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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein made news last week with skeptical comments about vaccines, saying that the agencies that regulate them lack public confidence because they are influenced by corporate lobbyists.
"Vaccines are an invaluable medication," Stein later clarified to The Washington Post. But, she added, "like any medication they also should be approved by a regulatory board that people can trust. And I think, right now, that is the problem — that people do not trust a Food and Drug Administration, or even the CDC for that matter, where corporate influence and the pharmaceutical industry has a lot of influence."
This argument, often trumpeted by skeptics of vaccines, causes consternation among public-health experts who say misinformation is dissuading parents from inoculating their children against dangerous diseases.
Read more https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...residential-candidate-wants-to-do-to-america/
"Vaccines are an invaluable medication," Stein later clarified to The Washington Post. But, she added, "like any medication they also should be approved by a regulatory board that people can trust. And I think, right now, that is the problem — that people do not trust a Food and Drug Administration, or even the CDC for that matter, where corporate influence and the pharmaceutical industry has a lot of influence."
This argument, often trumpeted by skeptics of vaccines, causes consternation among public-health experts who say misinformation is dissuading parents from inoculating their children against dangerous diseases.
Read more https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...residential-candidate-wants-to-do-to-america/
