Shep Takes the Science Deniers to Task...






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Fox News host Shep Smith slammed parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids as "science deniers" on Monday during his show.

He made the remark during a segment about President Obama's call for parents to vaccinate their children in light of a growing national measles outbreak.

Addressing vaccine skeptics directly, Smith said, "Hello, science? A lot of you want to talk about science deniers. That's what you are, people, you non-vaxxers: You're science deniers! That's it!"

"A small minority of parents refuse vaccines for their children, citing all kinds of weirdness, including a possible link to autism which science says does not exist," he said witheringly.

"Anti-vaxxers are hurting all the other little children by not letting little Johnny and little Janie get their shots," Smith concluded. "Get your shots. C'mon now."

Always enjoy Shepard Smith on Fox News. He is one of the relatively few on Fox who tells it like it is rather than how the fringe anti science preachers would have you believe.

Via: Memeorandum

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  1. BB-IdahoMon Feb 02, 06:40:00 PM EST

    IMO, Shepard Smith is the token newsman at that network.

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    1. Will "take no prisoners" HartFri Feb 06, 06:31:00 PM EST

      Kind of like Chuck Todd was at MSNBC before he jettisoned.

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  2. LisaMon Feb 02, 10:50:00 PM EST

    Faux News ,who knew?

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  3. Will "take no prisoners" HartMon Feb 02, 11:04:00 PM EST

    And it doesn't help when you have politicians like Rand Paul (who's also a doctor!!) going around proclaiming that vaccines can sometimes cause mental disabilities.

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  4. Les CarpenterMon Feb 02, 11:54:00 PM EST

    I'll now have to rethink my position with respect to Rand's sanity.

    A dentist no less.



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  5. dmarksTue Feb 03, 06:08:00 AM EST

    Does MSNBC have anyone that good?

    RN: Yes, very disappointing. I'm also surprised Jerry Critter has come out on this side too.

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  6. Jerry CritterTue Feb 03, 11:58:00 AM EST

    How about a reference to Jerry Critter's position.

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    1. dmarksTue Feb 03, 06:17:00 PM EST

      You mean this Jerry Critter statement?

      "I'm not sure what your problem is. After all, it is their kids that will get the measles, not the vaccinated kids."

      Sounds kinds Cruzy.

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  7. BB-IdahoTue Feb 03, 12:15:00 PM EST

    A medical problem turning into a political ?

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  8. BB-IdahoTue Feb 03, 03:36:00 PM EST

    ..and add Ted Cruz to being for
    free (from vaccination) choice . IMO, the GOP is having problems with the word 'choice': when to be for
    and when to be against. Mitt was smart to abandon ship..

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    1. Les CarpenterTue Feb 03, 08:12:00 PM EST

      One word to describe Cruz and the others of his mentality... LOONEY!

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  9. Shaw KenaweTue Feb 03, 03:45:00 PM EST

    "Vaccination debate flares in GOP presidential race, alarming medical experts."

    Why are we surprised? We live in a country where men and women in positions of authority and power think Evolution is an optional scientific fact that you can accept or not accept. Example:

    Rick Perry once told a New Hampshire boy that evolution is a merely a "theory that's out there" with "some gaps."

    The only "gap" would be between the hemispheres in his brain.

    During the 2008 race, three GOP candidates (Iowa caucus winner Mike Huckabee and also-rans Sam Brownback and Tom Tancredo) raised their hands during a debate when the moderator asked if any of them did not believe in evolution.

    Some Doubts:

    Ron Paul: In a Q&A with Reddit users in 2009, Paul, asked about evolution said, "You know it is a theory, nobody has concrete proof of any of this.

    (That answer is so incredibly, mind-bogglingly ignorant, that it is difficult to come up with any reason for a man of his education to say such a stupid thing, except: PANDER. And Paul has done it again with regard to vaccinating children. We simply must not give credence to people who would undermine years and years of accepted scientific fact just so the ignorant in their constituencies are placated and given comfort in their ignorance.

    Rick Santorum: Santorum, a strong proponent of intelligent design, has called evolution one of the "controversial issues in science" and claims there are "legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution."

    It is a real tragedy for this country when men and women who should know better say such colossally stupid things.

    Is it any wonder people call the GOP anti-science? When the leading lights of that party express that sort of brainlessness, they deserve that label.

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    1. Les CarpenterTue Feb 03, 08:43:00 PM EST

      None of the people you mention are, in the convention sense, stupid. They are all educated (more or less) and by most standards would be considered successful.

      Folks such as those you mentioned allow themselves, for whatever unfathomable reason, to put mysticism ahead of science. Hard to believe in the 21'st century.

      Mystical beliefs accepted as truth and then put ahead of proven science places the entire nation at risk.

      Such is what some in the GOP seem to be advocating.

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    2. Will "take no prisoners" HartFri Feb 06, 06:36:00 PM EST

      Let's not forget about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or all of those moronic liberals from CA who are refusing to vaccinate their kids. Or the fact that Obama himself has said something similar several years ago and has never taken it back as far as I'm aware. There are idiots on both sides, people.

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  10. Shaw KenaweThu Feb 05, 11:15:00 AM EST

    "None of the people you mention are, in the convention sense, stupid. They are all educated (more or less) and by most standards would be considered successful."

    Of course they're not stupid, so then why do they say stupid things? I'm guessing it's to pander to the less intelligent constituencies they have to represent.

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