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HHS pick belongs to fringe group of anti-vax Tea Party doctors who believe Obama hypnotized voters
Trump’s HHS pick belongs to fringe group of anti-vax ‘Tea Party’ doctors who believe Obama hypnotized votersDAVID FERGUSON
30 NOV 2016 AT 17:22 ET
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Not only is Price a dyed-in-the-wool regressive conservative, he’s a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).
“That told me a lot about him,” Orac wrote, “and none of it good.”
The AAPS is a fringe group of Tea Party-affiliated doctors which espouses a number of ridiculous and farcical claims — including the charge that Pres. Barack Obama used hypnosis and mind control techniques to win the White House — all of which revolve around an ultra-conservative agenda.
Stephanie Mencimer wrote in her article, “The Tea Party’s Favorite Doctors”:
Yet despite the lab coats and the official-sounding name, the docs of the AAPS are hardly part of mainstream medical society. Think Glenn Beck with an MD. The group (which did not return calls for comment for this story) has been around since 1943. Some of its former leaders were John Birchers, and its political philosophy comes straight out of Ayn Rand. Its general counsel is Andrew Schlafly, son of the legendary conservative activist Phyllis. The AAPS statement of principles declares that it is “evil” and “immoral” for physicians to participate in Medicare and Medicaid, and its journal is a repository for quackery. Its website features claims that tobacco taxes harm public health and electronic medical records are a form of “data control” like that employed by the East German secret police. An article on the AAPS website speculated that Barack Obama may have won the presidency by hypnotizing voters, especially cohorts known to be susceptible to “neurolinguistic programming”—that is, according to the writer, young people, educated people, and possibly Jews.
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Full article
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/trumps-hhs-pick-belongs-to-fringe-group-of-anti-vax-tea-party-doctors-who-believe-obama-hypnotized-voters/
