Two Times Mike Pence Brushed Off Science

[ScienceRocks]

Two Times Mike Pence Brushed Off Science
Two Times Mike Pence Brushed Off Science

As my boss Nate Silver wrote Thursday, most people in the U.S. don’t know much about Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick. That’s likely not the case among public health professionals, given Pence’s rather notorious recent history with public health policy.

Take, for example, an ongoing outbreak of HIV in southern Indiana. From December 2014 to May of this year, 191 cases of HIV, nearly all linked to the injection of the painkiller Opana, were found in Scott County, a rural area near the Kentucky border. Before the outbreak, there had been numerous deaths and known risks from the increase in injection drug use in the area for several years. Pence had long been a vocal opponent of needle exchange programs, which allow drug users to trade in used syringes for sterile ones in order to stop the spread of diseases, despite evidence that they work. Such programs were banned in the state when the outbreak started.

At the end of March last year, four months after the outbreak began, Pence declared a public health emergency, allowing needle exchanges to be opened in Scott County. Scott County Health Officer Dr. R. Kevin Rogers described the program as having “a tremendously positive and dramatic impact” and recently made a successful request to have the program extended until May 2017. At least four other counties have been allowed to start programs as well. Still, Pence hasn’t moved to lift the state ban on funding for needle exchanges and has made it clear in the past that he would veto any bill that tried to lift the ban statewide.

Pence has also shown a deep misunderstanding of basic public health principles in the past. In 2001, he wrote an op-ed declaring that “smoking doesn’t kill.” The evidence? “Two out of three smokers does not die from a smoking related illness.” Diseases are rarely the product of one thing. With lung cancer, for example, there’s a strong genetic component. Some people who don’t smoke will get lung cancer.1 Many people who do smoke will not. Relative risk, which measures the strength of the relationship between an exposure and a health outcome (smoking and lung cancer in this instance), is a funny thing; it can’t be used to measure the risk for an individual, only a group. And at that macro level, the risk of smoking is quite clear, as this oft-cited American Cancer Society chart shows.

This hick isn't a leader but a religious freak like any other religious freak. It is kind of like the taliban screaming about how they'll make Afghanistan great again even through they believe they can do it by curing illness by blood leaches!

 

[owebo]

Your algore just settled it....

 

[Preacher]

Any moron that denies evolution should be banned from politics

 

[Andylusion]

Two Times Mike Pence Brushed Off Science
Two Times Mike Pence Brushed Off Science

As my boss Nate Silver wrote Thursday, most people in the U.S. don’t know much about Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick. That’s likely not the case among public health professionals, given Pence’s rather notorious recent history with public health policy.

Take, for example, an ongoing outbreak of HIV in southern Indiana. From December 2014 to May of this year, 191 cases of HIV, nearly all linked to the injection of the painkiller Opana, were found in Scott County, a rural area near the Kentucky border. Before the outbreak, there had been numerous deaths and known risks from the increase in injection drug use in the area for several years. Pence had long been a vocal opponent of needle exchange programs, which allow drug users to trade in used syringes for sterile ones in order to stop the spread of diseases, despite evidence that they work. Such programs were banned in the state when the outbreak started.

At the end of March last year, four months after the outbreak began, Pence declared a public health emergency, allowing needle exchanges to be opened in Scott County. Scott County Health Officer Dr. R. Kevin Rogers described the program as having “a tremendously positive and dramatic impact” and recently made a successful request to have the program extended until May 2017. At least four other counties have been allowed to start programs as well. Still, Pence hasn’t moved to lift the state ban on funding for needle exchanges and has made it clear in the past that he would veto any bill that tried to lift the ban statewide.

Pence has also shown a deep misunderstanding of basic public health principles in the past. In 2001, he wrote an op-ed declaring that “smoking doesn’t kill.” The evidence? “Two out of three smokers does not die from a smoking related illness.” Diseases are rarely the product of one thing. With lung cancer, for example, there’s a strong genetic component. Some people who don’t smoke will get lung cancer.1 Many people who do smoke will not. Relative risk, which measures the strength of the relationship between an exposure and a health outcome (smoking and lung cancer in this instance), is a funny thing; it can’t be used to measure the risk for an individual, only a group. And at that macro level, the risk of smoking is quite clear, as this oft-cited American Cancer Society chart shows.

This hick isn't a leader but a religious freak like any other religious freak. It is kind of like the taliban screaming about how they'll make Afghanistan great again even through they believe they can do it by curing illness by blood leaches!

Like I've said many times.... anyone that pisses off you, and those like you.... are likely what is best for the country.

 

[Mr. H.]

While liberals still ignore the science of hydraulic fracturing, as an example.

Pence may have made bad policy decisions, but liberals refuse to give up their full retard no matter what.

 

[Andylusion]

Any moron that denies evolution should be banned from politics

Any moron that believes evolution should be banned from politics.

 

[Preacher]

Any moron that denies evolution should be banned from politics

Any moron that believes evolution should be banned from politics.

Science is right bc it can be proven you xtian tards need a slap upside the head and get in line with reality

 

[Lakhota]

Two Times Mike Pence Brushed Off Science
Two Times Mike Pence Brushed Off Science

As my boss Nate Silver wrote Thursday, most people in the U.S. don’t know much about Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick. That’s likely not the case among public health professionals, given Pence’s rather notorious recent history with public health policy.

Take, for example, an ongoing outbreak of HIV in southern Indiana. From December 2014 to May of this year, 191 cases of HIV, nearly all linked to the injection of the painkiller Opana, were found in Scott County, a rural area near the Kentucky border. Before the outbreak, there had been numerous deaths and known risks from the increase in injection drug use in the area for several years. Pence had long been a vocal opponent of needle exchange programs, which allow drug users to trade in used syringes for sterile ones in order to stop the spread of diseases, despite evidence that they work. Such programs were banned in the state when the outbreak started.

