Professors offer more than $10,000 for proof that Bachmann’s story about HPV is true

[FarLeftFist]

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's story about a woman who claimed that her daughter suffered "mental retardation" after receiving a vaccine against HPV could fetch the woman's family thousands of dollars. But the family can only collect if Bachmann or the unnamed woman can prove the story is true.

Two bioethics professors have offered to pay more than $10,000 for medical records that prove the anecdote Bachmann told after Monday night's Republican presidential debate is true, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:

Steven Miles, a U of M bioethics professor, said that he'll give $1,000 if the medical records of the woman from Bachmann's story are released and can be viewed by a medical professional.
His offer was upped by his former boss from the University of Minnesota, Art Caplan, who is now director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics. Caplan said he would match Miles' challenge and offered $10,000 for proof of the HPV vaccine victim.

"'These types of messages in this climate have the capacity to do enormous public health harm,'" Miles said of why he made the offer. 'The woman, assuming she exists, put this claim into the public domain and it's an extremely serious claim and it deserves to be analyzed.'"

When pressed by Fox News' Sean Hannity on his radio program about the story, Bachmann said she had "no idea" if it were true.

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It is SCARY that people this deranged not only can get elected to our Govt but that she also serves on the Intelligence committee.

[HopeHoops]

1. Backmann has no idea about ANYTHING, true or not. Just random blather.

[FarLeftFist]

3. These people are deranged fright-wing cultists that don't live in reality

They are the Anti-Intellectuals. Amazing how ridiculously gullible these people are. She would be a paranoid mess as commander-in-cheif, looking to bomb every continent like a xenophobic, bigoted looney.

[RKP5637]

8. What I find even more scary is people like Bachmann have followers/voters. People

that truly believe the garbage spewed. So correct about looking to bomb every continent. She would sink this country overnight. It's disgusting she even rose far enough to even be on the podium.

[truebrit71]

13. You got that right...

...it's one thing for a person to be completely unhinged from reality...it's something else entirely to then get people to agree with you..

[Angry Dragon]

2. To be fair, there was some mis-understanding on the

Intelligence committee appointment
She thought that if she was on the committee, she would finally get some

[FarLeftFist]

4. Nice!

[KansDem]

6. LOL!!!

She thought that if she was on the committee, she would finally get some

:rofl:

Remember: "The shoemaker's kids are the last to have shoes."

[Canuckistanian]

15. +1000

:rofl:

[RKP5637]

5. Yep, and we have a number of these types, anymore, making claims, masses hearing

these claims, taking them as gospel truths, parroting them, and the truth never validated. And the MSM is often so damn complicit/complacent as the echo chamber for garbage. It's no wonder we're so F'ed up as a country anymore.

[Botany]

7. Go you gophers!

This will be like Gary Trudeau's offer of $100,000 for anybody who had proof of W showing up for his duty @ an Alabama Air National Guard base .....
aka bush going AWOL .... it will not be collected

[geardaddy]

20. Go Goldy!

Ski-U-Mah!

[xchrom]

9. Love it! Nt

[frazzled]

10. I have a question about this whole affair

Aside from the pure idiocy and affrontery of her remarks, and their clearly made up nature, has anyone specifically taken on her decision to characterize the (completely spurious) effects of the vaccine as causing "mental retardation"? I mean, she could have said brain damage or cognitive impairment. Can one even say one "gets" mental retardation?

After all the political brouhaha over that term, why didn't Sarah Palin object vociferously?

[truebrit71]

12. ...apparently mental retardation is highly contagious...look at the Tea Party...

...And Michelle Bachmann is completely and totally out of her tiny, tiny mind...she has the laser-like focus of the truly demented...I think she is genuinely ill...there are synapses that are simply not making the connection and I almost feel sorry for her...almost...

[HappyMe]

11. I would bet that Scary McCrazy made that shit up. nt

[JohnnyLib2]

14. Big thumbs up to those professors!

Now, that's activism.

Rec.

[L0oniX]

16. Bachmann says HPV vaccine causes retardation, .......

which will result in a new block of voters too smart to vote for her.

[surrealAmerican]

17. So, her excuse is that she "had no idea" if what she was told ...

... was true, and yet she was willing to repeat this accusation anyway?

Does she repeat everything she hears without thinking about it or verifying the information? Does she employ an aide or someone who can do a bit of fact checking for her, since she is obviously not able to herself?

[gordianot]

18. Loose lips can sink dinghy's and dingbats. nt

[alc]

19. they're only offering $5000 for proof of Santa Clause

because that's not as difficult

[FarLeftFist]

21. Will she just believe ANY made up fairy tale?!

[mainer]

23. Let's whisper a few more fairy tales to her, then

"It caused my son to become gay."

"It turned my daughter into a slut."

"It made my kids sprout wings."

[hifiguy]

22. Professors Miles and Caplan will not

be parting with any cash anytime soon. :rofl: