: SciCheck is made possible by a grant from the Stanton Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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