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Unlike Paul, I tend to only follow nonfictional political candidates, so I hadn't really been paying much attention the whole Michele Bachmann vaccine kerfuffle. Something about the HPV vaccine spreading crony capitalism to innocent little 12-year-old girls, or something. But it turns out that Bachmann's anti-vaccine grandstanding may actually end up killing people:

When politicians or celebrities raise alarms about vaccines, even false alarms, vaccination rates drop.

“These things always set you back about three years, which is exactly what we can’t afford,” said Dr. Rodney E. Willoughby, a professor of pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and a member of the committee on infectious diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

So if the vaccine prevents HPV, and HPV causes cervical cancer, and Bachmann's uninformed/unprincipled attack on "Perrycare" has prevented some parents from vaccinating their daughters, then Bachmann, at least indirectly, will be responsible for God knows how many deaths when a small percentage of these unvaccinated girls (or their partners) eventually die from an otherwise preventable cancer.

I'd suggest that in the future, in the interest of public health, Bachmann refrain from talking on subjects about which she knows absolutely nothing, but I suppose that would leave her completely dumb as well as completely stupid.