Ron Paul, mad doktor?
By way of a circuitous path of internet browsing*, I happened across a tidbit of information that’s in plain sight on Wikipedia. Ron Paul is a member of a certain conservative advocacy group – the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. He has been since 1966.
The AAPS has published quite a bit of the pseudoscientific crazy, including some bizarre claims regarding immigrants and leprosy. Andrew Schlafly, a son of Phyllis Schlafly, is (at least as lately as September this year) the group’s General Counsel. Ron Paul evidently shares the same opposition to mandatory vaccination and suspicion of vaccination in general as the AAPS, the house of Schlafly, and the Schlaflys’ “Conservapedia”.
That’s looking like some mad doktor territory to me. Plus, unless this is a fantastic joke, his followers want to rent him a blimp. Cue the maniacal laughter.
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* This all started when Conrad sent me the blimp link. Ow. Ow.