Flu shots are vaccines. She doesn't know what she's talking about, which demonstrates my earlier point about what it means to be anti-science, and this isn't the only anti-vaccine thing she states in the article that's BS.
If you have any specific examples of her saying that she is anti-vaccine and any evidence that flu shots are actually vaccines (independent and unbiased, and not just your own interpretations of what she posted, or your own personal opinions), then I suggest that you follow your own advice from earlier:
It's common knowledge.
Thank you for finally providing a specific example for one of your statements.
I've provided plenty of specific examples throughout this thread. I've even quoted specific campaign websites, so please.
I addressed very specific concerns about nuclear energy, not "feelings". I'm not against nuclear as a concept, but there are some very real safety concerns involved in it that you're so quick to hand-wave away and condemn as "feelings".
She is anti-additives, not anti-vaccine.
Re-read the article. She expresses more concerns than just the additives. So no, it would not be reasonable to conclude that.
Except that those other concerns are minor in comparison, and she made it clear that they did not impact her conclusion.
She talks about a flu vaccine literally wearing off, which is not how it works. She talks about how it's bad solely because it's artificial. She talks about how it's ineffective when it's not. She talks about how it's better to naturally expose yourself to the flu as if that's at all healthy and inherently better because it's natural. She talks about how being exposed to the flu will naturally immunize you against more strains of the flu virus than a flu shot. She says the flu shot weakens the immune system. She says elderly people shouldn't get the flu virus because it will hurt them. She says the flu shot leads to "respiratory tract infections, eye problems, abnormal blood pressure, asthma, hives, and gastrointestinal problems that could also lead to other complications." She explicitly states the flu shot is a money-making scheme. This is where I draw the line. Your comments are as though you haven't even read the article, because her other concerns aren't "minor," and I shouldn't waste my time talking to someone with this level of insincerity. I'm done.
I agree with most of what you said (wow) but I would also add the labeling is not a burden on the companies but more or less just harms them due to the idiotic consumers who worry needlessly about GMO when AFAIK it is perfectly safe.
That's what I meant when I mentioned the burden, not the act of actually printing labels.
Good and understood.
I think conservatives are better on the issue of climate change than libertarians. Conservatives, sincere or not, claim to not actually believe in human-caused climate change, so the logical course of action is nothing. However, libertarians often acknowledge the problem of human-caused climate change, but then they make the conscious choice to do nothing about it. It's like how Todd Akin was better on rape and abortion than most conservatives. He didn't believe pregnancy could result from rape, so abortion in the case of rape was a non-issue. Most conservatives, on the other hand, acknowledge the possibility of pregnancy from rape, but they choose to do nothing about it.
As a libertarian who believes in man made climate change, I think part of the issue is that many of the proposed solutions to climate change violate other libertarian ideas. Carbon taxes? that is taxation so it is bad. Granted many libertarians do somewhat agree that a carbon tax could be good as per http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/12/a-libertarian-argues-for-a-carbon-tax as does Johnson. Plus i feel since most of the key supporters of climate change action are more to the left (Al Gore for example) that it also scares them off.
Johnson is opposed to a carbon tax, despite his outloud thinking that it might be a libertarian position:
http://reason.com/blog/2016/08/26/libertarian-gary-johnson-comes-out-again
I did not notice that he switched posistions as I have been very busy the last week