At the end of March last year, four months after the outbreak began, Pence declared a public health emergency, allowing needle exchanges to be opened in Scott County. Scott County Health Officer Dr. R. Kevin Rogers described the program as having “a tremendously positive and dramatic impact” and recently made a successful request to have the program extended until May 2017. At least four other counties have been allowed to start programs as well. Still, Pence hasn’t moved to lift the state ban on funding for needle exchanges and has made it clear in the past that he would veto any bill that tried to lift the ban statewide.

Pence has also shown a deep misunderstanding of basic public health principles in the past. In 2001, he wrote an op-ed declaring that “smoking doesn’t kill.” The evidence? “Two out of three smokers does not die from a smoking related illness.” Diseases are rarely the product of one thing. With lung cancer, for example, there’s a strong genetic component. Some people who don’t smoke will get lung cancer.1 Many people who do smoke will not. Relative risk, which measures the strength of the relationship between an exposure and a health outcome (smoking and lung cancer in this instance), is a funny thing; it can’t be used to measure the risk for an individual, only a group. And at that macro level, the risk of smoking is quite clear, as this oft-cited American Cancer Society chart shows.

This hick isn't a leader but a religious freak like any other religious freak. It is kind of like the taliban screaming about how they'll make Afghanistan great again even through they believe they can do it by curing illness by blood leaches!

Pence is a religious freak!

 

[LeftofLeft]

Two Times Mike Pence Brushed Off Science
Two Times Mike Pence Brushed Off Science

As my boss Nate Silver wrote Thursday, most people in the U.S. don’t know much about Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick. That’s likely not the case among public health professionals, given Pence’s rather notorious recent history with public health policy.

Take, for example, an ongoing outbreak of HIV in southern Indiana. From December 2014 to May of this year, 191 cases of HIV, nearly all linked to the injection of the painkiller Opana, were found in Scott County, a rural area near the Kentucky border. Before the outbreak, there had been numerous deaths and known risks from the increase in injection drug use in the area for several years. Pence had long been a vocal opponent of needle exchange programs, which allow drug users to trade in used syringes for sterile ones in order to stop the spread of diseases, despite evidence that they work. Such programs were banned in the state when the outbreak started.

At the end of March last year, four months after the outbreak began, Pence declared a public health emergency, allowing needle exchanges to be opened in Scott County. Scott County Health Officer Dr. R. Kevin Rogers described the program as having “a tremendously positive and dramatic impact” and recently made a successful request to have the program extended until May 2017. At least four other counties have been allowed to start programs as well. Still, Pence hasn’t moved to lift the state ban on funding for needle exchanges and has made it clear in the past that he would veto any bill that tried to lift the ban statewide.

Pence has also shown a deep misunderstanding of basic public health principles in the past. In 2001, he wrote an op-ed declaring that “smoking doesn’t kill.” The evidence? “Two out of three smokers does not die from a smoking related illness.” Diseases are rarely the product of one thing. With lung cancer, for example, there’s a strong genetic component. Some people who don’t smoke will get lung cancer.1 Many people who do smoke will not. Relative risk, which measures the strength of the relationship between an exposure and a health outcome (smoking and lung cancer in this instance), is a funny thing; it can’t be used to measure the risk for an individual, only a group. And at that macro level, the risk of smoking is quite clear, as this oft-cited American Cancer Society chart shows.

This hick isn't a leader but a religious freak like any other religious freak. It is kind of like the taliban screaming about how they'll make Afghanistan great again even through they believe they can do it by curing illness by blood leaches!

At this point, what difference does it make? Hillary Clinton brushed off the FBI.....twice??

 

[P@triot]

Any moron that denies evolution should be banned from politics

There are two types of "evolution". One is the literal sense - that things are constantly evolving. I've never heard anyone deny this. The second is the "we came from monkeys" idiot tinfoil hat liberal conspiracy theory nonsense. Any one with the slightest bit of common sense denies this one (if man came from monkeys- why the fuck do we still have monkeys?!?).

If you're referring to the second version of evolution - you're an idiot. Show me a shred of reliable evidence that indicates man came from a monkey. You can't do it.

 

[P@triot]

Pence is a religious freak!

What does it say about liberals that they are so unnerved and disturbed by people of faith?

 

[Andylusion]

Any moron that denies evolution should be banned from politics

Any moron that believes evolution should be banned from politics.

Science is right bc it can be proven you xtian tards need a slap upside the head and get in line with reality

The sad part is, you think evolution is science. Evolution is not science. Real science, can be proven, just like you said.

Nothing you people believe can be proven. If you believe in Evolution, and Big Bang, and Man-Made Global Warming.... you are not following science. You are on the level of 1-900-MISS-CLEO. You might as well believe in the tooth fairy.

And what is even more ironic, is that you all prove you don't believe in science, by how you handle it. Banning people from science? Legal action against scientists with a contrary view? Declaring that everyone who is skeptical isn't a scientists?

If you have to threaten, ban, and censor people with a contrary view, you automatically are not engaging in science. Science is the questioning, and testing of claims. If you have to fire, threaten, and censor, to hold on to your precious evolution, then that automatically removes you from the science camp, and places you in the bigoted, dogmatic, religious camp.

That's why you have to insult and threaten "you xtian tards need a slap upside the head and get in line with reality". Sounds like a medieval clergy. Are we violating your orthodoxy? Need a little inquisition to make people "get in line with (your) reality"?

Ironic that you proved my point, before I made it. You are an over achiever.