CNN’s Sanjay Gupta Blasts Rand Paul’s Claim that Vaccines Cause ‘Mental Disorders’

There’s some pandering happening, this is the sort of pandering that can be dangerous. Because, you know, Rand Paul is a doctor. I’m sure he looks at studies. He knows the scientific method. He says he knows of many children who have wound up with mental disorders after vaccines. You know, I don’t know where he’s getting that data from. And one of the old adages, Mick, in science is that correlation does not equal causation.

There may be kids who have had mental disorders that have also received vaccines around that time in life ... But just because those two things happened around the same time do not make one causing the other.

So again, I don’t know why he’s saying this. The numbers don’t bear that out. The science doesn’t bear that out. I’d be curious what drove those comments ... I don’t know what specifically was inside his head at the moment."