Rand Paul Clarifies Vaccine Stance, Rips Liberal Media ‘Misreporting’

Senator Rand Paul today issued a statement clearing up his views on vaccines and his offhand comment yesterday about a connection between vaccines and “profound mental disorders.” Paul made the remark during his contentious CNBC interview yesterday, in which he defended his belief that vaccines should be a choice, not mandated by the state.

The link between vaccines and mental disabilities has been widely disproven, and CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta classified Paul’s “pandering” as “dangerous” earlier today.

Paul issued this statement today clarifying his views:

I did not say vaccines caused disorders, just that they were temporally related — I did not allege causation. I support vaccines, I receive them myself and I had all of my children vaccinated,” Paul said in a statement. “In fact today, I received the booster shot for the vaccines I got when I went to Guatemala last year.

And in tandem with that statement, Paul posted this photo on Twitter, taking a shot (ba-dum-tss) at the media for coverage of his views:

Ironic: Today I am getting my booster vaccine. Wonder how the liberal media will misreport this? pic.twitter.com/1vSqwfBp5u

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) February 3, 2015

[image via Gage Skidmore]

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