Donald Trump is technically the Republican candidate in the 2016 election for President of the United States. There’s a lot that he says that disgusts me personally, and the public generally. But there’s one area that may indicate the depth of his ignorance. Donald Trump and vaccines \u2013 his views are just plain wrong.<\/p>\n
Trump isn’t alone on this matter \u2013\u00a0dangerous\u00a0comments about vaccines were made by\u00a0Republican presidential candidates<\/a>\u00a0during the campaign.\u00a0Ben Carson (ironically, a neurosurgeon) and Rand Paul (we’ve laughed at his vaccine denial before<\/a>)\u00a0also pontificated about the dangers of vaccines.<\/p>\n I’ve written previously about Republican candidate’s views <\/a>on vaccines, back before we actually thought that Donald Trump had a real chance to become the Republican nominee. Feels like eons ago.<\/p>\n As I wrote recently<\/a>, there’s\u00a0really only a slight, probably not statistically significant, difference between the acceptance of mandatory vaccination. So the views of Donald Trump and vaccines is way over on the side of crackpot. This is why we can’t have good things.<\/p>\n Let’s look at some the things that Trump has said about vaccines on Twitter, his preferred method of communicating.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Massive combined inoculations to small children is the cause for big increase in autism….<\/p>\n — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nDonald Trump and vaccines \u2013\u00a0Twitter<\/h2>\n
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