The vaccine debate continues to roll on, but it’s clear that President Obama knows where he stands when he calls the science behind vaccines “indisputable. … I just want people to know the facts and science and the information. And the fact is that a major success of our civilization is our ability to prevent disease that in the past have devastated folks.”
The link between vaccines and autism has been scientifically shot down, but the most recent scuffle is about whether or not Obama has shifted his thoughts on the subject since he spoke at the 2008 Pennsylvania Rally.
In the 2008 Washington Post Fact Checker column, Michael Dobbs reported that Obama said, “We’ve seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it’s connected to the vaccines. This person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it.”
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What wasn’t written at the time was that when he said “This person included,” he was pointing to an audience member, not to himself.
Vox reporter Sarah Kliff apparently believes that despite thae “this person” misunderstanding, he still was off in his remarks when he said the science behind the link was “inconclusive.”
But he didn’t actually say that. What he said was that the science behind what causes autism is “inconclusive,” not that the link to vaccines in inconclusive.
Watch the 2008 clip of Obama yourself:
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