1st August 2016, 4:24 PM
Attention to all Bernie or Busters, Jill Stein is NOT a good alternative!
On the one hand, she supports many of the same policies as Bernie, but don't let that blind you. Stein is anti-science as they come, and more so by the day. Sure, she accepts the consensus on global warming, but she's an anti-vaxxer, and recently came out stating she also thinks wireless devices hurt people.
While the second of those is merely a data point showing she only believes the science when it agrees with her personal beliefs, the anti-vaccination rhetoric has me dead set against her. I think such an attitude is incredibly dangerous, and held by the president would do untold harm to the health of the nation. It has the potential to kill more people than the Iraq war, frankly. If Stein is able to come around on such issues, I might change my opinion of her, but considering just how long Bill Mayer has been holding onto similar beliefs, I don't hold much hope out for her.
I'd have supported a Warren bid for presidency without blinking, but I can't support Stein in any good conscious and I'd warn anyone thinking of jumping to her to think for a moment about the importance of scientific understanding in a presidential candidate.
On the one hand, she supports many of the same policies as Bernie, but don't let that blind you. Stein is anti-science as they come, and more so by the day. Sure, she accepts the consensus on global warming, but she's an anti-vaxxer, and recently came out stating she also thinks wireless devices hurt people.
While the second of those is merely a data point showing she only believes the science when it agrees with her personal beliefs, the anti-vaccination rhetoric has me dead set against her. I think such an attitude is incredibly dangerous, and held by the president would do untold harm to the health of the nation. It has the potential to kill more people than the Iraq war, frankly. If Stein is able to come around on such issues, I might change my opinion of her, but considering just how long Bill Mayer has been holding onto similar beliefs, I don't hold much hope out for her.
I'd have supported a Warren bid for presidency without blinking, but I can't support Stein in any good conscious and I'd warn anyone thinking of jumping to her to think for a moment about the importance of scientific understanding in a presidential candidate.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)