Donald Trump’s pick to head the Health and Human Services seems to think highly of nut-burgers and conspiracy theorists and may be one himself. Tom Price reportedly and proudly belongs to a strange organization called the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons or AAPS. It’s a front for far right whack-jobs and quacks who happened to have an interest in medical science despite their obvious and profound deficit in critical thinking skills. Talking Points Memo has the goods:
The group's publication, the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, also has publicized a variety of dubious or debunked medical theories over the years. One 2005 article in AAPS' journal advocated for rescinding the citizenship of so-called “anchor babies,” or the children of undocumented immigrants, who it claimed were responsible for increased leprosy rates. Other articles pushed the myth of a link between vaccines and autism, suggested a link between abortion and breast cancer, and questioned the relationship between HIV and AIDS. … An article separately posted on the AAPS’s website even speculated that President Obama’s oratory could in fact be a form of hypnosis, suggesting that he won the presidency by hypnotizing impressionable voters like young people and Jews.
Price already holds extraordinarily extreme, unpopular views on his own, but judging by some of his colleagues there at the AAPS, he’s also either unhinged or doesn’t care if he’s perceived cavorting with around-the-bend clowns. Reading through some of their, uhh, “research findings,” it’s a little hilarious and a little bit creepy how wigged out they are, especially by -- but not limited to! -- just about every damn thing that comes within hand-grenade range of a lady-part or a manly man’s naughty zone. It’s a weird, alt-medical mix of classic black-helicopter and pod people level stuff combined with all the fiercely repressed charm of a Stepford Wives patriarchy featuring the Dunning, Kruger, and Capgras clans.
There’s a lot of reasons to oppose this train-wreck of a nominee, aside from the fact that he thinks denying medical treatment to millions of Americans is what Republican Jesus wants. Senate Democrats who will vote to confirm Doc Tom “Strangelove” Price here will vote for anyone and roll over on just about any freaky thing. So, Just Vote HELL No! Let the GOP own that freakiness all by themselves and all the curious baggage that goes with it.